Описание: 18 years after the first democratic elections education in South Africa is still in a state of crisis. Failure to deliver textbooks, limited support available to schools, ineffective districts, under-qualified teachers, poor matriculation results, and low performance in national and international assessments is symptomatic of a fundamental malaise in education. And it is the poor, marginalised and the disadvantaged who are most affected. For those who have access to private and ‘better quality’ public schools, there is no crisis! <br><br>This book considers these issues by reviewing selected large-scale interventions to improve education quality in South African schools. These interventions include the District Development Support Programme (DDSP), the Education Quality Improvement Partnership Programme (EQUIP), the IMBEWU programme, the Integrated Education Program (IEP), the Khanyisa School Programme, the Learning for Living (LFL) Project, and the Quality Learning Project (QLP). It locates these interventions by providing a chronology of education policy development in South Africa since 1994 as well as engaging with key debates about the notion of education quality. Furthermore, it invites policy-makers to critically review and reflect on the changes to improve education quality in South Africa since 1994. By bringing together academics, policy-makers and practitioners to reflect on education development the book sheds light on the continuous but elusive search for quality education for all. In so doing, the book provides a basis for a critical conversation about the history of education change in post-apartheid South Africa, and the implications for interventions aimed at improving education quality.
Автор: McNeill Название: AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa ISBN: 1107417562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107417564 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3012 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, demonstrating why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed - and possibly even been counterproductive. It does so through a series of ethnographic encounters, from kings to condoms, which expose the ways in which biomedical understanding of the virus have been rejected by - and incorporated into - local understandings of health, illness, sex and death. Through the songs of female initiation, AIDS education and wandering minstrels, the book argues that music is central to understanding how AIDS interventions operate. This book elucidates a hidden world of meaning in which people sing about what they cannot talk about, where educators are blamed for spreading the virus, and in which condoms are often thought to cause AIDS. The policy implications are clear: African worldviews must be taken seriously if AIDS interventions in Africa are to become successful.
Автор: Kensler Название: Leadership for Green Schools ISBN: 0415715679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415715676 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 16500 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Leadership for Green Schools provides aspiring and practicing leaders with the tools they need to facilitate the design, leadership, and management of greener, more sustainable schools. Framed by theory and research, this text draws from the fields of sustainability science, built learning environment, and educational leadership to explain what green schools look like, what role school buildings play in advancing sustainable organizational and instructional practices, and why school leaders are "greening" their leadership. Sustainability can often seem like an unreachable, utopian set of goals, but this important resource uses illustrative examples of successful schools and leaders to show how establishing and managing green schools aligns with the work they are already doing to restore engaged learning within their schools and communities. Leadership for Green Schools is a unique and important resource to help leaders reduce the environmental impact of school buildings and immerse students in purposeful, meaningful learning for a sustainable, just future.
Special Features:
Examples from award-winning schools and leaders--best-practices and illustrative examples throughout make whole school sustainability come to life and show how green leadership is a real possibility for the reader.
Aligned with Professional Standards for Educational Leadership--provides the tools necessary for leaders to advance sustainability goals while at the same time fulfilling the core purposes of their job.
End-of-chapter discussion questions--valuable pedagogical tools invite personal reflection and conversation.
Автор: Kensler, Lisa A. W. Uline, Cynthia L. Название: Leadership for green schools ISBN: 0415715687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415715683 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5086 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Leadership for Green Schools provides aspiring and practicing leaders with the tools they need to facilitate the design, leadership, and management of greener, more sustainable schools. Framed by theory and research, this text draws from the fields of sustainability science, built learning environment, and educational leadership to explain what green schools look like, what role school buildings play in advancing sustainable organizational and instructional practices, and why school leaders are "greening" their leadership. Sustainability can often seem like an unreachable, utopian set of goals, but this important resource uses illustrative examples of successful schools and leaders to show how establishing and managing green schools aligns with the work they are already doing to restore engaged learning within their schools and communities. Leadership for Green Schools is a unique and important resource to help leaders reduce the environmental impact of school buildings and immerse students in purposeful, meaningful learning for a sustainable, just future.
