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Number 45 December
2008

Editorial
Wayne Hugo and Volker Wedekind

Policy, practices and persistent traditions in teacher education: the construct of teaching and learning regimes
Joy Papier

“As long as the rain still falls we must cultivate”: Africanist challenges to liberal education
Veerle Dieltiens

Complementarity, mathematics and context
Renuka Vithal

Researching pedagogy: an Activity Theory approach
Joanne Hardman

Transforming identities and enacting agency: the discourses of participatory development in training South African adult educators
Caroline Kerfoot

The marketing of public FET colleges in SA: issues for policy and practice
Salim Akoojee and Simon McGrath

“Doing history?”: assessment in history classrooms at a time of curriculum reform
Carol Bertram

Book reviews:

Schools as organisations. (3rd edition) van der Westhuizen, P.C.(Ed.) 2007
Raj Mestry

Life skills & assets. (2nd edition) Ebersohn, L. and Eloff, I. (2006)
Ishara Maharaj

Tribute to Ben Parker
Volker Wedekind


Number 44 July 2008

Editorial
Thandi Ngcobo and Kholeka Moloi

Educational leadership and management – some thoughts from the field
Hennie van der Mescht

Leading change in the academy: a biographical narrative of how a dynamic strategic planning model for transforming student affairs in a historically white institution was developed
Kholeka Moloi, Kuzvinetsa Dzvimbo and Thandi Ngcobo

An unexplored partnership: the influence of traditional leaders on schooling
Sandile Mbokazi and Thamsanqa Bhengu

Ubuntu and school leadership
Vuyisile Msila

‘We did not put our pieces together’: exploring a professional development initiative through a distributed leadership lens
Callie Grant

Collaborative leadership as a necessary condition for successful curriculum implementation
Graeme Edwards and Brigitte Smit


Number 43 March 2008

Editorial
Wayne Hugo and Sylvan Blignaut

Mapping the pedagogical performances of school principals in a Cape Town township
Aslam Fataar

Bernstein, Bloom and the analysis of pedagogy in South African schools
Wayne Hugo, Carol Bertram, Whitty Green and Devika Naidoo

Extending boundaries: young people as action researchers
Bill Holderness, Christine Bold, David Henry and Margaret Wood

Unbinding the other in the context of HIV/AIDSp
Peter Rule and Vaughn John

Teachers’ sense-making and enactment of curriculum policy
Sylvan Blignaut

Transcending traditional boundaries for teacher professional development: exploring a community of practice approach to CPD
Murthi Maistry


Number 42 X 2007

Editorial
Wayne Hugo

Schooling, youth adaptation and translocal citizenship across the post apartheid city
Aslam Fataar

Identification with images of the teacher and teaching in formalised in-service mathematics teacher education and the constitution of mathematics for teaching
Zain Davis, Jill Adler and Diane Parker

Teacher preparation for diversity at three South African universities
Maureen Robinson and Denise Zinn

Lifelong learning, academic development and the purposes of higher education
Tahir Wood

South Africa’s approach to school safety: can it succeed?
Rika Joubert

‘In search of home’ – practices of the self in selected teacher narratives
Daisy Pillay and Betty Govinden

Book Review

Learning to teach in South Africa. Morrow, W. (2007)
Wayne Hugo

Reflections on Kenton 2007
Lynne Slonimsky

Reflections on Kenton 2007
Busisiwe Alant


Number 41 May 2007

Editorial
Liz Botha and Hennie van der Mescht

What is teachers’ work?
Wally Morrow

Using narrative inquiry to explore school transformation: a principal’s tale
Lorraine Lawrence

How do we develop inclusional epistemologies for a new scholarship of democratic educational enquiry?
Jean McNiff and Ana Naidoo

Towards a critical understanding of the teaching of discipline-specific academic literacies: making the tacit explicit
Cecilia Jacobs

An analysis of ‘needs talk’ in relation to sustainable development and education
Lesley le Grange

Reflecting on difference: an intervention at a public high school in post-apartheid South Africa
Jacqui Dornbrack


