North-West University Journals: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Bruno Latour and the myth of autonomous academic discipline : rethinking education in the light of various modes of existence
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Issues of identity, interdependence, relationality and violence are far larger than the human species alone, although humanity has often pretended as if it alone were the beneficiaries of studying such ... -
Applying Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions to generate epistemic plurality in the curriculum
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: South Africa’s institutions of higher learning are currently experiencing a dispensation in which calls for curricula transformation and decolonisation reverberate. While the need for curricula evolution is ... -
Securitisation theory and the securitised university : Europe and the nascent colonisation of global intellectual capital
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: This article explores the increasing prevalence of security themes in higher education policy. Aim: Addressing neglect in security studies on the role of the university in the processes of securitisation, ... -
A sociological exploration of the need for safe spaces for lesbian and gay students on a South African university campus
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: The role of safe spaces on university campuses for gay and lesbian students remains a contested issue. This is attributed to the fact that the visibility of these students on university campuses presents a ... -
Transforming while transferring : an exploratory study of how transferability of skills is key in the transformation of higher education
(AOSIS, 2018)The importance of skills within the transformation of higher education is a crucial factor that has been insufficiently considered. Transformation in terms of higher education forms a fundamental part of the post-apartheid ... -
Continuous programme renewal and critical citizenship : key items for the South African higher education curriculum agenda
(AOSIS, 2018)In this article, we explore the term ‘programme renewal’ and then continue to point out why programme renewal bodes an essential topic for continuous inquiry and attention. We also highlight the importance of approaching ... -
Embodied digital technology and transformation in higher education
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: The use of digital technology in higher education is overwhelmingly positively assessed in most recent research literature. While some literature indicates certain challenges in this regard, in general, the ... -
Blackhood as a category in contemporary discourses on Black Studies : an existentialist philosophical defence
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: An era and academic milieu that clamour at post-racialist and globalist theoretical frameworks juxtaposed with evidence of growing anti-black dehumanizing racism, and the persistence of psycho-social alienation ... -
Erratum: Education hubs and private higher education expansion in small island developing states contexts : the case of Mauritius
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: This article is located in the context of governments of small island developing states supporting education hubs in collaboration with local and global partners. Whilst current literature on the development ...
