Transforming Transformation in Research and Teaching at South African Universities

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• Publisher: SUN PReSS
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781928480075
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Education

What might reconciliation and forgiveness mean in relation to various forms of personal, structural, and historical violence across the African continent? This volume of essays seeks to engage these complex, and contested, ethical issues from three different disciplinary perspectives - Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology and Practical Theology. Each of the authors reflects on aspects of reconciliation, forgiveness and violence from within their respective African contexts. They do so by employing the tools and resources of their respective disciplines. The end result is a rich and textured set of interdisciplinary theological insights that will help the reader to navigate these issues with a greater measure of understanding and a broader perspective than what a single approach might offer. What is particularly encouraging is that the chapters represent research from established scholars in their fields, recent PhD graduates, and current PhD students. This is the first book to be published under the auspices of the Unit for Reconciliation and Justice in the Beyers Naude Centre for Public Theology.

Table of contents

• Title page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• 01: Transforming Transformation in Research and Teaching at South African Universities: An introduction
• SECTION 1: Transformation, its Scope and Limitations
• 02: Transformation as Freedom: Confronting ‘unfreedoms’ in students’ lives
• 03: Is University Transformation about Assimilation into Slightly Tweaked Traditions?
• 04: ‘This Revolution has Women, Lesbians and Gays, Queers, and Trans Bodies. Remember That!’
• SECTION 2: Researching Material and Symbolic Spaces on Campus
• 05: Location and Dislocation: Spatiality and transformation in higher education
• 06: ‘Why Did You Choose to Sit Here?’ Interviews with people in same-race friendship groups at Stellenbosch University
• 07: The Writing on the Toilet Wall: Researching graffiti conversations in women student toilets at Stellenbosch University
• SECTION 3: At Home or Not at Home: Raising Concerns about Forms of Othering On and Off Campus
• 08: Out of Sight: Beyond these walls, inside this machine
• 09: The Fall of Rhodes: A photovoice investigation into institutional culture and resistance at UCT
• 10: A ‘Home for All’?: How gay, lesbian and bisexual students experience being ‘at home’ in university residence life
• 11: Feeling at Home or Not at Home: Negotiating gender, sexuality and race in residences in an historically white university in South Africa
• 12: ‘Everything and the Kitchen Sink’: Being ‘at home’ in South African universities
• 13: ‘We Have no Faces’: The intersectional positionality of black South African women in STEM fields
• SECTION 4: Doing Gender and Heterosex on Campus
• 14: Constructing Heterosex: Examining male university students’ depictions of (hetero)sexuality in their talk of rape in South Africa
• 15: ‘Doing Gender’ on Campus: Students’ experiences of normative practices of heterosex in South African higher educational contexts and some critical reflections on dominant responses
• SECTION 5: Engaging with Disability as a Transformation Concern in Higher Education
• 16: Disability and Higher Education in South Africa: Political responses and embodied experiences
• 17: ‘Silence is Violence’: Claiming voice for disability in higher education transformation
• SECTION 6: Transformative Pedagogies and Curricula
• 18: To Do Difference Differently: Intervening at the intersection of institutional culture and the curriculum
• 19: ‘Gender Equality is a Human Problem’: Teaching men and masculinities in a South African undergraduate classroom
• 20: Gender, Violence and the First‑Year Curriculum
• 21: Performing Transformation: Exploring the contribution of the InZync poetry sessions to sociocultural transformation in Stellenbosch
• 22: Transforming the Intellectual: Open Stellenbosch and the use of social media
• SECTION 7: The Politics of Language and Transformation
• 23: Whiteness, Afrikaans Language Politics and Higher Education Transformation at Stellenbosch University
• 24: Negotiating Belonging through Language, Place and Education: An auto-ethnography
• 25: Rhodes Had to Fall, but King George Still Stands: Two South African universities compared
• SECTION 8: Schooling and Transformation
• 26: Standard Disruption: Transformation and language use in places of learning
• 27: Transformation as a Matter of State rather than Degree: Thinking beyond desegregation
• About the Authors