Research into Higher Education Series Catalogue 2021

RESEARCH INTO HIGHER EDUCATION SERIES CATALOGUE 2021

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RESEARCH INTO HIGHER EDUCATION SERIES The Global Scholar

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THE GLOBAL SCHOLAR: IMPLICATIONS FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AND SUPERVISION

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IMPLICATIONS FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AND SUPERVISION

EDITORS

PETER RULE ELI BITZER LIEZEL FRICK

Implications for postgraduate studies and supervision Editors: Peter Rule, Eli Bitzer & Liezel Frick

In our rapidly globalising world, “the global scholar” is a key concept for reimagining the roles of academics at the nexus of the global and the local. This book critically explores the implications of the concept for understanding postgraduate studies and supervision. It uses three conceptual lenses – “horizon”, “currency” and “trajectory” – to organise the thirteen chapters, concluding with a reflection on the implications of Covid-19 for postgraduate studies and supervision. Authors explore issues around policy, research and practice, sharing a concern with the relation between the local and the global, and a passion for advancing postgraduate studies and supervision.

ISBN 978-1-991201-22-5 print ISBN 978-1-991201-23-2 e-book

R330

286 pp, 2021

R265

DOI: 10.52779/9781991201232

A Scholarship of Doctoral Education: On becoming a researcher Editors: Petro du Preez & Shan Simmonds

This edited collection is cohesive by a focus on becoming: becoming a doctoral student, becoming a researcher, becoming an academic, and becoming a supervisor. This journey of becoming takes us from pre-enrolment in a doctoral programme, through the many phases of candidature and into the post-doctoral environment. Both advancing theory, and providing very practical examples, this book is of immense value to doctoral students and academics not only in South Africa – for whom it should be a mandatory read – but also for doctoral education researchers, doctoral students and supervisors worldwide, as the themes covered extend well beyond the borders of South Africa.

ISBN 978-1-928357-92-6 print ISBN 978-1-928357-93-3 e-book

R395

340 pp, 2018

Free

DOI: 10.18820/9781928357933

Spaces, Journeys and New Horizons for Postgraduate Supervision

Eli Bitzer, Liezel Frick, Magda Fourie‑Malherbe & Kirsi Pyhältö

After centuries of barely visible incremental development, postgraduate education has experienced twenty years of considerable turbulence as governments recognise its latent power, some responding more quickly than others and each in different ways. This anthology, drawing on research, deep reflection and praxis, illustrates the current situation in a range of geographical environments that result from such interventions, or lack of them, providing readers both with information about neglected contexts, challenges and concerns and with stimulating ideas about how they might be managed more effectively.

– Prof Emerita Pam Denicolo, University of Reading, UK ISBN 978-1-928357-80-3 print ISBN 978-1-928357-81-0 e-book

R425

360 pp, 2018

Free

DOI: 10.18820/9781928357810

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RESEARCH INTO HIGHER EDUCATION SERIES Strengthening Postgraduate Supervision Editors: Sioux McKenna, Jenny Clarence-Fincham,

Chrissie Boughey, Harry Wels & Henk van den Heuvel

An excellent collection of diverse and deeply reflective perspectives. All offer insights into the multiple challenges confronted in improving the quality and depth of postgraduate supervision. What is also affirmed is the importance of individual capability in supervision that is developed and nurtured over time, and through arduous effort.

– Prof Narend Baijnath ISBN 978-1-928357-31-5 print ISBN 978-1-928357-32-2 e-book

R390

182 pp, 2017

Free

DOI: 10.18820/9781928357322

Engaging Students

Using Evidence to Promote Student Success Editors: Francois Strydom, George Kuh & Sonja Loots

The book provides a rich, informative picture of the current state of student engagement evaluation, while also highlighting challenges and opportunities for future advances. A particular strength of this publication is its emphasis on the importance of taking evidence-based decisions, and showing how the South African Survey of Student Engagement (SASSE) can provide the evidence for well-informed changes in policy and practice in order to enhance student success.

– Prof Magda Fourie‑Malherbe, Stellenbosch University ISBN 978-1-928424-08-6 print ISBN 978-1-928424-09-3 e-book

R335

242 pp, 2017

R270

DOI: 10.18820/9781928424093

Postgraduate Study in South Africa

Surviving and Succeeding Editors: Liezel Frick, Puleng Motshoane, Christopher McMaster & Caterina Murphy

An exploration of the concerns about the lack of higher education transformation around issues of equity, curriculum reform, language and race, and how students navigate higher education complexities. Students’ self-reflective abilities, creativity and pragmatic approaches to surviving and succeeding are indicators that postgraduate student success is as much internally as externally determined. Each chapter speaks from a uniquely South African perspective. The editors have tried to remain true to the voice of each contributor, while simultaneously providing a coherent body of scholarly work.

ISBN 978-1-928357-23-0 print ISBN 978-1-928357-24-7 e-book

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R365

260 pp, 2016

Free

DOI: 10.18820/9781928357247

RESEARCH INTO HIGHER EDUCATION SERIES Postgraduate Supervision

Future foci for the knowledge society Editors: Magda Fourie‑Malherbe, Ruth Albertyn, Claire Aitchison & Eli Bitzer

The chapters move from deliberations on challenges for postgraduate supervision at macro level (such as the pressure to increase postgraduate output and the implications of increasingly managerialist institutions) to meso level matters (the form and function of postgraduate education in specific countries) to the micro level (rich case studies of individual institutions, programmes and supervisors). It is of interest not only to postgraduate supervisors across disciplines and across countries, but also to Directors of Postgraduate Study, heads of doctoral programmes and Deans of Research.

