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1 online resource (v, 198 pages .) |
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text file PDF |
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polychrome |
| 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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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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? |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1. TRANSFORMING KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN THE NEW AFRICAN UNIVERSITY; INTRODUCTION; TRANSFORMATION; THE NEW AFRICAN UNIVERSITY; INDIGENISATION, DECOLONISATION AND AFRICANISATION; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION: MEANING AND RATIONALES; WORTHWHILE KNOWLEDGE IN THE AFRICANISING UNIVERSITY; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; Decolonising Staff Research as a Knowledge Production System in the New African University; Decolonising Teaching and Pedagogy as a Knowledge Production System in the New African University. |
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Decolonising Doctoral Research Training as a Knowledge Production System in the New African UniversityCHARTING A WAY FORWARD; A Call for Total Commitment to the Decolonising Agenda; A Continental Approach rather than Individual Institutional Efforts; Rethinking Models of Doctoral Training; Committing to Developing New Content and Pedagogies; Investing in Addressing the Language Conundrum; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 2. AFRICANISING INSTITUTIONAL CULTURE: What Is Possible and Plausible; INTRODUCTION; WHAT AFRICANISATION IS, OR RATHER COULD HAVE BEEN; Two Misconstruals of the Term 'Africanisation' |
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Africanising People v Africanising PlaceContent; Extent; Implementation; Strong, Moderate and Weak Versions of Africanisation; EXPLORING THE RATIONALES FOR AFRICANISATION; Relativism; Democracy; Redress; Civilisation; Identity; CONCLUSION: HOW TO AFRICANISE; NOTES; REFERENCES; 3. PAN-AFRICAN CURRICULUM IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A Reflection; INTRODUCTION; APPROACHES AND ASSUMPTIONS WITHIN EXISTING PERCEPTIONS AND REALITIES OF THE WORLD SYSTEM; HIGHER EDUCATION TYPOLOGIES IN AFRICA; PAN-AFRICANISM AND ITS VALUES; PAN-AFRICANISM AGENCIES. |
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THE PAN-AFRICAN CURRICULUM AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL WITHIN POLITICAL REALISM (OR GEO-POLITICS PERSPECTIVE) AND ITS VALUESCONCLUDING REMARKS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; 4. EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND THE AFRICANISATION OF KNOWLEDGEIN THE AFRICAN UNIVERSITY; INTRODUCTION; CONTEXT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; Ontological and Epistemological Perspectives; Modernity versus an African World View; Postcolonial Theory; Beyond Postcolonial Theory; Critical Policy Analysis; POLICY FRAMEWORK; Macro-Level; Regional Organisations; Micro-level: National Policy; University Institutions. |
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DISCOURSES ON INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGESGlobalisation and Internationalisation of Higher Education; Technology and the Role of the Diaspora; Funding; Academic Leadership; Research Quality and Output; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 5. CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA: Considerations of Epistemology, Theory and Method; INTRODUCTION; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ESSENTIALISM, UNIVERSALISM AND THEORETICAL REDUCTIONISM; EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROMISES OF POSTMODERNISM; EMANCIPATORY EPISTEMOLOGIES FROM POPULAR DISCOURSES; REVISITING CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA: KEY EPISTEMOLOGICAL CHALLENGES. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- Africa.
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Universities and colleges. |
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Africa. |
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Educational change -- Africa.
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Educational change. |
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- Africa.
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ndofirepi, Amasa, editor.
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Cross, Michael, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Knowledge and change in African universities. Volume 2, Re-imagining the terrain. Rotterdam : Sense Publishers [2017] 9789463008433 |
| ISBN |
9789463008457 (electronic book) |
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9463008454 (electronic book) |
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946300842X |
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9789463008426 |
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9463008438 |
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9789463008433 |
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9789463008433 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-94-6300-845-7 |
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