Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education write by Nico Cloete. This book was released on 2015-03-01. Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dominant global discourse in higher education now focuses on world-class universities inevitably located predominantly in North America, Europe and, increasingly, East Asia. The rest of the world, including Africa, is left to play catch-up. But that discourse should focus rather on the tensions, even contradictions, between excellence and engagement with which all universities must grapple. Here the African experience has much to offer the high-participation and generously resourced systems of the so-called developed world. This book offers a critical review of that experience, and so makes a major contribution to our understanding of higher education.
Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education
Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education write by Nico Cloete. This book was released on 2015. Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together excellent scholarship and innovative policy discussion to demonstrate the essential role of higher education in the development of Africa and of the world at large. Based on deep knowledge of the university system in several African countries, this book will reshape the debate on development in the global information economy for years to come. It should be mandatory reading for academics, policy-makers and concerned citizens, in Africa and elsewhere." - Manuel Castells, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley, Laureate of the Holberg Prize 2012 and of the Balzan Prize 2013.
Changing Modes
Changing Modes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Modes write by Andre Kraak. This book was released on 2000. Changing Modes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the influence of an important body of international literature on the development of post-apartheid policies in higher education and training and in science and technology. The book also examines a related phenomenon, the so-called 'massification' and democratisation of higher education world-wde over the past two decades.
Research Universities in Africa
Research Universities in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Research Universities in Africa write by Cloete, Nico. This book was released on 2018-11-09. Research Universities in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the early 2000s, a new discourse emerged, in Africa and the international donor community, that higher education was important for development in Africa. Within this ‘zeitgeist’ of converging interests, a range of agencies agreed that a different, collaborative approach to linking higher education to development was necessary. This led to the establishment of the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (Herana) to concentrate on research and advocacy about the possible role and contribution of universities to development in Africa. This book is the final publication to emerge from the Herana project. The project has also published more than 100 articles, chapters, reports, manuals and datasets, and many presentations have been delivered to share insights gained from the work done by Herana. Given its prolific dissemination, it seems reasonable to ask whether this fourth and final publication will offer the reader anything new. This book is certainly different from previous publications in several respects. First, it is the only book to include an analysis of eight African universities based on the full 15 years of empirical data collected by the project. Second, previous books and reports were published mid-project. This book has benefited from an extended gestation period allowing the authors and contributors to reflect on the project without the distractions associated with managing and participating in a large-scale project. For the first time, some of those who have been involved in Herana since its inception have had the opportunity to at least make an attempt to see part of the wood for the trees. Different does not necessarily mean new. An emphasis on the ‘newness’ of the data and perspectives presented in this book is important because it shows that it is more than a historical record of a donor-funded project. Rather, each chapter in this book brings, to a lesser or greater extent, something new to our understanding of universities, research and development in Africa.
Knowledge and Change in African Universities
Knowledge and Change in African Universities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowledge and Change in African Universities write by Michael Cross. This book was released on 2017-01-28. Knowledge and Change in African Universities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Besides the ongoing concern with the epistemological and theoretical hegemony of the West in African academic practice, the book aims at understanding how knowledge is produced and controlled through the interplay of the politics of knowledge and current intellectual discourses in universities in Africa. In this regard, the 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. Broadly the book addresses the following questions: 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? How can such change, particularly at knowledge production and distribution levels, be undertaken, without falling into an intellectual and discursive ghettoization in the global context? What then is the role of academics, policy makers and curriculum and program designers in dealing with biases and distortions to integrate policies, knowledge and pedagogy that reflect current cultural diversity, both local and global? Against this backdrop, 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?
