Learner absenteeism often occurs involuntarily due to learners’ social and economic circumstances. Notwithstanding this fact, there is a worldwide trend towards a more punitive and retributory management approach to address ...

Despite the wide ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, children with disabilities are still marginalised and their status as rights holders not fully acknowledged in ...

The management of finances is na challenge to most school governing bodies. The paper focused on adressing challenges facing school governing bodies in the management of finances. Qualitative research methodology was used. ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.