| 書目名稱 | Knowledge and Change in African Universities |
| 副標(biāo)題 | Volume 1 – Current D |
| 編輯 | Michael Cross,Amasa Ndofirepi |
| 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/545/544101/544101.mp4 |
| 概述 | A major contention in the book is that African excellence should be measured against its own uniqueness as universities in Africa exhibit competitive knowledge processes on a global scale without losi |
| 叢書名稱 | African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives |
| 圖書封面 |  |
| 描述 | 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 Africa. In this regard, the book calls for African universities to relocate from the position of object to subject in order to gain a form of liberated epistemological voice more responsive to the social and economic complexities of the continent. In itself, this is a critical exposé of contemporary practices in knowledge advancement in the continent. Broadly the book addresses the following questions: How can African universities reinvent knowledge production and dissemination in the face of the dominant Eurocentricism so pervasive and characteristic of academic practice in Africa to enhance their relevance to the contexts in which they operate? How can such change, particularly at knowledgeproduction and distribution levels, be undertaken, without falling into an intellectual and discursive ghettoization in the global context? What then is the role of academics, policy makers and curricu |
| 出版日期 | Book 2017 |
| 關(guān)鍵詞 | African higher education; Knowledge and epistemology; Knowledge and change; Globalisation; Africanisatio |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-842-6 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-94-6300-842-6 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 201 |
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