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January 2023

Digital Technology in Capacity Development: Enabling Learning and Supporting Change

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Author: Joanna Wild

Author: Femi Nzegwu

South Africa: African Minds, 2023

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502708

This book focuses on digital approaches to capacity development, reflecting the greater interest in how digital tools and platforms can be used for capacity development in the ‘Global South’. While Covid-19 demonstrated some of the benefits of online learning, the widespread, often uncritical adoption of online tools driven by necessity has left many with an experience of ‘emergency online learning’. This book aims to assist in the design of technology-enhanced capacity development by sharing evidence of practices that are principled rather than rushed; inclusive rather than creating new digital divides.

Part 1 sets out the main thinking that informs our overall approach and the frameworks that guide our practice. Part 2 explores a series of assumptions about technology-enhanced learning (TEL) that are common in the literature and against which we tested our data. It brings new evidence to bear on how TEL can be used more effectively as part of learning and capacity strengthening. Part 3 is designed as a practical guide to walk practitioners through the steps to create relevant, inclusive and sustainable digital learning interventions. Part 4 offers a collection of 16 case studies that illustrate how we have put the principles into practice. We have worked to evidence how technology can be leveraged effectively to enhance or strengthen capacities of individuals, teams or systems. We make clear that there are no magic bullets, that online approaches are not simply quicker or cheaper substitutes, and that solutions need to be selected carefully, designed well, and significant time invested if it is to work well.

We hope Digital Technology in Capacity Development will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in a range of institutions, whether they are directly responsible for designing, delivering or evaluating new initiatives or whether they are advising or funding those who do.

Who Counts? Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science

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Author: Paulina Tindana

Author: David Mills

Author: Patricia Kingori

Author: Abigail Branford

Author: Natasha Robinson

Author: Samuel T. Chatio

South Africa: African Minds, 2023

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502647

Since the 1990s, global academic publishing has been transformed by digitisation, consolidation and the rise of the internet. The data produced by commercially owned citation indexes increasingly defines legitimate academic knowledge. Publication in prestigious ‘high impact’ journals can be traded for academic promotion, tenure and job-security. African researchers and publishers labour in the shadows of a global knowledge system dominated by ‘Northern’ journals and by global publishing conglomerates. This book goes beyond the numbers. It tells the story of how the Ghanaian academy is being transformed by this bibliometric economy. It offers a rich account of the voices and perspectives of Ghanaian academics and African journal publishers. How, where and when are Ghana’s researchers disseminating their work, and what do these experiences reveal about an unequal global science system? Is there pressure to publish in ‘reputable’ international journals, what role do supervisors, collaborators and mentors play, and how do academics manage in conditions of scarcity? Putting the insights of more than 40 Ghanaian academics into dialogue with journal editors and publishers from across the continent, the book highlights creative responses, along with the emergence of new regional research ecosystems. This is an important Africa-centred analysis of Anglophone academic publishing on the continent and its relationship to global science.

December 2022

Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image

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Editor: Reece Auguiste

Editor: Cynthia Kros

Editor: Pervaiz Khan

South Africa: African Minds, 2022

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502678

This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices. Ideas are presented from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives, while inviting new voices to participate in discussions about the future of the African moving image.

Reframing Africa?makes a plea for the recognition, preservation and repatriation of the African moving image archive, advancing ideas about how it speaks to contemporary Africans, possessed of the power to elucidate their lived experiences and to reorientate perceptions of the past, present and future. On the basis of this wide-ranging appreciation of the archive, the book charts a way forward for African-inflected film studies as well as other programmes in the humanities and social sciences.

Reframing Africa? will appeal to scholars, academics and practitioners across the continent and beyond.

May 2022

Out of Place: An Autoethnography of Postcolonial Citizenship

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Author: Nuraan Davids

Foreword by: Jonathan D Jansen

Cape Town: African Minds, 2022

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502364

Out of Place offers an in-depth exploration of Nuraan Davids’ experience as a Muslim ‘coloured’ woman, traversing a post-apartheid space. It centres on and explores a number of themes, which include her challenges not only as a South African citizen, and within her faith community, but as an academic citizen at a historically white university. The book is her story, an autoethnography, her reparation.

By embarking on an auto-ethnography, she not only tries to change the way her story has been told by others, transforms her ‘sense of what it means to live’ (Bhabha, 1994). She is driven by a postcolonial appeal, which insists that if she seeks to imprint her own way of life into the discourses which pervade the world around her, then she can no longer allow herself to be spoken on behalf of or to be subjugated into the hegemonies of others.