Number 40 2006

Editorial
Wayne Hugo

Introduction
Wayne Hugo and Johan Muller

Analysing pedagogy: the problem of framing
Ursula Hoadley

Pedagogic responsiveness for academic depth
Lynne Slonimsky and Yael Shalem

Pedagogy, subjectivity and mapping judgement in art, a weakly structural field of knowledge
Heidi Bolton

Bakhtin and the poetics of pedagogy: a dialogic approach
Peter Rule

The city, citizenship and education
Crain Soudien

Freedom of expression and the survival of democracy: has democracy in our schools received the death penalty?
Willie van Vollenhoven, Johan Beckmann and Seugnet Blignaut

Tracking racial desegration in South African school
s Linda Chisholm and Mohammad Sujee

Book Reviews

Changing class: education and social change in post-apartheid South Africa. Chisolm, L. (Ed.). (2004)
Wayne Hugo

Environmental education: some South African perspectives
Moraig Peden


Number 39 September 2006
Editorial
Robin Mackie

Adult learning within lifelong learning: a different lens, a different light
Shirley Walters

The trade union as a 'learning organisation'? A case study of informal learning in a collective, social-action organisational context
Linda Cooper

Isicathamiya saseStoffelton: Reflections on an education for democracy project
Bhekathina Memela and Sandra Land

As simple as ABC? How rural ABET Centres respond to HIV/AIDS
Edith Kiggundu and Jane Castle

South African illiteracy statistics and the case of the magically growing number of literacy and ABET learners
John Aitchison and Anne Harley

“The time is burning”: The right of adults to basic education in South Africa
Peter Rule


Number 38 August 2006

Editorial

The hidden work of caring: teachers and the maturing AIDS epidemic in diverse secondary schools in Durban
Deevia Bhana, Robert Morrell, Debbie Epstein and Relebohile Moletsane|

Teachers' gendered identities, pedagogy and HIV/AIDS education in African settings within ESAR
Fatuma Chege

Seeing the body: educators' representations of HIV and AIDS
Nadene de Lange, Claudia Mitchell, Lebo Moletsane, Jean Stuart and Thabisile Buthelezi

'From our frames': exploring with teachers the pedagogic possibilities of a visual arts-based approach to HIV and AIDS
Jean Stuart

Making pupils the respources and promoting gender equality in HIV/AIDS education
Rob Pattman

'Diseases come from girls': perspoectives on male learners in rural KwaZulu-Natal on HIV infection and AIDS
Reshma Sathiparsad and Myra Taylor

Deconstructing participatory research in an HIV/AIDS context
Dennis Francis, Nithi Muthukrishna and Anita Ramsuran

Shifting ground: making sense of context in examining HIV/AIDS and schooling
Vaughn John and Peter Rule


Number 37 December 2005
Editorial

The impact of globalization on education and gender: an emergent cross-national balance
Nelly P. Stromquist

Putting ourselves into practice: popular education at/and universities
Astrid von Kotze

“We must recover our own selves. . .” Cultural justice as ethical issue in Higher Education
Piet Naude and Elize Naude

Research with under fours: some sense making moves
Hasina Ebrahim and Nithi Muthukrishna

Picking up the pace: variation in the structure and organization of learning school mathematics
Cheryl Reeves and Johan Muller

Democratising the classroom: a literacy pedagogy for the new generation
David Rose

Redress and reconciliation in South African education: the case for a rights-based approach
Kai Horsthemke

In defence of minimalism: beyond a robust approach to citizenship education
Veerle Dieltiens

Looking to the future with the past in mind: confessions of an Afrikaner
Alette Delport

Education, imagination and forgiveness
Yusuf Waghid

Number 36 September 2005
Editorial

The knowledge question and the future of education in South Africa: a reply to Michelson’s ‘On trust, desire and the sacred: a response to Johan Muller’s Reclaiming Knowledge
Michael Young

New conservative or new radical: the case of Johan Muller
Wayne Hugo

Negotiating student identity in the doctoral proposal development process: a personal reflective account
Aslam Fataar

Constraint or catalyst? The regulation of teacher education in South Africa
Diane Parker and Jill Adler

