KNOWLEDGE BEYOND COLOUR LINES, towards repurposing knowledge generation in South African higher education

312pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2021

"This edited volume bristles with fresh scholarly approaches and insights of an emergent generation of engaged scholars grappling with the issues and problems of higher education in South Africa. The issues dealt with here are varied and encompassing. They are treated with intellectual delicacy and probing sensitivity, articulacy, informed data and bold conclusions. They serve well!" Professor Kwesi Kwaa Prah, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of the Western Cape, and Founder of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society

Contributions include:

"The education debate in South Africa: from Gqoba (1885) to Fallists (2015-2017)" by Thulani Mkhize

"Stories from the margins: Working class graduates' narrative accounts of completion in South African higher education" by Mukovhe Masutha and Rajani Naidoo

"Students' perspectives on how multilingualism helps or hinders epistemic access in journalism education" by Sisanda Nkoala

"Views from below the glass ceiling: Women's intentions to become full professors" by Vanessa Singh and Reshma Subbaye

"Locating indigenous knowledge in a teacher education curriculum: A case of teaching isiXhosa to non-mother-tongue speakers" by Nokhanyo Mdzanga.

Monwabisi Knowledge Ralarala is a professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape.

Associate Professor Salochana Lorraine Hassan is employed as Head of Department of the Academic Staff Development Unit at Fundani Centre for Higher Education Development, Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

Professor Rajani Naidoo is Director of the International Centre for Higher Education Management at the University of Bath; UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Management and Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.