From contradictions to complementarities: a social realist analysis of the evolution of academic development within a department

- Case, Jennifer M, Heydenrych, Hilton, Kotta, Linda, Marshall, Delia, McKenna, Sioux, Willliams, Kevin

Title
From contradictions to complementarities: a social realist analysis of the evolution of academic development within a department
Creator
Case, Jennifer M
Creator
Heydenrych, Hilton
Creator
Kotta, Linda
Creator
Marshall, Delia
Creator
McKenna, Sioux
Creator
Willliams, Kevin
Date Issued
2017
Date
2017
Type
text
Type
article
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66752
Identifier
vital:28990
Identifier
ISSN 1470-1294
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1045479
Description
Publisher version
Description
Academic development is a recent project in the university, intended to enable the university to respond to the needs of a more diverse student body. In South Africa, such work arose during late apartheid, and has now moved to a more central institutional position advocating responsiveness in the light of the educational disparities that are the legacy of apartheid. The present study uses a social realist perspective to analyse the 25-year evolution of an academic development project within an engineering department at a South African university. The findings show that while academic development initially posed a contradictory logic to the department, the response was to reform the nature of this project into one that suited the other commitments of the department: a logic of complementarity. The department's relationships with industry were shown to have played a key role in fostering this form of change.
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14
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pdf
Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
Relation
Studies in Higher Education
Relation
Case, J.M., Heydenrych, H., Kotta, L., Marshall, D., McKenna, S. and Williams, K. (2017) From contradictions to complementarities: a social realist analysis of the evolution of academic development within a department. Studies in Higher Education, 42 (2) p 278-291.https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1045479
Relation
Studies in Higher Education volume 42 number 2 278 291 2017
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