Something extra: the moment of good teaching
Wayne Hugo

The codification of local knowledge into learnerships
James Garraway

The democratization of knowledge: where have all the experts gone? Review of The Architect and the Scaffold: Evolution and Education in South Africa
Edith Dempster

Number 35 March 2005
Editorial

The impact of postcolonial theory on early childhood education
Radhika Viruru

Citizenship and children’s education rights in South Africa
Salim Vally

Childhood poverty and social exclusion in England and South Africa
Kathy Hall, Nithi Muthukrishna and Hasina Ebrahim

Mapping HIV/AIDS as a barrier to education: a reflection on the methodological and ethical challenges to child participation
Mary van der Riet, Angela Hough and Bev Killian

That child needs a good listening to! Reviewing effective interview strategies
Carol Aubrey and Sarah Dahl

Ten years of early childhood development: a case study of Little Elephant Training Centre for Early Education
Peter Rule

Children without play
Fraser Brown and Sophie Webb

Social play by young at-risk children: a microgenetic approach to the
study of emergent collaboration and numeracy

Geerdina van der Aalsvoort, Mieke Ketelaars and Arjette Karemaker

Number 34 December 2004
Editorial

Researching HIV/AIDS and education in Sub-Saharan Africa: examining the gaps and challenges

Jean Baxen and Anders Breidlid

Social justice and inclusion in education and politics: the South African case

Shirley pendlebury and Penny Enslin

Outcomes-based quality assurance: What do we have to lose?
Yael Shalem, Stephanie Matseleng Allais, Carola Steinberg

Research learning
Jonathan Jansen, Chaya Herman and Venitha Pillay

Pedagogic hierarchies: Plato and Bernstein

Wayne Hugo

Revisiting the African-Africana philosophy of education debate: implications for university teaching

Yusef Waghid

South) African(a) philosophy of education: a reply to Higgs and Parker

Lesley le Grange

Number 33 September 2004
Editorial

A network analysis of formal and informal knowledge in adult pedagogy
Mignonne Breier

The mediation of traumatic memories in Cape Town high schools and museums: an epistemological investigation
Sofie Geschier

Validating academic assessment: a hermeneutical perspective
Johann Graaff, Yvonne Reed and Suellen Shay

Ignorance, trust and educational research
Lesley le Grange

The liberation songs: an important voice of black South Africans from 1912 to 1994
Anne-Marie Gray

What can we know from case study research?
Janet Hesketh

The interface between research and policy dialogue: substantive or symbolic?
Rubby Dhunpath and Andrew Paterson


Number 32 June 2004
Editorial

On trust, desire, and the sacred: a response to Johann Muller’s Reclaiming knowledge
Elana Michelson

‘Indigenous knowledge’ – conceptions and misconceptions
Kai Horsthemke

Sign, frame and significance – studying student teachers’ reading of the particular
Yael Shalem

Developing languages of description to research pedagogy
Paula Ensor and Ursula Hoadley

Citizenship education as compassion
Yusef Waghid

Ethical substance, modes of subjection and askesis: ‘Techniques of the self’ and ethical tuition in multicultural education
Mike Kissack

The merging of the only two veterinary science faculties in South Africa
Mankolo Mfusi

RPL in teacher education: lessons being learned from the National Professional Diploma in Education
Ian Moll and Tessa Welch


Number 31 August 2003
Editorials

Alternative ways of knowing – doing justice to non-western intellectual traditions in a postmodern era
Tony Moodie

A time for discipline: disciplinary displacement and mythological truths
Ken Harley and Volker Wedekind

Brak! – vision, mirage and reality in the post apartheid globalisation of South African adult education and training
John Aitchison

Knaves, knights and fools in the academy: bureaucratic control, social justice and academic work
Penny Enslin, Shirley Pendlebury and Mary Tjiattas

Themes in current education discourse that impact on teacher education
Anne Hill

"I feel that I get by with what I do" – Using narrative as a conceptual tool for understanding social identity
Wendy McMillan

Who are we? Naming ourselves as facilitators
Dennis Francis, Crispin Hemson, Thulisile Mphambukeli and Jane Quin 


Number 30 July 2003
Editorial

African philosophy and the transformation of educational discourse in South Africa 
Philip Higgs

Back on the chain gang: some difficulties in developing a (South) African philosophy of education
Ben Parker

Why (education) policy can’t be implemented these days: some philosophical considerations
Jane Skinner

Schooled inequalities - a comparison of the language syllabuses for English, Afrikaans and Bantu languages of the 1970s
Jeanne Prinsloo

Between covenant and contract: the negotiation of academic pedagogic identities
Rob Moore

Knowledge and the limits to institutional restructuring: the case of  South African higher education
Johan Muller

Why do education policies in East Africa fail? What’s changing? 
Michael Ward, Jo Bourne, Alan Penny and Mark Poston 

Book Reviews:

Schools as organisations. (2nd edition) van der Westhuizen, P.C. 2002
Thandi Ngcobo 

Challenges of teacher development: an investigation of take-up in South Africa. Adler, J. and Reed, Y. (Eds.). 2002
Carol Bertram 


Number 29 March 2003
Editorial. Prologue to the drama: Adult education in South Africa
Edward French

Building communities of practice in project-based learning - a prerequisite for working towards more inclusionary curricula?
Astrid von Kotze

The prior learning paths of mature students entering a postgraduate qualification in adult education
Jane Castle

Compos(t)ing: developing writing skills in a postgraduate programme
Gillian Attwood, Irene Broekmann, Pam Nichols, and Jane Castle

Retrieving the general from the particular: the structure of craft knowledge
Jeanne Gamble

The state of book development in South Africa
Sandra Land

Struggle and compromise: a history of South African adult education from 1960 to 2001
John Aitchison

The new knowledge-rich society: perpetuating marginalisation and exclusion
Ivor Baatjes


Number 28 June 2002
Democracy in education or education for democracy: the limits of participation in South African school governance
Veerle Dieltens and Penny Enslin

Participatory democracy, education, babies and bathwater: a reply to Dieltens and Enslin
Laurence Piper

The regulation of teacher work identity: core considerations
Ursula Hoadley

Teaching without words: tacit knowledge in apprenticeship
Jeanne Gamble

An archaeological glimpse at NGO identity in South Africa
Rubby Dhunpath

Research in action and research for action : working in a participatory action research framework with a government department
Maureen Robinson

Book reviews:

Assessment in Education  Lubisi, R.C. (1999)

Rob Siebörger

Reclaiming knowledge  Muller, J. (2000)
Nick Taylor

Reclaiming knowledge  Muller, J. (2000)
Roger Deacon


Number 27 February 2002
Clarifying constructivism in a context of curriculum change
Ian Moll

The restructuring of higher education curricula: contrasting models of interpretation
Rob Moore

Get real? Some thoughts on research for teaching and research for policy
Sarah Murray

Education policy implementation and the bureaucratic struggle for efficiency, equity, quality and democracy
Francine de Clercq

Picture imperfect: A case of conceptual poverty in education research and development
Susan Meyer

Swimming against the tide: External intervention in a ‘non-resilient’ school?
Relebohile Moletsane

Exploring policy communities and the NQF: A poverty of positioning?
Rosemary Lugg

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Number 24   1999
Can we close the gap? Criteria and obligation in teacher education
Yael Shalem and Lynn Slonimsky

Addressing environmental concerns through science teaching in a changing educational milieu
Lesley le Grange

Are teachers likely to achieve the natural science outcomes for Curriculum 2005?
Cheryl Reeves

"The Department is dead. Long live the School!"
David Maughan Brown

Reflections on a service-learning curriculum
Kathy and Sid Luckett


Number 23    1998

Grove Primary: power, privilege and the law in South African education
Jonathan Jansen

Grove Primary: a response to Professor Jonathan Jansen
Helen Maree & Alixe Lowenherz

The roles, regulation and professional development of educators in South Africa: a critical analysis of four policy documents
Fred Simiyu Barasa & Elizabeth Mattson

The role of the generic skill in lifelong learning: panacea or pipe-dream?
Mignonne Breier

The effects of political participation on student consciousness: students in the Western Cape, 1985-1986
David Gilmour & Crain Soudien

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