Challenges for higher education transformation in South Africa : integrating the local and the global

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dc.contributor.authorLe Grange, L. L. L.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-23T11:51:43Z
dc.date.available2013-01-23T11:51:43Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.descriptionCITATION: Le Grange, L. L. L. 2002. Challenges for higher education transformation in South Africa : integrating the local and the global. South African Journal of Higher Education, 16(1).
dc.description.abstractHigher education in South Africa is faced with an important challenge, how it will cope with the tension between the universal claims of global science on the one hand, and on the other the equally compelling claims to recover the African past (Scott 1997:18). In this article I explore how this challenge might be taken up, by arguing that Western knowledge systems and Indigenous knowledge systems can work together if the representational aspect of knowledge is de-emphasised and the performative side of knowledge is emphasised. I use Turnbull's (1997) ideas of performativity and spatiality to show how seemingly disparate knowledge traditions might be able to be performed together within local knowledge spaces. I point out that although globalisation has homogenising tendencies it also opens up spaces for new identities and the contestation of established values and norms (Stromquist & Monkman 2000). In a socially distributed knowledge system partnerships between higher education institutions and indigenous peoples might create new knowledge spaces which could have transformative effects for academics and indigenous communities.en_ZA
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dc.format.extent7 pages
dc.identifier.citationLe Grange, L. L. L. 2002. Challenges for higher education transformation in South Africa : integrating the local and the global. South African Journal of Higher Education, 16(1).
dc.identifier.issn1753-5913 (online)
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7096-3609
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/75497
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subject.lcshHigher education and state -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshEducation, Higher -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshEducational change -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshSouth Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-en_ZA
dc.titleChallenges for higher education transformation in South Africa : integrating the local and the globalen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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