Higher Education Institutional Change - Perspectives from South Africa

This book considers Higher Education institutional change as a layered process, where change is interconnected across institutional arrangements. A three-layered consideration of the Higher Education institutional change frame is then advanced. The book further conceptualizes Higher Education within the dual identification of its organisational and institutional frames, thereby highlighting the agency and structural conundrum that ought to be constantly negotiated in its change process. In addition, given the complexities of higher education institutionalism, this book also considers historical trajectories as points of departure for further institutionalization, with the possibilities of different paths taken by different Higher Education entities.

List of contents

Ch 1: The Changing Face of African Higher Education.- Ch 2: Paths of Departure in Higher Education Institutional Change.- Ch 3: Theorising Higher Education Institutional Change.- Ch 4: Understanding Institutional Arrangements and the Dynamics of Change.- Ch 5: Theorising the Mechanisms of Institutional Change.- Ch 6: Agency and Structural Contestations of Higher Education Establishments.- Ch 7: Advancing a Layered Institutional Change Analytical Premise for Higher Education Transformation Studies.

About the author

Joseph Besigye Bazirake
is a Research Associate at the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa and a Senior Researcher at the Ubuntu Higher Education Research Centre in Uganda.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Besigye Bazirake
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.09.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9783032022905
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3202290-5
• No. of pages: 147
• Illustrations: XXI, 147 p. 5 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Afrika, Bildungssysteme und -strukturen, Politik und Staat, International and Comparative Education, higher education, Institutional Change, African Politics, #Mustfall, Higher Education Transformation, South African Higher Education, “Fees Must Fall” Movement