Contextual Content Analysis of Mission Statements of Open and Distance Education Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
<p>The aim of this study is to evaluate the extent to which open, and distance education universities are fulfilling their stated purpose as higher education institutions in Sub-Saharan countries. The starting point of understanding the purpose of an institutions is to analyse the content of m...
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| description | <p>The aim of this study is to evaluate the extent to which open, and distance education universities are fulfilling their stated purpose as higher education institutions in Sub-Saharan countries. The starting point of understanding the purpose of an institutions is to analyse the content of mission statements and the context in which the universities operate. The content of the mission statements of the six selected open and distance universities from Sub-Saharan countries were analysed using contextual content analysis. The role of mission statements is to communicate the purpose of the institution to stakeholders. Although most open and distance universities mentioned some of the principles of openness, many mission statements were silent on access, equity and student-centredness. The findings revealed that there is misalignment between what the university claims to do and their practice. This shows that these institutions did not consider the open and distance education principles and context when developing mission statements.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6564f17e871a4e589d6c6276f57b5d5b2023-03-01T21:21:16ZengInternational Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)Open Praxis1369-99972304-070X2022-11-0114110.55982/openpraxis.14.1.462441Contextual Content Analysis of Mission Statements of Open and Distance Education Institutions in Sub-Saharan AfricaMpine Makoe0University of South Africa<p>The aim of this study is to evaluate the extent to which open, and distance education universities are fulfilling their stated purpose as higher education institutions in Sub-Saharan countries. The starting point of understanding the purpose of an institutions is to analyse the content of mission statements and the context in which the universities operate. The content of the mission statements of the six selected open and distance universities from Sub-Saharan countries were analysed using contextual content analysis. The role of mission statements is to communicate the purpose of the institution to stakeholders. Although most open and distance universities mentioned some of the principles of openness, many mission statements were silent on access, equity and student-centredness. The findings revealed that there is misalignment between what the university claims to do and their practice. This shows that these institutions did not consider the open and distance education principles and context when developing mission statements.</p>https://openpraxis.org/articles/462mission statementsopen and distance education universitiessub-saharan africacontextual content analysis |
| spellingShingle | Mpine Makoe Contextual Content Analysis of Mission Statements of Open and Distance Education Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa Open Praxis mission statements open and distance education universities sub-saharan africa contextual content analysis |
| title | Contextual Content Analysis of Mission Statements of Open and Distance Education Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full | Contextual Content Analysis of Mission Statements of Open and Distance Education Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_fullStr | Contextual Content Analysis of Mission Statements of Open and Distance Education Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contextual Content Analysis of Mission Statements of Open and Distance Education Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_short | Contextual Content Analysis of Mission Statements of Open and Distance Education Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_sort | contextual content analysis of mission statements of open and distance education institutions in sub saharan africa |
| topic | mission statements open and distance education universities sub-saharan africa contextual content analysis |
| url | https://openpraxis.org/articles/462 |
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