PhD Experience in African Higher Education (eBook)

John Mashayamombe, Ruth Murambadoro, uMbuso weNkosi (Herausgeber)

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2022
214 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
978-1-9787-7444-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The PhD Experience in African Higher Education, edited by Ruth Murambadoro, John Mashayamombe, and uMbuso weNkosi, addresses the growing call to invest in the humanities and social sciences by exploring the nature of doctoral training in select institutions of higher learning in South Africa. In the past two decades, South Africa has become a key player in the global higher education landscape and dubbed the hub for doctoral training in Africa because of its developed educational infrastructure and highly ranked universities. Given South Africa's positioning, the contributors in this volume argue that the government, donors, universities, and faculty have a socio-legal duty to ensure that doctoral programs in the humanities and social sciences are not offered to amass numbers of African graduates but are grounded on equipping students with both hard and soft skills necessary to succeed. This is achieved by offering skills training and research apprenticeships fostered in communities of practice because, as the contributors show, the humanities and social sciences are the backbone of society. Furthermore, they argue that treating doctoral candidates as equal partners is emancipatory because intellectual projects are best nurtured through collaborative learning.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2022
• Co-Autor: Danille Elize Arendse, Saint Jose Inaka, John Mashayamombe, Quatro Mgogo, Mpho Mmadi, Ruth Murambadoro, Sandla Nomvete, Phuti Sepuru, uMbuso weNkosi
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-9787-7444-3 / 1978774443
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9787-7444-5 / 9781978774445