Negotiating the Fabric of the African University / David Kaldewey, Patrício Langa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaldewey, David, author.

Langa, Patrício, author.

Series:

African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives ; 19.

African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Africa.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2025.

Summary:

"This book is the first volume of two edited collections that critically assess the historical and contemporary processes that have shaped the formation and transformation of the African university. It provides general perspectives, reflections, and a selection of case studies from different regions and higher education systems, highlighting the vibrant debates on the social and institutional life of universities in Africa. The chapters assembled here capture the rich experiences, strategies, and analyses of students, lecturers, researchers, and administrators, showcasing the university as a dynamic lived experience. Contributors are: Kasturi Behari-Leak, Eli Bitzer, Destin Feutseu Dassi, David Kaldewey, Patrício V. Langa, Laetus O.K. Lategan, Elisio Macamo, Teboho Moja, Mariah Mosomi, Bakheit Mohammed Nur, Lerato Posholi, Leonie Schoelen and Cecilé Swart"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Advanced Praise for Negotiating the Fabric of the African University: Volume 1 - Global Narratives

Contents

Preface

An Overview of the Chapters

Acknowledgements

References

Tables

Notes on Contributors

1. Towards a Conceptual History of the University in Africa

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction: The University as a Travelling Concept

2 Ancient and Modern Universities in Africa: Continuity or Discontinuity?

3 Theoretical Background: Grand Narratives and Competing Models

4 Narratives and Models Shaping Universities in Africa

4.1 The First Wave of Decolonisation and the Africanised University

4.2 The African Condition and the Developmental University

4.2.1 The University as an Institution of Nation-Building

4.2.2 The University in the Marketplace

4.2.3 Universities as Engines of Economic Development

4.3 The Global Condition and the Competitive Research University

4.3.1 The World-Class University Model

4.3.2 The Research University in Africa

4.3.3 The Flagship University in Africa

4.4 A Second Wave of Decolonisation?

4.5 Outlook: Negotiating the Fabric of the African University

5 Conclusion

Notes

2. Weaving the Local into University Knowledge in Africa

1 Introduction

2 Local Knowledge and Universal Knowledge

3 Knowledge

4 Weaving the Local

3. Advancing the African UniPluriversity as a Decolonial Imaginary

2 The University

3 Purpose

4 The Multiversity

5 The Pluriversity

6 Conclusion

4. Innovative Practices in African Higher Education

2 Internationalisation and Collaboration

3 Promoting Diversity, Relevance and Engagement

3.1 Diversity of Knowledge Systems

3.2 Charting New Paths for Relevance

3.3 Redefining the Landscape of Community Engagement

3.3.1 Capacity Building and Skills Development

3.3.2 Collaborative Problem-Solving

3.3.3 Policy Engagement and Advocacy

4 Addressing Funding Challenges

4.1 The Rising Cost of Higher Education

4.1.1 Third Stream of Funding for Research

4.1.2 Consulting Services

4.1.3 University Foundations

5. Higher Education Massification and the Power of Academic Practices

2 Situation Analysis

3 Methodology

4 Theoretical Framework

5 Findings and Discussion

5.1 Challenges and Opportunities for Academic Practice during Massification

5.2 The Cultural-Discursive Dimension

5.3 The Material-Economic Dimension

5.4 Inadequate Financial Resources

5.5 Staffing and Infrastructure

5.6 Response to Social-Political Dimension

5.7 Resistance to Institutional Policies

6. Decolonisation and Internationalisation of Higher Education

1 Internationalisation and Decolonisation: Friends or Foes?

2 Calls to Decolonise Curricula in South African Universities

3 Conceptualising Internationalisation

4 Internationalisation and Decolonisation: Necessary Conflict?

7. The Idea of an Islamic University in Africa

2 Ancient Islamic Universities in Africa

3 Islamic Epistemology and the Colonial Encounter

4 The Islamisation of Knowledge

5 Modern Islamic Universities in Africa

8. Negotiating Ambivalences between the Global and the Local

2 Ambivalences: A Theoretical Approach to Analysing the Tension between the Global and the Local

3 Data and Method

4 Analysis: Algerian Academics and the New Research Imperative

5 Higher Education Hybridisation

9. The Advent of a New Model of the African University

2 The University of Plurality

3 A National and International Curricular Train

4 Nationalisation and Regionalisation: The Philosophy of the University of Dschang

10. Building African University Capacity through Research Output

1 Focus: The Role of Professors in Building the Fabric of the Professoriate

2 Orientation and Context

4 Profile of the Sample University

5 Analysis of Research Output

5.1 Research Publications for 2016-2022

5.1.1 Results of the Professoriate's Contributions to Research Publications

5.1.2 Discussion of the Professoriate's Contributions to Research Publications

5.2 Senior Degree Graduations during 2016-2021

5.2.1 Discussion of the Professoriate's Contribution towards Senior Degree Graduations

6 The Professoriate and the Fabric of the University

7 Conclusion

References.

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