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ERIC Number: EJ847561
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 9
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1011-3487
Higher Education Quality Assurance in South Africa Widens Democracy or Not? Response to Anneke Venter's Article: Student Involvement and Empowerment in Quality Assurance in Distance Education in South Africa
Berkhout, Sarie
South African Journal of Higher Education, v20 n6 p919-923 2006
In this response I argue that the notion of quality is embedded in the tension between powerful patterns of inherited epistemic and symbolic understanding and the dynamic of the creative, imaginative moments of understanding and design. This would take the idea of co-producer/creator of knowledge beyond the boundaries of (re)packaging commodities for the knowledge market as it would also be located in the disciplinary patterns of knowledge domains.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Democracy, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Student Participation, Social Theories, Epistemology, Decision Making, Social Change, Educational History
Unisa Press. Preller Street, P.O. Box 392, Muckleneuk, Pretoria 0003, South Africa. Tel: +27-24-298960; Fax: +27-24-293449; e-mail: sajhe@vodamail.co.za; Web site: http://www.sajhe.org.za
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: South Africa