Higher Education in the Face of a Global Pandemic

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51444-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives

The book reflects on the extent to which the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic influenced the education system in Africa, notably South Africa. The advent of the pandemic has brought a new context to the challenges of access, deepening the precarious position of African higher education systems. The pandemic underscored that African higher education systems are fragile and not uniformly resilient. The book discusses the challenges created or further entrenched by COVID-19 and how the typology of inequality across the differentiated institutions impacted the management of education delivery during COVID-19. Per se, lessons learned were documented to inform decision-making and practice while drawing conclusions for future usage. Even though the shift to emergency remote teaching was not foreseen and thus not coordinated, the authors argue that students’ learning styles, perceptions of online learning and digital pedagogy should be considered in the post-COVID-19 curricula development processes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse

Jonck, Petronella

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Robert J. Balfour

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Petronella Jonck

2 The Challenges of Online Learning in African Higher Education: A Critical Reflection on the Digital Divide Associated with the COVID-19
Pandemic

Emnet Tadesse Wolgegiorgis

3 Teacher Unions and the State’s Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Provision of Basic Education in South Africa

Logan Govender

4 Higher Education Institutions’ Readiness for Alternative Delivery Modes and Online Pedagogy in the Face of a Global Crisis: A Case Study

Verona Leendertz, Clarise Mostert, Jhalukpreya Surujlal and Herman van der Merwe

5 Students’ Learning Styles and Perception of Online Learning: Exploring a Multimodal Approach to Teaching and Learning

Freda van der Walt and Andile Nkoyi

6 Responses and Mechanisms for Mitigating the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on East African Higher Education

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis

7 Information Literacy as a Meta-Literacy Prerequisite for Teaching and Learning in an ICT Environment

Anna-Marie Pelser and Eben Swanepoel

8 Determining the Outcome of an Information Literacy Initiative for Postgraduate Students: A Case Study

Petronella Jonck

9 South Africa’s University Teaching and Learning Dynamics Amid a COVID-19 Pandemic

Phefumula Nyoni and Kholekile Hazel Ngqila

10 Conclusion

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Petronella Jonck

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Ph.D. (2015), is an Associate Professor and Director at the Ali Mazrui Center for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg. He has published several academic works on issues of higher education in Africa, including a recent article in Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Petronella Jonck, Ph.D. (2011), University of the Free State, is an Associate Professor at the North-West University. She has published scholarly outputs, including a recent article in International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change.