Beyond the academic’s dilemma : transdisciplinary and existential perspectives of re-enchantment

dc.contributor.authorNaidoo, Rennie
dc.contributor.emailrennie.naidoo@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-01T11:45:26Z
dc.date.available2016-03-01T11:45:26Z
dc.date.issued2015-11
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this article is to stimulate debate about the developing paradoxes and dilemmas facing the university academic. This article argues that academics are increasingly being steeped in an inauthentic existence due, at least partly to, egocentrism and sociocentrism. A modest transdisciplinaryexistential analytical framework is applied as an intellectual method to reflect on the prevailing monological perspectives stifling the role of academics, in working towards building a more sustainable future. Using concepts such as the subject, facticity and transcendence, the article investigates the dialectical tensions between some of these monological perspectives and proposes avenues to create new possibilities to progress the role of the academic. The article argues that the multilogical perspectives of transdisciplinary thinking and the empowering perspectives of existential thinking can provide academics with the necessary conceptual tools to transcend egocentrism and sociocentrism. While it is likely that new contradictions will emerge as a result of this synthesis, open-minded academics are urged to ignite their imaginative powers and take up the challenge of creating and acting on new possibilities. A transdisciplinary-existential dialectical approach can provide a richer understanding of present dilemmas in academia and the world, and suggest more satisfying paths to a sustainable future.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2015en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.td-sa.neten_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNaidoo, R 2015, 'Beyond the academic’s dilemma : transdisciplinary and existential perspectives of re-enchantment', TD : The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 1-12.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1817-4434
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/51631
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherVaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africaen_ZA
dc.rightsVaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectAcademicen_ZA
dc.subjectEducationen_ZA
dc.subjectEgocentrismen_ZA
dc.subjectExistential philosophy,en_ZA
dc.subjectRe-enchantmenten_ZA
dc.subjectSociocentrismen_ZA
dc.subjectTranscendenceen_ZA
dc.subjectTransdisciplinaryen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversityen_ZA
dc.titleBeyond the academic’s dilemma : transdisciplinary and existential perspectives of re-enchantmenten_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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