Curriculum Studies in South Africa

Curriculum Studies in South Africa

Author: W. Pinar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-02-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0230105505

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While much has been written about South African education, now, for the first time, gathered in one collection are glimpses of South African curriculum studies described by six distinctive points of view.


Changing Curriculum

Changing Curriculum

Author: Jonathan D. Jansen

Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780702150630

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The introduction of Outcomes-based Education (OBE) is the most controversial reform in the history of South African education. This volume is a critical analysis of OBE, its potential to succeed and its inherent implications for the education system.


Changing Class

Changing Class

Author: Linda Chisholm

Publisher:

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781842775905

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An evaluation of South Africa's post-apartheid education system.


Decolonizing the South African University

Decolonizing the South African University

Author: Oscar Koopman

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-05-23

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3031312376

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This book offers an important contribution to the field of curriculum studies and higher education by examining the impacts of colonialism and neoliberalism in the South African education system and addressing ways to decolonise curriculum and teaching. Drawing on Pinar's work in curricular theory, the authors call for integrating self-reflective curriculum development into the national curriculum process to promote indigenous education and knowledge.


Science Education and Curriculum in South Africa

Science Education and Curriculum in South Africa

Author: Oscar Koopman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 331940766X

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This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid. During this time, the South African education system demonstrated an interest in a specific type of knowledge, which Koopman refers to as ‘a science of government’. This ‘science of government’ leaves the learners with a blurred understanding of science that is disconnected from external nature and human nature, and is presented as a series of abstract concepts and definitions. The book also investigates the dialectical tensions between the science curriculum and the role of the teacher as an active implementer of the curriculum. The book draws on the work of various phenomenological scholars, namely Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Max van Manen to discuss these tensions.


What Is Curriculum Theory?

What Is Curriculum Theory?

Author: William F. Pinar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1136860703

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This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) asks readers to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to become "educated" in the present moment. Curriculum theory is the scholarly effort – inspired by theory in the humanities, arts and interpretive social sciences – to understand the curriculum, defined here as "complicated conversation." Rather than the formulation of objectives to be evaluated by (especially standardized) tests, curriculum is communication informed by academic knowledge, and it is characterized by educational experience. Pinar recasts school reform as school deform in which educational institutions devolve into cram schools preparing for standardized exams, and traces the history of this catastrophe starting in 1950s. Changes in the Second Edition: Introduces Pinar’s formulation of allegories-of-the-present — a concept in which subjectivity, history, and society become articulated through the teacher’s participation in the complicated conversation that is the curriculum; features a new chapter on Weimar Germany (as an allegory of the present); includes new chapters on the future, and on the promises and risks of technology.


Curriculum Inquiry in South African Higher Education

Curriculum Inquiry in South African Higher Education

Author: Eli Bitzer

Publisher: African Sun Media

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1920338675

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"At once evocative and suggestive, this exemplary book gives me hope that educators and scholars across the world will seize the opportunity to self-reflect and enlarge and enrich both their research and their practice in ways that will markedly contribute to the revitalisation of the higher learning in the twenty-first century. The urgency of the need for revitalisation of both research and practice in this domain of inquiry cannot be overstated." - Prof Clifton Conrad, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA


Curriculum Inquiry in South African Higher Education

Curriculum Inquiry in South African Higher Education

Author: Eli Bitzer

Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1920338640

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"At once evocative and suggestive, this exemplary book gives me hope that educators and scholars across the world will seize the opportunity to self-reflect and enlarge and enrich both their research and their practice in ways that will markedly contribute to the revitalisation of the higher learning in the twenty-first century. The urgency of the need for revitalisation of both research and practice in this domain of inquiry cannot be overstated." Prof Clifton Conrad ? University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA


Education Studies in South Africa

Education Studies in South Africa

Author: Charl C. Wolhuter

Publisher: AOSIS

Published: 2020-12-31

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1928523595

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The thesis of this volume is that the fields of scholarly enquiry of Education — internationally as well as in South Africa in particular — despite being fields of virile scholarly activity and output, are in need of a major overhaul. In this collected work this want in research is encapsulated in three words: relevance, rigour and restructuring. Research in the scholarly field(s) of Education is predominantly of small scale, non-accumulative, widely condemned as not of a comparable standard to research done in other social sciences, much less upon a par with research in the natural sciences, and lacking structure in the sense of being anchored in a firm theory. To make matters worse, scholars in Education internationally and in South Africa have till very recently eschewed discussion as to the packaging or structuring of knowledge produced by Education research. The book consists of chapters containing original research unpacking these desiderata from a variety of angles. The authors had them served by a variety of methods, from deductively argued position papers, to empirical research, the latter both quantitative (survey research) and qualitative.