This open-access volume offers a comprehensive review of the Gauteng Department of Education's (GDE) evolution over two decades, from 1994 to 2014. Comprising 15 essays by various specialists, the book examines the GDE's policies, resource allocation, and project implementations. It provides insights into the department's operations, decisions, and their consequences, presenting a balanced pers…
This scholarly volume grew out of a 2018 Education Deans Forum in Johannesburg and critically examines the dual discourses of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and decolonisation in South African higher education. It explores how these discourses converge and diverge across epistemological, ontological, axiological, and methodological dimensions—sometimes competing for dominance in shapi…
Since its emergence in medieval Europe, the idea of a university has developed and expanded continuously. Today, universities are drivers of progress and innovation as well as hotspots of dynamic international knowledge exchange. Motivated by the aim of providing both learners and educators for a globally interconnected world, universities are massively strengthening their internationalization …