North-West University Journals: Recent submissions
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(Re)Inserting charity in education
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: Recently, charity (re)appears in cultural discourse. It is no longer confined to (moral) theology. Objectives: The aim of this article is to defend the acceptance of charity as a major and fundamental category ... -
A social constructionist approach to resilience for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and/or questioning academics and students in South African universities
(AOSIS, 2018)This article provides a theoretical contemplation on how reciprocation of an assimilationist, liberationist and/or transgressive approach by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and/or questioning (LGBTIQ+) ... -
Examining factors that shape Technical Vocational Education and Training engineering students’ understanding of their career choices
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: This article seeks to examine factors that shape Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) engineering students’ understanding of their future career choices. Moreover, given the promising and ambitious ... -
Social identities and racial integration in historically white universities : a literature review of the experiences of black students
(AOSIS, 2017)South African government has been promulgating pieces of legislation aimed at ensuring racial integration, especially in higher education, and indirectly enforcing acculturation in historically white universities. Studies ... -
Rage, loss and other footpaths : subjectification, decolonisation and transformation in higher education
(AOSIS, 2017)The need to transform higher education in South Africa is indisputable. This article explores how the recent #mustfall protests, as an Event, could inform transformation. An Event follows three phases: reframing (shattering ... -
The counter-terrorist campus : securitisation theory and university securitisation – Three Models
(AOSIS, 2017)With intensified threats to global security from international terrorism, universities have become a focus for security concerns and marked as locus of special interest for the monitoring of extremism and counter-terrorism ... -
The relationship between internationalisation, creativity and transformation : a case study of higher education in Hungary
(AOSIS, 2017)The main objective of this article is to explore the relationship between internationalisation, creativity and transformation in the context of higher education. It is argued in academic theory that the process of ... -
Transmission and transformation in higher education : indigenisation, internationalisation and transculturality
(AOSIS, 2017)There have been various approaches to the transmission and transformation of systems, practices, knowledge and concepts in higher education in recent decades, chief among which are drives towards indigenisation, on the ... -
‘Community of Learning’ for African PhD students : changing the scene of doctoral education?
(AOSIS, 2017)African PhD fellows who are interested in completing (part of) their research in Europe cannot always afford to leave their place of residency for prolonged periods of time. Yet, young researchers from African countries ... -
Foucault and the origins of the disciplined subject : post-subjectivity as a condition for transformation in education
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: The need for transforming South African education can ultimately be traced to a form of Western subjectivity which dominated Europe since the classical age (1600–1750). The notions of ‘discipline’ and ... -
Decolonising the higher education curriculum : an analysis of African intellectual readiness to break the chains of a colonial caged mentality
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Forging ‘new’ decolonial education curriculum policy reform with ill-conceived intents may lead to both socio-political and economic pathologies and failure. Aim: The aim of the social sciences meta synthesis ... -
A black woman’s perspective on understanding transformation and diversity in South African higher education
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Today, transformation and diversity are concepts that form an integral part of the functioning of higher education institutions globally. These two concepts have drawn vast amounts of interest from scholars ... -
Acquisition of pedagogical knowledge by instructors of veterinary medicine
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: When practitioners of veterinary medicine enter academia as faculty or clinical instructors, they are asked to perform research, provide service and outreach, and educate students, yet the teaching component ... -
Research in curriculum studies : reflections on nomadic thought for advancing the field
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Key to sustainability and expansion of any field is the intellectual works of its scholars who engage in their field as in-becoming and who continually strive towards its advancement. For researchers of ... -
Transformation and self-identity : student narratives in post-apartheid South Africa
(AOSIS, 2016)Organisational change processes are by nature complex and often highly contested. This is particularly true of the transformation South African institutions of higher education have been going through since the end of ... -
Decolonisation of higher education : dismantling epistemic violence and Eurocentrism in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2016)Since the end of the oppressive and racist apartheid system in 1994, epistemologies and knowledge systems at most South African universities have not considerably changed; they remain rooted in colonial, apartheid and ... -
Rethinking and researching transformation in higher education : a meta-study of South African trends
(AOSIS, 2016)Transformation is often loosely defined. We argue that the reason for this is its inherent complexity. Paradoxically, its lack of definition is an asset, which provides an opportunity to rethink and research transformation ... -
On extending the truncated parameters of transformation in higher education in South Africa into a language of democratic engagement and justice
(AOSIS, 2016)Universities, in their multiplex roles of social, political, epistemological and capital reform, are by their constitution expected to both symbolise and enact transformation. While institutions of higher education in ...
