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Title Knowledge and change in African universities. Volume 1, Current debates / edited by Michael Cross and Amasa Ndofirepi
Published Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages)
Series African higher education : developments and perspectives ; volume 1
African higher education (Sense Publishers) ; v. 1.
Contents Foreword : knowledge and change in contemporary postcolonial universities / Imanol Ordorika -- University knowledge for societal change in Africa : unpacking critical debates / Amasa Ndofirepi and Michael Cross -- Reinventing greatness : responding to urgent global-level responsibilities and critical university-level priorities / Ihron Rensburg -- Ubuntu : African philosophy of education and pedagogical encounters / Yusef Waghid -- Knowledge as a public good : a critical gaze at the African university / Amasa Ndofirepi and Michael Cross -- The conditions that make a difference : decolonial historical realism and the decolonisation of knowledge and education / Julia Sùrez-Krabbe -- Knowledge, globalisation and the African university : the change agenda / Kingston Nyamapfene and Amasa Ndofirepi -- Africanisation and diverse epistemologies in higher education discourses : limitations and possibilities / Kai Horsthemke -- Higher education transformation in South Africa / Sipho Seepe -- Interrogating the civic role of South African universities / Joseph Jinja Divala -- Decolonisation of knowledge in the African university / Birgit Brock-Utne -- Internationalisation and Africanisation in a globalising world / Bheki R. Mngomezulu -- Africanisation of humanities knowledge in the universities in Africa : a critique of the Cameroon and South African experiences / Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi and Roland Ndille Ntongwe
Summary This book calls for African universities to relocate from the position of object to subject in order to gain a form of liberated epistemological voice more responsive to the social and economic complexities of the continent. In itself, this is a critical exposé of contemporary practices in knowledge advancement in the continent. How can African universities reinvent knowledge production and dissemination in the face of the dominant Eurocentricism so pervasive and characteristic of academic practice in Africa to enhance their relevance to the contexts in which they operate? While some contributions in this book argue that emancipatory epistemic voice in African universities is not yet born, or it is struggling with little success, many dissenting voices charge that if Africans do not take responsibility and construct knowledge strategies for their own emancipation, who will?
Bibliography Includes notes and bibliographical references at chapter ends
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Subject Universities and colleges -- Africa
Educational change -- Africa
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- Africa
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
Educational change
Universities and colleges
Africa
Genre/Form essays.
Instructional and educational works
Essays
Instructional and educational works.
Essays.
Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Cross, Michael, 1952- editor, author.
Ndofirepi, Amasa. editor, author.
ISBN 9789463008426
946300842X
9463008403
9789463008402
Other Titles Current debates