Publication Date
In 2024 | 0 |
Since 2023 | 0 |
Since 2020 (last 5 years) | 2 |
Since 2015 (last 10 years) | 2 |
Since 2005 (last 20 years) | 3 |
Descriptor
Foreign Countries | 4 |
Higher Education | 4 |
Educational Change | 2 |
Educational Policy | 2 |
Social Change | 2 |
Universities | 2 |
Administrator Attitudes | 1 |
Affordances | 1 |
Biographies | 1 |
Career Development | 1 |
College Administration | 1 |
More ▼ |
Author
Coop, Taryn | 1 |
Czerniewicz, Laura | 1 |
Ivancheva, Mariya P. | 1 |
Kerr, Philippa | 1 |
Morris, Neil P. | 1 |
Muller, Johan | 1 |
Swartz, Rebecca | 1 |
Swinnerton, Bronwen J. | 1 |
Walji, Sukaina | 1 |
Walker, Melanie | 1 |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 4 |
Opinion Papers | 1 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
Higher Education | 3 |
Postsecondary Education | 2 |
Audience
Researchers | 1 |
Location
South Africa | 4 |
Africa | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Kerr, Philippa – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This paper argues that the South African postdoctoral fellow system is de-professionalising academic work by constituting postdocs as students who receive training from the university rather than employees who work for it. Ironically, it obscures this de-professionalisation with a discourse of postdoctoral fellowships as 'professional development'…
Descriptors: Career Development, Fellowships, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Ivancheva, Mariya P.; Swartz, Rebecca; Morris, Neil P.; Walji, Sukaina; Swinnerton, Bronwen J.; Coop, Taryn; Czerniewicz, Laura – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
The advent of massive open online courses and online degrees offered via digital platforms has occurred in a climate of austerity. Public universities worldwide face challenges to expand their educational reach, while competing in international rankings, raising fees and generating third-stream income. Online forms of unbundled provision offering…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, Universities, Public Colleges
Walker, Melanie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2005
This paper examines the life history narratives of a group of 12 black and white male and female undergraduate students at a historically white Afrikaans medium university, now undergoing its own transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. Conceptualizations of identity and discourse across four elements of context, setting, situated activity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Biographies, Organizational Change
Peer reviewed
Muller, Johan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1996
Examines changes in the positions and concerns of South African sociologists of education as they move from an oppositional status to a more ambiguous space. These sociologists now face the prospect of choosing between criticism and reconstructive efforts. Reviews themes and issues related to this conflict. (MJP)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Critical Theory, Educational Change, Educational Policy