Biosketch

Prof Yusef Waghid

Yusef Waghid holds doctorates in education, policy, and philosophy from the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University in South Africa respectively and is among Africa's leading philosophers of education today.

As a distinguished professor at Stellenbosch University he has been a prolific author with 379 publications to date of which forty-three are academic books and seventy-three invited contributions to books. His commitment to the advancement of doctoral education including having promoted thirty-one candidates to completion and examined seventy-eight doctorates culminated in having been honoured by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa in 2015 as a worthy recipient of the prestigious Education Research in Africa Award: Outstanding Mentor of Education Researchers.

His most notable scholarly contributions in the field of African philosophy of higher education feature in significant international scholarly books which include, inter alia, Higher Teaching and Learning for Alternative Futures (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2021, with Zayd Waghid, Judith Terblanche & Faiq Waghid); Academic Activism Reimagined: Towards a New Philosophy of Higher Education (Springer, 2020, with Nuraan Davids); Towards a Philosophy of Caring in Higher Education: Pedagogy and Nuances of Care (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2019); Education for Decoloniality and Decolonisation in Africa (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2019, with Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu); Rupturing African Philosophy of Teaching and Learning (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018, with Faiq Waghid & Zayd Waghid); and African Philosophy of Education Reconsidered: On Being Human (Routledge, 2014).

In recognition of his scholarly works and having published in many of the leading journals in his field, the National Research Foundation in South Africa rated him as an internationally acclaimed scholar who provides exemplary leadership in advancing philosophy of higher education in Africa. Concomitantly, he pioneered Africa's novel MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Teaching for Change, selected by the SDG Academy of the United Nations: Class Central as a free online international course to learn about the United Nation's sustainable development goals (2016-2020). He was honoured with the editorships of two prominent academic journals, namely Citizenship, Teaching and Learning (since 2018), and South African Journal of Higher Education (since 2005) through which he meritoriously supports scholars to publish their seminal works.

From 2020 to 2021, he collaborated with renowned international scholars on a leading UNESCO pioneered research project, Education for Flourishing and Flourishing in Education initiated by the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development.

His advancement of higher education in Africa is also acknowledged by the Council of Higher Education in South Africa of which he has been a board member since 2019.