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Vandeyar, Saloshna – South African Journal of Education, 2021
An earlier paper focused on how born-free learners constitute, negotiate and represent their identities after almost two and half decades of democracy in South Africa. Utilising the theoretical framework of subjective realities of educational change, in this article I set out to explore what implications teachers' beliefs hold for born-free…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change
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Marneweck, Aja – Research in Drama Education, 2020
The article explores the multifaceted process of creating the large-scale annual public puppetry event, The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade, in the rural town of Barrydale, South Africa. It unpacks the complex layers of meaning and making arising through a co-creative puppetry project in a region of South Africa marked by poverty and the on-going…
Descriptors: Poverty, Puppetry, Self Concept, Cultural Activities
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Languille, Sonia – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
The paper sets out to challenge the notions of "affordable" private schools in the context of South Africa. It is guided by one main question: "affordable private schools for whom?" It argues that, contrary to claims by its public and private proponents, affordable private schools in South Africa do not cater for poor children.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Social Class, Blacks
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Coleman, Lynn; Tuck, Jackie – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In South Africa, inequalities endemic to HE systems worldwide are further compounded by apartheid legacies. Despite an intensive focus for over twenty years on how pedagogic intervention could be harnessed to address these inequalities, black students' participation and success rates in South African HE remain stubbornly low, suggesting a need for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Transformative Learning, Blacks, Racial Segregation
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Mupira, Pio; Ramnarain, Umesh – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
Due to apartheid policies, Black African learners in South Africa have been severely disadvantaged in school science. Despite policy changes to redress these historical imbalances, Black African learners continue to underperform in science. Previous research has identified motivation as a key factor that impacts performance. Achievement goal…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Disadvantaged Schools, Inquiry, Science Instruction
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Murris, Karin; Francis, Sieraaj; Babamia, Sumaya; Nxumalo, Fikile; Bozalek, Vivienne; Giorza, Theresa – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2020
The authors bring together decolonial, place attuned, and critical posthumanist orientations to analyze an event during a residential workshop organized as part of a state-funded research project on decolonizing early childhood discourses in South Africa. An invitation during the workshop to grapple with what might be unsettling by attending to…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Workshops, Preschool Teachers
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Dukhan, Shalini – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
Formal education was used by the apartheid government to prepare black South Africans for manual labour, thus there was little curricular focus on the development of higher-order cognitive skills. With the abolition of apartheid in 1994, the education system was re-valued and re-evaluated to provide wider access to quality education; the focus of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Racial Segregation, Social Change, Blacks
Majee, Upenyu S. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation recognizes that the emergence of post-apartheid South Africa as the most popular study destination in Africa follows racial segregation, regional destabilization, and international isolation during apartheid. Today, the country's public higher education institutions face intensifying pressures to respond simultaneously to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Social Change, Racial Segregation, Foreign Countries
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Magano, Meahabo Dinah; Berman, Ashley Ita – Education as Change, 2016
This study was contextualised within the Life Orientation subject of "Self in Society". It acknowledges that the present time is uniquely significant in South African history as the generation of youth leaving school are now considered "born frees". This generation is considered to be free from the first-hand trauma that was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, Grade 11, Females
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Fataar, Aslam – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2018
Misrecognition of South African university students is at the heart of this article. "Misrecognition" refers in this article to the exclusionary institutional discourses and practices of this country's universities, which continue to prevent the majority of their (Black) students' from achieving a successful education. It is a conceptual…
Descriptors: Social Change, Racial Segregation, College Students, Universities
Tyson, Pearline – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research is a study of the educational systems of South Africa and the United States in a comparative perspective. The research examines the success and failures of the two systems, taking black student dropout rates as a case study for understanding the structural, philosophical and public policy foundations of the genesis and development of…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Students, Dropout Rate, Social Change
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Almeida, Shana; Kumalo, Siseko H. – Education as Change, 2018
The ways in which Africanisation and decolonisation in the South African academy have been framed and carried out have been called into question over the past several years, most notably in relation to modes of silencing and epistemic negation, which have been explicitly challenged through the student actions. In a similar vein, Canada's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Land Settlement, Indigenous Knowledge
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Walters, Shirley – South African Journal of Education, 2018
This paper considers the importance of 'in-between spaces' within the academy for challenging dominant institutional culture and hegemonic power relations towards a 'de-colonised' university. It questions 'mainstreaming' of transformational initiatives, as this can bring about regulation, rather than the turbulence that is often what is needed for…
Descriptors: School Culture, Power Structure, Universities, Lifelong Learning
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Tanga, Pius T.; Nyasha, Kausi – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Purpose: This study explored the perceptions of stakeholders regarding the practice of cross-racial adoption (CRA) in East London, South Africa. Method: A qualitative research design was used. Data were collected through individual interviews and focus group discussions from 23 participants. The data were analyzed qualitatively, using thematic…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Blacks, Whites, Adoption
Okere, Erasmus Igbozurike – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Minority and dominant cultures present a power dynamic that could promote or impede academic achievement for Black immigrant students. Drawing upon bicultural socialization as a conceptual framework, this study explores the predictability of various factors on academic outcomes among foreign-born compared to US-born Black immigrant students. Using…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Blacks, College Freshmen, Cultural Influences
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