The main argument of Out of Place is that Muslim, ‘coloured’ women are subjected to layers of scrutiny and prejudices, which have yet to be confronted. What we know about Muslim ‘coloured’ women has been shaped by preconceived notions of ‘otherness’, and attached to a meta-narrative of ‘oppression and backwardness’. By centring and using her lived experiences, the author takes readers on a journey of what it is like to be seen in terms of race, gender and religion – not only within the public sphere of her professional identities, but within the private sphere of her faith community.

Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes

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Author: Mikateko Mathebula

Author: Melanie Walker

Author: Patience Mukwambo

Author: Monica McLean

Cape Town: African Minds, 2022

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502395

Positioning Diversity in Kenyan Schools: Teaching in the Face of Inequality and Discrimination

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Author: Malve von Möllendorff

South Africa: African Minds, 2022

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502333

Education is considered key for societies to achieve greater social cohesion and equality. Yet, schools, as the main providers of formal education, have increasingly come into question concerning their role in manifesting and perpetuating social categorisations, inequalities and discrimination instead of decreasing existing fragmentations and challenging power relations and hierarchies.

As a diverse society, Kenya is faced with power struggles and rivalries between different groups – for instance, along ethnic lines, often constructed deep in colonial history. This affects teaching and learning in school and the result is that Kenya is faced with vast disparities in terms of educational access and success – rendering some social groups marginalised and others favoured.

Positioning Diversity at Kenyan Schools explores the ways in which teachers in Kenyan primary and secondary schools experience and deal with social categorisations and diversity in terms of ethnicity, gender, wealth, culture, religion, etc. in their professional practice and in the current education system. Using critical pedagogy and diversity theory as a lens for positioning diversity in Kenyan schools, the questions that this book sets out to answer are: In what ways do the teachers’ and schools’ practices lead to transformation in terms of more social equality and less discrimination? In what ways do the practices manifest existing group categorisations, hierarchies and discrimination? How can schools and teaching practices in postcolonial Kenya become more inclusive and foster social cohesion and equality?

March 2022

Open Learning as a Means of Advancing Social Justice: Cases in Post-School Education and Training in South Africa

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Editor: Shanali C. Govender

Editor: Tabisa Mayisela

Editor: Cheryl Ann Hodgkinson-Williams

South Africa: African Minds, 2022

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502425

This volume investigates the uptake of ‘open learning’ in South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and higher education institutions. Comprised of 16 studies focused on activities at a range of colleges and universities across the country, these chapters aim to promote a better understanding of open learning practices across the Post-School Education and Training (PSET) sector, including issues such as: recognition of prior learning, access for students with disabilities, work integrated learning, professional development, novel student funding mechanisms, leadership for open educational practices, institutional culture, student support, blended and online learning, flexible learning, online assessment, open educational resource development models and funding, and micro-credentials.

This collection of peer-reviewed chapters contributes to understanding the ways in which South African PSET institutions and educators are interpreting ‘open learning’ as a means of advancing social justice. It includes a historical and contemporary understanding of the economic, cultural and political obstacles facing PSET, drawing on Nancy Fraser’s theory of social justice as ‘participatory parity’ to better understand the ways in which ‘open learning’ may address systemic social injustices in order to allow South African students and educators to thrive.

This volume emerges from research conducted by the Cases on Open Learning (COOL) project, an initiative by the Department of Higher Education and Training in partnership with the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.

