The University in Africa and Democratic Citizenship : Hothouse or Training Ground? / / Thierry M. Luescher-Mamashela, with Sam Kiiru ... [et al.].

• TeilnehmendeR: Kiiru, Sam.; Luescher, Thierry M.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, UK : : Outside Africa, African Books Collective [distributor],, 2011; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Higher education and democracy.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (138 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Whether and how higher education in Africa contributes to democratisation beyond producing the professionals that are necessary for developing and sustaining a modern political system, remains an unresolved question. This report, then, represents an attempt to address the question of whether there are university specific mechanisms or pathways by which higher education contributes to the development of democratic attitudes and behaviours among students, and how these mechanisms operate and relate to politics both on and off campus. The research contained in this report shows that the potential

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; The Project Group; Executive Summary; Chapter 1. HERANA Higher Education and Democracy: The Student Governance Surveys; 1.1 Project overview; 1.2 Analytical framework of the study; 1.3 Research questions; 1.4 Survey design and methods; 1.5 Overview of the report; Chapter 2. Background and Context: Three Countries, Universities and Student Bodies; 2.1 Governance in Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania in internationalcomparison; 2.2 Democracy in Kenya, the University of Nairobi and student politics

2.3 Democracy in South Africa, the University of Cape Town and student politics2.4 Democracy in Tanzania, the University of Dar es Salaam and student politics; 2.5 Profile of the three student bodies; Chapter 3. Students' Demand for Democracy and Freedom; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Awareness of 'democracy'; 3.3 Preference for democracy over other regime types; 3.4 Demand for political freedoms; 3.5 Students as committed democrats?; 3.6 Summary and conclusion; Chapter 4. Students' Perception of the Supply of Democracy and Democratic Consolidation; 4.1 Introduction

4.2 Perception of the current regime4.3 Has multi-party democracy supplied more political freedoms?; 4.4 Students as transformative democrats?; 4.5 Summary and conclusion; Chapter 5. Students' Political Engagementand Behaviour; 5.1 Students' cognitive engagement with politics; 5.2 Students' political participation; 5.3 Students as active citizens?; 5.4 Summary and conclusion; Chapter 6. Student Politics and the University: Implications and Recommendations; 6.1 Overview of the findings; 6.2 Enhancing the university's training ground potential; References; Appendices; Back Cover