The pandemic nature of the COVID-19 virus and the infectious potential that this virus has for the global population demands a radical response. This article focuses on school education within the context of COVID-19 and asks a fundamental curriculum question around what knowledge is most worthwhile for school education in response to this…

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused havoc in the world, radically changing our lives and raising new and old questions, both existential and educational. This pandemic has revealed the underbelly of South African society in general and its education system more specifically--it has laid bare the gross inequalities that are the legacies of apartheid…

The COVID-19 pandemic is the largest social and economic shock of our lifetimes. As governments grapple with their responses to the virus, more than half the world's countries have closed their schools and severely limited almost all forms of public life. This will have a profound impact on children, both now and in the decade to come. As many…

This article interrogates a curriculum recovery plan designed to obviate the loss of time due to the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, it analyses two strategies, the first to overcome time lost and the second, to reorganize the curriculum. A description of the landscape of inequalities in South Africa serves as a…