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oapen-20.500.12657-382382021-11-11T10:16:43Z Castells in Africa Muller, Johan Cloete, Nico van Schalkwyk, Francois Castells, Manuel university higher education development Africa functions bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTF Development studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher & further education, tertiary education::JNMN Universities Castells in Africa: Universities and Development collects the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa, and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also publishes a series of empirically-based papers which together display the multi-faceted and far-sighted scope of his theoretical framework, and its fecundity for fine-grained, detailed empirical investigations on universities and development in Africa. Castells, in his afterword to this book, always looking forward, assesses the role of the university in the wake of the upheavals to the global economic order. He decides the university’s function not only remains, but is more important than ever. This book will serve as an introduction to the relevance of his work for higher education in Africa for postgraduate students, reflective practitioners and researchers. 2020-05-19T12:10:26Z 2020-05-19T12:10:26Z 2016 book http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/38238 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Castells_in_Africa_9781920677923_WEB.pdf https://www.africanminds.co.za/castells-in-africa-universities-and-development/ African Minds 10.5281/zenodo.1067342 10.5281/zenodo.1067342 69707d01-8e78-4a41-abff-fccf8fb5f4a5 ScholarLed 258 Cape Town open access
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Castells in Africa: Universities and Development collects the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa, and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also publishes a series of empirically-based papers which together display the multi-faceted and far-sighted scope of his theoretical framework, and its fecundity for fine-grained, detailed empirical investigations on universities and development in Africa. Castells, in his afterword to this book, always looking forward, assesses the role of the university in the wake of the upheavals to the global economic order. He decides the university’s function not only remains, but is more important than ever. This book will serve as an introduction to the relevance of his work for higher education in Africa for postgraduate students, reflective practitioners and researchers.
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