ISBN 978-1-928357-21-6 print ISBN 978-1-928357-22-3 e-book

R515

437 pp, 2016

Free

DOI: 10.18820/9781928357223

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education On its constitution and transformative potential Editors: Shirley Booth & Laurie Woollacott

This book makes a significant contribution to the literature on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). It provides both theoretical and practical insights that should be of interest to many SoTL scholars and practitioners worldwide. The theme of teaching and learning, and SoTL, as fundamentally communicative acts, connects the entire volume and will be picked up by SoTL scholars elsewhere as a useful and critical frame for future scholarship. The cases from South Africa and Sweden offer new perspectives on teaching, learning, and SoTL. ISBN 978-0-992236-04-5 print ISBN 978-0-992236-05-2 e-book

R265

200 pp, 2015

Free

DOI: 10.18820/9780992236052

Engaging Higher Education Curricula A critical citizenship perspective

Editors: Elmarie Costandius & Eli Bitzer; Coda by Yusef Waghid The authors aim to stimulate discussion about the nature and purposes of critical citizenship education in higher education. The search for effective ways to educate for citizenship that embraces both critical, social justice orientations and a deep sense of personal responsibility is becoming more urgent in South Africa.

ISBN 978-1-920689-68-1 print ISBN 978-1-920689-69-8 e-book

R290

182 pp, 2015

Free

DOI: 10.18820/9781920689698

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RESEARCH INTO HIGHER EDUCATION SERIES Knowledge as Enablement

Engagement between higher education and the third sector in South Africa Editors: Mabel Erasmus & Ruth Albertyn Knowledge can and does enable, specifically through engagement between higher education institutions, the third sector (mostly non-profit organisations), public service role players and the communities. The purpose of the research is reciprocal building, sharing and utilisation of knowledge for mutual enablement and capacity building.

ISBN 978-1-920382-62-9 print ISBN 978-1-920382-63-6 e-book

R365

297 pp, 2014

R295

DOI: 10.18820/9781920382636

Large-Class Pedagogy

Interdisciplinary perspectives for quality higher eductation Editors: David J. Hornsby, Ruksana Osman & Jacqueline De Matos‑Ala “If the thought of teaching large classes fills you with dread; if you think that pedagogic innovation is impossible in the face of burgeoning student numbers; or if you simply wish to understand more about the dynamics of this increasingly common environment in Higher Education, then this is the book for you. Written by highly experienced academics, it is a valuable (and long overdue) resource for supporting good practice in the large class context.” – Dr Jenny Hadingham, University of Rochester, New York ISBN 978-0-9870096-4-7 print ISBN 978-0-9921806-9-0 e-book

R290

200 pp, 2013

Free

DOI: 10.18820/9780992180690

Pushing Boundaries in Postgraduate Supervision Editors: Eli Bitzer, Ruth Albertyn, Liezel Frick, Barbara Grant & Frances Kelly

“This book is a very important contribution to the growing body of work on postgraduate, and specifically doctoral, education. I find the metaphor of pushing boundaries to be very appropriate, as it suggests a field of study and a range of behaviours and institutional organisational approaches to postgraduate education that are dynamic and characterised by fluidity, creativity and challenge. Readers will gain new theoretical perspectives, ideas for improved practice, and fresh perspectives on boundaries and pressing issues that deserve to be pushed and conceptualised in new ways.”

– Prof Ann Austin, Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University ISBN 978-1-920689-15-5 print ISBN 978-1-920689-16-2 e-book

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R315

241 pp, 2013

Free

DOI: 10.18820/9781920689162

RESEARCH INTO HIGHER EDUCATION SERIES Curriculum Inquiry in South African Higher Education Some scholarly affirmations and challenges Editors: Eli Bitzer & Nonnie Botha

What are the external and internal forces exerting pressures on the curriculum? Does the curriculum focus on the actual lived learning experiences of students or does it extend outside of the seminar, the classroom, the tutorial, the laboratory, the library or the computer centre?

Issues such as cultural and institutional differences in the curriculum, social justice and change, societal forces impacting on higher education curricula, the generic attributes debate, the impact of student diversity and others have not been well debated and researched.

ISBN 978-1-920338-64-0 print ISBN 978-1-920338-67-1 e-book

R515

424 pp, 2011

R415

DOI: 10.18820/9781920338671

Higher Education in South Africa A scholarly look behind the scenes Editor: Eli Bitzer

The main aim of this book is to take a scholarly look ‘behind the scenes’ in academia – particularly in South Africa where the field of higher education is still mostly underdeveloped. It aims to explore and come to grips with some perspectives, themes and issues that characterise and shape higher education institutions within a changing higher education system.

This seems important, since in many cases, academics perform work for which they were not properly trained. An attempt is made in this book to foreground some understanding of what higher education is essentially about and include examples of what higher education as a field of study and research entails.

ISBN 978-1-920338-14-5 print ISBN 978-1-920338-18-3 e-book

R525

462 pp, 2009

R420

DOI: 10.18820/9781920338183

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RESEARCH INTO HIGHER EDUCATION SERIES CATALOGUE 2021

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