| Description |
1 online resource (v, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
African higher education: developments and perspectives ; v. 2 |
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African higher education: developments and perspectives ; v. 2.
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| Contents |
Transforming knowledge production systems in the new African university / Felix Maringe -- Africanising institutional culture : what is possible and plausible / Thaddeus Metz -- Pan-African curriculum in higher education : a reflection / Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo -- Educational Policy and the Africanisation of Knowledge in the African University / Michael Kariwo -- Critical scholarship in South Africa : considerations of epistemology, theory and method / Michael Cross and Amasa Ndofirepi -- Africanisation of the study of African languages and linguistics in African universities / Lazarus M. Miti -- Knowledge and change in the African university : some prospects and opportunities for internationalisation / James Otieno Jowi and Chika Sehoole -- Managerialism as anti-social : some implications of Ubuntu for knowledge production / Thaddeus Metz -- Performance management in the African university as panopticism : embedding prison-like conditions / Sadi Mokhaneli Seyama -- The challenges facing academic scholarship in Africa : a critical analysis / Bheki R. Mngomezulu and Marshall T. Maposa -- Beyond closure and fixed frameworks / Michael Cross and Amasa Ndofirepi |
| Summary |
While African universities retain their core function as primary institutions for advancement of knowledge, they have undergone fundamental changes in this regard. Constraining these changes is largely the failure to recognize the encroachment of the profit motive into the academy, or a shift from a public good knowledge/learning regime to a neo-liberal knowledge/learning regime. Neo-liberalism, with its emphasis on the economic and market function of the university, rather than the social function, is increasingly destabilizing higher education particularly in the domain of knowledge, making it increasingly unresponsive to local social and cultural needs. Under such circumstances, African humanist progressive virtues (e.g. social solidarity, compassion, positive human relations and citizenship), democratic principles (equity and social justice) and the commitment to decolonization ideals guided by altruism and common good, are under serious threat. The book goes a long way in unraveling how African universities can respond to these challenges at the levels of institutional management, academic scholarship, the structure of knowledge production and distribution, institutional culture, policy, and curriculum |
| Bibliography |
Includes notes and bibliographical references at chapter ends |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- Africa
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Educational change -- Africa
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- Africa
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
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Educational change
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Universities and colleges
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
essays.
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Instructional and educational works
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Essays
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Instructional and educational works.
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Essays.
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Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
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Essais.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cross, Michael, 1952- editor, author.
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Ndofirepi, Amasa. editor, author.
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| ISBN |
9789463008457 |
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9463008454 |
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946300842X |
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9789463008426 |
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9463008438 |
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9789463008433 |
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