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Ajani, Oluwatoyin A.; Gamede, Bongani T. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Calls for the decolonisation of higher education in South Africa gained prominence after the #Rhodesmustfall, #Feesmustfall and series of 2015-2016 students' protests in South African higher institutions. Visible in the demands of the students during these protests was the need for the decolonisation of higher education curriculum to ensure…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
Barolsky, Kathy – Research in Drama Education, 2021
This article explores how whiteness is enacted and negotiated from the perspective of a conductor in a Playback Theatre performance (PT). The article addresses how PT provides a stage for exercising opportunities for "doing white differently" in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that "Doing white differently" takes place…
Descriptors: Social Change, Racial Segregation, Whites, Theater Arts
Sinwell, Luke – Education as Change, 2022
This article highlights both the internal educative practices of social movements and how these practices can effectively link to building Freirean pedagogies within higher education institutions. At the heart of this possibility lies the democratic transformation of relations between students and teachers on the one hand and researchers and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Practices, Social Change, Teaching Methods
Shamila Ramsookbhai – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This critical qualitative study focused on what are the factors that contribute to high learner performance at a public school in South Africa. Purposive sampling was used and the data was produced via interviews with the participants (the principal, ten teachers, five ex learners and two parents) as well as observations of various school…
Descriptors: Social Change, Racial Segregation, Foreign Countries, Principals
Aitchison, John; McKay, Veronica – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2021
This article is based on our two narratives through which we explore how Freirean thought had an impact on our respective praxis as academic activists in apartheid South Africa. We reflect specifically on the influence the work of Freire had on informing and advancing our respective struggles against apartheid education. This article therefore…
Descriptors: Activism, Critical Theory, Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy
Makwambeni, Blessing; Salawu, Abiodun – SAGE Open, 2018
The entertainment-education (E-E) strategy in development communication has been widely described as the panacea to development challenges in Africa. However, despite its growing application on the continent, E-E is still argued to be inhibited from contributing meaningfully toward development efforts. E-E interventions are argued to be hamstrung…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Health Education
Idahosa, Grace Ese-osa; Vincent, Louise – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
Scholars writing on agency argue that normally, individuals who experience social structures as comfortable will tend to want to reproduce them while those who experience these structures as oppressive will want to change them. This is a bleak outlook because it suggests that those in positions of power and influence are less likely to seek to…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Critical Theory, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
Zembylas, Michalinos – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
The main objective of this article is to discuss the affective dimension of resistance in critical pedagogy in a way that would recognize neoliberalism's affective repercussions. The point is not merely to show that affect is involved in the emergence of resistance in critical pedagogy, but rather to expand the articulation of resistance in…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Affective Behavior
Konik, I.; Konik, A. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
This article explores the possibility that the recent #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall student protests at South African universities may be partially underpinned by grief over a dying essentialist assemblage in the wake of the 2012 Marikana massacre--which saw the assemblage severed from the State Apparatus in a way that spelled its doom.…
Descriptors: Activism, Grief, Models, Advocacy
du Plessis, André; Heystek, Jan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
Against the background of the recently published Policy on the South African Standard for Principals, the aim of this article is to determine whether distributed leadership is catered for in the South African regulatory and policy framework. It is argued that due to the accountability demands of a fundamentally bureaucratic education system,…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Educational Policy, Principals
Buthelezi, Zanele – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2018
Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in South Africa has undergone major institutional, structural and curricular changes over the last fourteen years. Drawing on figurational sociology by Norbert Elias, the study worked within a qualitative research paradigm and used open-ended interviews to investigate lecturers' experiences of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
Geduld, Deidre; Sathorar, Heloise; Mdzanga, Nokhanyo N. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
Student teachers in South Africa need to realise that although their classrooms are multilingual and multicultural, English remains the dominant language. Preparing student teachers for diverse classrooms require a pedagogical approach that will enable them to be agents of social change. This view supports transformative ideals in teacher…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Critical Theory
Moloi, Kholeka – South African Journal of Education, 2019
The problem addressed in this theoretical paper is that of learners and educators as agents of social transformation in dysfunctional schools of South Africa. While 80% of South African schools are said to be dysfunctional, learners and educators in these schools can be activated to challenge and actively struggle against any form of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Change Agents, Social Change, Disadvantaged Schools
Ordem, Eser – Educational Forum, 2023
This study aims to apply critical pedagogy and a participatory approach by including an excluded context, the South African culture, into the curriculum of foreign language classes (EFL) in Turkey because the South African context (SA) has been ignored and excluded from the curriculum of global textbooks and EFL in Turkey. This comparative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Problems
Kurtz, Brianna; Roets, Leon; Biraimah, Karen – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
Access to quality education for all children is a common mantra for countless national and world organizations, such as the UN and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper examines the struggle within two nations who continue to move beyond the impact of racial segregation in the United States (US) and "apartheid" in South…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Comparative Education, Racial Segregation, Social Change