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A New History Of Formal Schooling In South Africa 1658-1910 - An Education Of Contradictions (Paperback): Crain Soudien,... A New History Of Formal Schooling In South Africa 1658-1910 - An Education Of Contradictions (Paperback)
Crain Soudien, Charlotte Fischer, Michael Cross, Peter Kallaway
R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The first history of schooling gathered as a single and continuous text since the 1980s. It is also the first attempt to put together a history of South African schooling from the perspective of the subjugated people.

It attempts to show, as South Africa moves from a landscape essentially marked by encounters of people at different frontiers – physical, geographical, economic, cultural and psychological (where only the first two have previously received real attention) – how education is conceptualised, mobilised and used by all the players in the emerging country from the colonial Dutch and British periods into apartheid.

This book covers the period of the history of South African schooling from the establishment of the first school in 1658 to 1910 when South Africa became a Union. It approaches the task of narrating this history as a deliberate intervention. The intervention is that of restoring into the narrative the place of the subjugated people in the unfolding of a landscape which they share with a racialised white community. Propelled by a post-colonial framing of South Africa’s history, it offers itself as a deliberate counter to dominant historiographic and systematic privileging of the country’s elites. As such, it works on a larger canvas than simply the school. It deliberately works the story of schooling alongside the bigger socioeconomic history of South Africa, i.e., Dutch settlement of the Cape, the arrival of colonial Britain and the dramatic discovery of gold and diamonds leading to the industrialisation of South Africa. The story of schooling, the text seeks to emphasise, cannot be told independently of what is going on economically, politically and socially in the making of modern South Africa. Modernity, as a consequence, is a major theme of the book.

In telling the story of formal schooling in South Africa, the text, critically, seeks to retrieve the experience of the subjugated to present a wider and larger canvas upon which to describe the process of the making of the South African school. The text works historically with the Dutch East Indian experience up until 1804 when schooling was characterised by its neglect. It shows then how it develops a systematic character through the institutionalisation of a formal system in 1839 and the initiatives of missionaries. It draws the story to a close by looking at how formal systems are established in the colonies, the Boer Republics and the protectorates.

Thematically, the text seeks to thread through the conceits of race and class to show how, contradictorily, they take expression through conflict and struggle. In this conflict and struggle people who are not white (i.e., they do not yet have the racialised labels that apartheid brings in the middle of the 20th century) are systematically marginalised and discriminated against. They work with their discrimination, however, in generative ways by taking opportunity when it arises and exercising political agency.

The book is important because it explains the roots of educational inequality. It shows how inequality is systematically installed in almost every step of the way. For a period, in the middle of the 19th century, attempts were made to forestall this inequality. The text shows how the British administration acceded to eugenicist influences which pushed children of colour out of what were called first-class schools into segregated missionary-run institutions.

Live Well Between Your Ears - Get Your Head Around The Craziness (Hardcover): Doug Spencer Live Well Between Your Ears - Get Your Head Around The Craziness (Hardcover)
Doug Spencer
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Generation Divide - Why We Can't Agree And Why We Should (Paperback): Bobby Duffy The Generation Divide - Why We Can't Agree And Why We Should (Paperback)
Bobby Duffy
R325 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Save R35 (11%) In Stock

Are we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled 'snowflakes'? Are Baby Boomers stealing their children's futures? Are Generation X the saddest generation? Will Generation Z fix the climate crisis?

Revealing and informative, The Generation Divide provides a bold new framework for understanding the most divisive issues raging today: from culture wars to climate change and mental health to housing.

Including data from all over the globe, and with powerful implications for humanity's future, this big-thinking book will transform how you view the world.

Previously published as Generations.

