Nyna Amin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6597184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nyna Amin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nyna |
| FAMILY NAME | Amin |
| SIGNATURE | AMIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4551-5046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Generative AI governance in higher education: A case study from Africa
Introduction The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), is reshaping the higher education landscape. Yet, there is limited empirical documentation of how African universities are integrating Gen-AI into teaching, learning, and research. This study presents a case study of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), one of the first African institutions to develop and implement comprehensi…
Curriculum tinkering in situations of crises and inequalities: The case of South Africa
The Link Between a Mentorship Programme for Mathematics, Science, and Technology In-Service Teachers and Professional Development
This study explores the link between a mentorship program for in-service teachers and their professional development. The participants are under-qualified mathematics, science, and technology teachers employed in junior secondary schools. Using a mixed-method approach, data were collected through a questionnaire responded to by 163 mentees, and semi-structured interviews with 4 in-service teachers. Despite tensions between mentors and mentees, th…
Disrupting Higher Education Curriculum: Undoing Cognitive Damage
Disrupting Higher Education Curriculum
Discomfort with the inappropriateness of university curricula has met with increasing calls for disruptive actions to revitalise higher education. This book, conceived to envision an alternative emancipatory curriculum, explores the historical, ideological, philosophical and theoretical domains of higher education curricula. The authors acknowledge that universities have been and continue to be complicit in perpetuating cognitive damage through s…
Undoing Cognitive Damage
The great topmost sheet of the mass, where hardly a light had twinkled or moved, becomes now a sparkling field of rhythmic flashing points with trains of traveling sparks hurrying hither and thither. The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful patte…
Autobiographies, biographies and writing lives
Autobiographies, biographies and writing lives
Disrupting Higher Education Curriculum
Discomfort with the inappropriateness of university curricula has met with increasing calls for disruptive actions to revitalise higher education. This book, conceived to envision an alternative emancipatory curriculum, explores the historical, ideological, philosophical and theoretical domains of higher education curricula. The authors acknowledge that universities have been and continue to be complicit in perpetuating cognitive damage through s…
Undoing Cognitive Damage
The great topmost sheet of the mass, where hardly a light had twinkled or moved, becomes now a sparkling field of rhythmic flashing points with trains of traveling sparks hurrying hither and thither. The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful patte…
Disrupting Higher Education Curriculum: Undoing Cognitive Damage
Curriculum tinkering in situations of crises and inequalities: The case of South Africa
The Link Between a Mentorship Programme for Mathematics, Science, and Technology In-Service Teachers and Professional Development
This study explores the link between a mentorship program for in-service teachers and their professional development. The participants are under-qualified mathematics, science, and technology teachers employed in junior secondary schools. Using a mixed-method approach, data were collected through a questionnaire responded to by 163 mentees, and semi-structured interviews with 4 in-service teachers. Despite tensions between mentors and mentees, th…
Generative AI governance in higher education: A case study from Africa
Introduction The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), is reshaping the higher education landscape. Yet, there is limited empirical documentation of how African universities are integrating Gen-AI into teaching, learning, and research. This study presents a case study of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), one of the first African institutions to develop and implement comprehensi…
Psychology (4 works) · Curriculum (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (1 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (1 works)