02830nam 2200409 450 991047712730332120230513085952.0(CKB)5470000000568669(NjHacI)995470000000568669(EXLCZ)99547000000056866920230513d2016 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCastells in Africa Universities and Development /Manuel Castells, [and four others]Cape Town, South Africa :African Minds,2016.1 online resource (viii, 248 pages)Section 1. Framing Castells in Africa -- 1. Castells in South Africa -- 2. Universities and the 'new society' section 2. Castells in South Africa -- 3. Universities as dynamic systems of contradictory functions -- 4. The role of universities in development, the economy and society -- 5. Rethinking development in the global information age section 3. Putting Castells to work in Africa -- 6. Roles of universities and the African context -- 7. Universities and economic development in Africa -- 8. Research universities in Africa? -- 9. African universities and connectedness in the information age -- 10 Contradictory functions, unexpected outcomes, new challenges -- Afterword 2017 / by Manuel Castells.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 which together display the multi-faceted and far-sighted scope of his theoretical framework, and its fecundity for fine-grained, detailed empirical investigations on universities and development in Africa. Castells, in his afterword to this book, always looking forward, assesses the role of the university in the wake of the upheavals to the global economic order. He decides the university's function not only remains, but is more important than ever. This book will serve as an introduction to the relevance of his work for higher education in Africa for postgraduate students, reflective practitioners and researchers. Includes two previously unpublished public lectures and an Afterword by Manuel Castells.Castells in Africa General educationEducation, HigherUniversities and collegesAfricaGeneral education.Education, Higher.Universities and colleges.378.6Castells Manuel33899NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910477127303321Castells in Africa2125998UNINA