Knowledge and Change in African Universities Volume 2 – Re-Imagining the Terrain /

While African universities retain their core function as primary institutions for advancement of knowledge, they have undergone fundamental changes in this regard. These changes have been triggered by a multiplicity of factors, including the need to address past economic and social imbalances, highe...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cross, Michael (Editor), Ndofirepi, Amasa (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2017.
Series:African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Transforming Knowledge Production Systems in the New African University
  • Africanising Institutional Culture: What Is Possible and Plausible
  • Pan-African Curriculum in Higher Education: A Reflection
  • Educational Policy and the Africanisation of Knowledge in the African University
  • Critical Scholarship in South Africa: Considerations of Epistemology, Theory and Method
  • Africanisation of the Study of African Languages and Linguistics in African Universities
  • Knowledge and Change in the African University: Some Prospects and Opportunities for Internationalisation
  • Managerialism as Anti-Social: Some Implications of Ubuntu for Knowledge Production
  • Performance Management in the African University as Panopticism: Embedding Prison-Like Conditions
  • The Challenges Facing Academic Scholarship in Africa: A Critical Analysis
  • Beyond Closure and Fixed Frameworks
  • About the Contributors.