Learning to Make Change focuses on African university's efforts to become more innovative and responsive to community needs and the challenges posed by sustainability.

Contents

• The Mixed-Grill: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities for a University of the 21st Century
• Professional Ignorance and Non-professional Experts: Experiences of How Small Scale Vanilla Farmers in Uganda Learned to Produce for Export
• Challenges of Demand-Driven Research and Extension Services in Uganda: Implications for Competence
• Getting it Right from the Start: Designing Innovation Competence Development Programmes in Universities
• Vision-Based Assessment of Learning for Change: The Case of an Innovation Competence Development Programme
• Outcomes of the Competence Development Programme
• Discussion and Conclusions: Towards a New African University for the 21st Century

Appendices

• Reflection on My Own Learning Through Doing a PhD
• Instrument for Self-Assessment on Impact of the PM/SS Programme

List of Tables

1. Levels of Participation
2. Contrast Between Teaching-Centered and Learning-Centred Approaches
3. Comparison of the Ideal Situations for Learning Organisation and Current Situation in Universities
4. Farmer Characteristics
5. Composition of Participants
6. Content Outline for the Learning Workshops
7. Composition of Assessment Team
8. Triggers and Profile Indicators

Index

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