Reading race : the curriculum as a site of transformation

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dc.contributor.author Esakov, Heidi-Jane
dc.date.accessioned 2010-03-16T11:36:47Z
dc.date.available 2010-03-16T11:36:47Z
dc.date.issued 2009
dc.description.abstract This article looks at social transformation at a former whites-only Afrikaans university from beyond the conventional focus of demographic reform. Rather, in using a qualitative case study, it broadly explores how transformation of higher education institutions can be read in terms of the re-imaging of racial identity within the curriculum. In looking at how an institution navigates social transformation through its positioning of the role of the curriculum in the transformation process, this article suggests that although rhetorically committed to transformation, the university is struggling to emerge from its own politically instrumentalist past. Further, findings show that pressure exerted on the university from government and grassroots level within the university, are impeding the transformation process. en
dc.identifier.citation Esakov, HJ 2009, 'Reading race : the curriculum as a site of transformation', South African Journal of Higher Education, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 69–82. [http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=20128] en
dc.identifier.issn 1011-3487
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/13480
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher Unisa Press en
dc.rights Unisa Press en
dc.subject Social transformation en
dc.subject.lcsh Social change en
dc.subject.lcsh Curriculum change -- South Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Education, Higher -- South Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Universities and colleges -- Curricula -- South Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Universities and colleges -- Sociological aspects en
dc.title Reading race : the curriculum as a site of transformation en
dc.type Article en


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