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Radical Solutions for Education in a Crisis Context: COVID-19 as an Opportunity for Global Learning, edited by Daniel Burgos, Ahmed Tlili and Anita Tabacco Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Ting Wei,Juan Yang
Springer, Singapore. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. 2021. pp. 320.ISBN: 978-981-15-7869-4, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7869-4
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A Taxi Ride to Critical Literacy: High School Students as Co-Researchers and Text Analysts Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Rockie Sibanda
This article describes a critical literacy research project undertaken with English Additional Language students at a South African township school. Students were invited to take on the position of researchers in gathering and analysing bumper stickers found in commuter minibuses known as itekisi (taxi). These everyday texts in English and African languages are salient for the students’ discourse communities
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Teaching Care During Covid-19: Reflective Assessment for Becoming-Historians Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Sarah Godsell
This article argues that the Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) that took place during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 left learners and teachers alike awash in feelings of helplessness, loss, and anguish. While online learning literacy and pedagogy have improved over the course of 2020 and 2021, and interesting and important innovations have been implemented and explored, the foundational inequalities
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Achieving Universal Digital Literacy through Universal Design for Learning in Open Educational Resources Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Desirée Ayuso-del Puerto,Prudencia Gutiérrez-Esteban
Over the years, the Spanish education authorities have proposed various measures, such as the creation of Open Educational Resources (OERs), to guarantee the inclusion of all students in the education system. However, the literature on this topic indicates the persistence of certain challenges relating to the accessibility of OERs. In this regard, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is presented as
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If Not in Science, Then Where Are the Women? A Content Analysis of School Textbooks Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Aleksandra Gajda,Agnieszka Wolowicz
This article analyses the representation of femininity in school textbooks in search of elements that discourage girls from taking up scientific educational paths. Quantitative content analysis and elements of the constant comparison method were used to examine the content of 75 Polish textbooks. Significant differences were identified in the number of male and female characters, their ages, financial
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Multimodality and New Materialism in Science Learning: Exploring Insights from an Introductory Physics Lesson Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Delia Marshall,Honjiswa Conana
Science disciplines are inherently multimodal, involving written and spoken language, bodily gestures, symbols, diagrams, sketches, simulation and mathematical formalism. Studies have shown that explicit multimodal teaching approaches foster enhanced access to science disciplines. We examine multimodal classroom practices in a physics extended curriculum programme (ECP) through the lens of new materialism
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Slow Scholarship: Propositions for the Extended Curriculum Programme Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Vivienne Bozalek
Higher education has been deeply affected by neoliberalism and corporatisation, with their emphasis on efficiency, competitiveness and valorisation of quantity over quality. This article argues that in the context of South African higher education, and in the Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) more particularly, such commodification of education is problematic. The article explores what the Slow movement
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Scholarship in Extended Curriculum Programmes Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Vivienne Bozalek,Aditi Hunma
Editorial
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Creative Interventions: Integrating Arts-Based Approaches in a University Access Programme Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Amalia Beagle
This article is based on my master’s degree study at the University of Johannesburg that evaluates the impact of utilising arts-based approaches in the Workplace Preparation (WPP) module curriculum. The study demonstrates that when integrated into teaching and learning, arts-based approaches expand the capability of the curriculum to achieve more equitable and accessible participation. I use an action
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With Dreams in Our Hands: An African Feminist Framing of a Knowledge-Making Project with Former ESP Students Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Corinne Knowles
This article introduces a research project that works with former Extended Studies Programme students to make knowledge that emerges through online, multimodal collaborations. Knowledge-making is not politically neutral, and the project and article are responding in part to the calls of the 2015/2016 South African student protesters to decolonise and transform university curricula. The project draws
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What Are Universities Really For? Re-imagining Stewardship Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Sara Black (Muller)
Commentary
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Multilingualism: A Resource for Meaning-Making and Creating Ontological Access Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Anita Jonker
