From contradictions to complementarities
A Social Realist Analysis of the Evolution of Academic Development Within a Department
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| ID | 4098334 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jennifer Case (0000-0002-0186-9803, University of Cape Town, autor correspondente), Jennifer M Case (0000-0003-3264-0558), Hilton Heydenrych (0009-0002-1139-1732, University of Cape Town), Linda Kotta (University of Sheffield), Delia Marshall (0000-0003-1799-3478, University of the Western Cape), Sioux Mckenna (0000-0002-1202-5999, Rhodes University), Kevin Williams (0000-0001-5209-1395, University of Cape Town) |
| Ano | 2017 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 278-291 |
| Data de publicação | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2015.1045479 |
| OpenAlex | W1556007671 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 12 |
Academic development is a recent project in the university, intended to enable the university to respond to the needs of a more diverse student body. In South Africa, such work arose during late apartheid, and has now moved to a more central institutional position advocating responsiveness in the light of the educational disparities that are the legacy of apartheid. The present study uses a social realist perspective to analyse the 25-year evolution of an academic development project within an engineering department at a South African university. The findings show that while academic development initially posed a contradictory logic to the department, the response was to reform the nature of this project into one that suited the other commitments of the department: a logic of complementarity. The department's relationships with industry were shown to have played a key role in fostering this form of change
Academic department · Higher education · Political science · Social change · Sociology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law
Culture and Agency
Realist Social Theory
Culture and agency
Educational Development in South Africa
(Mis)framing Higher Education in South Africa
Forms of knowing and academic development practice
Understanding resistance
Exploring the value of Bourdieu's framework in the context of institutional change
Theorising institutional change
Harnessing agency
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,13 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 1 |