Leaders in Distance Education on the African Continent

Recognising and documenting leadership in distance education on the African continent is a daunting task, fraught with a number of difficulties, such as deciding on which criteria to consider and who to include. And are these criteria truly global or are there issues relating to those used to select...

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Autor principal:	Paul Prinsloo
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Publicado:	Commonwealth of Learning 2017
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b3ad39139ed946bd87e9d4d33bcfc5262021-12-03T20:33:34ZLeaders in Distance Education on the African Continent2311-1550https://doaj.org/article/b3ad39139ed946bd87e9d4d33bcfc5262017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/225https://doaj.org/toc/2311-1550Recognising and documenting leadership in distance education on the African continent is a daunting task, fraught with a number of difficulties, such as deciding on which criteria to consider and who to include. And are these criteria truly global or are there issues relating to those used to select individuals on the African continent? Other challenges include, but are not limited to, the following questions: How do we evaluate and define leadership in distance education on the African continent? Are we looking for individuals who have contributed to the advancement of distance education as praxis on the African continent, regardless of their international gravitas, or are we looking for African scholars who shaped our understanding of distance education as a specific research and theoretical field in the context of Africa? We also need to consider what sources we will use to identify leaders in distance education on the African continent. Will we only use published literature and scholarship in the field of distance education, such as books, reports and articles in scholarly journals? In addition, how do we engage with the realities that reports of exemplary leadership in distance education may not be digitally available, or available in English? What are the implications if we find, as I will point out later, that there is very little recognition of African leadership in distance education, with the exception of a few individuals and institutions, outside of Africa? Having recognised some of the questions pertaining to recognising leadership in distance education on the African continent, I do not claim that the task was unique in its difficulty or more difficult than, for example, documenting leadership in distance education in other geopolitical contexts. Each of the contributors to this initiative to recognise and celebrate leadership in distance education leadership in the Journal of Learning for Development may have interpreted this task differently, depending on their own location, context and expertise in the field. Inevitably, a multitude of intersecting, often interdependent and mutually constitutive personal, disciplinary, institutional and geopolitical factors shaped my own approach to this task.Paul PrinslooCommonwealth of Learningarticleafricadistance educationleadersTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENJournal of Learning for Development, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 104-118 (2017)
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description	Recognising and documenting leadership in distance education on the African continent is a daunting task, fraught with a number of difficulties, such as deciding on which criteria to consider and who to include. And are these criteria truly global or are there issues relating to those used to select individuals on the African continent? Other challenges include, but are not limited to, the following questions: How do we evaluate and define leadership in distance education on the African continent? Are we looking for individuals who have contributed to the advancement of distance education as praxis on the African continent, regardless of their international gravitas, or are we looking for African scholars who shaped our understanding of distance education as a specific research and theoretical field in the context of Africa? We also need to consider what sources we will use to identify leaders in distance education on the African continent. Will we only use published literature and scholarship in the field of distance education, such as books, reports and articles in scholarly journals? In addition, how do we engage with the realities that reports of exemplary leadership in distance education may not be digitally available, or available in English? What are the implications if we find, as I will point out later, that there is very little recognition of African leadership in distance education, with the exception of a few individuals and institutions, outside of Africa? Having recognised some of the questions pertaining to recognising leadership in distance education on the African continent, I do not claim that the task was unique in its difficulty or more difficult than, for example, documenting leadership in distance education in other geopolitical contexts. Each of the contributors to this initiative to recognise and celebrate leadership in distance education leadership in the Journal of Learning for Development may have interpreted this task differently, depending on their own location, context and expertise in the field. Inevitably, a multitude of intersecting, often interdependent and mutually constitutive personal, disciplinary, institutional and geopolitical factors shaped my own approach to this task.
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Leaders in Distance Education on the African Continent

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