One World Many Knowledges

Author : Tar Halvorsen,Peter Vale
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780620557887

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One World, Many Knowledges by Tar Halvorsen,Peter Vale Pdf

Various forms of academic co-operation criss-cross the modern university system in a bewildering number of ways, from the open exchange of ideas and knowledge, to the sharing of research results, and frank discussions about research challenges. Embedded in these scholarly networks is the question of whether a global template for the management of both higher education and national research organisations is necessary, and if so, must institutions slavishly follow the high-flown language of the global knowledge society or risk falling behind in the ubiquitous university ranking system? Or are there alternatives that can achieve a better, more ethically inclined, world? Basing their observations on their own experiences, an interesting mix of seasoned scholars and new voices from southern Africa and the Nordic region offer critical perspectives on issues of inter- and cross-regional academic co-operation. Several of the chapters also touch on the evolution of the higher education sector in the two regions. An absorbing and intelligent study, this book will be invaluable for anyone interested in the strategies scholars are using to adapt to the interconnectedness of the modern world. It offers fresh insights into how academics are attempting to protect the spaces in which they can freely and openly debate the challenges they face, while aiming to transform higher education, and foster scholarly collaboration. The Southern African-Nordic Centre (SANORD) is a partnership of higher education institutions from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. SANORDs primary aim is to promote multilateral research co-operation on matters of importance to the development of both regions. Our activities are based on the values of democracy, equity, and mutually beneficial academic engagement.

Author : Tor Halvorsen,Hilde Ibsen
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781928331650

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Knowledge for Justice by Tor Halvorsen,Hilde Ibsen Pdf

With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, the purpose of development is being redefined in both social and environmental terms. Despite pushback from conservative forces, change is accelerating in many sectors. To drive this transformation in ways that bring about social, environmental and economic justice at a local, national, regional and global levels, new knowledge and strong cross-regional networks capable of foregrounding different realities, needs and agendas will be essential. In fact, the power of knowledge matters today in ways that humanity has probably never experienced before, placing an emphasis on the roles of research, academics and universities. In this collection, an international diverse collection of scholars from the southern African and Nordic regions critically review the SDGs in relation to their own areas of expertise, while placing the process of knowledge production in the spotlight. In Part I, the contributors provide a sober assessment of the obstacles that neo-liberal hegemony presents to substantive transformation. In Part Two, lessons learned from NorthSouth research collaborations and academic exchanges are assessed in terms of their potential to offer real alternatives. In Part III, a set of case studies supply clear and nuanced analyses of the scale of the challenges faced in ensuring that no one is left behind. This accessible and absorbing collection will be of interest to anyone interested in NorthSouth research networks and in the contemporary debates on the role of knowledge production. The Southern AfricanNordic Centre (SANORD) is a network of higher education institutions that stretches across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Universities in the southern African and Nordic regions that are not yet members are encouraged to join.

Author : Tor Halvorsen,Jorun Nossum
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928331315

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North-South Knowledge Networks Towards Equitable Collaboration Between by Tor Halvorsen,Jorun Nossum Pdf

Since the 1990s, internationalisation has become key for institutions wishing to secure funding for higher education and research. For the academic community, this strategic shift has had many consequences. Priorities have changed and been influenced by new ways of thinking about universities, and of measuring their impact in relation to each other and to their social goals. Debates are ongoing and hotly contested. In this collection, a mix of renowned academics and newer voices reflect on some of the realities of international research partnerships. They both question and highlight the agency of academics, donors and research institutions in the geopolitics of knowledge and power. The contributors offer fresh insights on institutional transformation, the setting of research agendas, and access to research funding, while highlighting the dilemmas researchers face when their institutions are vulnerable to state and donor influence. Offering a range of perspectives on why academics should collaborate and what for, this book will be useful to anyone interested in how scholars are adapting to the realities of international networking and how research institutions are finding innovative ways to make NorthSouth partnerships and collaborations increasingly fair, sustainable and mutually beneficial.

Author : John Daniel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136354366

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Mega-universities and Knowledge Media by John Daniel Pdf

A discussion of how the knowledge media can contribute to the renewal of universities, particularly through the development of distance education. It looks at universities which have risen to the challenges of cost and accessibility using technology.

