The Rural Gaze: Access, Participation, and Success in Higher Education
The institutional misrecognition of South African university students from rural areas is at the heart of this chapter. It sets out to develop a conceptual account of understanding what rurality means and its implication in higher education, especially in
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Rurality, Social Justice and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa Volume II
Amasa P. Ndofirepi • Alfred Masinire Editors
Rurality, Social Justice and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa Volume II Theory and Practice in Higher Education
Editors Amasa P. Ndofirepi School of Education Sol Plaatje University Kimberley, South Africa
Alfred Masinire Wits School of Education University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN 978-3-030-57214-3 ISBN 978-3-030-57215-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57215-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
Originating in deep rural settings in a developing world economy and educated in rural Christian missionary schools, the coeditors, from an early age, underwent varied educational and work experiences that culminated in venturing into the under-researched niche of the relationship between rurality and educational access and achievement. Later both of us traversed the globe to study, work and live in the metropole and this accorded us the opportunity to interface with the challenges of the disparities between rurality, schooling and higher education in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa. With Alfred having hands-on experience of researching the impact of rurality on teacher education and Amasa’s grounded theory on social justice in education, we decided to brainstorm the intersection of our experiences and imagined bringing our ideas into a two-volume book focusing on African existential circumstances on rurality and social justice education. Through our interaction with
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