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Understanding Higher Education : Alternative Perspectives /

Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims for quality higher education to be made available to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boughey, Chrissie
Otros Autores: McKenna, Sioux
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2021.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title page -- About the book -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright page -- Contents -- 1. Taking stock -- Global change and higher education -- The challenge for the Global South -- Why look at South Africa? -- What does this book aim to do? -- 2. Making sense of experiences and observations -- Doing research on teaching and learning -- The nature of reality -- Archer's Social Realism -- Archer's morphogenetic framework -- 3. Dominant discourses, policy challenges -- The global and the local -- The macro level -- The meso and micro levels -- Policy after apartheid 
505 8 |a Curriculum and the global economy -- Quality assurance -- Funding higher education -- Reorganising the system -- The Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework -- Conclusion -- 4. Denying context, misunderstanding students -- The power of the words we use -- Students as decontextualised individuals -- The misappropriation of theories on teaching and learning -- The 'language problem' and how it lets universities off the hook -- Reading and writing as ideological acts -- Fixing the problem of academic literacy -- Disadvantage as an explanation for failure -- The university as a neutral space 
505 8 |a Students as clients -- Students as social beings, the university as a social space -- Foregrounding students' epistemological access -- Conclusion -- 5. Reconceptualising curriculum, structuring access -- What is curriculum? -- The curriculum is conditioned by the structure of knowledge -- The curriculum provides access to powerful knowledge -- The curriculum is conditioned by social context -- The curriculum is conditioned by institutional histories -- Historical differentiation by race -- Private higher education -- The focus on programmes and modules -- Extended curricula -- Academic advising 
505 8 |a Conclusion -- 6. Resisting and complying. Academics responding to change -- Academics and agency -- The conditioning role of the discipline in academics' identity formation -- The history of the system and the conditioning of individuals -- New Public Management and managerialism -- Staffing in a global structure -- The emergence of compliance -- Ever-increasing demands on academic life -- Staff demographics -- Concluding thoughts -- 7. Evaluating change, looking forward -- Introduction -- The landscape at T4 -- A differentiated and developmental system -- A Covid Postscript -- References 
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