A voyage around the ideological islands of higher education research [Scholarly Article - Higher Education Research & Development, 2022]

Title:

A voyage around the ideological islands of higher education research

 

Author:

Bruce Macfarlane

 

Published:

Higher Education Research & Development, 9 February 2022

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2021.2002275

 

Abstract:

This paper explores the ideological orientations of higher education (HE) researchers in the form of a visual map, including three principal ‘islands’ – Pragmatists Peninsula, Reformists Rock and Dystopians Retreat. The development of the HE research field in general, illustrated by the last 40 years of scholarship within Higher Education Research & Development in particular, is explained in relation to this metaphorical seascape. The analysis identifies a number of shifting publication patterns, such as the gradual radicalisation of HE scholarship, a growing dystopian literature and the reorientation of pragmatist research interests from micro- and departmental-level concerns to meso-level work directed at strategic, university-wide agendas.

SÉNÉGAL - Comment le Sénégal a décolonisé sa diplomatie – à commencer par Kennedy et Senghor / SENEGAL - How Senegal decolonised diplomacy – starting with Kennedy and Senghor

Titre / Title:

Comment le Sénégal a décolonisé sa diplomatie – à commencer par Kennedy et Senghor

How Senegal decolonised diplomacy – starting with Kennedy and Senghor

Par / By:

Yohann C. Ripert, 

Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Stetson University

Publié /Published:

The Conversation, April 2022

français: 

https://theconversation.com/comment-le-senegal-a-decolonise-sa-diplomatie-a-commencer-par-kennedy-et-senghor-181357

 

english:  

https://theconversation.com/how-senegal-decolonised-diplomacy-starting-with-kennedy-and-senghor-180421

Citation de l'article:

Dans sa lutte pour se libérer de la France, le peuple sénégalais a parfaitement compris qu’obtenir son indépendance ne suffirait pas. La véritable victoire serait d’obtenir une indépendance durable.  

 

Soixante-deux ans plus tard, l'un des jalons les plus significatifs est ce que j'appelle la « diplomatie décolonisée » du Sénégal.  

 

En effet, on ne peut s’empêcher de se demander si la célèbre stabilité politique du Sénégal est le résultat de sa diplomatie ou sa cause. français 

From the article:

In their fight for freedom from France, what the people of Senegal keenly understood was that securing independence would simply not be enough. True victory would be achieved by a sustainable independence.  

 

Sixty two years later, one of the most significant markers of the victory is what I call Senegal’s “de-colonised diplomacy”.  

 

Indeed, one cannot but wonder whether the celebrated political stability of Senegal has been the result of its diplomacy or its cause.

 

ALSO SEE

 

Ripert, Yohann C. 2021. Decolonizing Diplomacy: Senghor, Kennedy, and the Practice of Ideology. African Studies Review. 

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Expanding Available Futures: Ideological Contestation in Angola’s Emerging Higher Education Sector [Comparative Education Review, 2022]

Title: 

Expanding Available Futures: Ideological Contestation in Angola’s Emerging Higher Education Sector  

 

Author:

Jess Auerbach  

 

Published: 

Comparative Education Review, Volume 66, Number 1, February 2022 

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/717552?journalCode=cer  

 

Abstract: 

This article explores the place of ideology and what I call analytic allegiances in the nascent higher education domain in Angola. Based on ethnographic research, it considers the post-War emergence of the sector and its implications for global higher education. Focusing primarily on two institutions, one state, one private, it probes how contesting cold war ideologies continue to manifest through the pedagogic, curricula, and campus-based decisions of higher education leaders in the country. It develops Jonathan Jansen’s notion of “political symbolism” to give attention to individual faculty member’s personal scholarly trajectories that result in analytic allegiances within domains of friendship and influence. It argues that exposure to political and social systems and symbols at formative times of individual faculty’s biographies radically inform the ways in which the emergent sector is being approached and molded today. It demonstrates how the existence of pluralistic knowledge traditions maintained through analytic allegiance and political symbolism have equipped Angola well for the transformative processes required in contemporary higher education.