SPP 1448 Knowledge Transfer Project - Curriculum Development

该知识转移项目（KTP）将与以下应用伙伴大学共同开发科学和技术研究（STS）课程：约翰内斯堡威特沃特斯兰德大学威茨社会经济研究所（WISER，南非）、Makerere大学儿童健康与发展中心（乌干达）、塞拉利昂大学Fourah Bay学院（塞拉利昂）、利比里亚大学科菲安南冲突转化研究所（利比里亚）和恩贾梅纳人类学和人文科学研究中心（乍得）。该项目主要针对本科生和研究生、我们的应用伙伴大学的教师以及发展合作的从业人员。STS课程将有助于非洲高等教育机构的课程编制。其成果将是：（1）根据SPP 1448关于在非洲大陆使用技术制造秩序和混乱的调查结果，在合作的非洲高等院校开发新的课程材料和教学方法;（2）除了STS课程，我们将开发一个免费的STS电子学习工具;（3）免费的STS电子学习工具旨在通过制作非洲电子讲座，扩大STS教学的使用范围，提高非洲学者和非洲大学的国际知名度（4）最后，该KTP将为非洲国家知识基础设施的生产开辟新的科学研究路线。STS将通过结合人类学、STS和区域研究的方法和概念视角，提供对非洲国家当前技术和社会变革的反思性理解。我们强调，STS课程的主题是基于非洲背景下的技术生活经验。我们将通过实地实验开发免费的STS电子学习工具，将实地学校练习，对大众媒体技术的经验分析与非洲媒体实践的跨学科观点联系起来，以开发数字全球化时代的替代教学和研究模式。由此产生的免费STS电子学习工具旨在满足包括非洲高等院校、国际高等院校、政府机构和非政府组织在内的各种受众的需求。

This knowledge transfer project (KTP) will jointly develop curriculum in Science and Technology Studies (STS) with the following application partner universities: Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg (WISER, South Africa), the Child Health and Development Centre at Makerere University (Uganda), the Fourah Bay College at University of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone), the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation at University of Liberia (Liberia) and the Centre for Research in Anthropology and Human Sciences, N'Djamena (Chad). The project primarily targets graduate and post-graduate students, faculty at our application partner universities and practitioners in development cooperation. The courses in STS will contribute to curriculum development at African higher education institutions (HEIs). The outcomes will be: (1) new course material and teaching methods developed at partnering African HEIs based on the findings from the SPP 1448 on the uses of technologies in the production of order and disorder on the African continent; (2) in addition to the STS courses, we will develop a free STS e-learning tool; (3) the free STS e-learning tool aims to broaden access to STS teaching and enhance the international visibility of African scholars and African universities by producing African e-lectures (4) finally, this KTP will open new lines of scientific research on the production of knowledge infrastructure in African countries. The STS s will provide a reflexive understanding of current technological and social transformations in African countries by combining methodological and conceptual perspectives derived from anthropology, STS and area studies. We emphasize that the subject matter of the STS courses is grounded in the lived experiences of technologies in African contexts. We will develop the free STS e-learning tool through a field experiment, which connects field school exercises, empirically grounded analysis of mass media technologies, with interdisciplinary perspectives on media practices in Africa, to develop alternative modes of teaching and research in times of digital globalization. The resulting free STS e-learning tool seeks to address diverse audiences comprising African HEIs, HEIs internationally, government agencies and non-governmental organizations.