Thesis (MEd)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Through policy document analyses and in-depth semi-structured interviews, this
thesis examines the potential of higher education policy frameworks to engender
quality university education in Malawian universities. Pertinent to the fast-growing
higher education sector in Malawi is the connection between higher education policy
frameworks and quality delivery of university education. Education policy
frameworks in Malawi are mainly a response to the government’s broad policy of
poverty alleviation. Thus this thesis argues that quality university education ought to
contribute to poverty alleviation especially by assisting the country to achieve its
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to implement the initiatives of the New
Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).
To engender quality university education that could help to alleviate poverty in
Malawi, this thesis through Habermasian critical inquiry proposes that quality ought
to be the corollary of defensible higher education policy frameworks, policy
documents need to delineate quality parameters, access to university education needs
to be increased and, inevitably, discursive or deliberative higher education policy
making ought to be given primacy. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Aan die hand van beleidsdokumentontleding en diepgaande, semigestruktureerde
onderhoude, ondersoek hierdie tesis die potensiaal van
hoëronderwysbeleidsraamwerke om gehalte universiteitsonderrig in Malawiese
universiteite teweeg te bring. Van besondere belang vir die snelgroeiende
hoëronderwyssektor in Malawi is die verband tussen hoëronderwysbeleidsraamwerke
en die lewering van gehalte universiteitsonderrig. Malawiese
onderwysbeleidsraamwerke is hoofsaaklik 'n reaksie op die regering se omvattende
armoedeverligtingsbeleid. Daarom voer hierdie tesis aan dat gehalte
universiteitsonderrig tot armoedeverligting behoort by te dra, veral deur die land te
help om sy millenniumontwikkelingsdoelwitte (MOD’s) te bereik en die inisiatiewe
van die Nuwe Vennootskap vir Afrika-ontwikkeling (NEPAD) in werking te stel.
Ten einde gehalte universiteitsonderrig teweeg te bring wat armoede in Malawi kan
help verlig, doen hierdie tesis deur Habermasiese kritiese ondersoek aan die hand dat
gehalte die uitvloeisel van verdedigbare hoëronderwysbeleidsraamwerke moet wees,
dat beleidsdokumente gehaltegrense moet neerlê, dat toegang tot universiteitsonderrig
verbeter moet word, en dat beredeneerde of oorwoë hoëronderwysbeleidbepaling
onafwendbaar voorrang behoort te geniet.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/21793 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Shawa, Lester Brian |
| Contributors | Waghid, Yusef, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Education Policy Studies. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | xi, 100 leaves |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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