Knowledge and change in African universities Volume 1,. Current debates / edited by Michael Cross and Amasa Ndofirepi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ndofirepi, Amasa, editor.

Cross, Michael, editor.

ebrary, Inc.

Series:

African higher education: developments and perspectives ; v. 1.

African higher education: developments and perspectives ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Africa.

Universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Africa.

Educational change--Africa.

Educational change.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--Africa.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages.)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : Sense Publishers [2017].

System Details:

text file

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD: Knowledge and Change in Contemporary Postcolonial Universities; THE UNIVERSITY: A EUROPEAN AND COLONIAL INSTITUTION; A NEW COLONISATION OF THE UNIVERSITY?; IDENTITY AND CONFLICT IN HIGHER EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE AND CHANGE IN UNIVERSITIES TODAY; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. UNIVERSITY KNOWLEDGE FOR SOCIETAL CHANGE IN AFRICA: Unpacking Critical Debates; INTRODUCTION; KNOWING WHAT, THAT, AND HOW; UNIVERSITIES IN AFRICA OVER TIME: A TYPOLOGY; DECOLONISING THE AFRICAN UNIVERSITY; REFERENCES

2. REINVENTING GREATNESS: Responding to Urgent Global-Level Responsibilities and Critical University-Level PrioritiesINTRODUCTION; THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS; THE PROBLEM WITH OUR PRESENT DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM; RESPONDING MORE COHESIVELY AND COHERENTLY TO HUMANITY'S GRAND CHALLENGES; LOCATING AFRICA, AND SOUTH AFRICA, IN THE GLOBAL RESEARCH STAKES; REDEPLOYING RESEARCH RESOURCES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 3. UBUNTU: African Philosophy of Education and Pedagogical Encounters; ON SOME OF THE POLEMICS ABOUT UBUNTU

AN AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION AND ITS COMMENSURABILITY WITH UBUNTUAUTONOMY, RESPONSIBILITY AND ITERATION: TOWARDS A DEFENSIBLE AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION; IMPLICATIONS OF AN AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION FOR PEDAGOGICAL ACTION; REFERENCES; 4. KNOWLEDGE AS A PUBLIC GOOD: A Critical Gaze at the African University; INTRODUCTION; FUNCTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY; THE NOTION OF PUBLIC GOOD; THE UNIVERSITY IN SOCIETY; THE AFRICAN UNIVERSITY IN CONTEXT; REPOSITIONING THE AFRICAN UNIVERSITY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES

5. THE CONDITIONS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Decolonial Historical Realism and the Decolonisation of Knowledge and EducationINTRODUCTION; DECOLONIAL HISTORICAL REALISM; EUROPE AND COLONIALITY; LATIN AMERICA AND DECOLONISATION; AFRICANISATION AND CHANGE; NOTES; REFERENCES; 6. KNOWLEDGE, GLOBALISATION AND THE AFRICAN UNIVERSITY: The Change Agenda; INTRODUCTION; DEFINING THE AFRICAN UNIVERSITY-MEANING AND MISSION; GOVERNANCE; FUNDING; CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY; RESEARCH; GLOBALISATION AND INTERNATIONALISATION; RE-THINKING THE AGENCY FOR CHANGE; SOME CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; NOTES; REFERENCES

7. AFRICANISATION AND DIVERSE EPISTEMOLOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION DISCOURSES: Limitations and PossibilitiesINTRODUCTION: KNOWLEDGE AND IDENTITY

AN AFRICAN VISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION; AFRICANISATION AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM IN SOUTH AFRICA; 'WAYS OF KNOWING'; SOME ESSENTIAL DISTINCTIONS; WHAT IS 'EPISTEMOLOGICAL DIVERSITY'?; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS: THE ARGUMENT FROM EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE; NOTES; REFERENCES; 8. HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTH AFRICA; INTRODUCTION; TRANSFORMING THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM; SOCIO-POLITICAL DYNAMICS: POST-1994 SOUTH AFRICA

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946300842X

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