Education policy studies in South Africa, 1995-2006

Journal of Education Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-110

  Deacon, Roger ^a   Osman, Ruksana ^b   Buchler, Michelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Education policy; Education research; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951235473     PISSN: 02680939     EISSN: 14645106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680930903314269     Document Type: Article

References (90)

1. Adler, J. 1997. Teaching cases and dilemma language: A potentially powerful tool in mathematics teacher education. Paper presented at the 5th annual meeting of the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics and Science Education, University of the Witwatersrand.
2. Adler, J., and Y. Reed, eds. 2002. Challenges of teacher development: An investigation of take-up in South Africa. Pretoria: Van Schaik.
3. ASSAf. 2006. Report on a strategic approach to research publishing in South Africa. Pretoria: Academy of Science of South Africa.
4. Badat, S. 2005. South Africa: Distance higher education policies for access, social equity, quality, and social and economic responsiveness in a context of the diversity of provision. Distance Education 26, no. 2: 183-204.
5. Badroodien, A., and P. Kallaway. 2003. Further education and training in South Africa. Southern African Review of Education with Education with Production 9-10: 21-44.
6. Barasa, F., and L. Mattson. 1998. The roles, regulations and professional development of educators in South Africa. Journal of Education 23: 41-72.
7. Beckmann, J. 2006. The state's liability for damage or loss in connection with educational activity in public schools: Recent minor judgments. Perspectives in Education, 24, no. 2: 181-4.
8. Bensusan, D. 2001. Flying kites on the moon: Reconstructing objectivity in education. Journal of Education 26: 23-39.
9. Berkhout, S. 2005. The decentralisation debate: Thinking about power. International Review of Education, 51, no. 4: 313-27.
10. Bisschoff, C. 2002. Advertising effectiveness of South African newspapers in the higher business education market. South African Journal of Higher Education 16, no. 3: 103-8.
11. Blackmur, D. 2005. An evaluation of the South African Model of MBA accreditation. Quality in Higher Education 11, no. 2: 87-102.
12. Botha, R., and S. Hite. 2000. Outcomes-based education and quality: Cursory remarks about a possible relationship. Educare 29, nos. 1-2: 129-41.
13. Carrim, N., and A. Keet. 2005. Infusing human rights into the curriculum: The case of the South African Revised National Curriculum Statement. Perspectives in Education 23, no. 2: 99-110.
14. Carrim, N., and M. Tshoane. 2003. The 'Holy' state? Values, legitimation and ideological closure in South African Education. In South African education policy review, ed. L. Chisholm, S. Motala, and S. Vally, 801-34. Johannesburg: Heinemann.
15. CDE. 1998. The future of South African universities: What role for business? Part 1. CDE Round Table 2. Johannesburg: Centre for Development and Enterprise.
16. CDE. 2000. The future of South African universities: What role for business? Part 2. CDE Round Table 4. Johannesburg: Centre for Development and Enterprise.
17. Cele, N. 2004. 'Equity of access' and 'Equity of outcomes' challenged by language policy, politics and practice in South African higher education: The myth of language equality in education. South African Journal of Higher Education 18, no. 1: 38-56.
18. Chisholm, L. 1996. The restructuring of South African education and training in comparative context. In Reaction and renewal in South Africa, ed. P. Rich, 170-91. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press.
19. Chisholm, L., and B. Fuller. 1996. Remember people's education? Shifting alliances, state- building and South Africa's narrowing policy agenda. Journal of Education Policy, 11: 693-716.
20. Cloete, N., J. Muller, M. Makgoba, and D. Ekong. eds. 1997. Knowledge, identity and curriculum transformation in Africa. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman.
21. Cloete, N., P. Maassen, R. Fehnel, T. Moja, T. Gibbon, and H. Perold, eds. 2002. Transformation in higher education: Global pressures and local realities. Dordrecht: Springer.
