Transformation in Higher Education

Global Pressures and Local Realities
2006
ISBN: 978-1-4020-4005-4
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 322 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1430 g

Reihe: Higher Education Dynamics

At the beginning of the 1990s the world was watching with anxiety at South Africa. Would the country be able to get rid of the despicable apartheid regime without bloodshed? Could a civil war be avoided? And would it be possible to develop a democratic society without having to build up a whole new set of social institutions? The latter concern certainly referred to the educational sector that was steered at each level by a number of separate Ministries of Education, i. e. one for each identified race group. Given the developments in other countries in the region as well as elsewhere in the world the prospects were not too hopeful. In addition, many especially white South Africans left the country the weeks before the first elections, and the stories of violence and contradictions between the various political groups in the country dominated for a while the international press’ coverage of the pre-94-election situation. However, ten years after the first democratic elections in 1994 it is fair to say that South Africa has gone through a far-reaching transformation that is characterised by a remarkably low level of political violence. The general impression of the transformation suggests that the country has managed to change rather smoothly most of its social institutions, without dramatically affecting the continuity in the operations and performance of these institutions. This also refers to higher education.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cloete, Nico

Maassen, Peter

Perold, Helene

Fehnel, Richard

Moja, Teboho

Gibbon, Trish

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Transformation Context.- Global Reform Trends in Higher Education.- The Higher Education Landscape Under Apartheid.- Policy Expectations.- The South African Experience.- Funding.- Students.- Conclusion.- Staff.- Leadership.- Conclusion.- Curriculum.- Research.- Conclusion.- Private Higher Education.- The Emergent Landscape.- Conclusion.- The Dynamics of Change.- New South African Realities.- Modes of Governance and the Limits of Policy.