Creating the New African University: 16 (African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives) - Hardcover

9789004677425: Creating the New African University: 16 (African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004677429 ISBN 13: 9789004677425

Publisher: Brill, 2023

Creating the New African University grapples with the existence of African universities, particularly in post-independent Africa, where Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are supposed to live up to the expectations of being adaptive in dealing with prevalent complex, dynamic contemporary and future challenges facing African societies. The book tackles the issue of what ought to be done for African universities to maintain a structure and identity that ensures their relevance in Africa's development through generating and transforming knowledge into actions for the common good. It engages issues within the context of how post-colonial transformative obligations have been managed in light of the prevalent epistemological and pedagogical underpinnings that form the foundations of these universities as they seek to break from the clutches of colonial legacies.

This book further highlights an urgent need to do away with silos and embrace a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary dialogical approach towards knowledge generation. Such an approach is essential in efforts aimed at enhancing the sustainable reconfiguration of university structures and functions whilst linking knowledge produced to diverse social, economic and political facets of African societies in ways that promote and sustain competitiveness in a rapidly globalising world beset with technological advancements.

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About the Author

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis is Associate Professor and Director at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg. He is an NRF rated researcher who has published several academic works on issues of higher education in Africa.

Shireen Motala is NRF/DHET SARChI Chair of Teaching and Learning (Tier 1) at the University of Johannesburg. Professor Motala was the Head of Postgraduate School (PGS), University of Johannesburg (UJ) until September 2020. An NRF rated researcher, her research record is substantial. Her research interests and expertise are in the areas of education financing and system reform, access and equity, and education quality in schooling and higher education.

Phefumula Nyoni is an anthropologist and sociologist pursuing a career as lecturer and researcher at the University of Johannesburg. He completed his PhD on Economic Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests are multidisciplinary and include Higher education transformation amid the Covid-19 pandemic, policy, quality assurance, university curriculum design, kinship and small businesses and livelihoods for marginalised communities.

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