The Anthropocene crisis and higher education: A fundamental shift

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dc.contributor.authorCarstens, Delphi
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-07T13:05:57Z
dc.date.available2016-09-07T13:05:57Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis article seeks to address a fundamental shift that has occurred in reality; a displacement that requires us to critically account for the ways in which knowledge is both being produced and taught at universities. The recent re-naming of the current geological epoch after anthropos has some chilling implications for humans and the ecosystems on which their livelihoods depend. As pedagogues, the crisis of the Anthropocene demands that we make drastic interventions in the way we teach and in what we teach. My aim is to suggest ways in which Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis, intersecting as it does with critical posthumanism, the affective turn and the new materialisms, might assist us in this process of crafting socially and environmentally-just pedagogies that are relevant to the contemporary situation. In so doing, I will address some of the uncanny ethical, ontological, epistemological and affective configurations of these theoretical perspectives to show how these ideas may impact the curriculum of socially/environmentally just pedagogies and the practice of such pedagogies in higher education.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHETen_US
dc.identifier.citationCarstens, D. (2016). The Anthropocene crisis and higher education: A fundamental shift. South African Journal of Higher Education, 30(3): 255-273en_US
dc.identifier.issn1753-5913
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2405
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.20853/30-3-650
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherSouth African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE)en_US
dc.rightsThis journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.20853/30-3-650
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectAnthropoceneen_US
dc.subjectPosthumanismen_US
dc.subjectHigher educationen_US
dc.subjectPedagogyen_US
dc.subjectSocial justiceen_US
dc.titleThe Anthropocene crisis and higher education: A fundamental shiften_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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