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Michael Cross
Education
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Beyond Closure and Fixed Frameworks
In this conclusion, we synthesise and reflect on the key themes emerging from the conversations in all the chapters in volumes one and two. Since it would be impossible to scan through all the issues flagged i...
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University Knowledge for Societal Change in Africa
The centrality of the role of university education in the future of society is indubitable as institutions of higher learning are, in practice, prime springs of new knowledge and skills—crucial and indispensab...
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Knowledge as a Public Good
Universities routinely carry out research, and through staff and graduate student ‘outputs’, produce knowledge. In recent times, however, demand for an increasingly mercantile feasibility of knowledge among ac...
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Critical Scholarship in South Africa
When researching Otherness against the colonial or apartheid legacy (be it with respect to women, white or black people, or rural communities, for example), the relation between the subject and the object of r...
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Internationalization, Regionalization and Africanization
The university marks the apex of higher education in almost all societies. By its very nature, the university as an academic institution has multiple identities given its multi-dimensional and varied interface...
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Tradition and Modernization: Siting Philosophy for Children Within the African Outlook
In this philosophical paper, we investigate the project of doing philosophy with children in Africa. While the philosophy for children program has its roots in the Anglo-Saxon world, we contend that it can sit...
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Child’s Voice, Child’s Right: Is Philosophy for Children in Africa the Answer?
In this concept paper, we explore the notion of the child’s right to be heard, starting in the classroom. The idea that children have unique needs has paved the way for the admission that children have a simil...
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Evaluating Doctoral Programmes in Africa: Context and Practices
Models of doctoral education in Africa remained similar to those in European universities, well into the 2000s. However, there has been an increasing realisation that such programmes are ill-suited for the Afr...
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Peer Review and the Dilemmas of Quality Control in Programme Accreditation in South African Higher Education: Challenges and Possibilities
The paper scrutinises the dynamics and the nature of peer review in the programme evaluation and accreditation process within the context of diverse individual and institutional legacies in South Africa. It an...
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ICT Policies and Strategies in Higher Education in South Africa: National and Institutional Pathways
This paper focuses on policy initiatives and strategies used to promote the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in higher education in South Africa. It explores a wider international outlo...
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Institutionalising campus diversity in South African higher education: Review of diversity scholarship and diversity education
Increasingly the social, educational, cultural,linguistic, religious and racial diversity ofSouth African society is finding expressionwithin South African institutions of highereducation. Consequently, ``dive...
