Dominic Griffiths

About

I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education at the Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand. I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Auckland and thereafter took up a postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Johannesburg’s Philosophy Department. My research interests are broadly in Philosophy of Education and African Philosophy of Education. My background is in Continental Philosophy, particularly Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, and I am interested in how these traditions can inform and develop Philosophy of Education. At the moment I am doing work in Inclusive Education and also Decolonisation. I am also a fellow with the African Centre for the Study of the United States, based at the University of the Witwatersrand, and managing editor of the South African Journal of Philosophy.

Work

University of the Witwatersrand; Wits School of Education
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Associate Professor

South Africa

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Education

University of Auckland
New Zealand

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PhD

Publications

Philosophies of education and their futures in South Africa

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Journal of Philosophy of Education

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‘The whitest guy in the room’: thoughts on decolonization and paideia in the South African university

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Journal of Philosophy of Education

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Sociocultural factors affecting first-year medical students’ adjustment to a PBL program at an African medical school

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BMC Medical Education

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Equity not equality: the undocumented migrant child’s opportunity to access education in South Africa

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Educational Review

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The Impact of Patriarchy on the Education of Mother-learners: A Phenomenological Study of Three Rural Schools in Namibia

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African Journal of Gender, Society and Development

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Decoloniality and the (im)possibility of an African feminist philosophy

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South African Journal of Philosophy

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Teaching learners with autism in the South African inclusive classroom: Pedagogic strategies and possibilities

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African Journal of Disability

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Teaching learners with autism in the South African inclusive classroom: Pedagogic strategies and possibilities

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African Journal of Disability

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A social psychological perspective on schooling for migrant children: A case within a public secondary school in South Africa

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Journal of Education

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A social psychological perspective on schooling for migrant children: A case within a public secondary school in South Africa

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Journal of Education

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Justice as fairness in preparing for emergency remote teaching: A case from Botswana

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African Journal of Health Professions Education

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Epistemological Decolonization through a Relational Knowledge-Making Model

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Africa Today

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Differentiation practices in a private and government high school classroom in Lesotho: Evaluating teacher responses

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South African Journal of Education

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Reconceptualising teaching as transformative practice: Alasdair MacIntyre in the South African context

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Journal of Education

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Using a virtue ethics lens to develop a socially accountable community placement programme for medical students

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BMC Medical Education

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#FeesMustFall and the decolonised university in South Africa: Tensions and opportunities in a globalising world

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International Journal of Educational Research

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T. S. Eliot and Others: The (More or Less) Definitive History and Origin of the Term “Objective Correlative”

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English Studies

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Situating Martin Heidegger's claim to a “productive dialogue” with Marxism

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South African Journal of Philosophy

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Martin Heidegger's principle of identity: On belonging and Ereignis

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South African Journal of Philosophy

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The poet as ‘worldmaker’: T.S. Eliot and the religious imagination

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The Power of the Word: Poetry and the Religious Imagination

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Looking into the Heart of Light: Considering the Poetic Event in the Work of T. S. Eliot and Martin Heidegger

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Philosophy and Literature

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'Now and in England': Four Quartets, Place, and Martin Heidegger's Concept of Dwelling

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Yeats Eliot Review

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'Now and in England': Four Quartets, Place, and Martin Heidegger's Concept of Dwelling

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The Politics of Dwelling: Being White / Being South African

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Africa Today

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Daring to disturb the universe: Heidegger’s authenticity and <i>The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock</i>

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Literator

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Reading elements of the later Heidegger as myth

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Phronimon

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