The responsive university and the crisis in South Africa
By: edited by Chris Brink
Series: African higher education: developments and perspectives -- volume10; African higher education: developments and perspectives -- v. 10.
Publisher: Brill | Sense
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004465619; 9789004465596; 9789004465602
Subjects: Higher Education; Aims and objectives; Universities and colleges; Administration; Educational change; Community and college; Educational equalization; Social change; Enseignement supérieur; Finalités; Universités; Enseignement; Réforme; Relations université-collectivité; Démocratisation de l'enseignement
Description: "Around the world, higher education is faced with a fundamental question: what is the basis for our claim of societal legitimacy? In this book, the authors go beyond the classical response regarding teaching, research and community engagement. Instead, the editor puts forward the proposition that the answer lies in responsiveness, the extent to which universities respond, or fail to respond, to societal challenges. Moreover, because of its intractable legacy issues and crisis of inequality, the question regarding the societal legitimacy of universities is particularly clearly manifested in South Africa, one of the most unequal countries in the world. The Responsive University brings together contributions on the issue of responsiveness from a number of international university leaders, half of them specifically addressing the South African situation within the context of the international situation as presented by the other authors. In the global discussion about the role of universities in society, this book provides a conceptual framework for a way forward"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Notes on contributors; title: Introduction; title: Part 1; title: Global context; title: An irredeemable time? the rising tide of hostility toward universities / Glyn Davis; title: Mobilizing the full resources of universities for civic engagement and responsiveness: the comprehensive infusion strategy of Tufts University / Robert M. Hollister; title: Towards creating the truly engaged, responsive university: Penn's partnership with the West Philadelphia community as an experiment in progress / Ira Harkavy, Rita A. Hodges and Joann Weeks; title: The journey of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from a local trade school to a socially responsible global university / Angelina Yuen and Miranda Lou; title: Counter innovations: the responsibility of universities to act on the SDGs / Eivind Engebretsen, Anna Wahlberg and Ole Petter Ottersen; title: The permeable university: moving beyond civic engagement to transformation / Mary Stuart; title: The Newcastle Helix / Nick Wright; title: Teaching, reaching and preaching: towards a realistic utopia / Yael Yuli Tamir; title: Part 2; title: South Africa; title: Reimagining South Africa's universities as social institutions / Ahmed Bawa; title: The transformative, responsive university in South Africa / André Keet and Sibongile Muthwa; title: Protests and pursuits: the South African university in turmoil and the search for a decolonial turn / Siphamandla Zondi; title: South African universities between decolonization and the fourth industrial revolution / Lis Lange; title: The fourth industrial revolution in higher education / Tshilidzi Marwala; title: The university of the Western Cape: educating towards and for a changed society / Larry Pokpas, Loïs Dippenaar and Nasima Badsha; title: Poverty, inequity and decolonization: are business schools responsive to the challenge? / Millard W. Arnold; title: Reflections and conclusions / Chris Brink.