This article explores first-year Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) students’ multilingual practices in a university course where students have access to professionally translated technical terminology of the subject field. The study examines whether multilingual technical terminology—embedded in a dialogic teaching model—can contribute to students’ epistemological and ontological access to the disciplinary
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Introductory and Editorial Note—Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Na-iem Dollie
Introductory and Editorial Note
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Aziz Choudry: The Quintessential Scholar-Activist (23/06/1966–26/05/2021) Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2021-06-04 Salim Vally
In Memoriam
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Pandemic Leadership in Higher Education: New Horizons, Risks and Complexities Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Kirti Menon,Shireen Motala
The disruption of the academic year by the COVID-19 pandemic required higher education institutions to manage and lead under untenable conditions. This article is a case study of a leadership model adopted at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) located in South Africa. It offers insights into how the leadership and governance evolved and enabled management of the crisis presented by the pandemic. This
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Introductory and Editorial Note – Covid Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Na-iem Dollie
Editorial
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Disrupting Patriarchal Perceptions of Single-Mother Families: An Analysis of Adolescent Narratives Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Carmelita Jacobs,Grant Andrews
Parental educational support plays a significant role in the educational success of learners. Research has emphasised the important role of father involvement in educational achievement; however, little is known about how educational support is understood within marginalised contexts such as female-headed households, especially where fathers are absent or largely uninvolved in the lives of children
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Assault on the Public Good Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Enver Motala
Commentary
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Book Review: Eastern Muse: Poems from the East and North-East India, edited by Malsawmi Jacob and Jaydeep Sarangi Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Basudhara Roy
Book Review
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Book Review: GAU-Trained: Poems and Stories, by Flow Wellington Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Unathi Nopece
Book review
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Mapping Pathways for an Indigenous Poetry Pedagogy: Performance, Emergence and Decolonisation Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Grace Mavhiza,Maria Prozesky
Poetry is notoriously unpopular in high school English classrooms all over the world, and English FAL (First Additional Language) classrooms in South Africa are no exception. We report on a pedagogical intervention with Grade 11 learners in a township school in Johannesburg, where the classroom was opened to indigenous poetry and identities by allowing learners to write and perform their own poetry
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Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Heidi Van Rooyen,Raphael D'Abdon
This article argues that poetry is an act of meditation, improvisation and exploration, and urgency is what guides the writer into (and through) the poetic journey. In the light of this, this article illustrates the features of a workshop that was designed to guide social and human scientists in the delicate process of turning raw data into poems. One of the chief objectives of the decolonial project
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“Moments That Glow”: WhatsApp as a Decolonising Tool in EFAL Poetry Teaching and Learning Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Katharine Naidu,Denise Newfield
This article, based on a research project with learners in a township school in South Africa, seeks to discuss whether WhatsApp was able to transform the space of the poetry classroom in positive and productive ways. The project was designed in response to research in EFAL (English First Additional Language) classrooms that revealed the marginalisation of poetry as a component in the English classroom
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South African Indian Women as Custodians of Subversive Knowledge: A Decolonial Reading of Francine Simon’s Poetry Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Arushani Govender
This article uses feminist perspectives on decoloniality as a lens for analysing selected poems from Francine Simon’s début collection, Thungachi (2017). Simon is a South African Indian woman poet from Durban, raised by Catholic parents of Tamil linguistic heritage. Her poetry collection, while feminist and experimental, deeply captures the experiences of dispossession and loss that define the large
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Decolonisation through Poetry: Building First Nations’ Voice and Promoting Truth-Telling Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Catherine Manathunga,Shelley Davidow,Paul Williams,Kathryn Gilbey,Tracey Bunda,Maria Raciti,Sue Stanton
The impetus to decolonise high schools and universities has been gaining momentum in Southern locations such as South Africa and Australia. In this article, we use a polyvocal approach, juxtaposing different creative and scholarly voices, to argue that poetry offers a range of generative possibilities for the decolonisation of high school and university curricula. Australian First Nations’ poetry has
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Reflective Piece: From Decolonising the Self to Coming to Voice Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Zuleika Bibi Sheik
Reflective piece
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Book Review: Collective Amnesia, by Koleka Putuma Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Hlumela Mpiti
Book review