Modi Doctrine - The Foreign Policy of India’s Prime Minister (Hardcover): Sreeram Chaulia Modi Doctrine - The Foreign Policy of India’s Prime Minister (Hardcover)
Sreeram Chaulia
R978 Discovery Miles 9 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Early Childhood Professional Development - An African Perspective (Paperback): Early Childhood Professional Development - An African Perspective (Paperback)
R599 R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Save R39 (7%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

To develop young children’s full potential, quality early childhood education has been found to be one of the greatest resources available. Early Childhood Professional Development: An African Perspective aims to explore ways to encourage the professionalisation of practitioners in the ECD sector to provide opportunities for education improvement and positive change.

The book’s value shifts from merely identifying and describing problems to providing creative real life examples that could lead to action and mobilise existing skills and knowledge in rural and disadvantaged contexts.

Anxiety, Volume 103 (Hardcover): Gerald Litwack Anxiety, Volume 103 (Hardcover)
Gerald Litwack
R4,804 Discovery Miles 48 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Anxiety, the latest volume in the Vitamins and Hormones series first published in 1943, and the longest-running serial published by Academic Press, provides up-to-date information on the roles that hormones and other factors play in anxiety and stress. Each volume focuses on a single molecule or disease that is related to vitamins or hormones, with the topic broadly interpreted to include related substances, such as transmitters, cytokines, growth factors, and others thoroughly reviewed.

Pearson REVISE Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Revision Workbook - 2023 and 2024 exams (Paperback, 2nd edition): Ann Weidmann,... Pearson REVISE Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Revision Workbook - 2023 and 2024 exams (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Ann Weidmann, Cynthia Selby
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The revision series for Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1)from Pearson. This book will help you to: Organise your revision with the one-topic-per-page format Prepare for your GCSE exams with exam-style practice questions on every topic Simplify your revision by writing straight into the book, just as you would in an exam Track your progress with at-a-glance check boxes Improve your exam technique with practice exam papers Build confidence with hints and tips Focus your revision with target grades for every question. Also available: Pearson Revise Revision Guide (ISBN 9781292374000) Revise every topic in this book with the accompanyingPearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Computer Science Revision Guide. It gives you clear,concise explanations of every topic, worked examples showing you how to answerexam-style questions and a 1-to-1 page match with this Revision Workbook.

Loyal Sons - Jews in the German Army in the Great War (Paperback): Peter C. Appelbaum Loyal Sons - Jews in the German Army in the Great War (Paperback)
Peter C. Appelbaum
R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom - A Practical Tool (Hardcover): Kim Milai Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom - A Practical Tool (Hardcover)
Kim Milai
R3,135 Discovery Miles 31 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom provides a practical guide to help music teachers incorporate elementary classroom subjects into their curriculum using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math)-inspired strategies, with added emphasis on social studies. It includes a complete elementary music curriculum for kindergarten, first, and second grades, and has cross-referencing charts for regular elementary classroom teachers to find music activities for their classroom. Importantly, it shows teachers how to include the artistic processes of creating, performing, responding, and connecting in their lessons. These processes make up the new music standards featured in NAfME's new Core Arts Music Standards. In order to maximize comprehension, the book includes assessment tests, sheet music, work sheet templates, and brainstorming activities centered on using technology to enhance composition projects. Lesson plans are organized by the calendar year, each inspired by the seasons, American culture, and world culture. These lessons may be used as is or used to generate new curricula altogether.

Essentials of International Relations (Paperback, Ninth Edition): Karen A. Mingst, Heather Elko McKibben Essentials of International Relations (Paperback, Ninth Edition)
Karen A. Mingst, Heather Elko McKibben
R1,525 R1,338 Discovery Miles 13 380 Save R187 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With a new chapter on the environment, and extensive coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and global health, Heather McKibben continues to enliven Karen Mingst's classic, concise text. Refined and expanded InQuizitive activities help students learn, retain and apply key concepts to real-world events. Plus, new biweekly News Analysis activities help students apply the main theories of the text to contemporary real-world examples they would encounter in the media.

The Black Atlantic's Triple Burden - Slavery, Colonialism, & Reparations (Paperback): Adekeye Adebajo The Black Atlantic's Triple Burden - Slavery, Colonialism, & Reparations (Paperback)
Adekeye Adebajo
R450 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R35 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity.

