1st Edition
Higher Education and Capacity Building in Africa The geography and power of knowledge under changing conditions
1. Why study higher education and capacity building in Africa? An introduction Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Lene Møller Madsen and Stig Jensen 2. Do ‘African’ universities exist? Setting the scene Stig Jensen, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen and Lene Møller Madsen Part I: Capacity building of African universities – asymmetrical power relations? 3. Dilemmas of knowledge production in Ugandan Universities Michael Whyte and Susan Whyte 4. 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 5. The Confucius Institute at the University of Zambia: a new direction in the internationalisation of African higher education? Peter Kragelund and Godfrey Hampwaye Part II: Researching and teaching climate change in Africa – whose reality counts? 6. Power of knowledge under changing conditions: lessons from a Sahelian village under climate change Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Marie Ladekjær Gravesen and Stig Jensen 7. Producing scientific knowledge in Africa today: auto-ethnographic insights from a climate change researcher Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Muhammad Mehmood-Ul-Hassan and Cheikh Mbow 8. Negotiating scientific knowledge about climate change: enhancing research capacity through PhD-students Lene Møller Madsen and Thomas Theis Nielsen Part III Creating and using academic knowledge in Africa – decolonising research? 9. My knowledge, your knowledge, whose knowledge is it? Reflections from a researcher’s journey through universities in North and South Bevlyne Sithole 10. Creating an African university: struggling for a transformational curriculum in apartheid South Africa Rajani Naidoo, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen and Lene Møller Madsen 11. African Universities and rights in African polities, cultures and communities: Africanising universal knowledge? Fergus Kerrigan Conclusion 12. Dilemmas and paradoxes of capacity building in African higher education: concluding remarks Lene Møller Madsen, Stig Jensen and Hanne Kirstine Adriansen
Biography
Hanne Kirstine Adriansen is Associate Professor at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Lene Møller Madsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Stig Jensen is Associate Professor and former director at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
