Browsing Chapters in Books (Education Policy Studies) by Title
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A century of misery research on coloured people
(African Sun Media, 2020)When a group of Stellenbosch University (SU) researchers published an article on the “low cognitive functioning” and “unhealthy lifestyle behaviours” of coloured women,2 there was immediate outrage across the campus and ... -
Education transformation, assessment and ubuntu in South Africa
(Department of Education Policy Studies : Stellenbosch University, 2005-4)INTRODUCTION: Education in South Africa is faced with several challenges in an era of political and social transformation following the first democratic elections in 1994. A plethora of education policies has been developed ... -
Hopeful teacher education in South Africa: Towards a politics of humanity
(SUN MeDIA, 2012)INTRODUCTION: In this chapter I offer an account of Nussbaum’s politics of humanity to show how teacher education programmes can be remedied as the country’s universities endeavour to address the poor quality of teacher ... -
Reinterrogating race in scientific research : a view from the history of physical anthropology
(African Sun Media, 2020)It might come as a surprise to some to learn that the concept of race is a fairly recent phenomenon in the history of humanity. Race, as a marker of human difference, was only introduced in the sixteenth century. However, ... -
Universities and public goods: In defence of democratic deliberation, compassionate imagining and cosmopolitan justice
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2009)One of the most significant contributions to the advancement of modern higher education is found in the work of Frank and Meyer (2007:290) who argue that the public mission of the contemporary university is to assist in ... -
Universities as organisations or institutions? : The culture debate and one institution
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2009)This chapter attempts to conceptualise institutional culture by posing a critical question: Are universities institutions or organisations? The question arises due to ambiguities in the literature: several authors describe ...
