- Title
- African higher education : the renaissance and reformation of language
- Creator
- Muzoora, Michael; Terry, Daniel
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/172368
- Identifier
- vital:14493
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781634828437 (ISBN); 9781634828000 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- African higher education plays a central role for social, economic and cultural transformation. This is achieved by advancing knowledge and developing human resource to meet the labour force needs. In addtion, universities are the guardian of people's culture and heritage. This chapter outlines a historical overview to provide context to higher education development in Africa. It highlights the continued dominance of western intellectual, linguistic and cultural imperialism in African higher education. In addition, it examines the language used within African higher education to maintain the status quo in the era of student =massification', democratisation of institutional reform, and the transformation to knowledge based societies. What is evident is that African higher education is in the shadow of foreign hegemonic associations maintained through cultural and intellectual domination and well-established ideological conditioning to capitalism. As such, it remains indifferent to the broader political and socio-economic challenges on the continent and detached from the societies in which they are located. The chapter advocates African higher education to embrace an epistemological view which is rooted in an indigenous linguistic and social-cultural approach to reform the university's relationship within society, to fulfill its roles of knowledge production, research and service. Thus, African higher education must refocus and rewrite its approach to become an institution which preoccupies itself almost entirely on gathering, processing, storage and dissemination of knowledge that empowers its society. © 2015 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Relation
- Linguistics and Language Education in New Horizons: The Link between Theory, Research and Pedagogy p. 197-209
- Rights
- Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- African University; Change; Cultural imperialism; Cultural transformation; Heritage; Higher education; Language; Pedagogy
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