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Author Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse

Title Higher Education Transformation in Africa : A Quest for Epistemological Rupture
Published Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (293 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 South-South inter-epistemic dialogue and Africanisation of African universities: Language, knowledge and decolonial impulses -- Chapter 3 Locally assisted epistemicide as a challenge to African epistemic autonomy -- Chapter 4 Decolonising and indigenising African Indigenous research: Why Indigenous ways of knowing, being and living matter in research
Chapter 5 From access to success: Decolonising the teaching of academic literacy -- Chapter 6 Interrogation of decoloniality in higher education curriculum reform: Examining influences of the subconscious mind -- Chapter 7 Decolonisation of education in Africa: Imperatives of purposeful fusion of Indigenous knowledge systems and exogenous factors -- Chapter 8 Financial-intellectual complex revisited: Framing education research in Africa -- Chapter 9 Privatisation, flawed educational assessment, and encumbered higher education access
Chapter 10 The resilient epistemic empire and neoliberal constructions of higher education and the university: A case study of the National University of Lesotho -- Chapter 11 Enhancing the responsive capacities of Ethiopian public universities: The role of sustainable professional higher education leadership and management training programmes -- Chapter 12 Expanding research profile: A case study of strategic planning at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa -- Chapter 13 Africa-China engagement in higher education: Issues and questions -- Chapter 14 Conclusion -- Index
Summary This book critically interrogates the notion of transformation in higher education, focusing on epistemological and structural issues in postcolonial and contemporary Africa
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Education, Higher-Aims and objectives-Africa
Educational change-Africa
Postcolonialism-Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Govender, Logan
Atibuni, Dennis Zami
ISBN 1040159877
9781040159873