Social Inclusion & Exclusion in a Changing Higher Education Environment

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  • Chrissie Boughey Rhodes University

https://doi.org/10.17583/remie.2012.244

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This paper reviews demographic shifts in access to higher education in South Africa from the late 1980s onwards before going on to look at the extent to which black South Africans have benefitted from those shifts.In the context of analyses which show that black South Africans experience less success in the higher education system than their white peers,the paper argues that dominant understandings of what is needed to succeed are inadequate in explaining the data. In opposition to dominant understandings, the paper goes on to propose that only ‘social’ accounts of learning allow us to make sense of black students’ experiences.At the same time, however, resilience of dominant accounts is acknowledged.

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Chrissie Boughey, Rhodes University

Chrissie Boughey is a full professor at Rhodes University where she also holds the position of Dean, Teaching and Learning. In addition, she is Director of the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning at the same university. She holds a DPhil in Linguistics.

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2012-06-15

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Boughey, C. (2012). Social Inclusion & Exclusion in a Changing Higher Education Environment. Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research, 2(2), 133–151. https://doi.org/10.17583/remie.2012.244

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