Author : P. Otero,P. Scott,S.Z. Martin
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781643682655

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MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health — Global Partnership for Digital Innovation by P. Otero,P. Scott,S.Z. Martin Pdf

The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”, and its constitution also asserts that health for all people is “dependent on the fullest co-operation of individuals and States”. The ongoing pandemic has highlighted the power of both healthy and unhealthy information, so while healthcare and public health services have depended upon timely and accurate data and continually updated knowledge, social media has shown how unhealthy misinformation can be spread and amplified, reinforcing existing prejudices, conspiracy theories and political biases. This book presents the proceedings of MedInfo 2021, the 18th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics, held as a virtual event from 2-4 October 2021, with pre-recorded presentations for all accepted submissions. The theme of the conference was One World, One Health – Global Partnership for Digital Innovation and submissions were requested under 5 themes: information and knowledge management; quality, safety and outcomes; health data science; human, organizational and social aspects; and global health informatics. The Programme Committee received 352 submissions from 41 countries across all IMIA regions, and 147 full papers, 60 student papers and 79 posters were accepted for presentation after review and are included in these proceedings. Providing an overview of current work in the field over a wide range of disciplines, the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves some aspect of medical or health informatics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:319510007430526

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Knowledge & Illustrated Scientific News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wiebke Keim,Ercüment Çelik,Veronika Wöhrer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317127697

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Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences by Wiebke Keim,Ercüment Çelik,Veronika Wöhrer Pdf

An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and critiques of Eurocentrism. Bringing together theoretical contributions and empirical case studies from around the world, including India, the Americas, South Africa, Australia and Europe, it engages in debates concerning public sociology and explores South-South research collaborations specific to the social sciences. Contributions transcend established critiques of Eurocentrism to make space for the idea of global social sciences and truly transnational research. Thematically arranged and both international and interdisciplinary in scope, this volume reflects the different theoretical and thematic backgrounds of the contributing authors, who enter into dialogue and debate with one another in the development of a more inclusive, more representative and more theoretically relevant stage for the social sciences. A rigorous critique of the contemporary state of the social sciences as well as an attempt to find another way of doing transnational sociology, Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and social theory with interests in the production of social scientific knowledge, postcolonialism and transnationalism in research.

Author : Lawrence Busch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262036078

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Knowledge for Sale by Lawrence Busch Pdf

How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this. A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less immediate market value. Every other kind of learning is downgraded, its budget cut. In Knowledge for Sale, Lawrence Busch challenges this market-driven approach. The rationale for the current thinking, Busch explains, comes from neoliberal economics, which calls for reorganizing society around the needs of the market. The market-influenced changes to higher education include shifting the cost of education from the state to the individual, turning education from a public good to a private good subject to consumer demand; redefining higher education as a search for the highest-paying job; and turning scholarly research into a competition based on metrics including number of citations and value of grants. Students, administrators, and scholars have begun to think of themselves as economic actors rather than seekers of knowledge. Arguing for active resistance to this takeover, Busch urges us to burst the neoliberal bubble, to imagine a future not dictated by the market, a future in which there is a more educated citizenry and in which the old dichotomies—market and state, nature and culture, and equality and liberty—break down. In this future, universities value learning and not training, scholarship grapples with society's most pressing problems rather than quick fixes for corporate interests, and democracy is enriched by its educated and engaged citizens.

Author : Charles Van Doren
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345373168

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A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren Pdf

A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history. "Crystal clear and concise...Explains how humankind got to know what it knows." Clifton Fadiman Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club

Author : Jamgon Kongtrul
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559398824

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The Treasury of Knowledge: Book One by Jamgon Kongtrul Pdf

In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrül's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique, encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet. In his monumental Treasury of Knowledge, Jamgön Kongtrül presents a complete account of the major lines of thought and practice that comprise Tibetan Buddhism. This first book of The Treasury which serves as a prelude to Kongtrul's survey describes four major cosmological systems found in the Tibetan tradition—those associated with the Hinayana, Mahayana, Kalachakra, and Dzogchen teachings. Each of these cosmologies shows how the world arises from mind, whether through the accumulated results of past actions or from the constant striving of awareness to know itself.

Author : Sofia Y. Leung,Jorge R. Lopez-McKnight
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262043502

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Knowledge Justice by Sofia Y. Leung,Jorge R. Lopez-McKnight Pdf

Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color--reimagine library and information science through the lens of critical race theory. In Knowledge Justice, Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color scholars use critical race theory (CRT) to challenge the foundational principles, values, and assumptions of Library and Information Science and Studies (LIS) in the United States. They propel CRT to center stage in LIS, to push the profession to understand and reckon with how white supremacy affects practices, services, curriculum, spaces, and policies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5NVW

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Library of Universal Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092498728

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003644528

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Educational Pamphlets 56 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112064259390

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Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language by Anonim Pdf