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One world, many knowledges
Regional experiences and cross-regional links in higher education
Peter C. J. Vale, Tor Halvorsen
Various forms of academic co-operation criss-cross the modern university system in a bewildering number of ways, from the open exchange of ideas and knowledge, to the sharing of research results, and frank discussions about research challenges. Embe…
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Election management bodies in Southern Africa
Сomparative study of the electoral commissions' contribution to electoral processes
OSISA, ECF-SADC
Over the past two decades, Southern African countries have entrenched the use of elections as the only means and medium for electing governments and representative institutions in governance. Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) are central to the del…
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Bless Me Father
3rd Revised edition
Mario D'Offizi
Bless Me Father is the true story of an incredible South African life. Born into a violent and broken family, and growing up in a variety of institutions, Cape Town based poet and writer Mario d'Offizi tells his remarkable, often shocking and ultima…
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Castells in Africa
Universities and Development
Johan Muller, Nico Cloete, Francois van Schalkwyk
'Castells in Africa: Universities and Development" collects the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa, and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also publishes a series of empirically-based papers …
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Knowledge for Justice
Critical Perspectives from Southern African-Nordic Research Partnerships
Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen
With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, the purpose of development is being redefined in both social and environmental terms. Despite pushback from conservative forces, change is accelera…
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Open Data in Developing Economies
Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How
Stefaan G. Verhulst, Andrew Young
Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is know…
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A contemporary study of musical arts
Informed by African indigenous knowledge systems: The Root: Foundation
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Volumes 1
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Meki Nzewi, Odyke Nzewi
"The Contemporary study of musical arts", Volumes 1 to 5 is a series that emphasizes the intellectual security of cultural knowledge orientation in the study and research of the musical arts for students and educators that could engage in global kno…
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A contemporary study of musical arts
Informed by African indigenous knowledge systems: The Stem: Growth
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Volumes 2
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Meki Nzewi, Odyke Nzewi
Volumes 1 to 3 are designed as a graduated series for musical arts education at the tertiary level under the module topics: musical structure and form; factors of music appreciation; music instruments; music and society; research; music theatre; and…
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A contemporary study of musical arts
Informed by African indigenous knowledge systems: The Foliage: Consolidation
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Volumes 3
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Meki Nzewi, Odyke Nzewi
Посвящается 50-летию Суздальского отделения ВОО ВООПИиК.
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African classical ensemble music
Agiri music (Foundation)
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Book 1
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Meki Nzewi, Odyke Nzewi
The study of African music must be grounded in indigenous African knowledge systems, thus making it truly representative of indigenous Africa's intellectual history. "The African Classical Ensemble Music: Theory and Drum-based Concert" Series is int…
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A contemporary study of musical arts
Informed by African indigenous knowledge systems: Illuminations, Reflections and Explorations
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Volumes 4
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Meki Nzewi, Odyke Nzewi
The Contemporary study of musical arts, Volumes 1 to 5 is a series that emphasizes the intellectual security of cultural knowledge orientation in the study and research of the musical arts for students and educators that could engage in global knowl…
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Anchored in place
Rethinking the university and development in South Africa
Leslie Bank, Nico Cloete, Fransois van Schalkwyk,
Leslie Bank, Nico Cloete, François van Schalkwyk
This volume is the first in South Africa to engage seriously with the place-based developmental role of universities. In the international literature and policy there has been an increasing integration of the university with place-based development,…
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The next generation of scientists in Africa
Beaudry C.,
Mouton J.,
Prozesky H.
This book reports on the main findings of a three-and-a-half-year international project in order to assist its readers in better understanding the African research system in general, and more specifically its young scientists. The first part of the …
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Reflections of South African student leaders
1994 to 2017
Thierry Luescher-Mamashela, Denyse Webbstock, Ntokozo Bhengu
Reflections of South African Student Leaders 1994-2017 brings together the reflections of twelve former SRC leaders from across the landscape of South African universities. Reviews of the previous volume, 1981-2014 suggested that it contributed sign…
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Democracy and the discourse on relevance
Within the academic profession at Makerere University
Andrea Kronstad Felde, Tor Halvorsen, Anja Myrtveit
Democracy and the Discourse on Relevance Within the Academic Profession at Makerere University is set against the backdrop of the spread of neoliberal ideas and reforms since the 1980s. While accepting that these ideas are rooted in a longer history…
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Digital technology in capacity development
Enabling learning and supporting change
Joanna Wild, Femi Nzegwu
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 onlin…
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Collaboration in development. A South African heritage
Godwin Khosa
South Africa is under-capitalising on its rich ways of doing business. One such way, the focus of this book, is collaboration. The collaboration approach should be promoted to the same extent that the Japanese have entrenched and exported their ‘sma…
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From memory to marble. The historical frieze of the Voortrekker Monument
The Frieze
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Part I
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Elizabeth Rankin, Rolf Michael Schneider
From Memory to Marble is an investigation by an art historian and an archaeologist into why and how a major monument was created: the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. Built during the rise of Afrikaner Nationalism and inaugurated in 1949, the Monum…
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Rocklands
On becoming the first generation of black psychologists in post-apartheid South Africa
Liezille Jean Jacobs
In Rocklands, Liezille Jacobs reframes psychology not only as a profession, but as a profound calling that is intertwined with personal and societal evolution. Traversing her own personal journey from her adverse childhood experiences in Rocklands, …
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Education research in African contexts
Traditions and new beginnings for knowledge and impact
Paul Webb (ed.)
This compelling anthology illuminates the transformative role of education research in Africa, presenting a bricolage of studies by scholarship holders of the East and South African-German Centre of Excellence for Educational Research Methodologies …
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Transformative innovation in times of change
Lessons for Africa from the 2020 global pandemic
Erika Erika Kraemer-Mbula (ed.)
A timely collection full of astute insights and critical analysis that helps to fill gaps in the literature on the dynamics and potential for innovation on the African continent. The COVID-19 crises brought into sharp focus the cross-cutting nature …
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Linking education and the local economy
Intermediaries in a furniture ecosystem
Andre Kraak
Linking Education and the Local Economy examines the collapse of linkages between South Africa’s post-school education and training system and the declining furniture industry. Using a case study approach, it explores reasons behind the erosion of t…
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Doctoral education in context. Perspectives from Africa
Jan Botha, Liezel Frick, Nompilo Tshuma
Doctoral Education in Context: Perspectives from Africa shares lived experiences and insights of doctoral supervisors from 16 different countries in Africa. The book’s originality lies also in the contributors’ profiles as practicing, novice doctora…
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