Transformation in Higher Education: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Theology and the (post-)apartheid university : mapping discourses, interrogating transformation
(AOSIS, 2016)This article examines the specific position of Theology at South African universities, following the recent developments on campuses that catapulted the urgency for greater commitment to radical transformation in higher ... -
Transformation as an act of denudation : a response to Petro du Preez, Shan Simmonds and Anné Verhoef
(AOSIS, 2016)Higher education transformation in South Africa, as correctly argued by Petro du Preez, Shan Simmonds and Anné Verhoef, should become more ‘fluid [and] open-ended’. However, even more fluidity and open-endedness might ... -
Beyond counting the numbers : shifting higher education transformation into curriculum spaces
(AOSIS, 2016)Since the dawn of democracy in South Africa, the path of higher education transformation has been guided by the ‘White Paper 3: A Programme for Higher Education Transformation’. This path has largely been conceptualised ...
