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January 2023
Digital Technology in Capacity Development: Enabling Learning and Supporting Change
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
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
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
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
Author: Mikateko Mathebula
Author: Melanie Walker
Author: Patience Mukwambo
Author: Monica McLean
Cape Town: African Minds, 2022
Positioning Diversity in Kenyan Schools: Teaching in the Face of Inequality and Discrimination
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
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
Editor: Ingrid Schudel
Editor: Zintle Songqwaru
Editor: Sirkka Tshiningayamwe
Editor: Heila Lotz-Sisitka
Cape Town: African Minds, 2021
May 2021
Higher Education Financing in East and Southern Africa
Editor: Pundy Pillay
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2021
The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa
Editor: Kirsten Rüther
Editor: Martina Barker-Ciganikova
Editor: Daniela Waldburger
Editor: Carl-Philipp Bodenstein
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2021
January 2021
Refractions of the National,the Popular and the Global in African Cities
Editor: Simon Bekker
Editor: Sylvia Croese
Editor: Edgar Pieterse
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2021
September 2020
Situating Open Data: Global Trends in Local Contexts
Editor: Danny Lämmerhirt
Editor: Ana Brandusescu
Editor: Natali a Domagala
Editor: Patrick Enaholo
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2020
March 2020
Reflections of South African Student Leaders: 1994 to 2017
Editor: Thierry Luescher
Editor: Denyse Webbstock
Editor: Ntokozo Bhengu
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2020
January 2020
Transforming Research Excellence: New Ideas from the Global South
Editor: Erika Kraemer-Mbula
Editor: Robert Tijssen
Editor: Matthew Wallace
Editor: Robert McLean
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2020
November 2019
Science Communication in South Africa: Reflections on Current Issues
Editor: Peter Weingart
Editor: Marina Joubert
Editor: Bankole Falade
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2019
October 2019
Sharing Knowledge, Transforming Societies: The Norhed Programme 2013-2020
Editor: Tor Halvorsen
Editor: Kristin Orgeret
Editor: Roy Krøvel
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2019
Ubushakashatsi mu Bumenyi Nyamuntu n’Imibanire y’Abantu
Editor: Evode Mukama
Editor: Laurent Nkusi
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2019
May 2019
The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons
Editor: Tim Davies
Editor: Mor Rubinstein
Editor: Fernando Perini
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2019
November 2018
The Next Generation of Scientists in Africa
Author: Catherine Beaudry
Author: Johann Mouton
Author: Heidi Prozesky
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2018
Research Universities in Africa
Author: Nico Cloete
Author: Ian Bunting
Author: Francois van Schalkwyk
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2018
October 2018
Anchored in Place: Rethinking the university and development in South Africa
Editor: Nico Cloete
Editor: Francois van Schalkwyk
Editor: Leslie Bank
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2018
February 2018
Going to University: The Influence of Higher Education on the Lives of Young South Africans
Author: Sioux McKenna
Author: Disaapele Mogashana
Author: Jennifer Case
Author: Delia Marshall
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2018
December 2017
The Social Dynamics of Open Data
Editor: Francois Van Schalkwyk
Editor: Stefaan Verhulst
Editor: Gustavo Magalhaes
Editor: Juan Pane
Editor: Johanna Walker
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2017
September 2017
The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation
Editor: Peter Weingart
Editor: Niels Taubert
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2017
October 2016
The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer: The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania
Author: Susanne Koch
Author: Peter Weingart
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016
June 2016
Change Management in TVET Colleges: Lessons Learnt from the Field of Practice
Editor: André Kraak
Editor: Andrew Paterson
Editor: Kedibone Bok
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016
May 2016
Election Management Bodies in West Africa: A comparative study of the contribution of electoral commissions to the strengthen
Author: Ismaila Fall
Author: Mathias Hounkpe
Author: Adele Jinadu
Author: Pascal Kambale
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016
One World, Many Knowledges: Regional experiences and cross-regional links in higher education
Editor: Peter Vale
Editor: Tor Halvorsen
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016
Castells in Africa: Universities and Development
Author: Nico Cloete
Author: Johan Muller
Author: Francois Van Schalkwyk
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016
February 2016
Election Management Bodies in East Africa
Author: Alexander Makulilo
Author: Eugène Ntaganda
Author: Francis Away
Author: Margaret Sekaggya
Author: Patrick Osodo
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016
January 2016
Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Agencies in East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Author: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016
Citizenship Law in Africa: A Comparative Study
Author: Bronwyn Manby
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016
The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa
Author: Morris Odhiambo
Author: Rudy Chitiga
Author: Solomon Ebobrah
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2016
November 2015
Knowledge for a Sustainable World: A Southern African-Nordic contribution
Editor: Tor Halvorsen
Editor: Hilde Ibsen
Editor: Vyvienne M’kumbuzi
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2015
October 2015
Boundaries of the Educational Imagination
Author: Wayne Hugo
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2015
October 2014
Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries
Author: Patrício Langa
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2014
June 2014
Systemic School Improvement Interventions in South Africa: Some Practical Lessons from Development Practioners
Editor: Godwin Khosa
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2014
May 2014
Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa
Author: Henry Trotter
Author: Catherine Kell
Author: Michelle Willmers
Author: Eve Gray
Author: Thomas King
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2014
Driving Change: The Story of the South Africa Norway Tertiary Education Development Programme
Editor: Trish Gibbon
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2014
November 2013
Trading Places: Accessing land in African cities
Author: Mark Napier
Author: Stephen Berrisford
Author: Caroline Kihato
Author: Rod McGaffin
Author: Lauren Royston
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2013
May 2013
The Origins of War in Mozambique: A History of Unity and Division
Author: Sayaka Funada-Classen
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2013
Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa
Author: Denis-Constant Martin
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2013
August 2012
Public Broadcasting in Africa Series: Uganda
Author: George Lugalambi
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2012
Towards a People-Driven African Union: Current Obstacles and New Opportunities
Editor: AfriMAP
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2012
May 2012
The University in Africa and Democratic Citizenship: Hothouse or Training Ground?
Author: Thierry Luescher-Mamashela
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2012
Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities
Editor: Simon Bekker
Editor: Anne Leilde
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2012
April 2011
Universities and Economic Development in Africa: Pact, academic core and coordination
Author: Pundy Pillay
Author: Nico Cloete
Author: Tracy Bailey
Author: Ian Bunting
Author: Peter Maassen
Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2011