Globalisation, diversity and academic practice: Reflections from South Africa and Sweden

Thaver, Beverley; Mählck, Paula

doi:10.1080/21528586.2008.10425095

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“…Thaver and Mahlck (2008) describe the concept of diversity as referring to the ways in which institutions approach the management of those social groups, which are not part of the mainstream in society. Issues of ethnic/racial and gender diversity, which as noted elsewhere, form critical components of both MoE (1997aMoE ( , 1997b find focus in the mission statement as can be seen from the following extract:…”

Section: The Uwc's Mission Statementmentioning

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Commodification of transformation discourses and post-apartheid institutional identities at three South African universities

Banda

Mafofo

2015

Critical Discourse Studies

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Using mission statements from the UCT, UWC and Stellenbosch University (South Africa), we explore how the three universities have rematerialised prior discourses to rebrand their identities as dictated by contemporary national and global aspirations. We reveal how the universities have recontextualised the experiences and discourses of liberation struggle and the new government's post-apartheid social transformation discourses to construct distinctive identities that are locally relevant and globally aspiring. This has led to the semiotic refiguring of universities from spatial edifices of racially based unequal education, to equal opportunity institutions of higher learning, and to the blurring of historical boundaries between these universities. We conclude that the universities have reconstructed distinct and recognisable identities which speak to a segregated past, but with a post-apartheid voice of equity and redress.

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Commodification of transformation discourses and post-apartheid institutional identities at three South African universities

Banda

Mafofo

2015

Critical Discourse Studies

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Towards an international debate on gender studies

Kuhlmann

2006

Equal Opportunities International

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to present information on gender studies and feminist approaches in Germany and cross-national perspectives on the challenges and chances of changing science systems. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is report on an international conference in Germany ''Re-visioning the future. Perspectives in gender studies''. It discusses selected topics -race, class, gender and gender and professions -to highlight the need for and benefit of an international debate on gender studies. Findings -International and comparative research into gender expands the scope of gender studies both internationally and in one country. Originality/value -The paper adds new geopolitical perspectives to a debate on gender studies and equal opportunities in academia that is shaped by Anglo American research.

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Local and global perspectives on overcoming literacy challenges in South Africa

Hibbert

2010

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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This article outlines the current challenges inherent in the disjuncture between language in education policy and policy implementation in South Africa and offers some perspectives on existing opportunities for addressing these challenges. Factors alienating young people from valuable opportunities for meaningful self-expression within existing educational structures are, among o thers, externally imposed norms and standards, the continued low status of African languages, misapplications of the prevailing Western "culture of reading," and failure to address linguistic diversity overtly in the classroom, at the c ommunity level, and in the wider political context. Failure to acquire literacies which may enable youth to participate meaningfully in the ever-widening neo-capitalist economic global context lays them open to exploitation. Insights into the kinds of initiatives on the ground, such as tapping multiliteracies and multimodal engagement, hold great promise for more equitable participation of the youth and go a long way toward putting structures in place to curb the downward literacy spiral. In conclusion, without radical structural transformation and opportunities for equitable recognition and exchange of resources between mainstream and currently marginal populations, "accommodations" and "add on" paradigms of diversity will be perpetuated. These lack the moral imperative for effecting meaningful change in educational practices.

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Globalisation, diversity and academic practice: Reflections from South Africa and Sweden

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Commodification of transformation discourses and post-apartheid institutional identities at three South African universities

Commodification of transformation discourses and post-apartheid institutional identities at three South African universities

Towards an international debate on gender studies

Local and global perspectives on overcoming literacy challenges in South Africa

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