(Mis)framing Higher Education in South Africa

The question of how to make higher education more inclusive has been a central concern in South Africa and elsewhere over the past two decades. However, in South Africa there remains a disjuncture between policy aimed at promoting inclusivity and the experiences of students and staff in the higher education sector. In this article, the relationship between equity of access and equity of outcomes and the expectations that follow from these policy imperatives are examined from the perspective of Nancy Fraser's normative framework of social justice. In particular, her notion of misframing is used to analyze the current situation in the higher education sector in South Africa. The article concludes that a focus on individual higher education institutions is not sufficient to gain a perspective on the social arrangements required for participatory parity in higher education; and, in fact, such a focus is an instance of misframing and thus a form of injustice.     

中国特色政党制度包容性及其发展

中国特色政党制度具有很强的包容性,体现在自身的构建、发展过程之中,彰显于中国改革开放和现代化进程之内,是中国特色政治制度的重要支撑。在社会利益、阶层多元化的今天,中国特色政党制度的功能价值更加凸显。面向未来,应把握好政党制度的组织形态、关系结构、运行机制等特殊性与普遍性的关系,对政治制度文明做出中国应有的贡献。