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Mavunga, George; Cross, Michael – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Employee learning which is known by terms such as "human capital development" and "lifelong learning" is an aspect of post-school learning which people engage in for purposes of enhancing their work-related competencies and possibly achieve upward professional mobility. There are different views on how best employee learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Lifelong Learning, Employees
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Cross, Michael; Naidoo, Devika – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2012
This article foregrounds the salience of "lived experience" in the mediation of unlearning racialized habitus (Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992), and in learning and relearning the "truth about reality," or the truth about others. This article emphasizes the value of positive "lived experience" for anti-racist and…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Role of Education, Learning Experience, Cognitive Processes
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Cross, Michael – Comparative Education, 1986
Reviews changing attitudes towards the schooling of Black South Africans as revealed in a study of texts and statements by leading White politicians and historians. Discusses dominant schools of educational thought in South Africa focusing on the nationalist/conservative, the liberal, and the radical/neo-Marxist. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Access to Education, African History, Blacks, Comparative Education
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Cross, Michael; Mungadi, Ratshi; Rouhani, Sepi – Comparative Education, 2002
In post-apartheid South Africa, a lack of adequate resources and political expertise obstructed implementation of a new outcomes-based curriculum. A policy review committee subsequently made sweeping recommendations for implementation. The experience highlights the need to determine the role of education and what schools can realistically…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education