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Title: The Emerging South African Model of Student Activism: A lesson for the Rest of Africa and Beyond
Authors: Mthokozisi Emmanuel Ntuli and Damtew Teferra
Keywords: Student activism, student movements, university governance, Unbounded Student Activism Model, emerging model, South Africa, Africa
Issue Date: 28-Apr-2022
Publisher: South Africa
Abstract: Student activism has been prevalent in South Africa to bring about transformative changes at institutional and national levels. That said, the manifestations of student activism have escalated recently and taken on new forms and flavor. These manifestations have previously been typically within the framework of a formal student representation as it has existed in university governance structures. The literature is rich in describing this phenomenon. And yet, recent manifestations have rendered the existing models largely irrelevant as they have failed to encapsulate the emerging traits and practices of student activism. A new and robust conceptual model, called Unbounded Student Activism, developed by these two authors, has been conceived to capture contemporary forms of student activism in the South African context. The paper foregrounds this model to discuss the South African lessons that could be drawn by others in the rest of Africa and beyond in anticipation of steering the student voices and energies to advance African agenda in the global marketplace of competing and complementing agendas and discourses.
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Appears in Collections:Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Private Higher Education in Africa

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