general books Education

Barham (J.E.) ed. ALICE GREENE, teacher and campaigner, South African correspondence 1887-1902
649 pp., maps, illus., paperback,, Leicester, 2007. R395
Alice Greene (1858-1920) left England in 1887 to teach at the Collegiate School for Girls in Port Elizabeth. She became friends with Elizabeth Molteno who became principal of the school. They left in 1900 and moved to Cape Town where they were involved in helping Boer women and children held in the British camps. They assisted Emily Hobhouse, were friends with Olive Schreiner, and knew many of the politicians of the day.

John Barham is Alice Greene's great nephew. He has edited the letters she wrote from the time of her departure for South Africa up to a visit she made to England after the end of the Boer War, as well as her 1901 diary.
Barnes (T.), Baijnath (N.) & Sattar (K.) eds. THE RESTRUCTURING OF SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHER EDUCATION, rocky roads from policy formulation to institutional mergers, 2001-2005
288 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2010. R244
This book is the result of a three-year research project undertaken by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of the Western Cape.

Contributions include "The Development of Restructuring Policy, with Special Reference to Comprehensive Institutions" by Narend Baijnath and Teresa Barnes,
"The Complexities of South Africa's First Education Merger: a case study of the Durban Institute of Technology" by Kalawathie Sattar and Lesley Anne Cooke,
"From Policy to Process and Effects: establishing the 'new Unisa', the single dedicated distance education institution" by Nartend Baijnath,
"More Than the Sum of its Parts? formation of the Cape Pensinsula University of Technology in the Western Cape" by Teresa Barnes,
"The Formation of the University of Johannesburg" by Benito Khotseng, and
"Taming the Mergers: major findings and questions for future research" by Teresa Barnes, Narend Baijnath and Kalawathie Sattar.
Bitzer (E.) ed. HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, a scholarly look behind the scenes
462 pp., paperback, Stellenbosch, 2009. R280
A collection of articles on the current state of South African higher education.

Contributions include "Universities and Public Goods: in defence of democratic deliberation, compassionate imagining and cosmopolitan justice" by Yusef Waghid,
"The Curriculum as an Institution in Higher Education" by Jonathan Jansen,
"The Professional Development of Academics: in pursuit of scholarship" by Liezel Frick & Chris Kapp,
"Institutional Governance in SA Higher Education: for the common good or political power-play?" by Magda Fourie, and
"Research Within the Context of Community Engagement" by Ruth Albertyn & Priscilla Daniels.
Bloch (G.) THE TOXIC MIX, what's wrong with South Africa's schools and how to fix it
192 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R180
Educationist Graeme Bloch examines the factors responsible for South Africa's failed shools, gives examples of schools that are getting it right and offers solutions to the problems.

"'The Toxic Mix will make a lot of sense to ordinary South Africans struggling to understand why a nation that spends more (as a percentage of GDP) on school education than any other African state, has the worst results to show for such investment." Jonathan Jansen, the new rector of the University of the Orange Free State and author of "Knowledge in the Blood"

Chisholm (L.) & Steiner-Khamsi (G.) eds. SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION IN EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT,
304 pp., paperback, New York & Cape Town, 2009. R275
A collection of articles that explore the possibilties and challenges of South-South cooperation in educational development.

Includes the chapters, "India and South Africa: diaspora and transfer" by Crain Soudien, and
"The New Regionalism in African Education: limits and possibilities" by Leon Tikly and Hillary Dachi.
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