22. Coetzee, D. 2006. Ideological impediments of professionalism in education. Paper presented at the International Cultural Research Network Conference: Exploring Cultural Perspective, Thessaloniki, Greece.
23. Corry, N., and A. Lelliott. 2001. Supporting the masses? Student perceptions of a South African ODL programme. Paper presented at the 9th Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning, Cambridge, UK.
24. Dahlgren, M., S. Larsson, and S. Walters. 2006. Making the invisible visible. On participation and communication in a global, web-based master's programme. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 51, no. 4: 415-33.
25. De Clercq, F. 2003. Decentralisation of authority to districts: Search for district development and/or control? Paper presented at the African Experiences and Comparative Analyses conference, Johannesburg.
26. Deacon, R., R. Osman, and M. Buchler. 2009a. Audit and interpretative analysis of education research in South Africa: What have we learnt? Research report for the National Research Foundation. Johannesburg: Centre for Education Policy Development.
27. Deacon, R., R. Osman, and M. Buchler. 2009b. Education scholarship in higher education in South Africa, 1995-2006, South African Journal of Higher Education, 23, 6.
28. Deacon, R., R. Osman, and M. Buchler. Forthcoming. Research in educational theory in South Africa, 1995-2006. Paper in preparation.
29. De Klerk, J., and J. Rens. 2004. The role of values in school discipline. Koers: Bulletin for Christian Scholarship 4, no. 68: 353-71.
30. Dhunpath, R., and A. Paterson. 2004. The interface between research and policy dialogue: substantive or symbolic? Journal of Education, 33: 125-46.
31. Diphofa, M., P. Vinjevold, and N. Taylor. 1999. Introduction. In Getting learning right: Report of the president's education initiative research project, ed. N. Taylor and P. Vinjevold, 3-22. Johannesburg: Joint Education Trust.
32. Du Plessis, T. 2006. From monolingual to bilingual higher education: The repositioning of historically Afrikaans-medium universities in South Africa. Language Policy 5, no. 1: 87-113.
33. Du Toit, R. 1996. Legitimacy and legitimation in South African education. South African Journal of Higher Education 10, no. 2: 60-6.
34. Engelbrecht, P., E. Swart, A. Kitching, and I. Eloff. 2005. Parents' experiences of their rights in the implementation of inclusive education in South Africa. School Psychology International 26, no. 4: 459-77.
35. Erasmus, J., S. Steyn, and P. Mentz. 2005. Expectations of the unemployed in South Africa: An education system perspective. Africa Education Review 2, no. 1: 16-39.
36. Gustafsson, M., and F. Patel. 2006. Undoing the apartheid legacy: Pro-poor spending shifts in the South African public school system. Perspectives in Education 24, no. 2: 65-77.
37. Hartshorne, K. 1996. Transforming higher education in South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 92: 271-9.
38. Hattingh, A., J. Rogan, C. Aldous, S. Howie, and E. Venter. 2005. Assessing the attainment of learner outcomes in Natural Science of the New South African Curriculum. African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 9, no. 1: 13-24.
39. Heyns, M. 1998. The selection of human resources in education: Role players and certain influencing factors. South African Journal of Education 18, no. 2: 123-9.
40. Higgs, P. 2002. Deconstruction and re-thinking education. South African Journal of Education 22, no. 3: 170-6.
41. Holtman, L., G. Mukwada, and L. du Plooy. 2008. Education and the challenges for change status quo report 2003-2006. Pretoria: National Research Foundation.
42. Horsthemke, K. 2004. Knowledge, education and the limits of Africanisation. Journal of Philosophy of Education 38, no. 4: 571-87.
43. Jansen, J. 2003. Mergers in South African higher education: Theorising change in transitional contexts. Politikon 30, no. 1: 27-50.
