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Transactional Ethics and "Damage-Centred" Research: Of Banality and Oblivion
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Maistry, Suriamurthee Moonsamy – Perspectives in Education, 2020
The recent article by Nieuwoudt, Dickie, Coetsee, Engelbrecht and Terblanche (2019) entitled "Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Colored South African women" published in the journal Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, attracted considerable negative attention, leading to its official withdrawal from…
Descriptors: Ethics, Aging (Individuals), Age Differences, Cognitive Ability
Conceptualising Community Engagement through the Lens of African Indigenous Education
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Rajah, Surversperi Suryakumari – Perspectives in Education, 2019
The conceptualisation of "community engagement" at Higher Education in South Africa remains a topic for debate in the transformation agenda. South African Indigenous knowledge has been transmitted and perennially refreshed through educational pedagogy that are characterized by a sensitivity to African Philosophy, axiology and the spirit…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Transformative Learning, School Community Relationship, College Role
A Transformative Exploration of Epistemic Individual(Istic) Identity Formation within a Synergistic Decolonial Student Support System
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Maseko, Patricia – Perspectives in Education, 2018
The possibility of individual (istic) identity formation is explored within a context of a synergistic and communal support system. Within this context, the intrinsic complexities of the African child who enters the academia with a multiplicity of epistemic identity contestations are simultaneously explored. The ensuing alienation resulting from…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Self Concept, Postcolonialism, Blacks