Higher Education and Capacity Building in Africa: The Geography and Power of Knowledge Under Changing Conditions

ISBN-13: 9780815394051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 262 str.

Hanne Kirstine Adriansen; Lene Mller Madsen; Stig Jensen

Opis

This book takes an innovative approach to understanding the development of African universities. It explores what role specific locations have in the making of research and analyses how local experience is addressed in teaching and in research. The first section focuses on capacity building in the university sector. The book uses researching and teaching climate change as examples of how knowledge is negotiated and academic identities built locally. In doing so, the book draws on discussions about knowledge constructions, hybrid knowledges, and the effects of modernity. It also discusses the future role in society of African universities.

Spis treści

1. Why study higher education and capacity building in Africa? An introduction  2. Do ‘African’ universities exist? Setting the scene  Part I: Capacity building of African universities – asymmetrical power relations?  3. Dilemmas of knowledge production in Ugandan Universities  4.　Collaborative education across continents:　lessons from a partnership on sustainable resource management education  5. The Confucius Institute at the University of Zambia: a new direction in the internationalisation of African higher education?  Part II: Researching and teaching climate change in Africa – whose reality counts?  6. Power of knowledge under changing conditions: lessons from a Sahelian village under climate change  7. Producing scientific knowledge in Africa today: auto-ethnographic insights from a climate change researcher  8. Negotiating scientific knowledge about climate change: enhancing research capacity through PhD-students  Part III Creating and using academic knowledge in Africa – decolonising research?  9. My knowledge, your knowledge, whose knowledge is it? Reflections from a researcher’s journey through universities in North and South  10. Creating an African university: struggling for a transformational curriculum in apartheid South Africa  11. African Universities and rights in African polities, cultures and communities: Africanising universal knowledge?  Conclusion  12. Dilemmas and paradoxes of capacity building in African higher education: concluding remarks 

O autorze

Hanne Kirstine Adriansen is Associate Professor at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Lene Møller Madsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Stig Jensen is Associate Professor and former director at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.