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Vol. 5 No 1 (2007): Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique

7 - ‘It’s Literacy, Stupid!’: Declining the Humanities in National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Policy

https://doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v5i1.1645
John Higgins

Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique, Vol. 5 No 1 (2007): Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique

Résumé

Dans cet article, on examine le rôle et la place des compétences en connaissances culturelles poussées dans la politique de la NRF et on soutient qu’il n’existe ni rôle ni place pour elles dans les politiques actuelles formulées. Par le biais d’une brève analyse des travaux de Goody et Gellner, cette étude soutient que ce vide en matière d’orientation ignore la force nécessaire et fondamentale que l’on reconnaît largement aux compétences en connaissances poussées dans la fonction et la constitution des États modernes et de leur économie. En ignorant cela, la NRF compromet sa mission d’appui au développement social et à la croissance économique en Afrique du Sud. L’étude soutient par ailleurs que la structure actuelle de l’appui sélectif à la recherche dans le domaine des humanités est susceptible d’avoir pour conséquence peut-être involontaire leur destruction sur le plan de la concurrence mondiale en raison de la pénalisation de l’activité de recherche fondamentale et de l’érosion de la reproduction qui en résulte. Tout compte fait, la politique actuelle de la NRF à l’égard des humanités apparaît comme un affaiblissement, dans toute l’acception du terme. Une situation à laquelle l’étude répond en utilisant le slogan préféré de Bill Clinton, «C’est de l’instruction, idiot».

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NRF politiques Goody et Gellner
Higgins, J. (2007). 7 - ‘It’s Literacy, Stupid!’: Declining the Humanities in National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Policy. Revue De l’enseignement supérieur En Afrique, 5(1), 95–112. https://doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v5i1.1645
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John Higgins

 Professor and Fellow, Department of English, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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