- Title
- From contradictions to complementarities: a social realist analysis of the evolution of academic development within a department
- Creator
- Case, Jennifer M, Heydenrych, Hilton, Kotta, Linda, Marshall, Delia, McKenna, Sioux, Willliams, Kevin
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66752
- Identifier
- vital:28990
- Identifier
- ISSN 1470-1294
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1045479
- Description
- Publisher version
- Description
- Academic development is a recent project in the university, intended to enable the university to respond to the needs of a more diverse student body. In South Africa, such work arose during late apartheid, and has now moved to a more central institutional position advocating responsiveness in the light of the educational disparities that are the legacy of apartheid. The present study uses a social realist perspective to analyse the 25-year evolution of an academic development project within an engineering department at a South African university. The findings show that while academic development initially posed a contradictory logic to the department, the response was to reform the nature of this project into one that suited the other commitments of the department: a logic of complementarity. The department's relationships with industry were shown to have played a key role in fostering this form of change.
- Format
- 14, pdf
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Studies in Higher Education, Case, J.M., Heydenrych, H., Kotta, L., Marshall, D., McKenna, S. and Williams, K. (2017) From contradictions to complementarities: a social realist analysis of the evolution of academic development within a department. Studies in Higher Education, 42 (2) p 278-291.https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1045479, Studies in Higher Education volume 42 number 2 278 291 2017
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