Beyond counting the numbers: Shifting higher education transformation into curriculum spaces

Autor: Labby Ramrathan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Transformation in Higher Education, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp e1-e8 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2415-0991
DOI: 10.4102/the.v1i1.6
Popis: Since the dawn of democracy in South Africa, the path of higher education transformation has been guided by the ‘White Paper 3: A Programme for Higher Education Transformation’. This path has largely been conceptualised within a framework of equity through redress and social justice that sought to change the face of higher education through demographic changes. Hence higher education transformation largely took on a number-counting process. The curriculum changes that have taken place thus far have largely been of an instrumental and responsive modality. In this paper I argue that deep curriculum transformation in higher education will be possible if we shift our gaze from predominantly a number-counting exercise to curriculum intellectualism. The next wave of higher education curriculum transformation would be a fundamental rethink based on emerging curriculum theories.
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