Rethinking Social Innovations in Practice- the Case of the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Development Education

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
By Catherine A. Odora Hoppers. Rethinking Social Innovations in Practice- the Case of the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Development Education
Since its inception, higher education in sub-Saharan Africa has made significant strides, but also faced major challenges in particular in knowledge production paradigms, and developing methodologies to rethink thinking itself. To some, the solution to the crisis lies in Africanisation as part of a radical visioning of the university. To others, the solution is in reform of existing institutions. The Chair combines both theories and takes it further. It sees beyond the regulatory rules, to the social, legal and ethical innovative reforms of the constitutive rules governing the university as offering the best way out of the current crisis. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.