Lesotho’s educational system and development are largely influenced by missionaries and
colonisers who taught the three ‘Rs’ (reading, writing and numeracy skills) to the Basotho.
Most of those enlightened Basotho were ...
This thesis, Utilising Open Educational Resources in support of curriculum transformation at Africa Nazarene University: A participatory action research approach, derives from a multi-year project implemented by OER Africa, ...
In this article I make two claims with respect to the ethics, truth and politics of qualitative research. The first is that confronting ethics, truth and politics in research is in effect a confrontation with the self. ...
This paper scrutinizes a rare methodological moment when I found myself, an unseasoned black woman scholar, researching the lives of three white women. In this reflective process, I make a single point: that the locution ...
This paper arose in response to a request from my colleague who supervised my doctoral thesis. He suggested that I explain my choice of narrative style. I discovered that, contrary to my immediate reaction that I did not ...
Soobrayan, Venitha(Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2003)
This article traces the legal challenges and contestations embedded in five recent cases of higher education mergers in South Africa. I am aware that there are a number of forms of mergers. For the purposes of this article ...
Pillay, Venitha(University of the Free State, 2010)
In this paper we argue that the clichéd phrases, 'dealing with difference' and 'dealing with diversity', despite their commitment to accepting and appreciating difference and diversity, may be used in counterproductive ...
Soobrayan, Venitha(University of the Free State, 2003)
This article entails reflections of four young scholars on attending an international workshop on qualitative research. It reports on their experiences of the workshop - from the instant when they had to decide which ...
Pillay, Venitha(University of the Free State, 2011)
This paper attempts to develop a conceptualisation of social justice in higher education based on a close reading of the current literature in the field. An important assumption we make is that higher education is a valuable ...
Pillay, Venitha(University of the Free State, 2010)
I have rarely been bombarded almost simultaneously by so many emotions as I was in reading this book. As a gender activist I felt deeply sad to once again face the realisation that violence against girls and women in South ...
Pillay, Venitha(University of the Free State, 2014)
This study seeks to understand the reasons that allow a parent, a principal and a teacher to maintain silence when young girls under their care are sexually abused. Put another way, it attempts to explain what it is about ...
This conversation piece is intended to provoke thought on the relationship, if any, between education and thinking. It suggests that thinking requires more (perhaps less) than education.
The study explored the understanding and implementation of inclusive education in an independent Jewish community
school; a school with a community ethos of care and belonging, whose context is, by definition, exclusionary ...
This paper examines the extent to which masculinity played a role in the incorporation of an education college into a university in South Africa. I adopt the theoretical stance that masculinity is not a biological phenomenon ...
The euphoria of the 2010 FlFA World Cup in
South Africa seems to persist, albeit as faded,
scraggy remnants of flags hanging precariously
on aerials and the side view mirrors of cars. The
cacophony around this event ...
This article seeks to understand the effects of educational change on the people in the change environment through a focus on the micropolitics of change. The views of individuals involved in a specific restructuring process ...
This study investigated learners’ and educators’ perceptions of cell-phone use in the learning of Physical Sciences. The theory underpinning the study was the adoption model based on the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and ...
Since the discovery of HIV in the late 1980s, the pandemic has
become the leading cause of death in South Africa. The present study was
designed to explore the experiences of how school principals deal with
HIV/AIDS-related ...