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Measuring the legal protection of academic freedom: The scorecard for South Africa

Beiter, K. D., & Karran, T. 2025. Measuring the legal protection of academic freedom: The scorecard for South Africa. South African Jour...

Klaus Beiter Klaus Beiter

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Reframing the Right to Education in International Law (and Deconstructing “Cultural Rights” More Broadly)

Changed circumstances since the adoption of the primary international human rights treaties, a multitude of scattered education rights norms, and distinct new challenges require a reframing of the right to education in international law.

Klaus Beiter Klaus Beiter

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Academic Freedom and the Decolonization of Knowledge: Conflicts and Dilemmas in Higher Education

Decolonization may be taken as a phase in the history of colonized people that is represented by a movement towards a critique of colonial effects during both colonialism and postcolonialism.

Erik J. Olsson Erik J. Olsson

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The Responsive University and the Crisis in South Africa

Brink, Chris. (Ed.). 2021. Responsive University and the Crisis in South Africa. BRILL. https://brill.com/view/title/60379

Chris Brink Chris Brink

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Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa (Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities)

John Higgins. 2013. Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa (Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities). Wits Unive...

John Higgins John Higgins
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