Steering Epistemic Access in Higher Education in South Africa Institucional Dilemmas

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Autor principal: Cross, Michael (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Doral : Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales 2018.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tapa
  • Índice I
  • Índice II
  • Índice III
  • Índice IV
  • Chapter 1
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • My Story and Its Motives
  • Epistemological access at the centre of higher education debate in South Africa
  • My approach and key concepts
  • Responding to Policy and Practical Imperatives
  • The Research Journey
  • Growth in Intake and Re-Composition of the Student Population: the Phenomenon of “Non-Traditionality”
  • The structure of this book
  • References
  • Chapter Two
  • Explaining Higher Education Access in South Africa: a Conceptual Framework
  • Introduction
  • Domains of institutional and social mediation of student experience
  • External regulation through the official domain
  • High participation or high performance
  • References
  • Chapter 3
  • Student Access and Academic Achievement in Higher Education in South Africa: Emerging Dicourses
  • Introduction
  • The access and academic performance debate in South Africa: brief periodisation
  • First generation, 1970s- mid 1980s: downfall of apartheid as pre-condition for access
  • Second Generation, Late-1980s throughout 1990s: Dealing with “Educational Disadvantage”
  • Third generation, into 2000s: the advent of “throughput and retention” debates