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Editorial and Dedication: Decoloniality in/and Poetry Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Katleho Kano Shoro,Denise Newfield,Deirdre Byrne
Editorial
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Poetic Bodies: Weavings of Bodies, Languages and Environments in War Poetry by S.E.K. Mqhayi Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Gerhard Genis
The creation of “poetic bodies” refers to the embodiment of poetic experience through an eclectic theoretical and methodological conceptualisation. This poetic embodiment allows for the re-membering and experiencing of poetic texts in general, and specifically, indigenous South African poetry in the classroom. At its core is the haunting of memory in poetic texts: the inter-generational experiencing
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Reflections on Decoloniality from a South African Indian Perspective: Conceptual Metaphors in Vivekananda’s Poem “My Play Is Done” Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Suren Naicker
Swami Vivekananda was an influential Indian saint, poet, philosopher and political revolutionary. His work can be seen as a conduit for South African Hindus who are part of the Indian diaspora, allowing them to connect with their historical, cultural and spiritual roots in the religious and conceptual world of India. The first step to decolonising those who have been subjected to colonial hegemony
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Book Review: Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature, edited by Lorna Down and Thelma Baker Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Georgina Horrell
Book review
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Angifi Dladla (1950–2020): An Embodiment of Ku Femba as a Poetry Teaching Philosophy for Renewal Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Vonani Bila,Olufemi J. Abodunrin
Angifi Dladla’s poetry and teaching doctrines are considered tools for consciousness raising, healing and popular education for decoloniality. Through ku femba, an age-old practice that serves as a channel to cast away evil spells in a society bedevilled by violence, Dladla displays the relationship between man, ancestors and the otherworldly as a vehicle for decoloniality. His feisty narrative poems
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Research That Is Real and Utopian: Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource to Revitalise High School Poetry Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Louis Botha,Phillippa Yaa De Villiers,Robert Maungedzo
This article presents the reflections of a research team from the ZAPP-IKS project. ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project) undertook a three-year NRF-funded research project titled “Reconceptualising Poetry Education for South African Classrooms through Infusing Indigenous Poetry Texts and Practices”. The research on which we report here was undertaken as part of that project. The team consists of
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Towards Decolonising Poetry in Education: The ZAPP Project Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Denise Newfield,Deirdre Byrne
This article concerns ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project), which is a community of poets, scholars (including the authors), teachers and students, established in 2013 to promote, in educational systems, the work of contemporary South African poets. For the past three years (2017–2019), we have attempted through outreach and research to contribute to decolonising South African education by paying
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“That’s Schoolified!” How Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment Shape the Educational Potential of Poetry in Subject English for Black High School Learners Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Adam Cooper
This article explores the teaching of English poetry in two Gauteng high schools, one a suburban, former Model C school and another in Soweto. Both schools are attended predominantly by Black learners for whom English is not their first language. Nine in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with educators at the two schools. The choice of poems, pedagogy and assessment emerged as important
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Refining Contrapuntal Pedagogy: Reflections on Teaching Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues” to First-Year Students Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Bridget Grogan
This article reports on and discusses the experience of a contrapuntal approach to teaching poetry, explored during 2016 and 2017 in a series of introductory poetry lectures in the English 1 course at the University of Johannesburg. Drawing together two poems—Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”—in a week of teaching in each year provided an opportunity for a comparison that encouraged
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Article Title: "Ethical Curriculum Leadership and Alain Badiou's Ethics" Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Na-iem Dollie
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School Governance and Social Justice in South Africa: A Review of Research from 1996 to 2016 Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Pontso Moorosi,Bongani Bantwini,Itumeleng Molale,Nolutho Diko
In this article, we conduct a systematic review of school governance literature in order to examine the influence of the social justice agenda in South Africa between 1996 and 2016. The review explores the nature and scope of school governance research, the methodologies used as well as the theoretical constructs underpinning the research in the identified period. We used search words related to school
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The Persistence of South African Educational Inequalities: The Need for Understanding and Relying on Analytical Frameworks Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Francine De Clercq
