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Hlalele, D.; Alexander, G. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2012
University access programmes inherently and inevitably provide students with a "label". Firstly, students are generally segregated and stigmatised as they are treated as a separate group that accessed university somewhat "illegitimately". Access programmes generally place more emphasis on academic development and in so doing…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Evidence, Racial Discrimination, Access to Education
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van Wyk, M. M.; Alexander, G.; Moreeng, B. B. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Alexander, Van Wyk, Bereng and November (2009) are of the opinion that the purpose of education is the development of human capital towards meeting and achieving the individual and psycho-social needs of learners and communities which should be brought about through a process of transformation. In essence, this would imply that any discourse with…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Human Capital, Change Strategies, Educational Change
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Alexander, G.; Van Wyk, M. M.; Bereng, T.; November, I. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
By definition and purpose, education is the development of human capital towards meeting the individual and social needs of learners and their societies. This transdisciplinary collaboration parallels the underpinning principle of Lave and Wenger's Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Lave & Wenger, 1990) to South Africa's post-colonial…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Prior Learning, Certification, Teaching Methods