Knowledge and Change in African Universities : : Volume 1 – Current Debates / / edited by Michael Cross, amasa ndofirepi.

• Superior document: African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives
• HerausgeberIn: Cross, Michael.; ndofirepi, amasa.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Series: African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVIII, 220 p.)

Besides the ongoing concern with the epistemological and theoretical hegemony of the West in African academic practice, the book aims at understanding how knowledge is produced and controlled through the interplay of the politics of knowledge and current intellectual discourses in universities in Af...

Table of Contents

• Foreword: Knowledge and Change in Contemporary Postcolonial Universities
• Acknowledgements
• University Knowledge for Societal Change in Africa: Unpacking Critical Debates
• Reinventing Greatness: Responding to Urgent Global-Level Responsibilities and Critical University-Level Priorities
• Ubuntu: African Philosophy of Education and Pedagogical Encounters
• Knowledge as a Public Good: A Critical Gaze at the African University
• The Conditions That Make a Difference: Decolonial Historical Realism and the Decolonisation of Knowledge and Education
• Knowledge, Globalisation and the African University: The Change Agenda
• Africanisation and Diverse Epistemologies in Higher Education Discourses: Limitations and Possibilities
• Higher Education Transformation in South Africa
• Interrogating the Civic Role of South African Universities
• Decolonisation of Knowledge in the African University
• Internationalisation and Africanisation in a Globalising World
• Africanisation of Humanities Knowledge in the Universities in Africa: A Critique of the Cameroon and South African Experiences
• About the Contributors.