This book considers Higher Education institutional change as a layered process, where change is interconnected across institutional arrangements. A three-layered consideration of the Higher Education institutional change frame is then advanced. The book further conceptualizes Higher Education within the dual identification of its organisational and institutional frames, thereby highlighting the agency and structural conundrum that ought to be constantly negotiated in its change process. In addition, given the complexities of higher education institutionalism, this book also considers historical trajectories as points of departure for further institutionalization, with the possibilities of different paths taken by different Higher Education entities.

Positions Higher Education institutional change within both the global context and the specific South African landscape Considers historical trends and recent events such as the "#Mustfall" movement and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic Adopts an interdisciplinary approach by weaving together historical analysis, sociopolitical context, and case studies

Autorentext

Joseph Besigye Bazirake is a Research Associate at the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa and a Senior Researcher at the Ubuntu Higher Education Research Centre in Uganda.

Inhalt

Ch 1: The Changing Face of African Higher Education.- Ch 2: Paths of Departure in Higher Education Institutional Change.- Ch 3: Theorising Higher Education Institutional Change.- Ch 4: Understanding Institutional Arrangements and the Dynamics of Change.- Ch 5: Theorising the Mechanisms of Institutional Change.- Ch 6: Agency and Structural Contestations of Higher Education Establishments.- Ch 7: Advancing a Layered Institutional Change Analytical Premise for Higher Education Transformation Studies.