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A black woman’s perspective on understanding transformation and diversity in South African higher education
(AOSIS, 2019)
Background: Today, transformation and diversity are concepts that form an integral part of the
functioning of higher education institutions globally. These two concepts have drawn vast
amounts of interest from scholars ...
Research in curriculum studies : reflections on nomadic thought for advancing the field
(AOSIS, 2019)
Background: Key to sustainability and expansion of any field is the intellectual works of its
scholars who engage in their field as in-becoming and who continually strive towards its
advancement. For researchers of ...
A sociological exploration of the need for safe spaces for lesbian and gay students on a South African university campus
(AOSIS, 2019)
Background: The role of safe spaces on university campuses for gay and lesbian students
remains a contested issue. This is attributed to the fact that the visibility of these students on
university campuses presents a ...
Foucault and the origins of the disciplined subject : post-subjectivity as a condition for transformation in education
(AOSIS, 2019)
Background: The need for transforming South African education can ultimately be traced to a
form of Western subjectivity which dominated Europe since the classical age (1600–1750). The
notions of ‘discipline’ and ...
Applying Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions to generate epistemic plurality in the curriculum
(AOSIS, 2019)
Background: South Africa’s institutions of higher learning are currently experiencing a
dispensation in which calls for curricula transformation and decolonisation reverberate.
While the need for curricula evolution is ...
Teacher training for religious education : engaging academics through the Dialogical Self Theory
(AOSIS, 2019)
Background: In the Netherlands, most of the academic curricula for teacher training in
religious education (RE) focus on shortfalls of students, like a lack of knowledge about the
plurality of worldviews and the diversity ...
Exploring shame and pedagogies of discomfort in critical citizenship education
(AOSIS, 2019)
Background: Social transformation in South Africa is a sensitive issue because of the historical
realities of segregation and past injustices.
Aim: To address transformation, Visual Communication Design students were ...
Acquisition of pedagogical knowledge by instructors of veterinary medicine
(AOSIS, 2019)
Background: When practitioners of veterinary medicine enter academia as faculty or clinical
instructors, they are asked to perform research, provide service and outreach, and educate
students, yet the teaching component ...