- Title
- Holding a mirror up to Academic Development through the HELTASA (un) conferencing methodology
- Creator
- Williams, Sandra, Adams, Anthea, Geduld-van Wyk, Charlene, Muhuro, Patricia
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/425705
- Identifier
- vital:72277
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v12iSI1.2117"
- Description
- We, Academic Development (AD) practitioners, question whether AD's objective in South Africa (SA) as a'liberatory educational and social movement'to enhance educational quality for all students, is effectively pursued. AD practitioners often work on the fringes of the academy, fighting for relevance and legitimacy within an increasingly performative and managerialist academic culture. Despite innovative AD initiatives AD work is criticised for being unresponsive, unreflexive, conformist, and lacking theoretical, scholarly, and critical engagement. We use critical pedagogical praxis, particularly the constructs of critique, reflexivity, power, and self-reflection, to interrogate the continuous tension between AD intention and practice. Through (un) conference methodology, this auto-ethnographic account of individual and collective engagements, using the" holding the mirror up" metaphor, critically questioned the tension and misalignments between the AD mandate and practices. Although in a SA higher education context, this research could be beneficial to HE contexts globally, given the ubiquity of AD work.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (17 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- University of the Western Cape Press
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, Williams, S., Adams, A., Geduld-Van Wyk, C. and Muhuro, P., 2024. Holding a mirror up to Academic Development through the HELTASA (un) conferencing methodology. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 12(SI1), pp.99-116., Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning volume 12 number SI1 p. 99 2024 2310-7103
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the University of the Western Cape Statement (https://www.epubs.ac.za/)
- Rights
- Open Access
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