Focus on South Africa

Focus on South Africa

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  • Author: Vivian de Klerk
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027276048
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

This volume brings together a range of studies on various aspects of English and its use in Southern Africa. Experts in their field have written chapters on topics including the history and development of English in South Africa, the characteristics of particular pan-ethnic varieties of English which have evolved in South Africa (including black, Indian and colored varieties) as well as the unique features of the English of South Africa’s southern neighbours: Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Other contributions focus on English in relation to issues such as standardisation, lexicography, education, language planning, language attitudes and interaction patterns. The book will be of primary interest to students of linguistics and language, but should also be relevant to educationists, sociologists and historians.


Focus: Music of South Africa

Focus: Music of South Africa

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  • Author: Carol A. Muller
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113590183X
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 359

Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller looks at how South Africans have used music to express a sense of place in South Africa, on the African continent, and around the world. Part One, Creating Connections, provides introductory materials for the study of South African Music. Part Two, Musical Migrations, moves to a more focused overview of significant musical styles in twentieth-century South Africa -- particularly those known through world circuits. Part Three, Focusing In, takes the reader into the heart of two musical cultures with case studies on South African jazz and the music of the Zulu-language followers of Isaiah Shembe. The accompanying CD offers vivid examples of traditional, popular, and classical South African musical styles.


Focus

Focus

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  • Author: Carol Ann Muller
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 041596069X
  • Category : Isicathamiya
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 359

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Systematic Reviews of Research in Basic Education in South Africa

Systematic Reviews of Research in Basic Education in South Africa

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  • Author: Felix Maringe
  • Publisher: African Sun Media
  • ISBN: 1991201141
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

Maringe ought to be commended for putting together an invaluable contribution to our understanding of research into a complex education system in South Africa. This volume provides a useful foundation to the current state of education quality in South Africa including the impact of interventions. It also brings to the fore challenges still facing education transformation. The evidence presented which, taken together, lays out a coherent view of how improvements could be made. Albert Chanee Head of Planning, Gauteng Department of Education For too long the weight of educational scholarship produced in South Africa has been limited to that simple and standard form called the literature review. Now, for the first time, education researchers are provided with an African-based text on the concepts and methods of conducting systematic reviews. In this exceptional work of editorship, Felix Maringe brings together some of the leading researchers on South African education to model and demonstrate how to review a significant body of research on a chosen topic which is adjudicated strictly on the basis of the quality and efficacy of the evidence in hand. I have no doubt that this remarkable book will become a standard reference for educational researchers in and beyond the African continent. It will also lift the quality of educational inquiry by equipping a new generation of scholars with the capacity for doing evidence-based research that compels the attention of policymakers, planners and practitioners alike. Prof Jonathan Jansen Stellenbosch University


Focus on South Africa

Focus on South Africa

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  • Author: Jen Green
  • Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
  • ISBN: 9780836867381
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 68

An overview of South Africa covers its history, geography, climate, culture, government, and economy.


Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa

Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa

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  • Author: Ms Zubeida Jaffer
  • Publisher: Unisa Press
  • ISBN: 1776150945
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

With 342 years of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa, a book of this calibre is essential to contribute to scholarly debates on the decolonisation of the media. After the democratic dispensation in 1994, there was a narrow pursuit of transformation and media freedom while neglecting decolonisation, patriarchal tendencies and the plight of black women journalists who are often vilified while discharging their duties. It was two decades after democracy that the #RhodesMustFall movement which later evolved into #FeesMustFall movement reignited debates on decoloniality in the academia. Moreover, the book is published during the second wave of #FeesMustFall student protests and the demand for decolonised free education is inevitable as no permanent solution to student funding crisis was crafted. In the same vein, the book advocates for decolonised pedagogy in universities, including journalism curriculum. That ownership of the media is still skewed towards white and with only few black companies gradually joining the industry also brings into doubt media freedom, editorial independence, ethics and integrity among media practitioners. Therefore, the decoloniality movement seeks to confront these structural challenges head-on via dialogue to ensure the integrity of the journalism profession. Decolonising journalism in South Africa is published at a time in which journalism serves a watchdog and a critique of a democratic government and needs to follow a bottom-up social justice approach and become a voice to the voiceless. Therefore, this book seeks to revolutionise the media in a way that even the language of reporting of certain issues needs to be changed to a balanced kind of reporting characterised by principles of no fear or favour.


Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa

Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa

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  • Author: Liza Rose Cirolia
  • Publisher: Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
  • ISBN: 1775820831
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 512

More than 1.2 million households in South Africa live in informal settlements, without access to adequate shelter, services or secure tenure. There has been a gradual shift to upgrading these informal settlements in recent years, and there have been some innovative experiments. Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa: a partnership-based approach examines the successes and challenges of informal settlement upgrading initiatives in South Africa and contextualises these experiences within global debates about informal settlement upgrading and urban transformation. The book discusses: · The South African informal settlement upgrading agenda from local, national and international perspectives · South African ‘city experiences’ with informal housing and upgrading · The role of partnerships, actors and capabilities in pursuing an incremental upgrading agenda · Tools, instruments and methodologies for incremental upgrading · Implications of the upgrading agenda for the transformation of cities The book has been written and edited by a wide range of practitioners and researchers from government, NGOs, the private sector and academia. It covers theory and practice and represents a vast accumulated body of housing experience in South Africa.


Reconceptualising education support services in South Africa

Reconceptualising education support services in South Africa

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  • Author: Johnnie Hay
  • Publisher: AOSIS
  • ISBN: 1776342054
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 454

Inclusive education has been phased into South Africa since 2001 but relies heavily upon adequate support services to support learners and teachers experiencing barriers to learning and development. This book focuses on the different levels of support provided in South African education – from School-based Support Teams to District-based Support Teams through to special and full-service schools, and how these could be reconceptualised to provide improved support to learners and teachers. Current research indicates that inclusive education is being implemented in varied and fragmented forms across the country, and the point of departure of this work is that education support services need to be improved and reconceptualised to ensure better support for inclusive education.


Democratic South Africa's Foreign Policy

Democratic South Africa's Foreign Policy

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  • Author: Suzanne Graham
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137593814
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 310

This book provides readers with the first comprehensive study of South Africa’s foreign policy conducted in a multilateral setting, by placing on record over 1000 of South Africa’s votes at the United Nations over a 20 year period. The study investigates consistency in terms of South Africa’s declared foreign policy and its actual voting practices at the United Nations. Democratic South Africa’s Foreign Policy: Voting Behaviour in the United Nations offers a compendium of South Africa’s United Nations behaviour during a poignant transitional period in the country’s recent history. In setting out a framework for analysing the conduct of other countries’ voting behaviour in parallel with this study, it can be used to advance the field as a useful comparative tool. This book presents the material needed for International Relations scholars and practitioners in the field to make a reasoned and reflective assessment of this dimension of South Africa’s foreign policy.


Focus on First-year Success

Focus on First-year Success

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  • ISBN: 9781920338220
  • Category : College student development programs
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273