Academic Citizenship in African Higher Education

Academic Citizenship in African Higher Education
Author: Chux Gervase Iwu
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-09-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9783031639562

This book addresses national development and academic citizenship in higher education in Africa. For some, the concept of academic citizenship refers to the legitimate practice of academics working within Higher Education. To others, it suggests roles that are beyond the boundaries of academic institutions. There is a dearth of research on academic citizenship in relation to Africa. This edited volume contributes to a better understanding of the role of higher education in national development by presenting case studies and perspectives from a wide range of stakeholders, educators, and researchers in the African context.

University Education, Controversy and Democratic Citizenship

University Education, Controversy and Democratic Citizenship
Author: Nuraan Davids
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2020-11-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030569853

This book explores the role of the university in upholding democratic values for societal change. The chapters advocate for the moral virtue of democratic patriotism: the editors and contributors argue that universities, as institutions of higher learning, can encourage the creation of critical and patriotic citizens. The book suggests that non-violence, tolerance, and peaceful co-existence ought to manifest through pedagogical university actions on the basis of educators’ desire to cultivate reflectiveness, criticality, and deliberative inquiry in and through their academic programmes. In a way, universities can respond more positively to the violence on our campuses and in society if public and controversial issues were to be addressed through an education for democratic citizenship and human rights.

Engaging Higher Education Curricula

Engaging Higher Education Curricula
Author: Elmarie Costandius
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1920689680

'The authors aim to stimulate discussion about the nature and purposes of critical citizenship education in higher education. Rather than promoting a blueprint for change, the authors thoughtfully consider a generative research agenda for transformative higher education and focus on how this orientation in higher education plays out on the ground. This book, together with its Coda that takes the conversation beyond critical citizenship education to include responsible citizenship, provides compelling reasons and sound suggestions for a way forward.

Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education

Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education
Author: Cloete, Nico
Publisher: African Minds
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1920677852

Reviews "This volume brings together excellent scholarship and innovative policy discussion to demonstrate the essential role of higher education in the development of Africa and of the world at large. Based on deep knowledge of the university system in several African countries, this book will reshape the debate on development in the global information economy for years to come. It should be mandatory reading for academics, policy-makers and concerned citizens, in Africa and elsewhere.” Manuel Castells, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley, Laureate of the Holberg Prize 2012 and of the Balzan Prize 2013 "The dominant global discourse in higher education now focuses on ‘world-class’ universities – inevitably located predominantly in North America, Europe and, increasingly, East Asia. The rest of the world, including Africa, is left to play ‘catch-up’. But that discourse should focus rather on the tensions, even contradictions, between ‘excellence’ and ‘engagement’ with which all universities must grapple. Here the African experience has much to offer the high-participation and generously resourced systems of the so-called ‘developed’ world. This book offers a critical review of that experience, and so makes a major contribution to our understanding of higher education.” Sir Peter Scott, former editor of Times Higher Education and Professor of Higher Education Studies, University College London, Institute of Education

Universities, the Citizen Scholar and the Future of Higher Education

Universities, the Citizen Scholar and the Future of Higher Education
Author: J. Arvanitakis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137538694

The future of higher education is in question as universities struggle to remain relevant to the present and future needs of society. The context in which learning occurs is rapidly changing and those engaged and interested in the place and position of university education need to figure out to adapt. This book embodies a vision for higher education where graduate attributes and proficiencies are at the core of the academic project, where degree programs move beyond disciplinary content and where students are encouraged to be Citizen Scholars. Through a series of cross-disciplinary and contextual cases, the contributors to this book articulate how this vision can be achieved in our pedagogical environments, future proofing higher education.

Academic Citizenship, Identity, Knowledge, and Vulnerability

Academic Citizenship, Identity, Knowledge, and Vulnerability
Author: Nuraan Davids
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2023-10-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9819969018

This book brings into contestation the idea of academic citizenship as a homogenous and inclusive space. It delves into who academics are and how they come to embody their academic citizenship, if at all. Even when academics hold similar professional standings, their citizenship and implied notions of participation, inclusion, recognition, and belonging are largely pre-determined by their personal identity markers, rather than what they do professionally. As such, it is hard to ignore not only the contested and vulnerable terrain of academic citizenship, but the necessity of unpacking the agonistic space of the university which both sustains and benefits from these contestations and vulnerabilities. The book is influenced by a postcolonial vantage point, interested in unblocking and opening spaces, thoughts, and voices not only of reimagined embodiments and expressions of academic citizenship but of hitherto silenced and discounted forms of knowledge and being. It draws on academics' stories at various universities located in South Africa, USA, UK, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. It steps into the unexplored constructions of how knowledge is used in the deployment of valuing some forms of academic citizenship, while devaluing others. The book argues that different kinds of knowledge are necessary for both the building and questioning of theory: the more expansive our immersion into knowledge, the greater the capacities and opportunities for unlearning and relearning.

The University in Africa and Democratic Citizenship

The University in Africa and Democratic Citizenship
Author: Thierry M. Luescher
Publisher: African Minds
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1920355677

Report on student surveys conducted at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Education, Communication and Democracy in Africa

Education, Communication and Democracy in Africa
Author: Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-07-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000414345

This innovative volume critically examines the intersection between democracy, education and communication in African educational domains. Providing a platform for multidisciplinary research, it advances scholarship in democratic citizenship education in African higher education through methodological and theoretical innovation. The book discusses the extent to which explicit or subtle communication frameworks that underlie policymaking, institutional culture, teaching and learning experiences in African higher education significantly engender democratic mind habits and practices in students as citizens. Chapters in the book examine how communication frameworks in pedagogy ought to navigate power imbalances between students on the one hand and the institution and academics on the other. The book also examines how (dis)empowering higher education policies are and whether they contribute to democratic equality. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education, democratic citizenship education, communication, and African studies.

Citizenship and Higher Education

Citizenship and Higher Education
Author: James Arthur
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2005-03-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134312172

This comparative text considers models of higher education in the UK and the US and individuals' perceptions about the role of university in society.