Overview

In 2015 a social movement swept across the South African higher education sector fuelled by the anger of the ‘born free’ generation, the students born into post-apartheid South Africa. The movement found solidarity in other parts of the globe where the past decade has witnessed the rise of student protests in the UK, the US, Chile, Turkey and Hong Kong to name a few. While the demands are specific to national contexts, the underlying obstacles of economic, cultural and political access into higher education are consistent. These protests have put a spotlight on the global academy that, like the society of which it is a part, is increasingly characterized by inequality. At its core these movements call for a more socially just higher education system. This call is profoundly dissonant to the dominant neoliberal discourses currently shaping higher education. Against the backdrop of these discourses there has been an unprecedented pressure on higher education curricula. This edited collection is dedicated to exploring what a socially just curriculum reform agenda might involve. The authors share a commitment to socially just curricula and a concern about the ways in which curricula are deeply implicated in the processes of producing and reproducing inequality. Each chapter opens up a different vista on the contested curriculum space drawing on a range of theoretical tools – Archer, Bernstein, Giroux, and Maton to name a few – to illuminate the contestation. Perhaps even more importantly they also draw on a range of voices from both inside and outside the academy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Teaching in Higher Education.

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Author:   Suellen Shay (University of Cape Town, South Africa) ,  Tai L. Peseta (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9780367590109

ISBN 10:   0367590107
Pages:   130
Publication Date:   14 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: A socially just curriculum reform agenda 1. On the making and faking of knowledge value in higher education curricula 2. Asserting academic legitimacy: the influence of the University of Technology sectoral agendas on curriculum decision-making 3. ‘I take engineering with me’: epistemological transitions across an engineering curriculum 4. Curriculum contestation in a post-colonial context: a view from the South 5. Contesting the violence of Tylerism: toward a cosmopolitan approach to the curriculum of second language teacher education 6. The influence of curricula content on English sociology students’ transformations: the case of feminist knowledge 7. The necessity and possibility of powerful ‘regional’ knowledge: curriculum change and renewal 8. Interdisciplinary curriculum reform in the changing university

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Suellen Shay is Associate Professor and Dean in the Centre for Higher Education Development at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her career has spanned a range of types of educational development work, including language development, curriculum development, and staff and institutional development. Tai Peseta is Senior Lecturer at the Learning Transformations Team, Learning Futures Portfolio at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is also Senior Fellow at the UK Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), and International Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan, and holds honorary appointments at The University of Sydney and Deakin University, Australia.

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