Transformation in Higher Education: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
(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 ...
