Nelson Casimiro Zavale is Associate Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo-Mozambique, and a Senior Research Fellow at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Christian Schneijderberg, PhD, works as Senior Researcher at the International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel, Germany.

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This book gives a comprehensive account of the patterns of university and academics societal engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), considering knowledge production and the resulting outputs and benefits. It is valuable reading for academics studying higher education and development, science, innovation studies and sociology of education.

Contenu

List of figures and tables

List of abbreviations

Series editor's foreword

Preface and acknowledgements by Nelson C. Zavale

Note for the reader

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - University and academics' societal engagement: Main concepts

Chapter 3 - Same but different? SSA as knowledge society and economy

Chapter 4 - Knowledge producers in SSA: Higher education institutions

Chapter 5 - Features of knowledge produced in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 6 - Characteristics and typologies of stakeholders and knowledge users in SSA

Chapter 7 - Forms and channels of knowledges transfer between university and external stakeholders in Sub-Sahara Africa

Chapter 8 - Outputs, outcomes ,and benefits of university and academics' societal engagement and knowledges transfer in Sub-Sahara Africa

Chapter 9 - Main drivers and constraints or barriers to university's societal engagement and knowledge transfer

Chapter 10 - (Un-)fitness of conventional approaches to university and academics' societal engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa and the presentation of an alternative analytical framework

Afterword

Index