Browsing Transformation in Higher Education: Vol 5 2020 by Issue Date
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Towards a humane community : the search for disability justice in higher education through African moral thinking
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The central claim of this article is that African disability justice is possible through analysing, re-examining and reimagining realities that distort and disempower the being of individuals with disabilities. Aim: ... -
The construction of a post-academic university : opportunity or status quo?
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: Over the last two decades it has become increasingly urgent to rethink current hurdles and opportunities for higher education, not just in the Global North, but in the effects of Northern policies globally. Aim: ... -
Research ethics : examining the tension between principlism and rational self-interest in a neoliberal university context
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The reconfiguration of the contemporary university as a consequence of the (re)ascendency of neoliberal politics has not escaped South African universities. The higher education landscape in the country is ... -
National Universities in Argentina during the pandemic outbreak
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The health emergency that Argentina is experiencing because of the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed institutional normality at all educational levels. Universities have certainly not escaped this logic. ... -
Philosophers’ debt to their students : the South African case
(AOSIS, 2020)Philosophy teachers owe their students a little more than mere formal instruction of topics popular in philosophy. What they owe their students is largely influenced by philosophy’s claims to be a discipline that is ... -
A reflective analysis of articles published in the journal of Transformation in Higher Education (2016–2020) : beyond transformation?
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The fault lines exposed by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and global economic recession unfolding during 2020 in societies around the world, reiterated the need for transforming higher education ... -
Gender pronoun use in the university classroom : a post-humanist perspective
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: This article explores the political impact of using gender neutral pronouns in the university classroom. Aim: We explore how the gender neutral pronoun ‘they’ denaturalises essentialist models of gender ... -
Competency-based theological education in a postcolonial context : towards a transformed competency framework
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: Assessment of students for ministerial practice is traditionally performed through assignments and oral examinations, which often only concentrate on the knowledge component and outcomes of the programme. ...
