The Transnationally Partnered University Insights from Research and Sustainable Development Collaborations in Africa

by Koehn, Peter H.; Obamba, Milton O.

• ISBN13: 9781137481740
• ISBN10: 1137481749
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-12-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In The Transnationally Partnered University, Koehn and Obamba explore the transnational-higher-education landscape in Africa and examine the extent to which the reality of partnership matches its golden rhetoric. By partnering across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, universities enable societies to make progress in alleviating poverty, adapting to climate change, and dealing with other current and future challenges. Specific approaches for linking African scholars and institutions of higher learning through symmetrical and mutually beneficial North-South and South-South partnerships are explored. The authors' creative and original process-based analysis of transnational-higher-education partnerships will be of interest to students of comparative and international education, science and technology, development studies, and African affairs as well as higher-education administrators, donor and development-agency professionals, and ministry personnel in Africa.

Author Biography

Peter Koehn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Montana, USAD. He is a Fulbright New Century Scholar, and recipient of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities' Michael Malone award for International Ieadership and the George Dennison Presidential Faculty Award for Distinguished Accomplishment. He is co-author of Transnational Competence: Empowering Professional Curricula for Horizon-Rising Challenges (2010).

Milton Obamba is Research Fellow at the Centre for Higher Education Policy Research at the Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. His recent publications have appeared in the Higher Education Policy, Compare: Journal of International and Comparative Education, Journal of Higher Education in Africa, and Sage Handbook of International Higher Education.

Table of Contents

1.Higher Education and Development: Knowledge as Igniter
2.The Landscape of Research & Development THEP Opportunities
3.Asymmetry and Symmetry in Transnational Higher-education Partnerships
4.Initiating and Constructing the Transnational Higher-education Partnership
5.Managing the Transnational Higher-education Partnership: What Does Not Work and What Works
6.Symmetrical Capacity-building Challenges for THEPs
7.Partnership-Sustainability Challenges
8.Symmetrical THEP Evaluation Challenges
9.Evidence from Africa
10. Conclusion: Promoting Synergy Through Symmetry