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Curriculum transformation has to happen. But it has to go further than simply borrowing ideas and concepts.
There are two concepts in education theory – the social construction of knowledge and the notion of self-efficacy for development –- that could help build a true democracy.
But is it a good thing?
Universities are cutting and streamlining their courses in an attempt to make graduates more employable. But lots of graduates are still struggling to find work, so why isn’t it working?
In a country as unequal as South Africa, the people who have access to higher education have the power to shape the society, including its elites and middle class.
Understanding the meaning of the word science has changed over time, but the goals to produce and share knowledge remains the same.
The more knowledge we gather in our search for answers to the unknown, the more uncertainty we uncover. But that’s not a bad thing.
The future is not bleak as long as the government recognises the importance of and continues investing in science.
There are huge global inequalities in knowledge production and exchange. What drives this inequality and how can it be corrected?
It easy to lampoon education reforms in Finland that aim to scrap the teaching of traditional subjects in favour of broader topics. The new initiative could see history, geography and languages replaced…
Those who have agitated for subject knowledge, rather than skills, to be the focus of the national curriculum, may have been pleased to hear the secretary of state for education, Nicky Morgan, following…
Teachers’ professional development is “fragmented, occasional and insufficiently informed by research”. These were the conclusions of a recent British Educational Research Association (BERA) and Royal…
Many teachers say they strive to teach their students to be critical thinkers. They even pride themselves on it; after all, who wants children to just take in knowledge passively? But there is a problem…
Subjects need to be seen once again for what they are. They are divisions of human knowledge made in order to advance knowledge in universities or to teach existing knowledge in schools. Academics and…
The word “pseudoscience” is used to describe something that is portrayed as scientific but fails to meet scientific criteria. This misrepresentation occurs because actual science has creditability (which…
All human societies construct and teach creation myths or origin stories. These are large, extraordinarily powerful, but often ramshackle narratives that try and tell the story of how everything came to…
Fundamentally, there are two big motives for research. On the on hand there is intellectual ambition: the desire to know and understand the word, to appreciate the best that has been said and thought on…
So here it is, another morning. Another day of yawns. Another day of … oh … what was I saying? We all know that if you don’t get a good night’s sleep, you don’t function properly during the day. It could…
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Science and Consultant, Vice Principal for Research and Graduate Education, University of Pretoria
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Associate Dean (Education & Student Experience) Faculty of Business & Law, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
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Researcher, University of Pretoria
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Director Internationalisation., Rhodes University
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Research Associate and Laboratory Manager, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University
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South African Research Chair in Teacher Education; Director of Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE) & Professor of International Education and Development Policy (University of Sussex, UK), Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Senior lecturer, Rhodes University
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Professor of Science and Society, Co-Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University
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Fulbright Scholar, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra
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Dean of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra