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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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. Understanding Higher Education responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as 'decontextualised learners' premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy. This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society. |
| Beschreibung: | Back cover. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (182 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171). |
| ISBN: | 1928502229 9781928502227 9783110657388 3110657384 |
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| 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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| spelling | Boughey, Chrissie. Understanding Higher Education : Alternative Perspectives / Chrissie Boughey and Sioux McKenna. Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (182 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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 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 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 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 Back cover. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 04, 2021). Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171). 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 all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. Understanding Higher Education responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as 'decontextualised learners' premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy. This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society. Education, Higher South Africa. Enseignement supérieur Afrique du Sud. EDUCATION / Administration / School Superintendents & Principals bisacsh Education, Higher fast South Africa fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcWtkkqd3cMmFw9GBdYT3 Educational administration and organization. thema McKenna, Sioux. Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN Print version: Bowie, Chrissie. Understanding Higher Education. Oxford : African Minds, ©2021 9781928502210 |
| spellingShingle | Boughey, Chrissie Understanding Higher Education : Alternative Perspectives / 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 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 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 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 Education, Higher South Africa. Enseignement supérieur Afrique du Sud. EDUCATION / Administration / School Superintendents & Principals bisacsh Education, Higher fast Educational administration and organization. thema |
| title | Understanding Higher Education : Alternative Perspectives / |
| title_auth | Understanding Higher Education : Alternative Perspectives / |
| title_exact_search | Understanding Higher Education : Alternative Perspectives / |
| title_full | Understanding Higher Education : Alternative Perspectives / Chrissie Boughey and Sioux McKenna. |
| title_fullStr | Understanding Higher Education : Alternative Perspectives / Chrissie Boughey and Sioux McKenna. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding Higher Education : Alternative Perspectives / Chrissie Boughey and Sioux McKenna. |
| title_short | Understanding Higher Education : |
| title_sort | understanding higher education alternative perspectives |
| title_sub | Alternative Perspectives / |
| topic | Education, Higher South Africa. Enseignement supérieur Afrique du Sud. EDUCATION / Administration / School Superintendents & Principals bisacsh Education, Higher fast Educational administration and organization. thema |
| topic_facet | Education, Higher South Africa. Enseignement supérieur Afrique du Sud. EDUCATION / Administration / School Superintendents & Principals Education, Higher South Africa Educational administration and organization. |
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