Transmission and Transformation in Higher Education: Indigenisation, Internationalisation and Transculturality

Autor/in	Horsthemke, Kai
Titel	Transmission and Transformation in Higher Education: Indigenisation, Internationalisation and Transculturality
Quelle	In: Transformation in Higher Education, 2 (2017), Artikel 12 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2415-0991
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Educational Practices; Global Approach; Culturally Relevant Education; International Cooperation; Standards; Afrocentrism; Cultural Pluralism; Indigenous Populations; South Africa; Germany; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Bildungspraxis; Globales Denken; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Standard; Afro-centrisme; Afrozentrismus; Kulturpluralismus; Sinti und Roma; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik; Deutschland; Europa
Abstract	There have been various approaches to the transmission and transformation of systems, practices, knowledge and concepts in higher education in recent decades, chief among which are drives towards indigenisation, on the one hand, and towards internationalisation, on the other. After briefly discussing and dispensing with radical versions of these, theories that reject any claim to validity or legitimacy by the rival approach, this article examines more nuanced accounts that deserve appropriately serious consideration. Thus, in the former instance, there is an emphasis on the local that nonetheless acknowledges a debt to the global, whereas conversely the emphasis on the global is seen as compatible with an acknowledgement of diversity, difference and particularity. What is gained and what is lost in these various approaches to educational transmission and transformation? After reflecting, in this regard, on lessons from both Africa and Europe -- in particular, on the debates in South Africa around Africanisation and decolonisation, and in Germany around global interdependence -- I cautiously endorse the idea of 'transculturality' (as contrasted with 'multiculturality' and 'interculturality') as a promising philosophical perspective on transmission of knowledge and practices, and as conceptualising transformation of higher education. The role of philosophy, in particular, consists in part in counteracting the hegemony of both traditional and homogenising ('colonising') authority. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01