Some issues in affirmative action in higher education in South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Soudien, Crain | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-23T07:07:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-03-23T07:07:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-14T08:24:33Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this article is to attempt a surfacing of the assumptions and discourses surrounding the affirmative action debate in higher education in South Africa. The article draws attention to two dominant discourses – the first being that of the patriotic university, and the second being that of the global university. In terms of the first idea, the argument is made that the university should be a mirror of the society in which it operates and therefore, an instrument for realizing its most important policies and ideals. The second insists that the university as an institution arises out of an international commitment to knowledge production, and that this framework provides it with its legitimacy. The article argues that neither of these discourses is able to fully understand and engage with the complexities of affirmative action and its ancillary challenges of racism and racialisation. The first subsumes the university entirely within the dominant politics of the day, whatever they might be, while the second extrapolates the university from the society in which it finds itself. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Soudien, C. (2010). Some issues in affirmative action in higher education in South Africa. <i>South African Journal of Higher Education</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27701 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Soudien, Crain "Some issues in affirmative action in higher education in South Africa." <i>South African Journal of Higher Education</i> (2010) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27701 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Soudien, C. (2010). Some issues in affirmative action in higher education in South Africa. South African Journal of Higher Education, 24(2), 224-237. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Soudien, Crain AB - The purpose of this article is to attempt a surfacing of the assumptions and discourses surrounding the affirmative action debate in higher education in South Africa. The article draws attention to two dominant discourses – the first being that of the patriotic university, and the second being that of the global university. In terms of the first idea, the argument is made that the university should be a mirror of the society in which it operates and therefore, an instrument for realizing its most important policies and ideals. The second insists that the university as an institution arises out of an international commitment to knowledge production, and that this framework provides it with its legitimacy. The article argues that neither of these discourses is able to fully understand and engage with the complexities of affirmative action and its ancillary challenges of racism and racialisation. The first subsumes the university entirely within the dominant politics of the day, whatever they might be, while the second extrapolates the university from the society in which it finds itself. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Journal of Higher Education LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - Some issues in affirmative action in higher education in South Africa TI - Some issues in affirmative action in higher education in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27701 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27701 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Soudien C. Some issues in affirmative action in higher education in South Africa. South African Journal of Higher Education. 2010; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27701. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | African Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Journal of Higher Education | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/sajhe | |
| dc.title | Some issues in affirmative action in higher education in South Africa | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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