It is acknowledged that educational inequalities persist in South Africa 25 years after the advent of democracy in 1994, but the debate about the causes and solutions to poor education performance continues. Could the education system be fundamentally improved and mitigate somewhat the socio-economic inequalities from one generation to another? This article argues that the debate will benefit from
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Curriculum Leadership and Alain Badiou’s Ethics: A South African Experience Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Petro Du Preez
Several curriculum scholars have argued for an ethical turn in the study of curriculum based on concerns about the debunking of ethics in postmodern society. The notion of ethics in curriculum scholarship, with specific emphasis on curriculum leadership, is explored through a narrative of a school principal and contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou’s theory of ethics. The data indicated several
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Tackling Xenophobia through Dialogue: A Freirean Approach Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Vaughn Mitchell John
The deadly violence associated with xenophobia has become a concern in South Africa, a country with historically high levels of violence. This article explores the role that peace education can play in mitigating such conflict. Using Paulo Freire’s theorisation of dialogue in education, it discusses a peace education intervention that developed participatory workshops to foster dialogue between South
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Legitimation of Poverty in School Economics Textbooks in South Africa Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Jugathambal Ramdhani, Suriamurthee Maistry
In South Africa, the school textbook remains a powerful source of content knowledge to both teachers and learners. Such knowledge is often engaged uncritically by textbook users. As such, the worldviews and value systems in the knowledge selected for consumption remain embedded and are likely to do powerful ideological work. In this article, we present an account of the ideological orientations of
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“Hiding within the Glass Cage”: Performance Management as Surveillance—A Case of Academic Spaces as Resistance Spaces Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Sadi Mokhaneli Seyama
Universities have become toxic sites characterised by anxiety, depression and humiliation. Following new managerialism, leadership and management in universities have been driven by the mandate of achieving efficiency, which has led to the implementation of stringent performance management systems, increasing accountability and authoritarianism. While performance management is justified as an accountability
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EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age, by Tanner Mirrlees and Shahid Alvi Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Aziz Choudry
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Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the Wake of the Must Fall Movements: Mutual Disruption through the Lens of Critical Pedagogy Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Grant Andrews
The recent Must Fall movements shone a light on how South African universities are exclusionary spaces in many respects. In addition to the focus on racial, financial, and epistemological exclusions, the movements also highlighted how gender and sexual minorities are marginalised in university curricula and spaces. In the wake of these movements, I taught a range of courses dealing with gender and
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The Unintended Consequences of Using Direct Incentives to Drive the Complex Task of Research Dissemination Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Evelyn Muthama, Sioux McKenna
Universities have used an array of incentives to increase academic publications, which are highly rewarded in the South African higher education funding formula. While all universities use indirect incentives, such as linking promotion and probation to publication, the mechanisms used in some institutions have taken a very direct form, whereby authors are paid to publish. This process has paralleled
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Public-Private Partnerships in South African Education: Risky Business or Good Governance? Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-08-13 Jennifer Ann Feldman
This article discusses the globalised phenomenon of public-private partnerships, which involve the private and public sector collaborating to provide infrastructure and service delivery to public institutions. Within the education sector, the most commonly known public-private partnerships exist in the United States as charter schools and the United Kingdom as academies. Discussing this phenomenon
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Turnaround Learner Discipline Practices through Epistemic Social Justice in Schools Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Rudzani Israel Lumadi
Researchers claim that learner discipline has continued to be a problem in schools since corporal punishment was outlawed in public schools in South Africa. It is evident that teachers have a vital role to play in the improvement of learner discipline in schools. An interpretivist qualitative approach was adopted to investigate learner discipline practices as perceived by teachers in South African
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Reimagining Community Schools as Beacons of Hope and Possibility in the South African Context Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Bruce Damons,Avivit Cherrington
South African schools in poor communities are facing a crisis of inefficiency and inequality. The failure of the present education schooling system to address the needs of the majority of local communities requires a reimagining of the concept and function of schools. We posit that to adequately address the current education realities in the country, stakeholders in schools need to re-evaluate their
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Fostering an Equitable Curriculum for All: A Social Cohesion Lens Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Mutendwahothe Walter Lumadi
