Browsing Transformation in Higher Education: Vol 1 2016 by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...