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Is it transformation or reform? The lived experiences of African women doctoral students in STEM disciplines in South African universities
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields have historically been disciplines dominated by white men. The colonial ideology...
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Africa: exclusion of students with disabilities in South African higher education
While contemporary scholarship seeks to include Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) into epistemology, to re-centre knowledge that has been placed in...
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The politics of decolonising the curriculum through adopting mother tongue instruction in a South African historically disadvantaged university setting
This paper focuses on the dynamics of decolonising the curriculum by adopting mother tongue language as a medium for instruction in South African...
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South African Science Teachers’ Experiences of Inquiry-Based Teaching at Disadvantaged Schools
Inquiry-based science education has been advocated as a goal in the South African school science curriculum. Despite this goal, the implementation of...
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A Continuing Professional Development Programme for TESOL Teachers in South African Secondary Schools
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the continuing professional development (CPD) programme used to develop English as a First Additional...
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Understandings, Practices and Efficacies of Servant Leadership for Effective Schooling: Perspectives from Selected Schools in South Africa
In this paper, we present the findings of a qualitative study conducted in 2018 in five schools (three primary and two secondary schools) in a rural...
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Fragility Compounded: The State of the South African Educational System in the Aftermath of Covid-19
In this chapter we undertake an assessment of how Covid-19 impacted the South African education system two years on. Our argument is that COVID-19...
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Evaluating Effective Differentiated Instruction in Multicultural South African Secondary Schools
Various contextual factors contribute to teachers’ failure to employ effective differentiated instruction in classroom practices. This is evident in...
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Scholarship Students in Elite South African Schools The Gift of a Scholarship
This book provides a narrative account of the experiences of twenty former scholarship students from historically disadvantaged communities who...
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Strategies implemented by South African teachers to ensure continuing mathematics education during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to present severe challenges to the education sector more than 2 years after the first case was detected. We explore...
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Translanguaging as bona fide practice in a multilingual South African science classroom
The call for improving students’ academic achievement in science education has increased in urgency in recent years. It has also increased in...
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Education Law in South Africa
This chapter provides an account of the effect that Education law and transformative constitutionalism have had on education in post-apartheid South...
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Decolonising the African doctorate: transforming the foundations of knowledge
Despite revolutions, ongoing student protests, and long-standing transformational efforts, African higher education remains steeped in a colonial...
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Introduction to Health Promoting Schools (HPS): An Integrated Approach to Schooling
The HPS approach has largely been applied in Eurocentric settings, but there is notable interest from the African continent in recent times. This...
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The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán
Our study traces the pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán. Our research method was an...
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Youth Voices on Social Justice: Doing Repair Work in a South African Higher Education Space
South Africa can be considered a post-conflict, although not conflict-free, society, given massive inequalities arising from poverty and...
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Lifelong learning as cruel optimism: Considering the discourses of lifelong learning and techno-solutionism in South African education
This article seeks to examine how two discourses –of lifelong learning and techno-solutionism – tangle with each other in South African education...
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Implementing a Socioculturally Relevant Science Curriculum: The South African Experience
One of the steps taken by the first democratically elected South African government in 1994 was to formulate a new education policy that placed great...
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Learner Dropout in South African Schools
Twenty-six years into democracy, following an apartheid regime burdened with segregation and discrimination, South Africa still reflects the...
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Barriers to the Full Participation of Girls in Robotics: A Case Study of a South African Community of Practice
The lack of participation of girls in programming robotics is well documented in the international literature on the subject. The Inspired Towards...
