Higher education and capacity building in Africa : the geography and power of knowledge under changing conditions /
edited by Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Lene Moller Madsen and Stig Jensen.
Bok Engelsk 2016 Hanne Kirstine. Adriansen,· Electronic books.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (281 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; 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 and communities: Africanising universal knowledge?; Conclusion; 12 Dilemmas and paradoxes of capacity building in African higher education: concluding remarks; Index
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| ISBN | 1-315-73462-1
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