Changing Modes: New Knowledge Production and Its Implications for Higher Education in South Africa - Softcover

9780796919601: Changing Modes: New Knowledge Production and Its Implications for Higher Education in South Africa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0796919607 ISBN 13: 9780796919601

Publisher: HSRC Press, 2000

This book examines the influence of an important body of international literature on the development of post-apartheid policies in higher education and training and in science and technology. Known as the "Mode Two" knowledge debate, it refers to the emergence of a new mode of knowledge production which has its origins in the synergy and cross-fertilisation taking place between established disciplines, and in the interaction of higher education scientists with other knowledge practitioners from government, business and civil society. Changing Modes also examines a related phenomenon, the so-called "massification" and democratisation of higher education world-wide over the past two decades. The opening up of access to higher education in South Africa to a wider array of social classes and age groups, with students from a diverse range of life and work experiences, has led to an equivalent shift in the "higher learning" function of institutions. There has been a move away from the elite cultures and expert knowledges of privileged middle class to incorporate the values of non-elite communities, particularly with regard to the practical competencies required in semi-professional, professional and community life.

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About the Author

Executive Director of the Human Resources Development Research Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa. Dr Kraak's expertise spans further and higher education, skills development, and science and technology policy studies.

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