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The role of social groups in making historical events succeed takes shape according to two important factors: Their ability to change and the kind of their contribution to the development of that change in a way or another. The role of social groups especially emerges at times of revolutions and their subsequent changes on the political, socioeconomic and even intellectual levels. The most active and capable group to achieve change is the group of youth and students. In the revolutionary...

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others".Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge.In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium.First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural...

Multiple deprivation affects a large proportion of schools in South Africa. The past 20 years of democracy have tended to focus on reforming education through curricula revision and a raft of redress-directed interventions, through the application of what we call a broad-brush policy approach. The paper argues that a broad-brush policy application fails to recognise the contextualised challenges faced in specific schools. The central purpose of the research was to discover the specific...

The paper suggests that multiple deprivation is a concept as yet lacking in substantial theoretical analysis and that its application as a research framing tool in education is relatively recent. As a concept, multiple deprivation suggests a confluence of factors which depress learning and place unique challenges on leadership and which act in combination rather than in isolation. Given that more than three quarters of schools in South Africa are officially described as dysfunctional and...

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others".Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge.In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium.First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural...

A Public Lecture by Dr. Richard Munang, the UNEP Climate Change Coordinator for Africa on Thursday April 9th at the USIU - Africa Auditorium

Based on theoretical overviews covering feedback and partners in teaching practice, this paper reports on a cohort of South African third year B.Ed. student teachers' impressions of feedback during a specific period of teaching practice by means of a quantitative study.By focusing on feedback on lesson presentations, 82 randomly sampled student teachers shared their impressions of feedback provided by supervisor teachers and university lecturers.Although the findings suggest that student...

Based on theoretical overviews covering feedback and partners in teaching practice, this paper reports on a cohort of South African third year B.Ed. student teachers' impressions of feedback during a specific period of teaching practice by means of a quantitative study.By focusing on feedback on lesson presentations, 82 randomly sampled student teachers shared their impressions of feedback provided by supervisor teachers and university lecturers.Although the findings suggest that student...

Based on theoretical overviews covering feedback and partners in teaching practice, this paper reports on a cohort of South African third year B.Ed. student teachers' impressions of feedback during a specific period of teaching practice by means of a quantitative study.By focusing on feedback on lesson presentations, 82 randomly sampled student teachers shared their impressions of feedback provided by supervisor teachers and university lecturers.Although the findings suggest that student...

Based on theoretical overviews covering feedback and partners in teaching practice, this paper reports on a cohort of South African third year B.Ed. student teachers' impressions of feedback during a specific period of teaching practice by means of a quantitative study.By focusing on feedback on lesson presentations, 82 randomly sampled student teachers shared their impressions of feedback provided by supervisor teachers and university lecturers.Although the findings suggest that student...

Based on theoretical overviews covering feedback and partners in teaching practice, this paper reports on a cohort of South African third year B.Ed. student teachers' impressions of feedback during a specific period of teaching practice by means of a quantitative study.By focusing on feedback on lesson presentations, 82 randomly sampled student teachers shared their impressions of feedback provided by supervisor teachers and university lecturers.Although the findings suggest that student...

Based on theoretical overviews covering feedback and partners in teaching practice, this paper reports on a cohort of South African third year B.Ed. student teachers' impressions of feedback during a specific period of teaching practice by means of a quantitative study.By focusing on feedback on lesson presentations, 82 randomly sampled student teachers shared their impressions of feedback provided by supervisor teachers and university lecturers.Although the findings suggest that student...

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others".Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge.In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium.First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural...

Based on theoretical overviews covering feedback and partners in teaching practice, this paper reports on a cohort of South African third year B.Ed. student teachers' impressions of feedback during a specific period of teaching practice by means of a quantitative study.By focusing on feedback on lesson presentations, 82 randomly sampled student teachers shared their impressions of feedback provided by supervisor teachers and university lecturers.Although the findings suggest that student...

Critical notions of care and transformative educational leadership are much aligned, yet they are rarely simultaneously addressed in research. This article highlights the benefits of transformative educational leadership that enacts critical care. Critical care involves embracing and exhibiting values, dispositions and behaviours related to empathy, compassion, advocacy, systemic critique, perseverance and calculated risk-taking for the sake of justly servfing students and improving schools....

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others".Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge.In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium.First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the extent and the quality of student involvement in the quality assurance process (QAP) in Egyptian higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach – In this study, two qualitative methods were used to explore the extent and the quality of student involvement; these were focus groups and interviews. The aim of the study was achieved by collecting data from samples of students and staff members belonging to 14 public and...