44. Kachelhoffer, P. 1995. Teacher training models for a New South Africa. Teacher Education Quarterly 22, no. 1: 49-57.
45. Karlsson, J., J. Pampallis, and S. Sithole. 1998. Restructuring educational governance at subnational levels in South Africa. In Democratic governance of public schooling in South Africa: A record of research and advocacy from the education policy unit (Natal). ed EPU, 115-26. Durban: Natal University Education Policy Unit.
46. Lam, D. 1999. Generating extreme inequality: Schooling, earnings, and intergenerational transmission of human capital in South Africa and Brazil. Research Report. Michigan University: Population Studies Center.
47. Luckett, K. 2001. Responding to equity and developmental imperatives: Conceptualizing a structurally and epistemically diverse undergraduate curriculum in post-apartheid South Africa. Equity & Excellence in Education 34, no. 3: 26-35.
48. Lundall, P. 1998. Accelerating redress in higher education. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the Kenton Education Association and the Southern African Society for Education, under the theme 'Facing the Millennium: Education at the Edge', Kei Mouth, Eastern Cape.
49. Maile, S. 2004. HIV/AIDS and legal rights: When the educator's rights collide with learners' rights. Africa Education Review 1, no. 1: 113-27.
50. Maree, J., and L. Cherian. 2004. Hitting the headlines - The veil on corporal punishment in South Africa lifted. Acta Criminologica 17, 3: 72-85.
51. McGrath, S. 2003. Building a quality college sector for the twenty-first century. Southern African Review of Education with Education with Production, 9-10: 21-44.
52. Modiba, M., and I. Ntshoe. 1997. The RDP and education: New policy or simple political imperative? In Participatory development, management and the RDP, ed. S. Liebenberg and P. Stewart, 185-94. Cape Town: Juta.
53. Mokgalabone, M.B. 1998. Reconceptualising teaching models in teacher education. Perspectives in Education 17, no. 2: 13-37.
54. Moll, I., and T. Welch. 2004. RPL in teacher education: lessons being learned from the National Professional Diploma in Education. Journal of Education, 32: 159-81.
55. Morrell, R. 2001. Corporal punishment in South African schools: A neglected explanation for its existence. South African Journal of Education 21, no. 4: 292-9.
56. Motimele, M. 2006. ICTs for quality education or for inequality in education? Quarterly Review of Education and Training in South Africa 13, no. 1: 36-9.
57. Mouton, J. 2006. Science for transformation: Research agendas and priorities in South Africa. In Science and technology policy for development: Dialogues at the interface, ed. L. Box and R. Engelhard, 89-106. London: Anthem Press.
58. Muller, J. 1996. Dreams of wholeness and loss: Critical sociology of education in South Africa. British Journal of Sociology of Education 17, no. 2: 177-95.
59. Muller, J. 1999. Reason, reality and public trust: The case of educational research for policy. In Getting learning right: Report of the president's education initiative research project, ed. N. Taylor and P. Vinjevold, 37-64. Johannesburg: Joint Education Trust.
60. Muller, J. 2000. Reclaiming knowledge: Social theory, curriculum and education policy. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
61. Muller, J. 2005. The world is not enough: knowledge in question. South African Journal of Higher Education 19, no. 3: 497-511.
62. Muller, J., and G. Subotzky. 2000. What knowledge for the new millennium? Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Kenton Education Association 'The Poverty of Education', Port Elizabeth.
63. Naude, H., E. Pretorius, and J. Viljoen. 2003. The Impact of impoverished language development on preschoolers' readiness-to-learn during the foundation phase. Early Child Development and Care 173, nos. 2-3: 271-91.
64. November, I. 2005. Paradoxes of teaching as deliberation. South African Journal of Higher Education 19, no. 6: 1132-40.
65. Oosthuizen, I., and J. Rossouw. 2001. Die reg op basiese onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Koers 66, no. 4: 655-72.
66. Powell, L. 1997. Partnerships between higher education and business. Belville: Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of the Western Cape.
67. Pretorius, S. 1995. Die werkgewer as vennoot in onderwysvoorsiening. South African Journal of Education 15, no. 3: 108-15.
