Conceptualising Transformation and Interrogating Elitism: The Bale Scholarship Programme

Autor/inn/en	Botsis, Hannah; Dominguez-Whitehead, Yasmine; Liccardo, Sabrina
Titel	Conceptualising Transformation and Interrogating Elitism: The Bale Scholarship Programme
Quelle	In: Perspectives in Education, 31 (2013) 4, S.129-140 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0258-2236
Schlagwörter	Scholarships; Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Transformative Learning; Access to Education; Student Financial Aid; College Bound Students; High School Students; Student Diversity; Equal Education; Educational Quality; Reputation; Disadvantaged Youth; Blacks; Females; Womens Education; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Scholarship; Stipendium; Ausland; Bildungsreform; Pädagogische Transformation; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Black person; Schwarzer; Weibliches Geschlecht; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	In this article, we consider the extent to which a scholarship programme at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) engages with the challenges of transformation. This scholarship programme highlights the transformative potential of a programme that focuses on excellence for a previously under-represented group, but also demonstrates how this type of programme reaffirms the dominant notion of excellence within the university space, which could be read as a reproduction of inequitable practices. Theoretically, we make use of Bourdieu's concepts of "field" and "capital" to understand how a space that is socially elite, such as a university, engages with the issue of change. Transformation efforts such as Bale have meant that previously disadvantaged individuals have opportunities to pursue a university education, these efforts have also served to maintain and perpetuate elitism. This happy "marriage" between elitism and transformation ensures that the university remains elite, while simultaneously pursuing demographic equity and diversity. Bale students who successfully complete a university education reap many benefits, through their access to the cultural capital of a Wits degree. However Bale consists of an exclusive group of students who will personally benefit, while the broad interests of a top-notch University are served. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10