Constructions of students as clients or partners in knowledge creation?

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dc.contributor.authorSchreiber, Birgit
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-23T13:24:51Z
dc.date.available2014-07-23T13:24:51Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis study explored notions of ‘the student’ within the South African higher education context. Qualitative data from interviews with twenty-three executive and senior Student Affairs staff and practitioners were collected from three higher education institution in South Africa. The data were thematically analysed. The findings suggest that notions about students as ‘disadvantaged’ and ‘needing support’ as reflected in the South African policy documents is not congruent with the discourses in current Student Affairs in South Africa. Findings suggest that deficit discourses have been replaced by strengths based paradigms which construct the student in heterogeneous individualistic terms. Consumerist frameworks constructing the student as client have also emerged. The conceptual framework within which Student Affairs is embedded needs to reflect the changed discourse in Student Affairs practice in South Africa.en_US
dc.description.accreditationInternational Bibliography of Social Sciencesen_US
dc.identifier.citationSchreiber, B. (2013). Constructions of students as clients or partners in knowledge creation. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 23(4): 617-621en_US
dc.identifier.issn1433-0237
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1131
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherAustralian Academic Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author's post print version of an article published by Australian Academic Press.
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dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2013.10820675
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectConstructsen_US
dc.subjectDiversityen_US
dc.subjectHeterogeneous student populationen_US
dc.subjectHigher educationen_US
dc.subjectHigher education policyen_US
dc.subjectMassificationen_US
dc.subjectStudentsen_US
dc.subjectStudent affairsen_US
dc.subjectUnderpreparednessen_US
dc.titleConstructions of students as clients or partners in knowledge creation?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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