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1 online resource (281 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in African Development |
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Routledge studies in African development.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1 Why study higher education and capacity building in Africa? An introduction; 2 Do 'African' universities exist? Setting the scene; PART I Capacity building of African universities -- asymmetrical power relations?; 3 Dilemmas of knowledge production in Ugandan universities; 4 Collaborative education across continents: lessons from a partnership on sustainable resource management education |
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5 The Confucius Institute at the University of Zambia: a new direction in the internationalisation of African higher education?PART II Researching and teaching climate change in Africa -- whose reality counts?; 6 Power of knowledge under changing conditions: lessons from a Sahelian village under climate change; 7 Producing scientific knowledge in Africa today: auto-ethnographic insights from a climate change researcher; 8 Negotiating scientific knowledge about climate change: enhancing research capacity through PhD students |
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PART III Creating and using academic knowledge in Africa -- decolonising research?9 My knowledge, your knowledge, whose knowledge is it? Reflections from a researcher's journey through universities in North and South; 10 Creating an African university: struggling for a transformational curriculum in apartheid South Africa; 11 African universities and rights in African polities and communities: Africanising universal knowledge?; Conclusion; 12 Dilemmas and paradoxes of capacity building in African higher education: concluding remarks; Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- Africa
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Education, Higher -- Africa
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Economic development -- Effect of education on -- Africa
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Economic development -- Effect of education on.
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Education, Higher.
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Universities and colleges.
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Africa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Madsen, Lene Møller
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Jensen, Stig
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| ISBN |
9781315734620 |
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1315734621 |
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