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List of contents
Figures and Tables
Foreword by Dr Jonathan D. Jansen
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Moving from Apartheid to a Post-Apartheid State of Being and its Impact on Transforming Higher Education Institutions in South Africa
Chaunda L. Scott and Eunice N. Ivala
Theme One: Producing Successful Graduates
Chapter 2: Lecturers’ Reflections on Curricular Spider Web Concepts as Transformation Strategies
Simon Bhekimuzi Khoza
Chapter 3: Language and Academic Literacies Development at the University of Johannesburg
Guy R. Mihindou
Theme Two: Fair Access
Chapter 4: (UN)trapped? Transformative Voices of Four Black Female ‘Novice' Academics in a South African Higher Education Institution
Ncamisile P. Mthiyane, Zanele Heavy-Girl Dube-Xaba, Maserole Christina Kgari-Masondo, and Fumane P. Khanare
Theme Three: Diverse and Multicultural Teaching
Chapter 5: Is an Agenda for an Inclusivity Framework to Drive Transformation a Possibility or an Idealistic Dream?
Rita Kizito
Theme Four: Quality Research
Chapter 6: Research Supervision Capacity Building: Towards Sustainable Learning Communities of Practice in South African Higher Education Institutions
Suriamurthee Maistry
Theme Five: New Institutional Identities
Chapter 7: Supporting Academic and Social Transformation in a Teacher Education Lecture Room
Ansurie Pillay
Chapter 8: Academic Development at the Durban University of Technology: Advancing the Transformation Agenda in Higher Education.
Thengani Harold Ngwenya
Theme Six: Additional Policies, Practices and Initiatives
Chapter 9: Beyond Epistemology: Ontological Transformation in South African Universities
Lester Brian Shawa
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Chaunda L. Scott is an associate professorin the Department of Organizational Leadership and Diversity and Inclusion Specialist for the Office of the Dean in the School of Education and Human Services at Oakland University inRochester, Michigan, USA.
Eunice N. Ivala is an associate professor and the coordinator of the Educational Technology Unit at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa.
Summary
Through case studies authored by South African higher education scholars and scholars affiliated with South African institutions, this book aims to highlight the status of transformation in the South African higher education system.
