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Agency and Social Transformation in South African Higher Education Pushing the Bounds of Possibility
By Grace Ese-osa Idahosa
Copyright 2020
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the process of transformation, discussing how individuals are capable of acting to enable transformation of structures and cultures through the lens of South African higher education. Agency and Social Transformation in South African Higher Education examines the role of agency in effecting change amidst the rigid conditions within South African universities. Arguing... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Higher education as a field of struggle 3. Narratives of change 4. I Met a New Version of Me: Critical Engagement and Recreating Oppressive Spaces 5. The Scales Were Peeled from My Eyes: Stepping off the Golden Ladder 6. The Absent Trace of Battles: Discursive and Material Agency 7. Strategy and Resistance: Reproduction and Transformation 8. Concluding Reflections: Pushing the Bounds of Possibility
Biography
Grace Ese-osa Idahosa is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