The Atlantic world economy emerged from the interactions of this triangular slave trade involving human chattel, textiles, arms, wine, sugar, coffee, tobacco, and other goods. This is thus the story of the birth of the modern capitalist system and a Black Atlantic that has shaped global trade, finance, consumer tastes, lifestyles, and fashion for over five centuries. The volume is authored by a multi-disciplinary, pan-continental group encompassing diverse subjects.

This collection is concise and comprehensive, enabling cross-regional comparisons to be drawn, and ensuring that some of the most important global events of the past five centuries are read from diverse perspectives.

The Praxis of Justice (Hardcover): Brunilda Pali, Katrien Lauwaert, Stefaan Pleysier The Praxis of Justice (Hardcover)
Brunilda Pali, Katrien Lauwaert, Stefaan Pleysier
R2,390 Discovery Miles 23 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Praxis of Justice brings together original contributions on restorative justice centering on the work of Ivo Aertsen, Emeritus Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Law, KU Leuven. The work of Ivo Aertsen has impacted not only his country, Belgium, but the whole world. In recognition of a worthy life, his friends and colleagues of different generations and from all around the world have created this Liber Amicorum, as a living testament to friendship and accomplishment. The contributions in the book are both diverse and complementary as colours and motives of a tapestry, ranging from fully fledged scholarly reflections to personal anecdotes, memories and letters. The book will be especially interesting for anyone interested in restorative justice in general, and in the work of Ivo Aertsen in particular.

Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage - A Personal History of the Allotment Era (Hardcover): Darnella Davis Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage - A Personal History of the Allotment Era (Hardcover)
Darnella Davis
R2,020 Discovery Miles 20 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier. It is the only book-length account of the intersections between the three races in Indian Territory and Oklahoma written from the perspective of a tribal person and a freedman. The histories of these families, along with the starkly different federal policies that molded their destinies, offer a powerful corrective to the historical narrative. From the Allotment Period to the present, their claims of racial identity and land in Oklahoma reveal inequalities that still fester more than one hundred years later. Davis offers a provocative opportunity to unpack our current racial discourse and ask ourselves, ""Who are 'we' really?

Clinical Sociology For Southern Africa (Paperback): Clinical Sociology For Southern Africa (Paperback)
R593 R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Save R38 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Clinical Sociology is a creative, humanistic, rights-based and interdisciplinary specialisation that can improve life situations (with assessment and intervention) for individuals and groups around the world. Clinical sociologists have many areas of expertise including environmental protection, challenging social inequalities, counselling, improving health policies and prevention strategies, social and economic community development, disaster management, community organising, as well as needs assessment and evaluation research.

Clinical Sociology for Southern Africa is the first volume to focus on developments in the field of clinical sociology in and for Southern Africa. Edited by two well-known senior scholar-practitioners, the book features the work of 17 authors – including Eddie Webster, Jacklyn Cock, H.W. van der Merwe and Harold Wolpe - writing about social intervention in important areas such as work, family, counselling, organisations, ethics, conflict intervention and education.

There are at least three important historical emphases in sociology: science, humanities and sociological practice. Sociological practice - clinical and applied sociology - should be part of all university programmes and help make a difference in our communities at all levels. This book assists social scientists, practitioners and scholar-practitioners in Southern Africa, who are involved in or studying interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary social interventions, as well as those who are interested in developing clinical sociology initiatives, including courses, programmes and workshops.

Beyond the Backboard (Hardcover): Cyrus Walker Alexander, Carl Lut Williams Beyond the Backboard (Hardcover)
Cyrus Walker Alexander, Carl Lut Williams
R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mind.Body.Soul. (Paperback): Kendra Leonard Mind.Body.Soul. (Paperback)
Kendra Leonard
R242 R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Save R17 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Eight Zulu Kings - From Shaka To Goodwill Zwelethini (Paperback): John Laband The Eight Zulu Kings - From Shaka To Goodwill Zwelethini (Paperback)
John Laband
R320 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In The Eight Zulu Kings, well-respected and widely published historian John Laband examines the reigns of the eight Zulu kings from 1816 to the present.

