Dancing on the Waves of Change: Transforming Learning, Teaching and Leadership in Higher Education

[ ]this issue highlights the need for constant engagement of academics, academic development professionals, students, academic leaders, and industry in innovative and creative ways to systematically and organically transform learning and teaching According to Staphorst, the book is concerned with knowledge and the relationship between knowledge, decolonisation, and the university sphere Using the colonial matrix of power to show how coloniality upholds gender and sexuality norms in universities and academics, Vanyoro, in his article, "Learning How Language is Used in Higher Education to Strategically Marginalise Female, Queer, and Gender Non-Conforming People: An Autoethnographic Account," explores the manifestation of heteropatriarchy in the language used in lecture rooms and beyond through an auto-ethnographic reflection that shows how critical diversity literacy can be helpful in realising the complicity of language in dominance According to Msiza, Raseoka, and Ndhlovu, the lecturers invoked their experiences to reflect, learn, and imagine possibilities for teacher education institutions to enact sustainable assessment and to navigate massification