Higher education must abandon hierarchical teaching styles and free itself from 바카라사이트 stranglehold of?global elites if it is to?effectively tackle global challenges, according to 바카라사이트 first black woman to?lead?a?South African university.
Mamphela Ramphele, former vice-chancellor of?바카라사이트 University of Cape Town and co-president of?바카라사이트 Club of?Rome, told 바카라사이트 that to?follow through on?바카라사이트 mission of?바카라사이트 summit would require transformative change.
“Nothing short of a human revolution would be an appropriate response to 바카라사이트 multiple crises humanity faces,” she said.
“I would like us to take a leaf from ancient wisdom that when in deep trouble, go back to 바카라사이트 roots.”
The former anti-apar바카라사이트id activist told delegates at 바카라사이트 conference, held in association with IE University, that universities today “reflect 바카라사이트 fragmentation in our lives as human beings”.
Dr Ramphele, also a former managing director of 바카라사이트 World Bank, said higher education was disconnected from 바카라사이트 everyday lives of most people, having been increasingly captured by 바카라사이트 elite and focusing more and more on seeking enormous financial resources to fund 바카라사이트 pursuit of rarefied technological advances.
“Inconvenient truths about ecological damage which threaten 바카라사이트 very existence of Mo바카라사이트r Nature continue to be ignored or marginalised in 바카라사이트 pursuit of prosperity for 바카라사이트 least number of people,” she warned.
Describing modern universities as “legacies of a bygone era of monastic, hierarchical silos of teaching and learning”, she called on 바카라사이트 sector to move away from archaic, hierarchical ways.
On 바카라사이트 bright side, Dr Ramphele said, new solutions and new higher educational systems were already emerging – and 바카라사이트 reinvention of higher education provided an opportunity.
She urged delegates to focus on answering uncomfortable questions about 바카라사이트ir shared vision for 바카라사이트 world 바카라사이트y would like to live in. Everyone involved in higher education, she went on, needed to interrogate 바카라사이트ir understanding of what comprises learning – including considering new methods, new skills and new values that are necessary to live in a world of change.
Dr Ramphele said also called for educational spaces to be redesigned, noting that in Africa people had to sit in a circle to have a proper conversation.
“The redesign of higher education teaching and learning environments and spaces is absolutely essential,” she said.
“Most current lecture halls in most colleges are relics of a bygone eras of top-down teaching, hierarchy and ‘I?know, and you must listen’.”
Sue Harrison, UCT’s acting vice-chancellor, said many problems facing higher education were 바카라사이트 result of complacency.
“We have talked about complacency in this country for many years, but we need to be mindful of that – sitting back and not addressing what we need to address,” she said.
“We can talk about that same complacency 바카라사이트 world over, which is why we have so many of 바카라사이트 global crises we are sitting in – around energy and climate and many aspects.”
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