Higher education and capacity building in Africa
Subtitle: the geography and power of knowledge
By: edited by Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Lene Møller Madsen and Stig Jensen
Series: Routledge studies in African development; Routledge studies in African development
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781138838154; 9781315734620
Subjects: Higher Education; Economic development; Effect of education on; Universities and colleges
Table of contents: title: Why study higher education and capacity building in Africa? An introduction  -- Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Lene Møller Madsen and Stig Jensen; title: Do African universities exist? Setting the scene  -- Stig Jensen, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen and Lene Møller Madsen; title: Dilemmas of knowledge production in Ugandan universities  -- Michael Whyte and Susan Whyte; title: Collaborative education across continents : lessons from a partnership on sustainable resource management education  -- Bevlyne Sithole, Torben Birch-Thomsen, Ole Mertz, Trevor Hill, Thilde Bech Bruun and Thuita Thenya; title: The Confucius Institute at the University of Zambia : a new direction in the internationalisation of African higher education?  -- Peter Kragelund and Godfrey Hampwaye; title: Power of knowledge under changing conditions : lessons from a Sahelian village under climate change  -- Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Marie Ladekjær Gravesen and Stig Jensen; title: Producing scientific knowledge in Africa today : auto-ethnographic insights from a climate change researcher  -- Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Muhammad Mehmood-Ul-Hassan and Cheikh Mbow; title: Negotiating scientific knowledge about climate change : enhancing research capacity through PhD-students  -- Lene Møller Madsen and Thomas Theis Nielsen; title: My knowledge, your knowledge, whose knowledge is it? Reflections from a researcher's journey through universities in North and South  -- Bevlyne Sithole; title: Creating an African university : struggling for a transformational curriculum in apartheid South Africa  -- Rajani Naidoo, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen and Lene Møller Madsen; title: African universities and rights in African polities, cultures and communities : Africanising universal knowledge?  -- Fergus Kerrigan; title: Dilemmas and paradoxes of capacity building in African higher education : concluding remarks -- Lene Møller Madsen, Stig Jensen and Hanne Kirstine Adriansen.