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Towards an Inclusive Democratic Educational Theory and Practice in South Africa: Mediating Individualism and Collectivism, Difference and Commonality
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
This thesis is concerned with the definition of an inclusive democratic educational theory and practice which mediates the assumed tension between individualism and collectivism, difference and equality, and liberty and ...
Adult learners, access and higher education: learning as meaning-making and negotiation in context
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)
This study focuses on the learning experiences of adult learners entering higher education for the first time. Based in the Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Cape Town, it analyses ...
Luck, knowledge and excellence in teaching
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)
Three questions are central to this thesis: First, can the practice of teaching be made safe from luck through the controlling power of knowledge and reason? Second, even if it can be made safe from luck, should it be? ...
Topics, trends and silences in South African psychology 1948-1988 : ethnocentricism, crisis and liberatory echoes /
(University of the Western Cape, 1993)
The deliberate and sometimes unwitting complicity of psychology with apartheid social formations has received little attention in the psycho-historical literature. This, study in an attempt to break the silence, offers a ...
An epistemological critique of action research
(University of the Western cape, 1991)
Part Two investigates claims of action research authors Grundy,
Carr anrl Kemn1s ln respect of their clalm that actlon research
is a democratic form of research. I state this claim and draw
attention to the primacy, for ...
Towards a critical pedagogy: An action research investigation into democratic practices in a primary school classroom
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)
This dissertation is a study of a primary school teacher researching her classroom practice within the broader specific aim of the project was to investigate how a primary school teacher could go about her work in more for ...