The professional development landscape for university teachers has shifted from focusing
solely on self-development, to maximising engagement with activities that are …

The concept of student teaching practice is globally rooted in training pre-service teachers to
work within diverse schools and learner populations, in dissimilar contexts. It is also a drive …

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 …

This paper makes visible the experiences of students transitioning to higher education from
rural communities and backgrounds in South Africa. In line with decolonial perspectives, the …

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 …

This paper reports on an international collaborative study that investigated how students
from rural contexts negotiate the transition to university, and how prior cultural and …

Preparing pre-service teachers for rural schools has been a challenge in the field of
education for more than a century, and issues specific to the rural teacher workforce remain …

Despite wide-ranging policies and practices intended to address historical inequalities in
South African higher education, and calls for decolonisation to include more local relevance …

Many municipalities in South Africa have experienced difficulties due to poor service
delivery. In some instances, poor service delivery has led to violent protests, which has …

While the Department of Education in South Africa has instituted structural measures to
attract the newly qualified teachers in rural schools, these measures have had limited …