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Savo Heleta; Divinia Jithoo – Perspectives in Education, 2023
This study analyses international research collaboration (IRC) trends of South African public universities during the 2012-2021 period. While previous studies have explored IRC trends between South Africa and the rest of the world, there is a gap in literature when it comes to the analysis of institutional IRC trends. Using bibliometric data from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, International Cooperation, Institutional Cooperation
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Hayward, Fred M. – SUNY Press, 2020
Drawing on over fifty years of on-the-ground experience, Fred M. Hayward's "Transforming Higher Education in Asia and Africa" analyzes change processes in higher education in eight Asian and African countries. The twelve cases range from the push to upgrade and transform higher education in Afghanistan in the midst of a war, to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Change Strategies
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Oppong, Seth – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2022
This article draws on the literature in development economics, psychology and sociology to explicate how decolonised early childhood education and care services can reverse the metacolonial cognition lingering in the postcolonial era. In particular, the author shows that colonial institutions persist even after formal colonisation has ended…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Social Justice, Postcolonialism, Power Structure
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Potokri, Onoriode Collins; Perumal, Juliet – Education and Urban Society, 2019
This article presents an unusual concrete insight to African higher education transformation. The purpose is to examine the roles of African women mainly Charlotte Maxeke, a South African, in the transformation of higher education and to identify the legacy these transformation offerings translate into for women. It is organized as follows: first,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Females, Educational Change
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Keshavjee, Rashida – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2010
This article discusses the denial of access to education to Ismaili Muslim women in colonial Kenya during the 1890s and the 1960s. The Ismailis were part of the "Asians" in Africa, a working class, religious, Muslim immigrant group from India, circumscribed by poverty and a traditional culture, the orthodox elements of which, with regard…
Descriptors: Asians, Working Class, Muslims, Females
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Soudien, Crain – International Journal of Educational Development, 2007
This paper attempts to offer an alternative framework for assessing education delivery in South Africa. Its purpose is to develop an analytic approach for understanding education delivery in South Africa in the last 11 years and to use this framework to pose a set of strategic questions about how policy might be framed to deal with delivery. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Racial Segregation, Minority Groups
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Kuster, Sybille – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
The article discusses the dissemination and reception of a practice-oriented, community-centred approach to colonial education, which was derived from educational concepts developed for African-Americans in the United States around the turn of the twentieth century. This approach--which came to be known as "Phelps-Stokesism"--gained wide…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Change
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Yamauchi, F. – Economics of Education Review, 2005
This paper examines dynamic changes in educational quality and equity differences between Black and other population groups in post-Apartheid South African public schools, using the ratio of learners to educators in each school, available from the School Register of Needs, 1996 and 2000. The analysis incorporates school or community-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Change, Racial Segregation
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Jansen, Jonathan D. – Research Papers in Education, 2004
This article examines the struggles of the South African government to establish school-wide evaluation policies within post-apartheid institutions. It is demonstrated that even when such evaluation policies promise teacher development and whole-school improvement, there is significant resistance to government intervention in the school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Educational Environment, Racial Segregation
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 2003
This statistical record of the progress of African Americans in U.S. institutions of higher education focuses on the black-white higher education equity index; statistics that measure the state of racial inequality; rankings of black enrollments at the nation's 50 highest-ranked universities and liberal arts colleges; and students and faculty from…
Descriptors: Black Students, Diversity (Student), Enrollment Trends, Equal Education
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Sayed, Yusuf; Soudien, Crain – Compare A Journal of Comparative Education, 2005
This paper critically reviews the ways in which the policy of education decentralisation in post-apartheid South Africa results in both forms of inclusion and new forms of exclusion. Drawing on a two-year research project carried out in three provinces in South Africa, it shows how in the governance of schools, new forms of exclusion are being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, Educational Change, Governance
Levine, Linda; Casper, Virginia; Futterman, Donna; Casper-Futterman, Evan; Adcock, Holley; Penberg, David – Bank Street College of Education, 2002
What counts as knowledge and whose knowledge counts? When does going away help shape a clearer sense of home, and when does it not? How does living abroad change our perspectives as teachers and learners? The educators who have contributed to this Occasional Paper share a formidable combination of purpose, curiosity, courage, and self-awareness.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Essays, Educational Change, Knowledge Level
Lynham, Susan A.; Taylor, Robert K.; Dooley, Larry M. – Online Submission, 2005
The decade preceding the end of apartheid in South Africa (SA) represents a period of remarkable national leadership, and atypical business leadership. Insights from these extraordinary business leadership experiences largely remain in the form of uncaptured oral histories. Yet they are inspiring stories of practices and principles of truly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Racial Segregation, World History
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Mayer, Marina J.; Altman, Miriam – Journal of Education and Work, 2005
This article argues that skills development in South Africa must be aligned to the economic and political imperatives of reducing unemployment and poverty, while fostering growth and international competitiveness. The legacy of a resource-based economy, overlaid by apartheid policies, has resulted in widespread poverty, inequality and unemployment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unemployment, Racial Bias, Racial Segregation
Mattise, M. Christine – Teaching Tolerance, 2004
Traditional interventions (small group, individual counseling, classroom guidance, parent conferences) were obviously having little or no effect to stop bullying among children. The bullies had stuck with their project relentlessly, using snide looks, vicious whispering and a systematic plan to totally isolate one child on the playground. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Safety, Behavioral Objectives, Racial Segregation
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