The Responsive University and the Crisis in South Africa

Buch | Hardcover

398 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46560-2 (ISBN)

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The Responsive University puts forward the proposition that the societal legitimacy of universities depends on whether and how they respond to societal challenges. This issue is exemplified in South Africa, one of the most unequal countries in the world.

Around the world, higher education is faced with a fundamental question: what is the basis for our claim of societal legitimacy? In this book, the authors go beyond the classical response regarding teaching, research and community engagement. Instead, the editor puts forward the proposition that the answer lies in responsiveness, the extent to which universities respond, or fail to respond, to societal challenges. Moreover, because of its intractable legacy issues and crisis of inequality, the question regarding the societal legitimacy of universities is particularly clearly manifested in South Africa, one of the most unequal countries in the world.

The Responsive University brings together contributions on the issue of responsiveness from a number of international university leaders, half of them specifically addressing the South African situation within the context of the international situation as presented by the other authors.

In the global discussion about the role of universities in society, this book provides a conceptual framework for a way forward.

Chris Brink is a logician, Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University UK, and former Rector of Stellenbosch University. He is the author of The Soul of a University: Why Excellence Is Not Enough (Bristol University Press, 2018).

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Chris Brink

PART 1: Global Context

1 An Irredeemable Time? The Rising Tide of Hostility toward Universities

Glyn Davis

2 Mobilising the Full Resources of Universities for Civic Engagement and Responsiveness: The Comprehensive Infusion Strategy of Tufts University

Robert M. Hollister

3 Towards Creating the Truly Engaged, Responsive University: Penn’s Partnership with the West Philadelphia Community as an Experiment in Progress

Ira Harkavy, Rita A. Hodges and Joann Weeks

4 The Journey of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from a Local Trade School to a Socially Responsible Global University

Angelina Yuen and Miranda Lou

5 Counter Innovations: The Responsibility of Universities to Act on the SDGs

Eivind Engebretsen, Anna Wahlberg and Ole Petter Ottersen

6 The Permeable University: Moving beyond Civic Engagement to Transformation

Mary Stuart

7 The Newcastle Helix

Nick Wright

8 Teaching, Reaching and Preaching: Towards a Realistic Utopia

Yael Yuli Tamir

PART 2: South Africa

9 Reimagining South Africa’s Universities as Social Institutions

Ahmed Bawa

10 The Transformative, Responsive University in South Africa

André Keet and Sibongile Muthwa

11 Protests and Pursuits: The South African University in Turmoil and the Search for a Decolonial Turn

Siphamandla Zondi

12 South African Universities between Decolonisation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Lis Lange

13 The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Higher Education

Tshilidzi Marwala

14 The University of the Western Cape: Educating towards and for a Changed Society

Larry Pokpas, Loïs Dippenaar and Nasima Badsha

15 Poverty, Inequity and Decolonisation: Are Business Schools Responsive to the Challenge?

Millard W. Arnold

16 Reflections and Conclusions

Chris Brink

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives ; 10
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	788 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	90-04-46560-X / 900446560X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-46560-2 / 9789004465602
Zustand	Neuware