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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2021-05-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9004465618 |
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The Responsive University puts forward the proposition that the societal legitimacy of universities depends on whether and how they respond to societal challenges. This issue is exemplified in South Africa, one of the most unequal countries in the world.
Author | : University of the Witwatersrand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Black people |
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Download South Africa's Crisis in Education Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Leslie Bank |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1928331769 |
Download Anchored in Place Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tensions in South African universities have traditionally centred around equity (particularly access and affordability), historical legacies (such as apartheid and colonialism), and the shape and structure of the higher education system. What has not received sufficient attention, is the contribution of the university to place-based development. This volume is the first in South Africa to engage seriously with the place-based developmental role of universities. In the international literature and policy there has been an increasing integration of the university with place-based development, especially in cities. This volume weighs in on the debate by drawing attention to the place-based roles and agency of South African universities in their local towns and cities. It acknowledges that universities were given specific development roles in regions, homelands and towns under apartheid, and comments on why sub-national, place-based development has not been a key theme in post-apartheid, higher education planning. Given the developmental crisis in the country, universities could be expected to play a more constructive and meaningful role in the development of their own precincts, cities and regions. But what should that role be? Is there evidence that this is already occurring in South Africa, despite the lack of a national policy framework? What plans and programmes are in place, and what is needed to expand the development agency of universities at the local level? Who and what might be involved? Where should the focus lie, and who might benefit most, and why? Is there a need perhaps to approach the challenges of college towns, secondary cities and metropolitan centers differently? This book poses some of these questions as it considers the experiences of a number of South African universities, including Wits, Pretoria, Nelson Mandela University and especially Fort Hare as one of its post-centenary challenges.
Author | : Brink, Chris |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2018-07-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1529200369 |
Download The soul of a university Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. The current obsession with rankings and league tables has perpetuated inequality and is preventing social mobility. This book shows how universities can – and should - respond to societal challenges and promote positive social change.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2023-05-25 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9004677437 |
Download Creating the New African University Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Eli Bitzer |
Publisher | : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1920338144 |
Download Higher Education in South Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Higher Education in South Africa should be of considerable interest to higher education researchers outside of South Africa, as well as within, for the general and comparative assessments it makes. The South African higher education researchers included within its covers have clearly engaged with research and writing from many parts of the world, which they have then applied to make sense of their own condition. - Malcolm Tight Lancaster University, UK
Author | : Lis Lange |
Publisher | : African Sun Media |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2021-08-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1991201346 |
Download University on the Border Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The volume explores and thinks through the process of decolonising the South African higher education system by examining #MustFall. The text offers theoretical insights from a historical, contemporary and multidisciplinary lens, while examining the embedded meanings of the university as an institution, idea and set of practices to show the shifts and changes that were inaugurated by #MustFall along with the historicities that define the university both locally and globally. The retro- and prospective insights presented in the book surface the crisis of authority that places the university in a state of precarity, which is framed in the book as the ‘border’. The volume proposes the concept of the ‘border’ (recognising its conceptual and analytical dynamism) as a generative space that can facilitate new imaginaries and articulations of this social institution: the university.
Author | : David Watson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2011-07-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1136738436 |
Download The Engaged University Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Engaged University is a comprehensive empirical account of the global civic engagement movement in higher education. In universities around the world, something extraordinary is underway. Mobilizing their human and intellectual resources, institutions of higher education are directly tackling community problems – combating poverty, improving public health, and restoring environmental quality. This book documents and analyzes this exciting trend through studies of civic engagement and social responsibility at twenty institutions worldwide. This timely volume offers three special contributions to the literature on higher education policy and practice: a historical overview of the founding purposes of universities, which almost invariably included a context-specific element of social purpose, together with a survey of how these "founding" intentions have fared in different systems of higher education; a contemporary account of the policy and practice of universities – all over the world – seeking to re-engage with this social purpose; and an overview of generic issues which emerge for the "engaged university."
Author | : Lis Lange |
Publisher | : African Sun Media |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2021-08-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1991201346 |
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The volume explores and thinks through the process of decolonising the South African higher education system by examining #MustFall. The text offers theoretical insights from a historical, contemporary and multidisciplinary lens, while examining the embedded meanings of the university as an institution, idea and set of practices to show the shifts and changes that were inaugurated by #MustFall along with the historicities that define the university both locally and globally. The retro- and prospective insights presented in the book surface the crisis of authority that places the university in a state of precarity, which is framed in the book as the ‘border’. The volume proposes the concept of the ‘border’ (recognising its conceptual and analytical dynamism) as a generative space that can facilitate new imaginaries and articulations of this social institution: the university.
Author | : Sabine O'Hara |
Publisher | : Inst of International Education |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780872063341 |
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