Starting with King Shaka, the renowned founder of the Zulu kingdom, he charts the lives of the kings Dingane, Mpande, Cetshwayo, Dinuzulu, Solomon and Cyprian, to today’s King Goodwill Zwelithini whose role is little more than ceremonial.

In the course of this investigation Laband places the Zulu monarchy in the context of African kingship and tracks and analyses the trajectory of the Zulu kings from independent and powerful pre-colonial African rulers to largely powerless traditionalist figures in post-apartheid South Africa.

The Champagne Spy - Israel's Man in Egypt (Paperback): Wolfgang Lotz The Champagne Spy - Israel's Man in Egypt (Paperback)
Wolfgang Lotz
R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Handbook of Culture and Memory (Hardcover): Brady Wagoner Handbook of Culture and Memory (Hardcover)
Brady Wagoner
R3,287 Discovery Miles 32 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the Handbook of Culture and Memory, Brady Wagoner and his team of international contributors explore how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other cultural devices. Culture is seen as the medium through which people live and make meaning of their lives. In this book, analyses focus on the mutual constitution of people's memories and the social-cultural worlds to which they belong. The complex relationship between culture and memory is explored in: the concept of memory and its relation to evolution, neurology and history; life course changes in memory from its development in childhood to its decline in old age; and the national and transnational organization of collective memory and identity through narratives propagated in political discourse, the classroom, and the media.

Pearson REVISE Edexcel GCSE Maths Grades 7-9 Revision & Practice - 2023 and 2024 exams (Spiral bound, Student Ed): Harry Smith Pearson REVISE Edexcel GCSE Maths Grades 7-9 Revision & Practice - 2023 and 2024 exams (Spiral bound, Student Ed)
Harry Smith
R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Our revision resources are the smart choice for those revising for Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Mathematics Higher. Are you looking to get a grade 7-9 in your exam? This book aims to help you nail it by giving you: Expert advice to help you get to grips with the tougher exam questions Worked examples and fully worked answers to show you what the best answers will look like Plenty of opportunity to practise the more challenging exam-style questions Hints and advice to develop your exam technique to help you access the higher marks.

Lab Manual for Shry/Reiley's Introductory Horticulture, 9th (Paperback, 9th Revised edition): H.Edward Reiley Lab Manual for Shry/Reiley's Introductory Horticulture, 9th (Paperback, 9th Revised edition)
H.Edward Reiley
R1,812 R1,648 Discovery Miles 16 480 Save R164 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Featuring new exercises related to tomato grafting, designing gardens, the safe operation of power equipment, and utilizing apps as horticultural tools, the NINTH EDITION of the LAB MANUAL TO ACCOMPANY INTRODUCTORY HORTICULTURE contains a variety of hands-on activities to help you retain and apply key concepts and information presented in the text.

The Gunfighters - How Texas Made the West Wild (Hardcover): Bryan Burrough The Gunfighters - How Texas Made the West Wild (Hardcover)
Bryan Burrough
R887 R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Save R156 (18%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The “Wild West” gunfighter is such a stock figure in our popular culture that some dismiss it all as a corny myth, more a product of dime novels and B movies than a genuinely important American history. In fact, as Bryan Burrough shows us in his dazzling and fast-paced new book, there’s much more below the surface. For three decades at the end of the 1800s, a big swath of the American West was a crucible of change, with the highest murder rate per capita in American history. The reasons behind this boil down to one word: Texas.

