Transformation in Higher Education

1. Reconceptualising University Governance as Social Relations Work: Purpose, Orientation, and Practice in an Integrated Framework
Bryan Jason Bergsteedt, André du Plessis
Innovative Higher Education  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1007/s10755-026-09926-0

2. Resistance and solidarity: navigating fractures of invisibility and violence within the South African neoliberal university
Isha Dilraj, Azeem Badroodien
Globalisation, Societies and Education  vol: 24  issue: 1  first page: 142  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1080/14767724.2025.2585080

3. Decolonizing peace and conflict studies: intersectional perspectives from racialized women in academia
Rina Malagayo Alluri
Teaching in Higher Education  vol: 31  issue: 3  first page: 591  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1080/13562517.2025.2598752

4. Lessons from a mentor: Navigating academic life in the contemporary South African university
Simpiwe Sobuwa, Lehana Thabane
South African Journal of Science  vol: 122  issue: 7/8  year: 2026  
doi: 10.17159/sajs.2026/24578

5. Navigating the decolonial frontier: Leadership perspectives on epistemic justice in South African higher education
Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis
International Journal of Educational Research  vol: 134  first page: 102816  year: 2025  
doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2025.102816

6. What does it mean? Exploring staff and student understandings of pedagogical buzzwords in Higher Education
Nicholas Bremner, Giles Martin, Thomas Howard Morris
Journal of Further and Higher Education  vol: 49  issue: 9  first page: 1256  year: 2025  
doi: 10.1080/0309877X.2025.2549937

7. Towards a Decolonised University in South Africa: Filling the Blanks
Pfuurai Chimbunde, Byron Brown
Higher Education Policy  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1057/s41307-026-00452-4

8. Accounting at the Margins of Protest: A Decolonial Reflexive Narrative of #RhodesMustFall
Sedzani Musundwa, Neo Molefi Kau, Bomikazi Zeka, Simphiwe Milli
Social and Environmental Accountability Journal  first page: 1  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1080/0969160X.2026.2721262

9. Decolonising audiology education: Epistemic barriers and opportunities for Black African students
Musa Makhoba, Sarasvathie Reddy, Mershen Pillay
South African Journal of Communication Disorders  vol: 73  issue: 1  year: 2026  
doi: 10.4102/SAJCD.v73i1.1152

10. Academic professional development: A reflexive account of informal mentorship in a transformative context
Shanya Reuben, Shaida Bobat, Vukani L. Makhaba
Transformation in Higher Education  vol: 11  year: 2026  
doi: 10.4102/THE.v11i0.708

11. South African higher education and the normalisation of oppression
Christopher B. Knaus
Equity in Education & Society  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1177/27526461261444744

12. Perspectives on Education in Africa: Globalisation and Education Policy Reform in Botswana by Richard Tabulawa, Abingdon, Routledge, 2024, pp. 248, £38.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-032-00049-7
Iqbal Saffariz Santosa, Wildan Nuril Ahmad Fauzi, Faizah Nadela, Kartika Sari Liliana
Contemporary Social Science  vol: 19  issue: 5  first page: 735  year: 2024  
doi: 10.1080/21582041.2024.2435438

13. Higher education and the Western cannon of thoughts: Are Southern African universities bewitched?
Pfuurai Chimbunde, Byron Brown
Power and Education  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1177/17577438251411455

14. Decentring Eurocentrism:
Simbarashe MAGAISA, Nirmala DORASAMY
Asian Journal of Human Services  vol: 30  issue: 1  first page: n/a  year: 2026  
doi: 10.14391/ajhs.e3001.2.005

15. Integrating African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKSs) into Public Theology: Towards Contextualized Theological Engagement in Southern Africa
Patrick Nanthambwe
Religions  vol: 16  issue: 7  first page: 869  year: 2025  
doi: 10.3390/rel16070869

16. What Do We Do with The Master’s Tools?: Whiteness, “Nice Racism,” and the South African Tertiary Context
Hannelie Marx Knoetze
Gender Questions  year: 2026  
doi: 10.25159/2412-8457/19179

17. Architectures of Oppression
Savo Heleta, Naiefa Rashied
Education as Change  vol: 30  year: 2026  
doi: 10.25159/1947-9417/21709

18. The illusion of change: The unfulfilled promise of decolonisation in a South African private higher education institution
Prince Leburu
Transformation in Higher Education  vol: 11  year: 2026  
doi: 10.4102/THE.v11i0.684

19. Apartheid Diplomacy’s Legacy in South African Higher Education: A Scoping Review
Monica Ewomazino Akokuwebe, Godswill Nwabuisi Osuafor, Rasidi Akanji Okunola
Social Sciences  vol: 15  issue: 6  first page: 361  year: 2026  
doi: 10.3390/socsci15060361

20. Contrapuntal curriculum and epistemic transformation in South African universities
Aslam Fataar
Transformation in Higher Education  vol: 10  year: 2025  
doi: 10.4102/THE.v10i0.651

21. Resolving the public–private good binary in higher education using Ubuntu philosophy
Oliver Mutanga
Higher Education  vol: 91  issue: 3  first page: 1045  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1007/s10734-025-01455-7

22. Solidarity and advocacy at a South African institution: Tracing convivial efforts for institutional equity
Astrid M. Villamil, Scott E. Branton, Maria van Staden, Fikile Vilakazi
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication  first page: 1  year: 2025  
doi: 10.1080/17513057.2025.2534566

23. Global citizenship education and the internationalisation of higher education: Critical perspectives from South Africa
Samia Chasi, Savo Heleta
International Review of Education  vol: 72  issue: 4  first page: 707  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1007/s11159-025-10150-9

24. Coloniality in motion: African international students as epistemic agents in South African higher education
David Naidoo
Transformation in Higher Education  vol: 11  year: 2026  
doi: 10.4102/THE.v11i0.693

25. The Onslaught of Academic Capitalism in the Neoliberal Knowledge Economy: From a Philosophical Discussion to a Philosophical Exploration for South African Universities
Doniwen Pietersen, Amasa Ndofirepi
Education. Innovation. Diversity  vol: 1  issue: 12  first page: 1  year: 2026  
doi: 10.17770/eid2026.1.84

26. Decolonising education through Robert Sobukwe's humanist and educational philosophies: A critical content analysis
Mphasha M.H. Pitso
Social Sciences & Humanities Open  vol: 13  first page: 102693  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2026.102693