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dc.contributor.authorBoughey, Chrissie
dc.contributor.authorMcKenna, Sioux
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-20T13:42:28Z
dc.date.available2021-10-20T13:42:28Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20211020_9781928502210_3
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51123
dc.description.abstractDrawing 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: Alternative Perspectives 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary educationen_US
dc.subject.otherHigher Education
dc.subject.otherGlobal South
dc.subject.otherSouth Africa
dc.subject.otherTeaching
dc.subject.otherLearning
dc.titleUnderstanding Higher Education: Alternative Perspectives
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.47622/9781928502210
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy69707d01-8e78-4a41-abff-fccf8fb5f4a5
oapen.relation.isbn9781928502210
oapen.relation.isbn9781928502227
oapen.relation.isbn9781928502234
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages172
oapen.place.publicationCape Town


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