African Epistemologies in Higher Education Research

Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo is a nationally rated scientist by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Educational Management from Cavite State University in the Philippines and did a postdoc at the University of Pretoria. He is a researcher in the field of international and comparative studies in higher education. His work often involves exploring new populations of internationally mobile students, issues of policy in emerging, and underresearched regional higher education destinations. He has worked as a visiting scholar at Indiana University Bloomington in the United States, Aarhus University in Denmark and visiting professor at the University of Victoria in Canada. He is the South Africa Country Director for the Society of Transnational Academic Researchers (STAR) and Assistant Editor for the Journal of International Students, a top-ten ranked academic journal in higher education. His recent book, Rhetoric of the Asia Higher Education Rankings (2023) analyzes the implications of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university rankings to gain insights into the usefulness of reputation rankings in addressing social inequality.

• Introduction: An introduction to debates on African epistemologiesChapter 1: Transforming knowledge from historyChapter 2: Existentialist epistemology and the purpose of higher educationChapter 3: Epistemology of pragmatism in postgraduate research Chapter 4: Epistemic injustice in research publicationChapter 5: Epistemology realism and racism in higher educationChapter 6: Epistemological access to corruption in higher education