Generic gold standard or contextualised public good? Teaching excellence awards in post-colonial South Africa

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 408-422

  Behari Leak, Kasturi ^a   McKenna, Sioux ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Decontextualised; post colonial; public good; transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015203120     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2017.1301910     Document Type: Article

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