Transformation in Higher Education
The Transformation in Higher Education is an international, transdisciplinary journal that seeks original contributions that reflect upon and theorise transformation in higher education in all its different nuances. It aims to disseminate high impact, evidence based research across disciplines in higher education that could ultimately support high level learning, teaching and research. Therefore, transdisciplinary engagements that address contemporary issues in higher education contexts will receive preference. Conceptual-philosophical and empirical works addressing matters that could lead to the intellectual advancement in higher education as discipline and context are welcomed. This journal and its publications are of interest to academics and a wide range of professionals associated with Higher Education institutions, both nationally and internationally.
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Colour-blind attitudes of students at the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus
(AOSIS, 2021)Background: Colour-blind attitudes deny racial dynamics and can lead to resistance to transformation because there seems to be no need for it. This study investigated these attitudes amongst students at a university ... -
Decolonising an introductory course in practical theology and missiology : some tentative reflections on shifting identities
(AOSIS, 2021)Background: The shifting identity of a first-year class over a decade in terms of demography and representation, inevitably led me to reflect deeply on what I teach them and how I facilitate the learning process. I had ... -
Intersection of Ubuntu pedagogy and social justice : transforming South African higher education
(AOSIS, 2021)Background: Universities, globally, and in South Africa, continue to be confronted with demands for transformation, humanisation of pedagogical practices and to embrace social justice. Aim: In this article, we bring to ... -
Exploring the nexus between transdisciplinarity, internationalisation and community service-learning at a university of technology in Cape Town
(AOSIS, 2021)Background: The ability of the South African citizenry to overcome a myriad of challenges (which include the triple challenges of inequality, poverty and unemployment) can be called into question. This alleged inability ... -
The question of access and spatial justice in universities in sub-Saharan Africa : a capabilities approach
(AOSIS, 2021)Background: The discussions related to access in higher education collate enrollment with the provision of education. Yet, when considering what the university education should provide, some enrollments still restrict ... -
Academic integrity of university students during emergency remote online assessment : an exploration of student voices
(AOSIS, 2021)Background: This article examines the phenomenon of academic integrity during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with particular reference to emergency online assessments in 2020. Aim: It explores academic ... -
Why should an ethics of care matter in education?
(AOSIS, 2021)When a black 2nd-year student educator gets chased away from a school whilst doing his teaching practice for hair ‘not setting an appropriate example to learners’, the incident elicits questions about the rights of student ... -
Insights on student leadership using social dream drawing : six propositions for the transformation role of South African student leaders
(AOSIS, 2021)Background: Student leadership is central to the South African transformation agenda in higher education. Even so the understanding of student leadership, especially regarding its purpose and its implementation varies ... -
Reflections on COVID-19 and the viability of curriculum adjustment and delivery options in the South African educational space
(AOSIS, 2021)Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic brought unprecedented changes leading to `business unusual’ in all facets of life and livelihood on a global scale. The restrictions on gathering, social distancing ... -
Higher education leadership responses applied in two South African comprehensive universities during the COVID-19 pandemic : a critical discourse analysis
(AOSIS, 2022)Background: This article explored the leadership responses that were used by two comprehensive universities in South Africa (Nelson Mandela University and University of Johannesburg) during the coronavirus disease 2019 ... -
Research ethics : examining the tension between principlism and rational self-interest in a neoliberal university context
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The reconfiguration of the contemporary university as a consequence of the (re)ascendency of neoliberal politics has not escaped South African universities. The higher education landscape in the country is ... -
Towards a humane community : the search for disability justice in higher education through African moral thinking
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The central claim of this article is that African disability justice is possible through analysing, re-examining and reimagining realities that distort and disempower the being of individuals with disabilities. Aim: ... -
Philosophers’ debt to their students : the South African case
(AOSIS, 2020)Philosophy teachers owe their students a little more than mere formal instruction of topics popular in philosophy. What they owe their students is largely influenced by philosophy’s claims to be a discipline that is ... -
National Universities in Argentina during the pandemic outbreak
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The health emergency that Argentina is experiencing because of the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed institutional normality at all educational levels. Universities have certainly not escaped this logic. ... -
Competency-based theological education in a postcolonial context : towards a transformed competency framework
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: Assessment of students for ministerial practice is traditionally performed through assignments and oral examinations, which often only concentrate on the knowledge component and outcomes of the programme. ... -
Gender pronoun use in the university classroom : a post-humanist perspective
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: This article explores the political impact of using gender neutral pronouns in the university classroom. Aim: We explore how the gender neutral pronoun ‘they’ denaturalises essentialist models of gender ... -
The construction of a post-academic university : opportunity or status quo?
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: Over the last two decades it has become increasingly urgent to rethink current hurdles and opportunities for higher education, not just in the Global North, but in the effects of Northern policies globally. Aim: ... -
A reflective analysis of articles published in the journal of Transformation in Higher Education (2016–2020) : beyond transformation?
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The fault lines exposed by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and global economic recession unfolding during 2020 in societies around the world, reiterated the need for transforming higher education ... -
Teacher training for religious education : engaging academics through the Dialogical Self Theory
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: In the Netherlands, most of the academic curricula for teacher training in religious education (RE) focus on shortfalls of students, like a lack of knowledge about the plurality of worldviews and the diversity ... -
Exploring shame and pedagogies of discomfort in critical citizenship education
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Social transformation in South Africa is a sensitive issue because of the historical realities of segregation and past injustices. Aim: To address transformation, Visual Communication Design students were ...
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