Contradictions in the situational logic of the university: implications for student success
dc.contributor.author | Kotta, Linda | |
dc.contributor.author | Case, Jenni | |
dc.contributor.author | Luckett, Kathy | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-26T11:43:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-26T11:43:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.date.updated | 2017-10-26T11:43:20Z | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 this is a limited view of a complex problem. The study investigates the case of a South African universitys engineering department and its historical struggle with the success of black students. It is an exploration of students progression through a design course and the associated pedagogical realities. Using a social realist approach, this study shows that the higher education environment is a complex of necessary contradictions which create a situational logic for agents. In the process of navigating the inconsistencies of a system in which academic development and quality assurance work against each other, it seems that black students get caught in the middle, with deleterious consequences for the countrys transformative agenda. | |
dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.20853/28-2-338 | |
dc.identifier.apacitation | Kotta, L., Case, J., & Luckett, K. (2014). Contradictions in the situational logic of the university: implications for student success. <i>South African Journal of Education</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25821 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Kotta, Linda, Jenni Case, and Kathy Luckett "Contradictions in the situational logic of the university: implications for student success." <i>South African Journal of Education</i> (2014) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25821 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Kotta, L., Case, J., & Luckett, K. (2014). Contradictions in the situational logic of the university: implications for student success. South African Journal of Higher Education, 28(2), 514-532. | |
dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Kotta, Linda AU - Case, Jenni AU - Luckett, Kathy AB - 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 this is a limited view of a complex problem. The study investigates the case of a South African universitys engineering department and its historical struggle with the success of black students. It is an exploration of students progression through a design course and the associated pedagogical realities. Using a social realist approach, this study shows that the higher education environment is a complex of necessary contradictions which create a situational logic for agents. In the process of navigating the inconsistencies of a system in which academic development and quality assurance work against each other, it seems that black students get caught in the middle, with deleterious consequences for the countrys transformative agenda. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Journal of Education LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Contradictions in the situational logic of the university: implications for student success TI - Contradictions in the situational logic of the university: implications for student success UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25821 ER - | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25821 | |
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Kotta L, Case J, Luckett K. Contradictions in the situational logic of the university: implications for student success. South African Journal of Education. 2014; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25821. | en_ZA |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher.department | Department of Sociology | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.source | South African Journal of Education | |
dc.source.uri | http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/sajhe/index | |
dc.subject.other | social realism | |
dc.subject.other | student success | |
dc.subject.other | engineering education | |
dc.subject.other | situational logic | |
dc.subject.other | academic development | |
dc.title | Contradictions in the situational logic of the university: implications for student success | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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