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Degrees of becoming: Young women’s use of higher education as a symbolic resource in the making of selfhood
Transitions to adulthood are life-making projects—efforts to construct meaning and possibility even amid uncertainty.
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Igniting conversations that nurture equitable collaboration and cocreation
It will be my task to engage in conversations that build and offer opportunities for cocreation in research and higher education.
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Multimodality and the Affordances of Co-Presence for Inclusion in Higher Education
Archer, Arlene. 2025. Multimodality and the Affordances of Co-Presence for Inclusion in Higher Education. Designs for Learning, 16(1), 1–8. ...
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From first-generation students to the second: An inter-generational study of post-apartheid South African higher education
During this last half century of global expansion in higher education, attention focused on the population of first-generation students: those whose parents had not been to university.
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Inclusive multimodal (re)design for higher education pedagogies in South Africa and Sweden
Higher education globally is undergoing significant transitions due to increasing levels of diversity amongst student populations.
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Postgraduate study and the relationship supervisor-student in West Africa: Dealing with suffering and achievement in Benin
EYEBIYI, Elieth. (2024). Postgraduate study and the relationship supervisor-student in West Africa: Dealing with suffering and achievement i...
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Higher Education, Human Development and Growing Inequality in Pre- and Post-Pandemic Haiti
Marcelin, Louis Herns, Toni Cela, Mario Da Silva Fidalgo and Christopher Zuraik. 2024. Higher Education, Human Development and Growing Inequ...
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The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK
Gagnier, Regenia. (2023). The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK. Literature Compass, 20(10–12). https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.1275...
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‘No work, No pay ’: A multimodal discourse analysis of selected online images on industrial actions by Nigerian public universities
Recommended Citation Fifelola, D. A., & Unuabonah, F. O. (2024). ‘No work, No pay ’: A multimodal discourse analysis of selected online ...
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Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road
Brubeck, Darius and Catherine Brubeck. 2023. Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road. UKZN Press. https://www.ukz...
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#JustAndEquitableNow: Reimagining Arts and Humanities in Our Universities
The #JustAndEquitableNow team reflects on what it means to make, teach, and research the arts when communities are protesting against longstanding injustices and demanding better futures.
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Expanding Available Futures: Ideological Contestation in Angola’s Emerging Higher Education Sector
Auerbach, Jess. 2022. Expanding Available Futures: Ideological Contestation in Angola’s Emerging Higher Education Sector. Comparative Educat...
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Teaching and Learning with Digital Technologies in Higher Education Institutions in Africa
Mare, Admire, Erisher Woyo and Elina M. Amadhila. 2022. Teaching and Learning with Digital Technologies in Higher Education Institutions in ...
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Teach outside your comfort zone: A qualitative study of higher education students’ conceptions in Namibia
Amadhila, Elina M. and James Guest. 2022. Teach outside your comfort zone: A qualitative study of higher education students’ conceptions in ...
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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
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Using a projectivized approach towards advanced studies in mental health research and developing graduateness among mental health students
Postgraduate students could benefit from joining a projectivized research project, as this could be helpful to focus research objectives early in their career.
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Space Contestations and the Teaching of African Philosophy in African Universities
Okeja, Uchenna. 2018. Space Contestations and the Teaching of African Philosophy in African Universities. In Edwin Etieyibo (Ed.), Decolonis...
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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...
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Towards Impact and Resilience: Transformative Change In and Through Agricultural Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa
Frans Swanepoel, Zenda Ofir and Aldo Stroebel (Editors). 2014. Towards Impact and Resilience: Transformative Change In and Through Agricultu...
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Our Era’s Fear of Quality
Töllborg, Dennis. 2015. Our Era’s Fear of Quality. Stockholm: Books on Demand. http://www.bod.se/bok/9789175697642.html.
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Kagisano
Higgins, John. (Ed.). 2017. Kagisano. Council on Higher Education (CHE). https://www.che.ac.za/media_and_publications/kagisano-series/kagisa...
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Prepared for Both: Lund University and the Surrounding World
Broberg, Gunner and David Dunér. 2017. Prepared for Both: Lund University and the Surrounding World. Lund University. http://intern.shop.lu....
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On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects in the case of South Africa
Müller, Moritz, Robin Cowan and Helena Barnard. 2018. On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effect...
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An Excluding Consensus? Grants and Loan Schemes and the need for equitable access to Higher Education Globally
Higgins, John. 2019. An Excluding Consensus? Grants and Loan Schemes and the need for equitable access to Higher Education Globally. Oslo: N...
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After the Eruption: Reflections on Higher Education in South Africa
At this critical historical conjuncture in South Africa, at the very precipice of tumultuous social change, multiple forces converge onto the stage of higher education in South Africa.
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The Responsive University
There is a fairly substantial literature on the manner and extent to which universities engage with society.
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The Responsive University
This project falls under the STIAS longer term theme project University and Society, sub-theme: Understanding the Contemporary University(From the concept note): Universities worldwide are relentlessly focused on attaining ‘excellence’.
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DECOLONIALITY AFTER DECOLONIZATION: The question of knowledge and higher education in Southern Africa and the Global South
The Knowledge Society is a common expression nowadays in the Global North and the Global West, were knowledge means technological knowledge and training geared towards economic growth, development and modernization.
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Retrospective and Prospective Reflections on Higher Education in Africa
The paper begins with a historical background attempting to provide an African wide perspective unifying the often fragmented contributions of North Africa, South Africa and the rest of the continent.
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Science and development: Growth, expansion and role of university systems in emerging economies
The challenge of economic growth for middle income countries includes technological upgrading, which, in turn, demands expansion and improvement of the higher education and science system.
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Mutual innovation capacity building
One of the key assignments for my stay at STIAS will be to work out a proposal for the final agenda and format for a Round Table (RT) meeting to be held at STIAS in February 2016 together with Pontus Braunerhjelm.
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The State of Mathematical Sciences Research and Research Training at South African Universities
This investigation follows up on two reports that appeared in 2008 and 2009.
