Creating the new African university /

Creating the new African university / edited by Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Shireen Motala and Phefumula Nyoni.

"Creating the New African University grapples with the existence of African universities, particularly in post-independent Africa, where Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are expected to live up to the expectations of being adaptive in dealing with prevalent complex, dynamic contemporary and...

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Other Authors: Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse (Editor), Motala, Shireen (Editor), Nyoni, Phefumula, 1940- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.
Series:African higher education : developments and perspectives, volume 16
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > Africa.
Universities and colleges > Africa.
Education and globalization > Africa.
Educational change > Africa.
Postcolonialism > Africa.
Education and globalization
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Educational change
Postcolonialism
Universities and colleges
Africa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Shireen Motala, Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Phefumula Nyoni
  • Re-envisioning universities in Africa as African universities / Saleem Badat
  • Changes and continuity in the roles and functions of higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa / Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis
  • Congruences between decolonial thinking and change within the western paradigm of higher education / Chris Brink
  • Decolonisation, post-humanism and justice with-in higher education / Yusef Waghid
  • Decolonisation, trans-colonisation and development : the challenges of changing epistemic concerns and indigenous knowledge production in Africa / Joseph C. A. Agbakoba
  • What I mean by pan-African education and its implications for African people in our global village / John Karefah Marah
  • The university and the dialectic of ownership and purpose / Uchenna Okeja, Sibongile Muthwa and AndreĢ Keet
  • Emergent priorities of the new African university / Crain Soudien
  • Imaginary of African universities / Aslam Fataar
  • Designing a transdisciplinary entrepreneurial ecosystem in African universities / Abdul Razak Esakjee and Saurabh Sinha
  • Student funding (in)equity in South African higher education : fuelling or failing futures? / Mukovhe Masutha and Shireen Motala
  • African higher education programme and provider mobility partnerships / Jane Knight
  • Conclusion / Shireen Motala, Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Phefumula Nyoni.

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