Simon Vurayai
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Vurayai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Vurayai |
| SIGNATURE | VURAYAI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9395-8880 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Enhancing Visibility of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in African Universities
Covid-19 pandemic and the narrative of the digital divide gap in universities in Sub-Saharan Africa
This theoretical paper endorses that Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a severe acute respiratory syndrome that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a world pandemic on the 8th of March 2020 has exposed a plethora of opportunities and inequalities in education. To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries of the world enforced some form of lockdown and restrictions, and that affected the culture of social institutions including…
Decolonising African University Knowledges
Publish or perish
This theoretical paper uses content analysis by drawing from the literature on the implications of the varied conceptions of ‘Publish or perish’ maxim to novice African academics in the neoliberal context. Neoliberal politics has defined education and research in particular as a commodity to be bought and sold as controlled by the profit motive and related market forces. As a result, novice African academics have been marginalised in the producti…
Publish or perish
This theoretical paper uses content analysis by drawing from the literature on the implications of the varied conceptions of ‘Publish or perish’ maxim to novice African academics in the neoliberal context. Neoliberal politics has defined education and research in particular as a commodity to be bought and sold as controlled by the profit motive and related market forces. As a result, novice African academics have been marginalised in the producti…
Covid-19 pandemic and the narrative of the digital divide gap in universities in Sub-Saharan Africa
This theoretical paper endorses that Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a severe acute respiratory syndrome that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a world pandemic on the 8th of March 2020 has exposed a plethora of opportunities and inequalities in education. To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries of the world enforced some form of lockdown and restrictions, and that affected the culture of social institutions including…
Decolonising African University Knowledges
Publish or perish
This theoretical paper uses content analysis by drawing from the literature on the implications of the varied conceptions of ‘Publish or perish’ maxim to novice African academics in the neoliberal context. Neoliberal politics has defined education and research in particular as a commodity to be bought and sold as controlled by the profit motive and related market forces. As a result, novice African academics have been marginalised in the producti…
Covid-19 pandemic and the narrative of the digital divide gap in universities in Sub-Saharan Africa
This theoretical paper endorses that Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a severe acute respiratory syndrome that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a world pandemic on the 8th of March 2020 has exposed a plethora of opportunities and inequalities in education. To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries of the world enforced some form of lockdown and restrictions, and that affected the culture of social institutions including…
Enhancing Visibility of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in African Universities
Economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Commodity (1 work) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (1 work) · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (1 work) · Digital divide (1 work) · Digital media (1 work)