One World, Many Knowledges : Regional experiences and cross-regional links in higher education / / edited by Tor Halvorsen and Peter Vale.

Various forms of academic co-operation criss-cross the modern university system in a bewildering number of ways, from the open exchange of ideas and knowledge, to the sharing of research results, and frank discussions about research challenges. Embedded in these scholarly networks is the question of...

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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2016
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (314 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:"First published 2012 by the Southern African-Nordic Centre"--Title page verso.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : why this book, and what it's about / Tor Halvorsen and Peter Vale
  • part I. Background
  • 1. The Southern African-Nordic Centre : from conception to realization / Stanley G.M. Ridge
  • 2. Drivers and challenges in the internationalisation of higher education and research : the case of the Southern African-Nordic Centre / Anne S{ostok}rensen
  • part II. Dilemmas of change
  • 3. Changes in higher education policy and the Nordic model / Risto Rinne
  • 4. University transformation : a crisis for the social sciences and the humanities / Tor Halvorsen
  • 5. Redressing apartheid's legacy of social exclusion : social equity, redress and admission to higher education in South Africa / Saleem Badat
  • part III. Inclusion and exclusion
  • 6. The struggle, global challenges and international strategies in the University of Fort Hare's music department / Bernhard Bleibinger
  • 7. The migration of African students to South Africa : motivations, integration and prospects for return / Gabriel Tati
  • 8. The experiences of deaf students at a South African university / Lucas Magongwa
  • 9. Tradition and modernity : the inclusion and exclusion of traditional voices and other actors in archaeological heritage management in Mozambique and Zimbabwe / Albino Jopela, Ancila Nhamo and Seke Katsamudanga
  • 10. Steering from a distance : improving access to higher education in South Africa via the funding formula / Pieter le Roux and Mignonne Breier
  • part IV. Critical perspectives
  • 11. Cultural heritage and social context : research and management in Mozambique / Anne Bang and Tore Sætersdal
  • 12. Academic co-operation in a bipolar world : where does SANORD fit in? / Tor Halvorsen
  • 13. Whatever happened to imagination? / Peter Vale.