Busayo Ige is a senior lecture in the Department of Health Science Education. She received her PhD in sociolinguistics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2008. Joined University of Cape Town in 2009, as an educational interventionist in the faculty of Health Sciences.
South African Journal of Higher Education https://dx. Volume 37 | Number 4 | Aug 2023 | pages 163‒180, 2023
Too often outreaches and interventions designed to support students transitioning to higher educa... more Too often outreaches and interventions designed to support students transitioning to higher education, are developed by academics who may not have a full understanding of the complexity and diversity of their students’ realities. This disconnect explains why, in most cases, interventions are reactive instead of proactive. In this article, we draw on our experiences in terms of the design and implementation of a Student Resource Centre (SRC) to advocate for student and staff collaborative design. The student-run initiative works with students as partners to constitute and operationalise an innovative near-peer mentoring and support space. The mixed-methods study draws on social-cultural learning theory on student engagement and reflective practice tools. We explain how a student’s sense of belonging is central to their success, progression, and graduation. This article highlights the need to contextualise and personalise institutional support for students.
This special issue on Finding a Place to Belong: University Students, Academic Structures and the... more This special issue on Finding a Place to Belong: University Students, Academic Structures and the Processes of Integration contains nine papers on opportunities of belonging and highlights the cultivation of belonging as a fundamental for addressing inequality and inequity in a linguistically and culturally diverse higher education context. Here, belonging challenges the dominant university ideology, which can elude the marginalised or underserved student and staff groups of learning communities. The combination of individual/group agency and identity negotiation for developing and implementing enablers of belonging reveals the challenges and complexity of deconstructing belonging. The papers focus on the barriers and opportunities of belonging and the interaction of agency and enablers of belonging, such as equitable vision, policy, programmes and commitment, as a product of belonging. Keywords: Deconstructing Belonging Opportunities Barriers Transformation Multiple Identities Mult...
HIV/AIDS has made reasonable progress as either a medical predicament that the science community ... more HIV/AIDS has made reasonable progress as either a medical predicament that the science community had to deal with or a socio-political conundrum to be resolved. The pandemic largely has exposed the strength and weaknesses of deliberative and legislative structures and existing different channels of policy implementation. One of the critical structures responsible for setting policy direction for the continent is the African Union and its management of the HIV/AIDS discourse as a key agency is the subject of this paper. In a recently published paper, Ige [1] and Quinlan used Benedict Anderson's theory that suggests the idea of 'goodness of nations' and juxtaposed that with the Derrida's notion of 'negation of enemy.' The result is the notable disjunction or distortion in policy framing and implementation which might adversely affect the citizenry. The result of the project is an edited volume. This paper will engage more robustly with the theories and will look further at the rhetorical and multicultural implications for the implementation of decisions contained in AU declarations as an instrument for state policy and decision-making processes.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
Undergraduate education and training in the Faculty of HealthSciences at the University of Cape T... more Undergraduate education and training in the Faculty of HealthSciences at the University of Cape Town has become socially responsive. A story of transformation that is consonant with wider societal developments since the 1994 democratic elections,outlining the changes in undergraduate curricula across the Faculty, is presented.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2012
Undergraduate education and training in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape ... more Undergraduate education and training in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town has become socially responsive. A story of transformation that is consonant with wider societal developments since the 1994 democratic elections, outlining the changes in undergraduate curricula across the faculty, is presented.
This paper explores the construction of collective identity by students in an academic learning e... more This paper explores the construction of collective identity by students in an academic learning environment, and shows how such collective identity may hinder or slow down individual learning or what may be referred to as independent learning. To demonstrate this I draw on language as a tool used for the construction of identity, and for showcasing and defending identity. The goal of this paper is to draw the attention of students and educators to the role of non-linguistic variables such as identity in student learning, and particularly in learning in a second language.1
South African Journal of Higher Education https://dx. Volume 37 | Number 4 | Aug 2023 | pages 163‒180, 2023
Too often outreaches and interventions designed to support students transitioning to higher educa... more Too often outreaches and interventions designed to support students transitioning to higher education, are developed by academics who may not have a full understanding of the complexity and diversity of their students’ realities. This disconnect explains why, in most cases, interventions are reactive instead of proactive. In this article, we draw on our experiences in terms of the design and implementation of a Student Resource Centre (SRC) to advocate for student and staff collaborative design. The student-run initiative works with students as partners to constitute and operationalise an innovative near-peer mentoring and support space. The mixed-methods study draws on social-cultural learning theory on student engagement and reflective practice tools. We explain how a student’s sense of belonging is central to their success, progression, and graduation. This article highlights the need to contextualise and personalise institutional support for students.
This special issue on Finding a Place to Belong: University Students, Academic Structures and the... more This special issue on Finding a Place to Belong: University Students, Academic Structures and the Processes of Integration contains nine papers on opportunities of belonging and highlights the cultivation of belonging as a fundamental for addressing inequality and inequity in a linguistically and culturally diverse higher education context. Here, belonging challenges the dominant university ideology, which can elude the marginalised or underserved student and staff groups of learning communities. The combination of individual/group agency and identity negotiation for developing and implementing enablers of belonging reveals the challenges and complexity of deconstructing belonging. The papers focus on the barriers and opportunities of belonging and the interaction of agency and enablers of belonging, such as equitable vision, policy, programmes and commitment, as a product of belonging. Keywords: Deconstructing Belonging Opportunities Barriers Transformation Multiple Identities Mult...
HIV/AIDS has made reasonable progress as either a medical predicament that the science community ... more HIV/AIDS has made reasonable progress as either a medical predicament that the science community had to deal with or a socio-political conundrum to be resolved. The pandemic largely has exposed the strength and weaknesses of deliberative and legislative structures and existing different channels of policy implementation. One of the critical structures responsible for setting policy direction for the continent is the African Union and its management of the HIV/AIDS discourse as a key agency is the subject of this paper. In a recently published paper, Ige [1] and Quinlan used Benedict Anderson's theory that suggests the idea of 'goodness of nations' and juxtaposed that with the Derrida's notion of 'negation of enemy.' The result is the notable disjunction or distortion in policy framing and implementation which might adversely affect the citizenry. The result of the project is an edited volume. This paper will engage more robustly with the theories and will look further at the rhetorical and multicultural implications for the implementation of decisions contained in AU declarations as an instrument for state policy and decision-making processes.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
Undergraduate education and training in the Faculty of HealthSciences at the University of Cape T... more Undergraduate education and training in the Faculty of HealthSciences at the University of Cape Town has become socially responsive. A story of transformation that is consonant with wider societal developments since the 1994 democratic elections,outlining the changes in undergraduate curricula across the Faculty, is presented.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2012
Undergraduate education and training in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape ... more Undergraduate education and training in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town has become socially responsive. A story of transformation that is consonant with wider societal developments since the 1994 democratic elections, outlining the changes in undergraduate curricula across the faculty, is presented.
This paper explores the construction of collective identity by students in an academic learning e... more This paper explores the construction of collective identity by students in an academic learning environment, and shows how such collective identity may hinder or slow down individual learning or what may be referred to as independent learning. To demonstrate this I draw on language as a tool used for the construction of identity, and for showcasing and defending identity. The goal of this paper is to draw the attention of students and educators to the role of non-linguistic variables such as identity in student learning, and particularly in learning in a second language.1
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