The Emergence and Formation of Universities in South Africa Shifting Social Compacts

Introduction  

Part One: The Colonial Period and the Emergence of University Colleges

Chapter 1: The dawn of the British-Dutch scramble for power and knowledge     

Chapter 2: Anglo and Dutch-Afrikaner Epistemic, Cultural and Symbolic Orders        

Part Two: The Segregationist State and the Anglicisation of University Colleges and Universities

Chapter 3: Institutionalisation of University Colleges: An Anglicised footprint         

Chapter 4: British Hegemonic and Dutch-Afrikaner Counter-Hegemonic Epistemic and Cultural Orders   

Part Three: The Apartheid State and the Racialization and Ethnicization of the University Sector       

Chapter 5: Afrikaner Hegemony, Deepening Institutionalization and the Formation of New Universities   

Chapter 6: Racialisation and Ethnicization of Epistemic and Cultural Orders  

Part Four: The Constitutional Democratic State: Towards Equity, Diversity and Reshaping of the University Landscape   

Chapter 7: Democratisation of Universities and Institutional Levelling        

Chapter 8: Foregrounding Epistemic and Cultural Diversity          

Chapter 9: The New University Order: Reflections and Possibilities

Biography

Beverley Thaver, BA History (UCT), MA African History (York, UK) and PhD Adult Education (UWC) is Professor Emeritus, Higher Education Studies, University of the Western Cape. She started out her academic professional career at Khanya College established for detainees from Robben Island in the late 1980s, then, in 1990 moved to the Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, UWC. Following this, she moved to the Education Policy Unit, UWC which at the time was deepening its research into education policy development for democracy. She has held the portfolio of Deputy Dean of Research in the Faculty of Education. She has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level in adult and teacher education, holding a strong research portfolio that includes supervisions and publications. The broad focus of her research is on transformation dynamics of universities in South Africa, with a specific emphasis on the deracialisation of the academic staff profiles, affirmative action, institutional culture, conducting research at both systems and institutional levels. She has also published in private higher education. She has served as a Ministerial appointee to the Council on Higher Education, for two terms, 2011 – 2018. She is currently active in the Public Participation and Civil Society Network under the auspices of the Public Participation Office, South African Parliament.

Lionel Thaver, BA (Sociology, History, Political Studies-Majors), BA Honours (Sociology), MA (Sociology Cum Laude), PhD (Sociology) UWC. He is a longstanding member of the Sociology department at UWC, whose teaching specialisation is in Contemporary Sociological Theory with a particular focus on African Philosophy, and Epistemology and its bearing on the decolonization and Africanization of the discipline. In addition, he specializes in the Sociology of Technology which covers broad theoretical frameworks probing the relationship between society and technology, the history of technology and specific technologies such as the Internet and Social Network Sites and its bearing on Social Movements, the Digital Divide and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. At the postgraduate level he focuses on Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology and the Sociology of Higher Education and has published and conducted research in the aforementioned fields of study. He has led several forums at universities, nationally, on Institutional culture including the Ministry of Higher Education.

"The Emergence and Formation of Universities in South Africa: Shifting Social Compacts" is a timely and insightful contribution. It sheds light on the historical, political, and social forces shaping universities, while critically analysing evolving agreements. Essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and educators dedicated to understanding and promoting higher education transformation in South Africa."

Loyiso Mennon Luvalo, Dr Associate Professor and Researcher in Higher Education at the College of Education, University of South Africa.

"This ambitious, and transformative volume narrates, historicizes and analyzes how South African universities, over time, have both impacted and been transformed by South Africa’s tumultuous past and present. The text is both an important cultural history with its knowledge vignettes, and is a major theoretical contribution to the central question of the role of the university in any society."

Frances Maher, Professor Emerita of Education, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, USA, co-author of Privilege and Diversity in the Academy, (Routledge, 2007).

“This book offers a rigorous, panoramic analysis of the evolution of South Africa’s universities over two centuries, situating them within global colonial and postcolonial transformations. Combining sociology and higher education studies, it appeals to scholars of comparative education, decolonization, and institutional transformation across Africa and the Global South."

Rosenilton S. Oliveira, Professor, Faculdade de Educação, Espaço Das Artes, Universidade de São Paulo.