Special Features:
Examples from award-winning schools and leaders--best-practices and illustrative examples throughout make whole school sustainability come to life and show how green leadership is a real possibility for the reader.
Aligned with Professional Standards for Educational Leadership--provides the tools necessary for leaders to advance sustainability goals while at the same time fulfilling the core purposes of their job.
End-of-chapter discussion questions--valuable pedagogical tools invite personal reflection and conversation.
Автор: Skelton, Ann Название: Family law in South Africa / ISBN: 019598580X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195985801 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6572 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This title is core material for the undergraduate law module on the law of family. The text covers all the concepts of family from the perspectives of the different types of unions, including civil unions and customary marriage, children in the family perspective, parental responsibilities and rights, and family law in practice.
Описание: An extraordinary outbreak of xenophobic violence in May 2008 shocked South Africa, but hostility toward newcomers has a long history. Democratization has channeled such discontent into a non-racial nationalism that specifically targets foreign Africans as a threat to prosperity. Finding suitable governmental and societal responses requires a better understanding of the complex legacies of segregation that underpin current immigration policies and practices. Unfortunately, conventional wisdoms of path dependency promote excessive fatalism and ignore how much South Africa is a typical settler state. A century ago, its policy makers shared innovative ideas with Australia and Canada, and these peers, which now openly wrestle with their own racist past, merit renewed attention. As unpalatable as the comparison might be to contemporary advocates of multiculturalism, rethinking restrictions in South Africa can also offer lessons for reconciling competing claims of indigeneity through multiple levels of representation and rights.
Автор: Parker Название: South Africa, Greece, Rome ISBN: 110710081X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107100817 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16845 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How have ancient Greece and Rome intersected with South African histories? This book canvasses architecture, literature, visual arts and historical memory. Some of the most telling manifestations of classical reception in South Africa have been indirect, for example neo-classical architecture or retellings of mythical stories. Far from being the mere handmaiden of colonialism (and later apartheid), classical antiquity has enabled challenges to the South African establishment, and provided a template for making sense of cross-cultural encounters. Though access to classical education has been limited, many South Africans, black and white, have used classical frames of reference and drawn inspiration from the ancient Greeks and Romans. While classical antiquity may seem antithetical to post-apartheid notions of heritage, it deserves to be seen in this light. Museums, historical sites and artworks, up to the present day, reveal juxtapositions in which classical themes are integrated into South African pasts.
Автор: du Bois-Pedain Название: Transitional Amnesty in South Africa ISBN: 1107404010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107404014 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5340 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A comprehensive 2007 study of South Africa`s amnesty process, based on empirical analysis of over 1,000 decisions.
Автор: Barker Название: A Year`s Housekeeping in South Africa ISBN: 1108029620 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108029629 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3833 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This 1877 publication vividly recounts the writer and journalist Lady Barker`s experiences in colonial South Africa.
Автор: Asuelime Название: Nuclear Proliferation in South Africa ISBN: 3319333720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319333724 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13281 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book investigates drivers and trends in nuclear proliferation in the Global South. Based on an in-depth analysis of South Africa’s nuclear history, it examines general causes of proliferation, such as technical capabilities and constraints; a country’s motivation to build a nuclear bomb; and particular domestic and international situations. It also highlights Britain’s role in the development of technological capability in South Africa and explains how nuclear weapons influence international relations. Finally, the study offers effective solutions to the problem of nuclear proliferation in developing countries.
Описание: Africa s Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T.
Автор: Sooryamoorthy Название: Sociology in South Africa ISBN: 3319403249 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319403243 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5774 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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This book is the first comprehensive account of the history and current state of South African sociology. Providing a holistic picture of the subject both as it is taught in universities and as a field of research, it reveals the trajectories of a discipline in a challenging socio-political context. With the support of historical and scientometric data, it demonstrates how the changing political situation, from colonialism to apartheid to democracy, has influenced the nature, direction and foci of sociological research in the country. The author shows how, during the apartheid era, sociology was professionally fragmented and divided along language and race lines. It was, however, able to flourish with the advent of democracy in 1994 and has become a unique academic movement. This insightful work will appeal to students and scholars of the social sciences, and all those interested in the history and society of South Africa.
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