Current Issue
Volume 13, issue 2 of CriSTaL brings together ten research articles and three book reviews that engage critically with key challenges shaping contemporary higher education. Organised around four interrelated themes—sustainable development, language and linguistics, artificial intelligence, and social justice—the issue showcases innovative pedagogical practices while interrogating dominant discourses, power relations, and assumptions within the academy. Contributions span diverse disciplinary and institutional contexts, including the Arts, Economic and Management Sciences, Physics, Language Education, and Doctoral Education, and draw on a range of methodological approaches. Across the issue, authors explore how higher education can respond more thoughtfully to social, environmental, linguistic, and technological complexities.
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Call for Article Proposals for a special issue on "HELTASA’s 21st Anniversary: Towards a Reflexive Generative Methodology"
This special issue commemorates the 21st anniversary of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA). The anniversary provides an opportunity to take stock of the organisation’s history by reflecting on key achievements, identifying tensions and contradictions, and re-imagining the future of the field of Academic Development. The issue foregrounds collective reflexivity among academic developers whose professional identities and practices have been shaped through sustained engagement with HELTASA over time.
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