书目名称 | Knowledge and Change in African Universities | 副标题 | Volume 2 – Re-Imagin | 编辑 | Michael Cross,Amasa Ndofirepi | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/545/544102/544102.mp4 | 概述 | A major contention in the book is that African excellence should be measured against its own uniqueness as universities in Africa exhibit competitive knowledge processes on a global scale without losi | 丛书名称 | African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | While 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 be | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | 关键词 | African higher education; Knowledge and epistemology; Knowledge and change; Globalisation; Africanisatio | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-845-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-6300-845-7 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 201 |
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