Serving the Common Good combines critical analysis and interpretation of theory and practice for higher education in Africa and in the West. It demonstrates the current urgent need to articulate an educational ideal relevant to the cultural, economic, political, and social problems of the twenty-first century. Utilizing Julius K. Nyerere's vision of education for the common good - a pragmatically balanced articulation of a postcolonial African perspective on higher education - Kiluba L. Nkulu emphasizes a human-centered approach to community and national development.
Serving the Common Good offers a provocative and unique perspective on the state of higher education in Africa, and will be useful in courses on African Studies, Education and Society, Educational Foundations and Inquiry, Higher Education and Leadership, Political Economy, and Sociology.
«Dr Kiluba addresses the subject of higher education in this wide-ranging study. He looks at the subject across a range of historical and cultural examples, with his major emphasis on Africa in the post-colonial epoch. His examples include Spain, Newman, John Dewey, Muslim Egypt, old Timbuktu, and similar historical situations. He probes the parlous state of higher education in the post-colonial debacle, paying attention to nationalist ideas and their impact on society. He appeals for a recovery of the ideals of higher education in order to reform and revitalize it. The book should be of interest to those concerned with higher education as an issue in African development.» (Professor Lamin Sanneh, Yale University)
«Kiluba Nkulu has put the experience of the University of Dar-es-Salaam in a historical context which illuminates its multiple significance, for both the history of African higher education and that of African decolonization. Anyone interested in these issues will do well to take the book seriously.» (Professor Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at SIPA)
The Author: Kiluba L. Nkulu is a scholar of tertiary education in Africa and the United States. He holds a Licence ès lettres from the University of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an M.A. in religious education from Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky, and a Ph.D. in educational policy studies with an emphasis on higher education from the University of Kentucky. A native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he is the founder of Mchekiti, a non-profit, independent, Christian educational organization.
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The Author: Kiluba L. Nkulu is a scholar of tertiary education in Africa and the United States. He holds a Licence ès lettres from the University of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an M.A. in religious education from Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky, and a Ph.D. in educational policy studies with an emphasis on higher education from the University of Kentucky. A native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he is the founder of Mchekiti, a non-profit, independent, Christian educational organization.
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Serving the Common Good combines critical analysis and interpretation of theory and practice for higher education in Africa and in the West. It demonstrates the current urgent need to articulate an educational ideal relevant to the cultural, economic, political, and social problems of the twenty-first century. Utilizing Julius K. Nyerere's vision of education for the common good - a pragmatically balanced articulation of a postcolonial African perspective on higher education - Kiluba L. Nkulu emphasizes a human-centered approach to community and national development. Serving the Common Good offers a provocative and unique perspective on the state of higher education in Africa, and will be useful in courses on African Studies, Education and Society, Educational Foundations and Inquiry, Higher Education and Leadership, Political Economy, and Sociology.
