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Equity and access: a curricular perspective
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2016)
Introduction: This chapter is concerned with equity and access to the curriculum, which has
been shown by numerous analyses of statistics, as well as experience of those of
us who are concerned to improve the state of ...
Academic literacy as a graduate attribute: implications for thinking about curriculum
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2011)
INTRODUCTION: This chapter is set within the current focus on graduate attributes. These are qualities which students require in order to study at university, as well as and more typically, the attributes that students ...
An evaluative framework for a socially just institution
(SUN MeDIA, 2012)
Introduction: Lindi arrived at a privileged South African university from rural Kwa-Zulu-Natal, having been top of her class most of her life. She suddenly found herself unable to participate as an equal in her new ...
Towards a pedagogy of possibility: Teaching and learning from a ‘social justice’ perspective
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2009)
This chapter takes the argument of Waghid (this volume) on higher education as a public good as its starting point and sketches the challenges presented in relation to this, by the educational biographies of learners and ...
Introduction: Reflections on higher education and the public good
(SUN MeDIA, 2012)
There is always a potential contribution that higher education can make to the public good. In the twenty-first century specific concerns that require our attention are sustainability and global warming, human mobility and ...
Critical professionalism: a lecturer attribute for troubled times
(SUN MeDIA, 2012)
Introduction: This chapter describes the research-based project, Critical Professionalism, which gave rise to several of the chapters in this volume. We suggest that the concept of critical professionalism, with its strong ...
Afterword
(SUN MeDIA, 2012)
Earlier this year I attended a conference in Götenburg, Sweden, on integrating
language teaching into the disciplines – nothing overtly to do
with social justice or the public good. One evening after a long and
tiring ...