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024	7		_a10.1007/978-94-6300-845-7 _2DOI
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245	1	0	_aKnowledge and Change in African Universities : _bVolume 2 – Re-Imagining the Terrain / _cMichael Cross, Amasa Ndofirepi.
264		1	_aLeiden, _aBoston : _bBrill | Sense, _c2017.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aAfrican Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives; _vv. 2
490	0		_aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tPreliminary Material / _rMichael Cross and Amasa Ndofirepi -- _tTransforming Knowledge Production Systems in the New African University / _rFelix Maringe -- _tAfricanising Institutional Culture / _rThaddeus Metz -- _tPan-African Curriculum in Higher Education / _rTukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo -- _tEducational Policy and the Africanisation of Knowledge in the African University / _rMichael Kariwo -- _tCritical Scholarship in South Africa / _rMichael Cross and Amasa Ndofirepi -- _tAfricanisation of the Study of African Languages and Linguistics in African Universities / _rLazarus M. Miti -- _tKnowledge and Change in the African University / _rJames Otieno Jowi and Chika Sehoole -- _tManagerialism as Anti-Social / _rThaddeus Metz -- _tPerformance Management in the African University as Panopticism / _rSadi Mokhaneli Seyama -- _tThe Challenges Facing Academic Scholarship in Africa / _rBheki R. Mngomezulu and Marshall T. Maposa -- _tBeyond Closure and Fixed Frameworks / _rMichael Cross and Amasa Ndofirepi -- _tAbout the Contributors / _rMichael Cross and Amasa Ndofirepi.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aWhile African universities retain their core function as primary institutions for advancement of knowledge, they have undergone fundamental changes in this regard. These changes have been triggered by a multiplicity of factors, including the need to address past economic and social imbalances, higher education expansion alongside demographic and economic growth concerns, and student throughput and success with the realization that greater participation has not meant greater equity. Constraining these changes is largely the failure to recognize the encroachment of the profit motive into the academy, or a shift from a public good knowledge/learning regime to a neo-liberal knowledge/learning regime. Neo-liberalism, with its emphasis on the economic and market function of the university, rather than the social function, is increasingly destabilizing higher education particularly in the domain of knowledge, making it increasingly unresponsive to local social and cultural needs. Corporate organizational practices, commodification and commercialization of knowledge, dictated by market ethics, dominate university practices in Africa with negative impact on professional values, norms and beliefs. Under such circumstances, African humanist progressive virtues (e. g. social solidarity, compassion, positive human relations and citizenship), democratic principles (equity and social justice) and the commitment to decolonization ideals guided by altruism and common good, are under serious threat. The book goes a long way in unraveling how African universities can respond to these challenges at the levels of institutional management, academic scholarship, the structure of knowledge production and distribution, institutional culture, policy and curriculum.
650		0	_aUniversities and colleges _zAfrica.
650		0	_aEducational change _zAfrica.
650		0	_aEducation, Higher _xAims and objectives _zAfrica.
700	1		_aCross, Michael, _eeditor.
700	1		_aNdofirepi, Amasa, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tKnowledge and Change in African Universities: Volume 2 – Re-Imagining the Terrain _dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Sense, 2017, _z9789463008440
830		0	_aAfrican Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives _v2.
830		0	_aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-845-7
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