The PhD Experience in African Higher Education, edited by Ruth Murambadoro, John Mashayamombe, and uMbuso weNkosi, addresses the growing call to invest in the humanities and social sciences by exploring the nature of doctoral training in select institutions of higher learning in South Africa. In the past two decades, South Africa has become a key player in the global higher education landscape and dubbed the hub for doctoral training in Africa because of its developed educational infrastructure and highly ranked universities. Given South Africa's positioning, the contributors in this volume argue that the government, donors, universities, and faculty have a socio-legal duty to ensure that doctoral programs in the humanities and social sciences are not offered to amass numbers of African graduates but are grounded on equipping students with both hard and soft skills necessary to succeed. This is achieved by offering skills training and research apprenticeship fostered in communities of practice because, as the contributors show, the humanities and social sciences are the backbone of society. Furthermore, they argue that treating doctoral candidates as equal partners is emancipatory because intellectual projects are best nurtured through collaborative learning.

About the Author

Ruth Murambadoro is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Feminist Research at York University.

John Mashayamombe is a researcher of sociology at Nelson Mandela University.

uMbuso weNkosi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

Book Information
ISBN 9781793645371
Author Ruth Murambadoro
Format Hardback
Page Count 214
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 503g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 22mm