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Decolonisation of higher education in Africa : perspectives from hybrid knowledge production / edited by Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Irina Turner and Abraham Brahima.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary Africa series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Social aspects--Africa.
- Education, Higher.
- Decolonization--Africa.
- Decolonization.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Education, Higher--Social aspects.
- Africa.
- Knowledge, Theory of--Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 244 pages).
- Other Title:
- Decolonization of higher education in Africa
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis is an Associate Professor of Higher Education Studies at the Ali Mazrui Center for Higher Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published several academic works on theories of regionalisation, student mobility, cost-sharing, partnership models, and harmonisation of higher education systems in Africa. Irina Turner holds the position as Academic Councillor at the chair of African Language Studies I at Bayreuth University, Germany. Her research interests are interdisciplinary questions of cultural and media studies, political communication, and applied linguistics with a focus on multilingualism in South Africa. Abraham Brahima is currently a Research Associate at the African Centre for Advanced Studies (CAHE, Université d'Abomey-Calavi), Benin.His research and teaching interests include African philosophy, philosophy and sociology of science, theory of knowledge, language policies in Africa, and postcolonial translation.
- Contents:
- Foreword. Planetary Decolonisation and Ecologies of Knowledges / Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
- Introduction / Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Abraham Brahima Irina Turner
- The Emergence of Decolonisation Debates in African Higher Education: A Historical Perspective / Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis
- An Integrated Approach towards Decolonising Higher Education: A Perspective from Anthropology / Vanessa Wijngaarden and Grace Ese-osa Idahosa
- Rethinking Linguistics at Nelson Mandela University: Emerging Decolonial Insights / Jacqueline Lück
- 'What is the Point of Studying Africa in Europe?' A Micro-ethnographic Study of Decolonising African Studies through International Post-graduates in Germany / Irina Turner
- The Relationality of Knowledge and Post-colonial Endeavours
- Analyzing the Definition, Emergence and Trading of Knowledge(s) from a Network Theory Perspective / Iris Clemens
- Conceptual Decolonisation, Endogenous Knowledge and Translation / Abraham Brahima
- Linguistic Coexistence and Controversy in Algerian Higher Education. From Colonialisation via the Arabisation Movement to the Adoption of Hybridity / Abbes Sebihi and Leonie Schoelen
- Class and Literature: Cross-cutting Theorisations and Practices of Ng¿♭g♯♭ wa Thiong'o and Mao Zedong in Education / Mingqing Yuan
- 'Borrowed' Languages in Africa: a Reflection on the Reader-Writer Imaginary / Tsevi Dodounou and Billian K. Otundo
- Must Decolonisation Occur on an Island? The Role of Occupation in Developing Future Visions within the #Rhodes Must Fall Movement / Antje Daniel
- Decolonisation of knowledge on Land Governance as per Higher Education
- An ethnographical experience from West Africa / Lamine Doumbia
- Epilogue: A long way towards a Decolonial Future in African Higher Education: An alternative Perspective from Hybridity / Irina Turner, Emnet Woldegiorgis, Abraham Brahima.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 03, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Decolonisation of higher education in Africa
- ISBN:
- 9780429355288
- 0429355289
- 9781000328561
- 1000328562
- 9781000328554
- 1000328554
- 9781000328547
- 1000328546
- Publisher Number:
- 40030337078
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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