The discourse of equal education in the South African education system is polemical, and achieving its aim is a daunting task. The premise of this study affirms that fostering an equitable curriculum for all is essential for social cohesion. The achievement of greater equity through schooling is vital to society and national identity because the citizenry purports to believe in the universal right
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Self-Directed Education in Two Transformative Pro-Environmental Initiatives within the Eco-Schools Programme: A South African Case Study Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-05-15 Jill Kruger
The international Eco-Schools programme promotes Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) through introducing and stimulating pro-environmental initiatives by school learners and staff. This enabled learners in the Eco-Clubs at a resource-poor primary school to identify and undertake transformative proenvironmental initiatives in 2011 and 2014 through Self-Directed Education (SDE). An educative
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Making “Mini-Me’s”: Service-Learning as Governance of the Self in a South African Context Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-05-12 Carol Mitchell
This article presents an attempt to examine my own service-learning practices through the use of the conceptual tools of Michel Foucault, in particular his notions of governmentality and power. The article views the development of service-learning in South Africa and our current practices as operating within a regime of truth, and it considers service-learning as an apparatus for constructing particular
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Between the Vision of Yesterday and the Reality of Today: Forging a Pedagogy of Possibility Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-04-09 Salim Vally
In this article I discuss the vision of education for liberation during the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa. The article focuses specifically on “People’s Education” and “Workers’ Education”. Instead of an instrumental role for education reduced solely to the labour market requirements of business, economic growth and international competitiveness, I argue that the purpose of education is much
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Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment from the Perspective of the Social Model of Disability: A Teaching Experience Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Mujde Koca-Atabey
This article aims to revisit the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) from the perspective of disability studies. The SPE is an issue that inevitably comes to light while teaching Social Psychology and how it contributes to a different course titled Psychological, Social and Cultural Aspects of Disabilities. The SPE presents a pioneering piece of research within Social Psychology. Similarly, the social
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Chaos Theory and the Neoliberal English-Based Dimension of the Polish Higher Education Reforms 2018/2019 Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Anna Odrowaz-Coates
This article draws on chaos theory to critically analyse the recent higher education reforms that have been taking place in Poland. The argument launched in this article aims to show that the reforms are based primarily on neoliberal foundations and to expose the linguistic dominance of the English language in neoliberal settings. The English language appears to be a strong tool of neoliberal power
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Resurrecting the “Black Archives”: Revisiting Benedict Wallet Vilakazi with a Focus on the Utility and Meaning of African Languages and Literatures in Higher Education Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Nompumelelo Bernadette Zondi
Although viewed (and dismissed) by many as primarily a tool for communication, language (and literature) cannot be understood only in relation to what it communicates. A study of how it is shaped uncovers the social forces that provide its broad and complex template in the acts of reading and writing. This article focuses on the utility and meaning of African languages and literatures in higher education
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Subsistence Farmers’ Knowledge in Developing Integrated Critical Pedagogy Education Curricula Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2019-12-19 Nadaraj Govender
Curricular innovation in the 21st century in education requires significant transformation with regards to political, economic, socio-cultural and environmental concerns such as climate change and sustainability, amongst others. A critical pedagogy approach that includes the hegemonic knowledge debates of Western and Indigenous Knowledge Systems is also integral to this transformation. This study explored
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Intersecting Human Development, Social Justice and Gender Equity: A Capability Option Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2019-12-19 Beatrice M'mboga Akala
The greatest achievement of any education system lies in its ability to harness and develop human capabilities indiscriminately. This paper aims to show that the development of capabilities is crucial in bolstering individual well-being while at the same time propelling human beings to function adequately at various levels in society. I argue that, for a symmetrical development of capabilities to be
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Towards Compassionate Care: A Critical Race Analysis of Teaching in Township Schools Education as Change (IF 0.302) Pub Date : 2019-12-19 Crystal Kennemer, Christopher B. Knaus
This article presents findings from a critical race theory-informed qualitative study of three teachers in a township secondary school outside of Cape Town, South Africa. Based on a series of interviews conducted throughout the school day, this study demonstrates how teachers intentionally empower learners to navigate school infrastructures that reinforce racial disparities. Findings centre a commitment