Higher Education Transformation in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

A Quest for Epistemological Rupture
Redaktion: Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse; Atibuni, Dennis Zami; Govender, Logan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book critically interrogates the notion of transformation in higher education, focusing on epistemological and structural issues in postcolonial and contemporary Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040159873
• Artikelnr.: 72335759

Autorenporträt

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis is an Associate Professor and Director at the Ali Mazrui Center for Higher Education Studies (AMCHES), University of Johannesburg. He is a distinguished NRF-rated researcher with a portfolio of over 30 peerreviewed academic publications, primarily focusing on higher education research. Logan Govender, prior to his appointment as a Research Associate at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies (AMCHES), University of Johannesburg, he was a Senior Lecturer at AMCHES. A National Research Foundation (NRF)-rated researcher, he has several research-based, peer-reviewed publications to his credit, focusing on education policy analysis, teacher union-state relations and higher education transformation. Dennis Zami Atibuni is a Research Fellow at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies (AMCHES) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include student (research) engagement; educational assessment; pre-service and in-service teacher education; student and staff mentorship; diversity, equity and inclusion and psychological determinants of effective academic leadership at higher educational institutions.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Logan Govender and Dennis Zami Atibuni
Chapter 2: South-South Inter-Epistemic Dialogue and Africanisation of
African Universities: Language, Knowledge and Decolonial Impulses
Hamza R'boul
Chapter 3: The Challenge of Locally Assisted Epistemicide to African
Epistemic Autonomy
Babalola Joseph Balogun
Chapter 4: Decolonising and Indigenising African Indigenous Research: Why
Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being and Living Matter in Research
Monicca Thulisile Bhuda
Chapter 5: From Access to Success: Decolonising the Teaching of Academic
Literacy
Brian Sibanda and Thandeka Maseko
Chapter 6: Interrogation of Decoloniality in Higher Education Curriculum
Reform: Examining Influences of the Subconscious Mind
Jabulani Nyoni
Chapter 7: Decolonisation of Education in Africa: Imperatives for Fusing
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
N'drie Assie-Lumumba
Chapter 8: Financial-Intellectual Complex Revisited: Framing Education
Research in Africa
Joel Samoff
Chapter 9: Privatisation, Flawed Educational Assessment, and Encumbered
Higher Education Access
Dennis Zami Atibuni
Chapter 10: The Resilient Epistemic Empire and Neoliberal Constructions of
Higher Education and the University: A Case Study of the National
University of Lesotho
Munyaradzi Mushonga
Chapter 11: Enhancing the Responsive Capacities of Ethiopian Public
Universities: The
Role of Sustainable Professional Higher Education Leadership and Management
Training Programmes
Yohannes Mehari, Rediet Abebe, Elias Pekkola, Jussi Kivistö and Seppo
Hölttä
Chapter 12: Reimagining and Realising an Expanded Research Profile: A Case
Study of Strategic Planning at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), South
Africa
Kirti Menon, Saurabh Sinha, Denyse Webbstock, Nolwazi Mamorare, Letlhokwa
Mpedi, Tshilidzi Marwala and Bettine van Vuuren
Chapter 13: Africa-China Engagement in Higher Education: Issues and
Questions
Jane Knight and You Zhang
Chapter 14: Conclusion
Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Dennis Zami Atibuni and Logan Govender
Index