Student Politics in Africa

Student Politics in Africa
Title Student Politics in Africa PDF eBook
Author Luescher, Thierry M.
Publisher African Minds
Pages 282
Release 2016-05-12
Genre Education
ISBN 192833122X

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The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and a symposium on student representation in African higher education governance. The book includes theoretical chapters on student organising, student activism and representation; chapters on historical and current developments in student politics in Anglophone and Francophone Africa; and in-depth case studies on student representation and activism in a cross-section of universities and countries. The book provides a unique resource for academics, university leaders and student affairs professionals as well as student leaders and policy-makers in Africa and elsewhere.

Student Politics in Africa

Student Politics in Africa
Title Student Politics in Africa PDF eBook
Author M. Luescher
Publisher African Books Collective
Pages 282
Release 2016-05-12
Genre Education
ISBN 1928331238

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The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and a symposium on student representation in African higher education governance. The book includes theoretical chapters on student organising, student activism and representation; chapters on historical and current developments in student politics in Anglophone and Francophone Africa; and in-depth case studies on student representation and activism in a cross-section of universities and countries. The book provides a unique resource for academics, university leaders and student affairs professionals as well as student leaders and policy-makers in Africa and elsewhere.

Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid

Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid
Title Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid PDF eBook
Author Saleem Badat
Publisher HSRC Press
Pages 426
Release 1999
Genre Education
ISBN 9780796918963

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Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid examines two black national student political organisations - the South African National Students' Congress (SANSCO) and the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), popularly associated with Black Consciousness. It analyses the ideologies, politics and organisation of SASO and SANSCO and their intellectual, political and social determinants. It also analyses their role in the educational, political and social spheres, and the factors that shaped their activities. Finally, it assesses their contributions to the popular struggle against apartheid education as well as against race, class and gender oppression.

Limpopo's Legacy

Limpopo's Legacy
Title Limpopo's Legacy PDF eBook
Author Anne Heffernan
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 272
Release 2019
Genre History
ISBN 1847012175

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Argues that the historical primacy of youth politics in Limpopo, South Africa has influenced the production of generations of nationally prominent youth and student activists - among them Julius Malema, Onkgopotse Tiro, Cyril Ramaphosa, Frank Chikane, and Peter Mokaba.

Revolt and Protest

Revolt and Protest
Title Revolt and Protest PDF eBook
Author Leo Zeilig
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2007
Genre College students
ISBN 9780755618965

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TABLE OF CONTENTS : Introduction -- Chapter 1: Politics, students and protest -- Chapter 2: Student activism, structural adjustment and the 'democratic transition' -- Chapter 3: Researching students -- Chapter 4: Reform, revolt and student activism in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 5: Political Change and student resistance in Senegal -- Chapter 6: The meaning of student protest in the democratic transition -- Conclusion: The return of the student-intelligentsia.

Fees Must Fall

Fees Must Fall
Title Fees Must Fall PDF eBook
Author Susan Booysen
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 314
Release 2016-10-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1868149870

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This book explores the student discontent a year after the start of the 2015 South African #FeesMustFall revolt #FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business, the ruling elite and the liberation movement. The 2015 revolt links to national and international youth struggles of the recent past and is informed by black consciousness politics and social movements of the international left. Yet, its objectives are more complex than those of earlier struggles. The student movement has challenged the hierarchical, top-down leadership system of university management and it’s ‘double speak’ of professing to act in workers’ and students’ interests yet entrenching a regressive system for control and governance. University managements, while on one level amenable to change, have also co-opted students into their ranks to create co-responsibility for the highly bureaucratised university financial aid that stands in the way of their social revolution. This book maps the contours of student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt. Student voices dissect colonialism, improper compromises by the founders of democratic South Africa, feminism, worker rights and meaningful education. In-depth assessments by prominent scholars reflect on the complexities of student activism, its impact on national and university governance, and offer provocative analyses of the power of the revolt.

The Politics and Governance of Basic Education

The Politics and Governance of Basic Education
Title The Politics and Governance of Basic Education PDF eBook
Author Brian Levy
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 321
Release 2018-08-24
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0192557351

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. All over the world, economic inclusion has risen to the top of the development discourse. A well-performing education system is central to achieving inclusive development - but the challenge of improving educational outcomes has proven to be unexpectedly difficult. Access to education has increased, but quality remains low, with weaknesses in governance comprising an important part of the explanation. The Politics and Governance of Basic Education explores the balance between hierarchical and horizontal institutional arrangements for the public provision of basic education. Using the vivid example of South Africa, a country that had ambitious goals at the outset of its transition from apartheid to democracy, it explores how the interaction of politics and institutions affects educational outcomes. By examining lessons learned from how South Africa failed to achieve many of its goals, it constructs an innovative alternative strategy for making process, combining practical steps to achieve incremental gains to re-orient the system towards learning.