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Sibanda, Jabulani – South African Journal of Education, 2017
This paper interrogates the complexity of language use at the Grade Three-Four transition, using the South African context as a microcosm of similar educational systems. The paper describes the complex nature of the transition, particularly within a second language (L2) instructional context. It explores the dissonance between and among theory,…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Theory Practice Relationship, Language of Instruction
Wilson-Strydom, Merridy – South African Journal of Education, 2011
The closely related, but often contradictory, issues of increasing access to university and improving students' chances of success in their university studies have been and continue to be an important research focus within higher education studies and policy in South Africa and beyond. More recently, the challenge of underpreparedness of students…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Access to Education, Higher Education, Educational Research
van der Westhuizen, Philip C.; van Vuuren, Herman – South African Journal of Education, 2007
At the present juncture, South Africa is one of the few countries that do not require a compulsory and specific qualification for principalship. This particular need has been part of a discussion among educational leaders for the past thirty to forty years. Despite all the laudable efforts to redesign the landscape of Educational Leadership and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Principals, Management Development
Evers, Colin; Katyal, Kokila – South African Journal of Education, 2007
There is a paradox at the centre of a substantial amount of writing on the topic of leadership in organizations, particularly school leadership. On the one hand, there is what may be called a common-sense consensus that leadership is vitally important as a cause for setting and achieving organizational goals. Yet, on the other hand, an impressive…
Descriptors: Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness, Leadership Role, Convergent Thinking
Ribbins, Peter – South African Journal of Education, 2007
As with education as a whole, as a field of study and research, educational leadership and management has, notably in the UK but also elsewhere, experienced a period of critical and self-critical examination. The accusations claim much of it is second rate, ideologically orientated, methodologically inadequate, small-scale, non-cumulative, poorly…
Descriptors: Leadership, Governance, Criticism, Educational Administration