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Direct linkAllie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
In this paper we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Brits, H. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
According to a recent study, institutions of higher learning in South Africa fail to a great extent to integrate the key management functions that are fundamental to effective quality management. This article argues that the effective promotion of quality of a university's core business depends to a large extent on the ability of an institution's…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, Systems Approach, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation
Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
In this paper, we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Bruton, John M. – Journal of Management Education, 2008
The Community and Individual Development Association (CIDA) City Campus is presented by Heaton as an innovative African alternative to traditional business education. However, he considers the model in isolation from the unique educational and economic circumstances of postapartheid South Africa. As a response, this article goes beyond the CIDA…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Developing Nations
Herman, Chaya – Educational Theory, 2006
In this essay, Chaya Herman explores the interaction between two powerful global dynamics that have affected educational institutions and society at large: one is neoliberalism, with its attendant notions of marketization and managerialism; the other is the resurgence of ethnic and religious, often fundamentalist, communities in the search for…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Religious Organizations, Economics, Political Attitudes
Download full textAtmore, Eric – 1990
Since most black communities in South Africa have been made powerless because of race and poverty, there is a pressing need to empower the individuals of such communities to take charge of their own destinies, especially in the area of early childhood education and care (educare). Current educare projects are often completely or partially…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Blacks, Community Programs, Community Responsibility
Peer reviewedTaylor, Viviene – Community Development Journal, 1994
Focuses on the community disintegration caused by violence and conflict in South Africa. Examines the need for social reconstruction and development and the challenges facing community workers in the changing social and political context. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Social Change
Peer reviewedAlberts, E. M.; Hugo, E. A. K. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1996
A study in the Vaal Triangle (South Africa) investigated the extent of Vaal Triangle Technikon students' participation in economic and social development activities on campus and within the surrounding community, identified community projects and development activities in which students might participate, and assessed student attitudes about…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Services, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Rickards, Jinny; Atmore, Eric – 1990
There is a pressing need to empower the individuals of dispossessed communities in South Africa to take charge of their own destinies, especially in the area of early childhood education and care (educare). Current educare projects are often completely or partially controlled by organizations or people outside of the community. A prime task of…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Programs, Community Responsibility, Day Care
Hurry, Lynn – Environmental Education Bulletin, 1992
Discusses the issues involving the work of development and environmental education agencies. Presents definitions for the terms development and environmental education; the process of developmental education; the concept of developed communities; and proposes the need for future debate to clarify the issues. (MDH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
O'Donoghue, Rob – Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 1993
Examined how environmental education has been conceived and enacted within the same orientations that have brought on many of the environmental issues that confront Southern Africa. Provides local examples to reveal flaws in past strategies and suggests revised orientations. (Contains 37 references.) (MDH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Education, Educational Principles, Educational Strategies
Peer reviewedMphahlele, Es'Kia – Harvard Educational Review, 1990
Describes the Blacks' struggle for educational improvement in South Africa through alternative education. (JOW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Blacks, Community Education, Equal Education
Munnik, Victor – New Ground, 1995
Looks at the role of local government as a provider of healthy environment and as a promoter of economic opportunity. Two South African experts are questioned on the environmental obligations of local government using the book "The Role of Local Government in Environmental Protection" as a basis for the discussion. (LZ)
Descriptors: Community Education, Economic Development, Environment, Environmental Education
Peer reviewedBarr, Hugh – Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2001
Introduces a collection of papers that focus on such topics as collaboration in health services planning, shared culture in community-based mental health, interagency cooperation in health and social services in mental health, the role of volunteers in community partnerships, issues facing workers trying to implement workplace change, and the use…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Health Services, Cooperative Planning, Foreign Countries
Atmore, Eric, Ed. – 1992
Grassroots Educare Trust is a training and service organization for community-controlled educare centers. Sharon Hostetler, a volunteer community health worker/trainer, helped launch a 6-day health program for educare workers in South Africa. In post-aparthied South Africa, the preschool field has been identified as an important target group for…
Descriptors: Child Health, Community Services, Course Content, Foreign Countries
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