Education studies in South Africa: The quest for relevance, rigour and restructuring

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Charl Wolhuter

Synopsis

The thesis of this book 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 require a significant 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, until very recently, eschewed discussion on the packaging or structuring of knowledge produced by Education research. This book consists of chapters containing original research unpacking these desiderata from various angles. The authors had them served by multiple methods, from deductively argued position chapters to empirical research, the latter both quantitative (survey research) and qualitative.

Chapters

Chapter 1
Relevance, rigour and restructuring: The 3Rs as compass for a community of scholars in need of direction

Charl Wolhuter
Chapter 2
Mapping enablers and constraints in context: Primary teachers’ experiences of teaching in crowded classrooms in a South African school

Paul N Munje, Fumane P Khanare, Nirashnee Muthusamy
Chapter 3
Novice teachers’ challenges in practice and perspective on mentorship

Catherine Whalen
Chapter 4
School health promotion coordinators’ perception of caring leadership provision by principals

Siphokazi Kwatubana
Chapter 5
Comparative and international education and the quest for relevance, authenticity, structure and responsiveness in research in education

Charl Wolhuter
Chapter 6
A practice-based approach to teaching the screening, identification, assessment and support model in learner support

Elsabé Wessels, Lesley Wood
Chapter 7
Family involvement in life skills development in primary school learners

Tanja Spamer, Julialet Rens, Carolina Botha
Chapter 8
Building a vision for social justice praxis for teacher education through service-learning

Andri Schoonen, Lesley Wood, Corné Kruger
Chapter 9
Relocating social justice in the policy–pedagogy–research nexus: Insights from the Mauritian language-in-education policy

Aruna Ankiah-Gangadeen, Pascal S Nadal
Chapter 10
International developments in the structuring of education research

Charl Wolhuter
Chapter 11
Theory building in education

Charl Wolhuter
Chapter 12
Modes 1, 2 and 3 knowledge production and education: Relevance, rigour and structure

Charl Wolhuter
Chapter 13
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Implications and opportunities presented by a new economic order for education to be a rigorous, relevant and structured field of scholarship

Charl Wolhuter

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