Del 12 - African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives

Higher Education in the Face of a Global Pandemic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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The book reflects on the extent to which the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic influenced the education system in Africa, notably South Africa. The advent of the pandemic has brought a new context to the challenges of access, deepening the precarious position of African higher education systems. The pandemic underscored that African higher education systems are fragile and not uniformly resilient. The book discusses the challenges created or further entrenched by COVID-19 and how the typology of inequality across the differentiated institutions impacted the management of education delivery during COVID-19. Per se, lessons learned were documented to inform decision-making and practice while drawing conclusions for future usage. Even though the shift to emergency remote teaching was not foreseen and thus not coordinated, the authors argue that students’ learning styles, perceptions of online learning and digital pedagogy should be considered in the post-COVID-19 curricula development processes.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-18
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt511 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfrican Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives
Antal sidor206
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004514454

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Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Ph.D. (2015), is an Associate Professor and Director at the Ali Mazrui Center for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg. He has published several academic works on issues of higher education in Africa, including a recent article in Educational Philosophy and Theory.Petronella Jonck, Ph.D. (2011), University of the Free State, is an Associate Professor at the North-West University. She has published scholarly outputs, including a recent article in International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change.

ForewordRobert J . BalfourList of Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionEmnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Petronella Jonck2 The Challenges of Online Learning in African Higher Education: A Critical Reflection on the Digital Divide Associated with the COVID-19PandemicEmnet Tadesse Wolgegiorgis3 Teacher Unions and the State’s Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Provision of Basic Education in South AfricaLogan Govender4 Higher Education Institutions’ Readiness for Alternative Delivery Modes and Online Pedagogy in the Face of a Global Crisis: A Case StudyVerona Leendertz, Clarise Mostert, Jhalukpreya Surujlal and Herman van der Merwe5 Students’ Learning Styles and Perception of Online Learning: Exploring a Multimodal Approach to Teaching and LearningFreda van der Walt and Andile Nkoyi6 Responses and Mechanisms for Mitigating the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on East African Higher EducationEmnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis7 Information Literacy as a Meta-Literacy Prerequisite for Teaching and Learning in an ICT EnvironmentAnna-Marie Pelser and Eben Swanepoel8 Determining the Outcome of an Information Literacy Initiative for Postgraduate Students: A Case StudyPetronella Jonck9 South Africa’s University Teaching and Learning Dynamics Amid a COVID-19 PandemicPhefumula Nyoni and Kholekile Hazel Ngqila10 ConclusionEmnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Petronella JonckIndex