Towards new forms of regulation in higher education: the case of South Africa     

Teboho Moja  Nico Cloete  Johan Muller 《Higher Education》1996,32(2):129-155

The paper reflects on the prospects for higher education reform in a country - South Africa - lodged within a sub-continent not noted for successful reform. The argument is that much of the policy debate is conducted in a way that dichotomises the issues: control versus autonomy; freedom versus regulation; state versus civil society. This dichotomous construal is unable to deal adequately with recent work on the changing forms of the state and changing state-higher education relations. The paper develops a distinction between administrative and political forms of control; and broadens the state control-state supervision distinction from one based solely on models to one based on the specific quality of inter-organisational coordination, connectivity and regulation. The paper concludes by spelling out what such a connective conception of organisation and regulation could mean for South African higher education.  相似文献   

Alternatives to the behavioural technicist conception of study skills     

Nico Cloete  Ian Shochet 《Higher Education》1986,15(3-4):247-258

The what and how of study skills programmes are critiqued and alternatives suggested. Due to the absence of information about higher level learning, study skills courses have traditionally focused on study behaviours, rather than upon the cognitive processes involved in mastering complex material. By providing knowledge about the cognitive skills and strategies involved in the acquisition and organization of high level learning, information-processing could form the basis of future learning-skills programmes. Infusing learning skills into the curriculum from a phenomenological-critical theory perspective, means that the study skills counsellor becomes a social change agent aiming for the enlightenment and emancipation of students and lecturers. This is a radical departure from the behavioural-technician remedying a deficit group in a special programme or study laboratory.  相似文献   

Guidance needs of black first year students in a developing country     

N. J. Cloete  A. G. Le Roux 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》1979,2(1):59-66

The guidance needs of 348 Black first year university students were investigated. The results indicate that help with academic problems (subject and course choice and study skills) should receive priority in planning university guidance services for this population group. The need for adequate financial support also proved to be a significant problem with the students. As predicted, help with making career plans did not figure as a major need, although the time variable (first week of the academic year) may have influenced the results. Contrary to a stated hypothesis, help needed with personal problems proved to be the least required service. Another important need identified was a lack of sufficient educational, occupational and personal information. Some of the recommendations made to provide adequate guidance services include sufficiently staffed guidance bureaus, the lengthening of the academic year for freshmen, non-technical information pamphlets, combining computer scoring of standardized tests with the do-it-yourself approach in order to provide reliable information and a mobile career guidance unit.  相似文献   

Going to the bush: language,power and the conserved environment in southern Africa     

Elsie L. Cloete 《Environmental Education Research》2011,17(1):35-51

English, in the words of Bill Bryson, ‘is one of the world's great growth industries’. Like some kind of metalanguage with its own Europe‐based meaning systems, it has constructed its own discourses in relation to Africa's conserved natural environment, nature documentaries, tourism and environmental education – at the expense of indigenous knowledge systems, cultural practices and languages. This paper examines the potency of English when it comes to notions such as that of the animal, the ‘wilderness experience’, hunting practices and ‘the African bush’ and how these meaning systems have percolated through to environmental education in relation to conserved areas in eastern and southern Africa. Drawing on critical language awareness theories and informal interviews and discussions with staff and students (representing a multitude of languages) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, the predominance and hegemony of English as the exclusive language of learning and teaching in environmental education is questioned.  相似文献   

Transformation impossible: policy,evidence and change in South African higher education     

Van Schalkwyk  François B.  van Lill  Milandré H.  Cloete  Nico  Bailey  Tracy G. 《Higher Education》2022,83(3):613-630

Higher Education - A quarter of a century after South Africa’s transition to democracy, the rhetoric of ‘transformation’ remains firmly ingrained in its higher education policy...  相似文献   

The impact of university incorporation on college lecturers     

L.R. Becker  L.D. Beukes  A. Botha  A.C. Botha  J.J. Botha  M. Botha  D.J. Cloete  J.L. Cloete  C. Coetzee  L.J. De Beer  D.J. De Bruin  L. De Jager  J.J.R. De Villiers  C.M. Du Toit  A. Engelbrecht  R. Evans  M.M.C. Haupt  D. Heyns  L.M. Howatt  A.P. Joubert  J.C. Joubert  A.C. Niemann  N.C. Phatudi  E. Randall  W.J. Rauscher  W.C. Rautenbach  S. Scholtz  J.C. Schultz  R. Swart  H.J. Van Aswegen  J.C. Van Heerden  W.J. Van Vollenhoven  E.M. Van Wyk  J.G.U. Van Wyk  C.A. Van der Walt  C.N. Van der Westhuizen  D. Vermeulen  A. Vorster 《Higher Education》2004,48(2):153-172

In South Africa, recent government plans tochange the institutional landscape of highereducation have resulted in mergers of collegesinto universities or technikons. The researchreported in this article focuses solely on theimpact of a ``college-into-university'incorporation as manifested in the personal,emotional and career experiences of thesecollege staff members. It traces the changes intheir perceptions and emotions during and afterthe incorporation process. It also identifiesrecurring themes and issues evident in thepersonal lives of those affected by thisincorporation.A unique research methodology was engaged: TheCollege staff who had been appointed to theuniversity after the merger, identified sevencritical themes and then designed and conducted30 semi-structured interviews among themselves.This article thus documents the impact ofincorporation into a university on theindividual and collective lives of theresearchers themselves.The data suggest that the emotional impact ofincorporation was intense and that theuncertainty, especially, led to considerabletrauma. The most important concern emanatingfrom this joint research project is that whilea certain degree of distress is unavoidable inany institutional merger, inattention to themanagement of human resources, emotions andaspirations could linger on, possibly having anegative effect on the ambitions for thetransformation of the new entity.  相似文献   

Ecofutures in Africa: Jenny Robson’s Savannah 2116 AD   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Elsie Cloete 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2009,40(1):46-58

Jenny Robson’s Savannah 2216 AD, a dark, futuristic novel for young adults, provides a strong critique on much of the world’s predilection for saving Africa’s animals at the expense of those human communities who are perceived to be in the way of the preservation of the continent’s remaining wild spaces. Using Robson’s novel as template, this article examines a few of those discourses regarding wilderness and conservation that have attached to Africa. Savannah 2116 AD strongly yet indirectly hints that literary educators should revisit the often unquestioned adoption of ‘greening’ agendas in school curricula which persist in re-colonising geo-political spaces by ignoring the fact that erecting fences between perceived conservators and destroyers, between spaces for wild animals and humans, merely condemns Africa’s animal riches to eventual death.

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