Negotiating Change in the Process of Transition from School to Higher Education

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis is a Professor and Director at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies (AMCHES), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Emnet is currently the Chair of the World Council for Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) Peace Education task force and the advisor board member of the Finnish Higher Education Partnership Programme (HEP), representing the African continent.Simon Vurayai is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies (AMCHES), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include the sociology of knowledge and the curriculum, higher education studies, digital sociology, the sociology of inequality, and gender studies.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Transition as a Contested Social Process; Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Simon Vurayai Chapter 2. Theorising Transitions as Sites of Struggle: A Theoretical Inquiry into the School-to-University Trajectory; Emnet Tadesse WoldegiorgisChapter 3. Theorising Structural Barriers in the Transition from Secondary Schools to Higher Education for Students with Disabilities in South Africa: A Critical Disability Studies Perspective; Sibonokuhle Ndlovu Chapter 4. Liminality for the Natives of Nowhere: Black African Students' Experience Transitioning from High School to Higher Education; Marcina Singh Chapter 5. Bridging the Gap: Exploring Transitional Challenges from Secondary Schools to Higher Education in Ethiopia; Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis Chapter 6. From School to University: A Bourdieusian Analysis of First-Year B. Ed Students Negotiating Academic Literacies in South African Higher Education; Halima Namakula Chapter 7. Negotiating the Transition from High School to Higher Education in South Africa under the COVID-19 Pandemic; Alois S. Baleni Chapter 8. The Significance of Diversity in Transition: Diversity Dimensions in Admission, Administration, and Reporting of Higher Education Institutions in Ghana and South Africa; Philina Wittke and Berit Stoppa Chapter 9. Navigating Educational Transition in Uganda: Students' and Educators' Experiences; Monicah Rullonga Kanyesigye and Faith Mugisha Ahabyoona Chapter 10. The Myth of Freedom: Psychosocial and Academic Experiences of Transition; Tendayi Dzinoreva and Peter Oloba Chapter 11. Bridging the Transition Gap: Academic and Social Challenges of Rural Students in Zimbabwean Higher Education; Simon VurayaiChapter 12. Exploring the Transition Experiences from High School to University among Successful Disadvantaged Students in a South African University; Elizabeth S. Ndofirepi and Otilia Chiramba Chapter 13. Socio-Economic Status and Higher Education Admissions Test Performance: A Large-Scale Quantitative Study; Robert Noel Prince and Zach Simpson Chapter 14. Enabling Spaces: Experiences of Rural Students in Navigating the Complexities of Higher Education; Hellen Agumba Chapter 15. The Role of Pre-Entry and Demographic Variables in Shaping Transition: Perceived Uptake of Student Support Services at a South African University of Technology; Lucky Sibanda, Chux Gervase Iwu, and Tendai Makwara Chapter 16. Covert Exclusion of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Students in Malawi; Tiffany V. Banda Chapter 17. Conclusion: Educational Transitions in African Higher Education: Structural Conditions, Epistemic Struggles, and the Possibility of Transformation; Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis and Simon Vurayai