68. Prinsloo, S. 2006. State interference in the governance of public schools. South African Journal of Education 26, no. 3: 355-68.
69. Ramrathan, P. 2003. Troubling the numbers: Are teacher demand projections possible within the context of HIV/AIDS. South African Journal of Higher Education 17, no. 2: 171-86.
70. Rossouw, J. 2003. Learner discipline in South African public schools - A qualitative study. Koers 68: 413-36.
71. Schoeman, S. 2003. Democracy's next generation - Education for democratic citizenship in South African public schools. Educare 32, nos. 1-2: 36-60.
72. Segal, S. 1995. What is a university today? Acta Academica 26, no. 1: 72-87.
73. Singh, A. 2005. A decade after South Africa's first democratic election: Prospects for indigent African learners in Durban. Childhood Education 81, no. 6: 333-7.
74. Skinner, J. 2004. Rorty, science and meaning: The dangers for democracy. In Pragmatism and values, ed. J. Ryder and E. Visnovsky, 151-60. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
75. Subotzky, G. 1998. Meeting the dual demands of global competitiveness and redistributive development: Constraints and opportunities for the historically black universities. In Going for the gap: Reconstituting the educational realm - Kenton 1997, ed. N. Bak, 119-34. Cape Town: Juta.
76. Subotzky, G. 1999. Conjunctures and disjunctures: Higher education policy in South Africa 1994-1999. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Southern African Comparative and History Society, Johannesburg.
77. Subotzky, G. 2005. The contribution of higher education to reconstructing South African society: Opportunities, constraints, and cautionary tales. In Creating knowledge, strengthening nations: The changing role of higher education, ed. G. Jones, P. McCarney, and M. Skolnik, 127-54. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press.
78. Taylor, N. 2006. Equity, efficiency and the development of South African schools. In International handbook of school effectiveness and improvement, ed. T. Townsend, 523-40. Dordrecht: Springer.
79. Taylor, N., J. Muller, and P. Vinjevold. 2003. Getting schools working: Research and systemic school reform in South Africa. Cape Town: Pearson Education.
80. Tijssen, R., J. Mouton, T. van Leeuwen, and N. Boshoff. 2006. How relevant are local scholarly journals in global science? A case study of South Africa. Research Evaluation 15, no. 3: 163-74.
81. Tikly, L., and T. Mabogoane. 1997. Marketisation as a strategy for desegregation and redress: The case of historically white schools in South Africa. International Review of Education 43, nos. 2-3: 159-78.
82. Unterhalter, E. 2003. The capabilities approach and gendered education: An examination of South African complexities. Theory and Research in Education 1, no. 3: 7-22.
83. Van der Walt, C. 1997. English as a language of learning in South Africa: Whose English? Whose Culture? Language Awareness 6, nos. 2-3: 183-97.
84. Van der Walt, J. 1997. Onderwys in oorgang. Die Taalgenoot 66, no. 11: 10-1.
85. Van Renen, C. 2005. Reader response and OBE: Comfortable bedfellows? Perspectives in Education 23, no. 1: 113-7.
86. Van Wyk, B. 2005. Performativity in higher education transformation in South Africa. South African Journal of Higher Education 19, no. 1: 5-19.
87. Visser, H. 2004. Equal educational opportunities defined and evaluated - Some practical observations. Perspectives in Education 22, no. 3: 149-51.
88. Weber, E. 2005. 'Becoming like us': Global discourses, local knowledge and social struggle in comparative African higher education. South African Journal of Higher Education 19, no. 5: 990-1001
89. Young, M. 2004. An old problem in a new context: Rethinking the relationship between sociology and educational policy. International Studies in Sociology of Education 14, no. 1: 3-20.
90. Ziderman, A., and A. van Adams. 2000. South Africa. In Vocational education and training reform: Matching skills to markets and budgets, ed. I. Gill, F. Fluitman, and A. Dar, 341-62. Washington, DC: World Bank.