Higher Education in South Africa - A scholarly look behind the scenes

Bitzer, Eli

doi:10.18820/9781920338183

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“…The work of ALPs and SSPs falls in the broad categorisation of academic development (AD) in higher education. In the South African higher education context, AD has a rich history, and is a growing and varied field (e.g., McKenna, 2003;Volbrecht, 2003;Akoojee & Nkomo, 2007;Scott, 2009;Boughey & Niven, 2012;Vorster & Quinn, 2017;Collett et al, 2018). It includes the support of academics as university teachers, the scholarship of L&T, support for curriculum development and innovation, the integration of technologies for L&T, and support for student success (McKenna et al, 2022).…”

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A Critical Reflection on Centring Students: Intentionally Integrating Academic Professional Learning and Student Success Practices

de Klerk,

Krull,

Maleswena

et al. 2024

Reimagining South African Higher Education: Towards a Student-Centred Learning and Teaching Future

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A Critical Reflection on Centring Students: Intentionally Integrating Academic Professional Learning and Student Success Practices

de Klerk,

Krull,

Maleswena

et al. 2024

Reimagining South African Higher Education: Towards a Student-Centred Learning and Teaching Future

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“…Against this reading of space, the reality of everyday student life on campus, which we typically study under the rubric of the student experience (Bitzer, 2009;Kerr & Luescher, 2018), is therefore a co-construct between human actors and the space within which they act and relate. When conceiving of policy that looks at the transformation of higher education, space needs to be read as something that is both social and political.…”

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Inserting Space into the Transformation of Higher Education

Tumubweinee

Luescher

2019

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In this article we argue for a socio-political conception of space in order to show how conceptualisations of space can provide conceptual tools in the reframing of policy and designing of policy interventions in pursuit of higher education transformation goals. In keeping with Lefebvre and others, we conceptualise space as a co-producer of social relations with agentic capability in the transformation of higher education. Using this understanding of space as a conceptual framework, we analyse four national cornerstone policy documents on higher education transformation in South Africa. We find that space is almost consistently conceived of only as an object in transformation -be it with respect to macro policy on mergers to reconfigure the apartheid spatial landscape of higher education, or with respect to discriminatory institutional cultures and the need to create secure and safe campus environments. Since the landmark White Paper on Higher Education of 1997, it is only the most recent policy document we analyse, the Draft National Plan for Post-school Education and Training of 2017, which blurs the lines between the social ills affecting higher education, the student experience and student academic performance, and different functions of space. We conclude by introducing the conceptual tool of spatial types as an opening gambit for a research agenda that aims to explore the organisation of space in higher education institutions to identify the underlying rules that govern their social nature and promote conceptualisations of social space in the reframing and design of policy that respond to calls for the creation of transformed and 'decolonised' higher education, as heard in student movement campaigns in 2015/16.

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Success in higher education: differences between first- and continuous-generation students

Burger

Naudé

2019

Soc Psychol Educ

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Higher Education in South Africa - A scholarly look behind the scenes

Cited by 26 publications

References 55 publications

A Critical Reflection on Centring Students: Intentionally Integrating Academic Professional Learning and Student Success Practices

A Critical Reflection on Centring Students: Intentionally Integrating Academic Professional Learning and Student Success Practices

Inserting Space into the Transformation of Higher Education

Success in higher education: differences between first- and continuous-generation students

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