LEADER 02322nam 2200361 450 001 9910504298403321 005 20230509144659.0 035 $a(CKB)5590000000629506 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000629506 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000629506 100 $a20230509d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnderstanding Higher Education $eAlternative Perspectives /$fChrissie Boughey, Sioux McKenna 210 1$aCape Town, South Africa :$cAfrican Minds,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (141 pages) 311 $a1-928502-23-7 330 $a"Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims for quality higher education to be made available to all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. Understanding Higher Education responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as 'decontextualised learners' premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy. This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society. 517 $aUnderstanding Higher Education 606 $aEducation, Higher 615 0$aEducation, Higher. 676 $a378 700 $aBoughey$b Chrissie$01353844 702 $aMcKenna$b Sioux 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910504298403321 996 $aUnderstanding Higher Education$93278996 997 $aUNINA