[PDF] Access To Knowledge In South Africa eBook

Author : Chris Armstrong
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1919895450

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"This book is a result of an international and interdisciplinary research project known as the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project"--Acknowledgments.

Author : Julian David Jonker
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2009
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Arguments for increasing access to knowledge have generally been concerned with rights. In the developing context, increased access to knowledge also has strong economic and developmental benefits. An emergent access to learning materials movement in South Africa has the opportunity to make use of both kinds of argument. The South African education system is currently deficient in several ways, and some of these deficiencies arise from lack of access to appropriate learning materials. This paper reviews some of the arguments put forward by the access to learning materials movement in favour of increasing access to knowledge and reforming the South African intellectual property law framework. These arguments and potential constitutional arguments for increasing access will be strengthened by the availability of empirical evidence about the economic benefits of alternative intellectual property policies. It is argued that further research of this nature should be undertaken.

Author : Chrissie Bowie
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1928502229

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Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims for quality higher education to be made available to all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. Understanding Higher Education responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as decontextualised learners premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy. This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society.

Author : C. Armstrong
Publisher : Juta
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552504901

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Gives the reader an understanding of the legal and practical issues posed by copyright for access to learning materials in Africa, and identifies the relevant lessons, best policies and best practices that would broaden and deepen this access.

Author : Koch, Susanne
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1928331394

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With the rise of the ‘knowledge for development’ paradigm, expert advice has become a prime instrument of foreign aid. At the same time, it has been object of repeated criticism: the chronic failure of ‘technical assistance’ – a notion under which advice is commonly subsumed – has been documented in a host of studies. Nonetheless, international organisations continue to send advisors, promising to increase the ‘effectiveness’ of expert support if their technocratic recommendations are taken up. This book reveals fundamental problems of expert advice in the context of aid that concern issues of power and legitimacy rather than merely flaws of implementation. Based on empirical evidence from South Africa and Tanzania, the authors show that aid-related advisory processes are inevitably obstructed by colliding interests, political pressures and hierarchical relations that impede knowledge transfer and mutual learning. As a result, recipient governments find themselves caught in a perpetual cycle of dependency, continuously advised by experts who convey the shifting paradigms and agendas of their respective donor governments. For young democracies, the persistent presence of external actors is hazardous: ultimately, it poses a threat to the legitimacy of their governments if their policy-making becomes more responsive to foreign demands than to the preferences and needs of their citizens.

Author : Brian Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019882405X

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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.

Author : Shireen Motala
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Dropouts
ISBN : 9780796924018

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Finding Place and Keeping Pace focuses on getting access to and completing basic education in South Africa. It is based on research conducted for the Consortium on Research in Education Access, Transition and Equity (CREATE), an international study funded by the UK's Department for International Development, led by Professor Keith Lewin of Sussex University. The book showcases a rich body of research dealing with educational access, inclusion, and exclusion, and provides a critical appraisal of how far South Africa has come in terms of achieving the Millennium Development and Education For All goals in terms of access and quality indicators.