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Dreaming Up a New Grid: Two Lecturers' Reflections on Challenging Traditional Notions of Identity and Privilege in a South African Classroom
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Ngoasheng, Asanda; Gachago, Daniela – Education as Change, 2017
One of the biggest debates in South Africa is the use and usefulness of apartheid categories when analysing society and societal behaviour. This paper examines the process of learning and unlearning that took place when a political reporting lecturer and an academic staff developer sought to explain racially biased voting in South Africa and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Classroom Techniques, Racial Bias
"Girls Don't Play Soccer": Children Policing Gender on the Playground in a Township Primary School in South Africa
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Mayeza, Emmanuel – Gender and Education, 2017
This paper is based on an ethnographic study conducted between 2012 and 2014 with a group of 64 boys and girls aged 6-10, all attending the same township primary school in South Africa. The paper explores how the young children construct gender "boundaries" and "police" gender "transgressions" on the school playground…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Sports, Gender Bias, Sex Role
Shifting the Future? Teachers as Agents of Social Change in South African Secondary Schools
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Cappy, Christina Lane – Education as Change, 2016
South Africa has risen to the forefront of educational debates that claim schooling can promote social justice and social cohesion. By drawing on Freire's (1970) theory of critical pedagogy, this paper examines how South African teachers in rural and township schools encourage students to reflect critically upon their own lives and take action to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Change Agents, Social Change
On Not Taking Language Inequality for Granted: Hymesian Traces in Ethnographic Monitoring of South Africa's Multilingual Language Policy
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Hornberger, Nancy H. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
South African higher education is at a critical juncture in the implementation of South Africa's multilingual language policy promoting institutional status for nine African languages, English, and Afrikaans. South African scholars, not content merely to comment from the sidelines on the policy, its promise, and challenges, have also engaged in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Multilingualism, Language Planning
Being Turned Inside Out: Researching Youth, Morality and Restitution from the Global South
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Swartz, Sharlene – Journal of Moral Education, 2011
This article maps my journey as a scholar engaged in the research of youth morality (located in the Global South); as a beneficiary of injustice having grown up as a white South African; as a navigator of complex personal histories (discovering my mixed race family origins); and arriving at restitution as a career research focus. It reflects on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, Self Concept, Social Justice
Gender Mainstreaming in a South African Provincial Education Department: A Transformative Shift or Technical Fix for Oppressive Gender Relations?
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Karlsson, Jenni – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
Although some gender activists and analysts question the efficacy of gender mainstreaming to take forward women's demands, the South African government has pursued the strategy within a number of government departments including the Department of Education. This article explores how the strategy is being implemented in one provincial education…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Politics of Education, Foreign Policy, Educational Policy