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1 online resource (182 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Back cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- South Africa.
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Education, Higher. |
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South Africa. |
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Electronic books.
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McKenna, Sioux.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bowie, Chrissie. Understanding Higher Education. Oxford : African Minds, ©2021 9781928502210 |
| ISBN |
1928502229 (electronic book) |
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9781928502227 (electronic book) |
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1928502210 |
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9781928502210 |
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