December 2021

Teaching and Learning for Change: Education and Sustainability in South Africa

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Editor: Ingrid Schudel

Editor: Zintle Songqwaru

Editor: Sirkka Tshiningayamwe

Editor: Heila Lotz-Sisitka

Cape Town: African Minds, 2021

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502241

May 2021

Higher Education Financing in East and Southern Africa

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Editor: Pundy Pillay

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2021

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920355333

The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa

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Editor: Kirsten Rüther

Editor: Martina Barker-Ciganikova

Editor: Daniela Waldburger

Editor: Carl-Philipp Bodenstein

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2021

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110601183

January 2021

September 2020

March 2020

Reflections of South African Student Leaders: 1994 to 2017

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Editor: Thierry Luescher

Editor: Denyse Webbstock

Editor: Ntokozo Bhengu

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2020

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502104

January 2020

Transforming Research Excellence: New Ideas from the Global South

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Editor: Erika Kraemer-Mbula

Editor: Robert Tijssen

Editor: Matthew Wallace

Editor: Robert McLean

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2020

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502067

November 2019

Science Communication in South Africa: Reflections on Current Issues

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Editor: Peter Weingart

Editor: Marina Joubert

Editor: Bankole Falade

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2019

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502036

October 2019

Sharing Knowledge, Transforming Societies: The Norhed Programme 2013-2020

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Editor: Tor Halvorsen

Editor: Kristin Orgeret

Editor: Roy Krøvel

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2019

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502005

Ubushakashatsi mu Bumenyi Nyamuntu n’Imibanire y’Abantu

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Editor: Evode Mukama

Editor: Laurent Nkusi

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2019

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331971

May 2019

The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons

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Editor: Tim Davies

Editor: Mor Rubinstein

Editor: Fernando Perini

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2019

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331957

November 2018

The Next Generation of Scientists in Africa

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Author: Catherine Beaudry

Author: Johann Mouton

Author: Heidi Prozesky

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2018

https://doi.org/10.47622/978-1-928331-93-3

Research Universities in Africa

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Author: Nico Cloete

Author: Ian Bunting

Author: Francois van Schalkwyk

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2018

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331872

October 2018

Anchored in Place: Rethinking the university and development in South Africa

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Editor: Nico Cloete

Editor: Francois van Schalkwyk

Editor: Leslie Bank

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2018

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331759

February 2018

Going to University: The Influence of Higher Education on the Lives of Young South Africans

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Author: Sioux McKenna

Author: Disaapele Mogashana

Author: Jennifer Case

Author: Delia Marshall

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2018

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331698

December 2017

The Social Dynamics of Open Data

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Editor: Francois Van Schalkwyk

Editor: Stefaan Verhulst

Editor: Gustavo Magalhaes

Editor: Juan Pane

Editor: Johanna Walker

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2017

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331568

September 2017

The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation

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Editor: Peter Weingart

Editor: Niels Taubert

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2017

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331537

October 2016

The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer: The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania

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Author: Susanne Koch

Author: Peter Weingart

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331391

June 2016

Change Management in TVET Colleges: Lessons Learnt from the Field of Practice

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Editor: André Kraak

Editor: Andrew Paterson

Editor: Kedibone Bok

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331339

May 2016

Election Management Bodies in West Africa: A comparative study of the contribution of electoral commissions to the strengthen

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Author: Ismaila Fall

Author: Mathias Hounkpe

Author: Adele Jinadu

Author: Pascal Kambale

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920489168

Castells in Africa: Universities and Development

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Author: Nico Cloete

Author: Johan Muller

Author: Francois Van Schalkwyk

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920677923

February 2016

Election Management Bodies in East Africa

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Author: Alexander Makulilo

Author: Eugène Ntaganda

Author: Francis Away

Author: Margaret Sekaggya

Author: Patrick Osodo

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920677978

January 2016

Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Agencies in East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

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Author: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331148

Citizenship Law in Africa: A Comparative Study

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Author: Bronwyn Manby

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331087

The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa

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Author: Morris Odhiambo

Author: Rudy Chitiga

Author: Solomon Ebobrah

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920677961

November 2015

Knowledge for a Sustainable World: A Southern African-Nordic contribution

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Editor: Tor Halvorsen

Editor: Hilde Ibsen

Editor: Vyvienne M’kumbuzi

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2015

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928331049

October 2015

Boundaries of the Educational Imagination

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Author: Wayne Hugo

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2015

https://doi.org/10.47622/978-1-928331-01-8

October 2014

Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries

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Author: Patrício Langa

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2014

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920677039

June 2014

Systemic School Improvement Interventions in South Africa: Some Practical Lessons from Development Practioners

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Editor: Godwin Khosa

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2014

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920677374

May 2014

Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa

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Author: Henry Trotter

Author: Catherine Kell

Author: Michelle Willmers

Author: Eve Gray

Author: Thomas King

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2014

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920677510

Driving Change: The Story of the South Africa Norway Tertiary Education Development Programme

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Editor: Trish Gibbon

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2014

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920677435

November 2013

Trading Places: Accessing land in African cities

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Author: Mark Napier

Author: Stephen Berrisford

Author: Caroline Kihato

Author: Rod McGaffin

Author: Lauren Royston

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2013

https://doi.org/10.47622/978-1-920489-99-1

May 2013

The Origins of War in Mozambique: A History of Unity and Division

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Author: Sayaka Funada-Classen

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2013

https://doi.org/10.47622/978-1-920489-97-7

Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa

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Author: Denis-Constant Martin

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2013

https://doi.org/10.47622/978-1-920489-82-3

August 2012

Public Broadcasting in Africa Series: Uganda

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Author: George Lugalambi

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2012

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920355401

Towards a People-Driven African Union: Current Obstacles and New Opportunities

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Editor: AfriMAP

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2012

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920051839

May 2012

The University in Africa and Democratic Citizenship: Hothouse or Training Ground?

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Author: Thierry Luescher-Mamashela

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2012

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920355678

Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities

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Editor: Simon Bekker

Editor: Anne Leilde

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2012

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920051402

April 2011

Universities and Economic Development in Africa: Pact, academic core and coordination

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Author: Pundy Pillay

Author: Nico Cloete

Author: Tracy Bailey

Author: Ian Bunting

Author: Peter Maassen

Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2011

https://doi.org/10.47622/9781920355807