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Description
This lightning talk introduces research-in-progress in South Africa and England. The project is focused on the growing phenomenon of unbundling in the higher education space and its intersections with increasing digitisation and market-making. The talk broadly describes the structural, policy and curriculum contexts in which the three processes are unfolding in the two countries and situates the research against the theoretical backdrop of Actor Network Theory (ANT). The argument is made that links between the research and its contexts are best understood in the light of fundamental inequalities in access to and provision of public higher education, inequalities which may be amplified in the current contexts of unbundling, digitisation and marketisation. Early-stage interview data are offered, which illustrate how key stake-holders in higher education and allied fields (such as online provision and private higher education) think about, co-construct and propose responses to the three key phenomena that form the focus of the research.
The key questions driving this research are: (1) How are unbundling, digitisation and marketization understood by these stake-holders? (2) How do they view relationships between these three processes and higher education curriculum and pedagogical provision and their constitution and re-constitution? (3) What factors are driving changing educational provision and how do these factors intersect with unbundling, digitisation and marketisation? (4) What are the consequences of unbundling higher education for different stake-holders in a context of inequality? The talk presents preliminary analyses of South African stake-holder data.
Participants
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Leo Havemann
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Rosie Hare
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Amber Thomas
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Sarah Sherman
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Santanu Vasant
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Rich Goodman
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ALT
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