Pan-African Doctoral Schools and Knowledge Production in Africa: Experiences, Issues, and Testimonials of Participants
| Autor: | ONYIMA BLESSING NONYE |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Development in Africa ISBN: 9783030343033 ONYIMA BLESSING NONYE |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-34304-0_7 |
| Popis: | This chapter brings to fore emic (insiders’) and etic (outsiders’) perspectives of participants in African doctoral/summer schools on the role of the two-week intermittent short, but intensive and concentrated, academies in the production of ‘next-generation emerging African Scholars’. A few pan-African doctoral schools exist in Africa, such as the University of Ghana Pan-African Doctoral Academy and African Doctoral Academy at Stellenbosch. These academies engage in exposing participants to contemporary non-traditional areas of knowledge, particularly current research techniques and analytical software, often absent in most African university curriculum. Employing Wiig’s knowledge production/management model, this chapter enunciates the need for Africa to continue to consciously build, hold, pool, and apply knowledge through an integrative target-driven sustenance and funding of these doctoral academies. Experiences, issues, and testimonials of participants show that these academies are operated and managed using time-bound funds provided by a few foreign sponsors and donors like Carnegie Corporations, with little or no home-grown funding systems. This sometimes may lead to the closure of these doctoral programs and summer schools or to tasking of the students to self-fund themselves upon expiration of the funding-period agreement. The chapter establishes that these doctoral academies portend the capacity of making Africa one of the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based societies in the world if greater awareness is created, more established scholars and experts like Toyin Falola are used as resource persons, and internally grown funding corporations are harnessed. |
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