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By which tools?: A critical comparative analysis of pedagogic discourse for the creative arts in formal and informal classrooms in a working class post-apartheid context

Author: Mokou, Goitsione Date: 2017 This research study was motivated by a research project which observed differences in achievement levels within the creative arts classroom between working class schools and middle class schools. These achievement gaps were largely attributed ... Read more
Contradictions in the situational logic of the university: implications for student success

Author: Kotta, Linda ; Case, Jenni ; Luckett, Kathy Date: 2014 Nearly sixteen years into the new democracy, student success at South African universities continues to be differentiated along lines of race. The tendency has been to define the problem in terms of student deficit. This article suggests that ... Read more c b
The development of agency in first generation learners in higher education: a social realist analysis

Author: Luckett, Kathy ; Luckett, Thembi Date: 2009 This paper reports on the findings of a formative evaluation of the mentorship support programme run by the Maskh'iSizwe Centre of Excellence for recipients of its bursaries. Learning theory traditions have typically been divided into those ... Read more
Disciplinarity in question: comparing knowledge and knower codes in sociology

Author: Luckett, Kathy Date: 2012 This paper contributes to understanding why curriculum design in a discipline with a horizontal knowledge structure is difficult, time-consuming and contested. A previous paper on the same case study in one sociology department reported that ... Read more
Does subject matter? A comparative study of framing and classification in the online and contact versions of two postgraduate management courses and the implications for student learning

Author: Karassellos, Lara Tracey Date: 2019 This study is positioned in the context of the South African higher education landscape, which is currently grappling with issues of access and inequality. Online education is one of the potential approaches to expand access to South African ... Read more
Educational Decision making among Grade 9 learners in Cape Town

Author: Begbie, Ceclin Kirsty Date: 2018 The need for higher skill levels in South Africa’s labour market warranted an investigation into why some learners from poor communities make the decision to leave high school at the end of Grade 9, whilst other learners continue to Grade ... Read more
Examining Institutional Practices and their effects on Student Success

Author: Adebulehin, Aderinsola Michelle Date: 2017 Given South Africa’s racialized history of access to education, redress efforts targeted at achieving equity in access to universities for students from across racial backgrounds have been well underway for over two decades now. More recently, ... Read more
Explaining the relations between culture, structure and agency in lecturers' contribution and non-contribution to Open Educational Resources in a higher education institution

Author: Cox, Glenda Date: 2016 Despite the existence of many successful initiatives to promote the sharing and use of Open Educational Resources (OER), sharing and use of OER is not a widely accepted practice in higher education. The reasons for lecturers' choices on whether ... Read more
Integrating multidisciplinary engineering knowledge

Author: Wolff, Karin ; Luckett, Kathy Date: 2012 In order to design two distinct engineering qualification levels for an existing University of Technology programme, empirical evidence based on the current diploma is necessary to illuminate the nature of and the relationship between the ... Read more
Integrating multidisciplinary engineering knowledge in a final year technical university diploma programme : an analysis of student praxis

Author: Wolff, Karin Date: 2011 In order to determine two distinct engineering qualification levels for an existing University of Technology (UoT) programme, empirical evidence based on the current diploma is necessary to inform decisions as to qualification-appropriate ... Read more
The introduction of external quality assurance in South African higher education: an analysis of stakeholder response

Author: Luckett, Kathy Date: 2007 This paper analyses the take-up of proposals for a national quality assurance system in South Africa using different approaches to quality assurance to classify stakeholder responses to survey and interview questions. The context of the study ... Read more
Making gazes explicit: facilitating epistemic access in the humanities

Author: Luckett, Kathy ; Hunma, Aditi Date: 2014 This paper addresses the problem of curriculum design in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and more specifically the challenge of designing foundation courses for first-generation or 'disadvantaged' learners. Located in the social realist ... Read more
Methodology matters: what methods for quality improvement?

Author: Luckett, Kathy Date: 2007 This article discusses methodological issues in relation to models of quality assurance for higher education. It first traces the historical development of the widely adopted pragmatic model and shows how this model has been adapted by the ... Read more
A 'quality revolution' constrained? A critical reflection on quality assurance methodology from the South African higher education context

Author: Luckett, Kathy Date: 2010 This paper attempts a brief meta-reflection on quality assurance policy and practice in South African higher education, with a focus on methodology. More specifically it seeks to answer the question 'What are the effects of the Higher Education ... Read more
The relationship between knowledge structure and curriculum: a case study in sociology

Author: Luckett, Kathy Date: 2009 This article aims to address a theoretical question, ‘what is the relationship between knowledge structure and curriculum structure?’, by answering an empirical, context-specific question, ‘what drives and legitimates the curriculum in one ... Read more
Structural conditioning and mediation by student agency : a case study of success in chemical engineerng design

Author: Kotta, Linda Thokozile Date: 2011 The study, informed by Bhaskar’s realist philosophy for social science, seeks to provide an explanation for the differential success rates in a final year chemical engineering design course. Read more
A study of academic resilience amongst first generation university students in South Africa

Author: Meinert, Leigh Date: 2013 This study adopts a sociological approach to the issue of academic resilience amongst first generation university students in a developing world context. As suggested in the opening quotation above, this study aims to generate insight in to ... Read more
Working with 'necessary contradictions': a social realist meta-analysis of an academic development programme review

Author: Luckett, Kathy Date: 2012 This article addresses the problem of making programme evaluation sufﬁciently meaningful and cognisant of context such that practitioners, in this case of academic development, can gain new understandings of their situation in order to improve ... Read more