Texas was born in violence, on two fronts, with Mexico to the south and the Comanche to the north. The Colt revolver first caught on with the Texas Rangers. Southern dueling culture transformed into something wilder and less organized in the Lone Star State. The collapse of the Confederacy and the presence of a thin veneer of Northern occupiers turned the heat up further. And the explosion in the cattle business after the war took that violence and pumped it out from Texas across the whole of the West. The stampede of longhorn cattle brought with it an assortment of rustlers, hustlers, gamblers, and freelance lawmen who carried a trigger-happy honor culture into a widening gyre, a veritable blood meridian. When the first newspapermen and audiences discovered what good copy this all was, the flywheel of mythmaking started spinning. It’s never stopped.

The Gunfighters brilliantly sifts the lies from the truth, giving both elements their due. And the truth is sufficiently wild for any but the most unhinged tastes. All the legendary figures are here, and their escapades are told with great flair—good, bad, and ugly. Like all great stories, this one has a rousing end—as the railroads and the settlers close off the open spaces for good, the last of the breed, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, really do get on a boat for South America, ending their era in a blaze of glory. Burrough knits these histories together into something much deeper and more provocative than simply the sum of its parts. To understand the truth of the Wild West is to understand a crucial dimension of the American story.

Adjudicated Youth, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, Volume 25-1 (Hardcover, UK ed.): Louis Kraus Adjudicated Youth, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, Volume 25-1 (Hardcover, UK ed.)
Louis Kraus
R1,786 Discovery Miles 17 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A great number of incarcerated youth have diagnosable psychiatric problems and, while in detention, this population experiences events that make them more vulnerable to disorders of mental health. This issue of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics is edited and authored by psychiatrists expert in working with youth in detention. Topics include Demographics of youth in detention; Mental health screening and assessment; Mental health care of detained youth and solitary confinement and restraint within juvenile detention facilities; Civil and constitutional rights of adjudicated youth; Community based alternatives to incarceration and assessment and community based planning for probation/community based alternatives; The role of the child and adolescent psychiatrist in the adjudicatory assessments; Screening and assessment of detained youth; Quality of education for youth in the juvenile detention system; Variety of out-of-home placements for juvenile offenders; Juvenile sexual offenders; Sexual exploitation of children in detention; Transfer from juvenile to adult court: Which states have the most effective models? ; Competence to stand trial; Firesetting. Clinical vignettes are presented with each topic to exemplify a case of the discussion.

A Taste Of Bitter Almonds - Perdition and promise in South Africa (Paperback): Michael Schmidt A Taste Of Bitter Almonds - Perdition and promise in South Africa (Paperback)
Michael Schmidt 1
R114 R106 Discovery Miles 1 060 Save R8 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

1994 symbolised the triumphal defeat of almost three and a half centuries of racial separation since the Dutch East India Company planted a bitter almond hedge to keep indigenous people out of `their' Cape outpost in 1659. But for the majority of people in the world's most unequal society, the taste of bitter almonds linger as their exclusion from a dignified life remain the rule.

In the year of South Africa's troubled coming-of-age, veteran investigative journalist Michael Schmidt brings to bear 21 years of his scribbled field notes to weave a tapestry of the view from below: here in the demi-monde of our transition from autocracy to democracy, in the half-light glow of the rusted rainbow, you will meet neo-Nazis and the newly dispossessed, Boers and Bushmen, black illegal coal miners and a bank robber, witches and wastrels, love children and land claimants.

With their feet in the mud, the Born Free youth have their eyes on the stars.

Executive Functions in Children's Everyday Lives - A Handbook for Professionals in Applied Psychology (Hardcover): Maureen... Executive Functions in Children's Everyday Lives - A Handbook for Professionals in Applied Psychology (Hardcover)
Maureen J. Hoskyn, Grace Iarocci, Arlene R Young
R1,965 Discovery Miles 19 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Executive Functions in Children's Everyday Lives captures the diversity and complexity of the executive system that underlies children's everyday life experiences. Acquisition of executive functions, such as interpreting communication cues and the perspectives of others, is foundational to and a function of children's early social and communicative competencies. From the soccer field to the classroom, executive functions support children's strategic thinking and control of their environment. Knowing about executive functions and how this system of cognitive resources emerges in young children is important in understanding children's development. Recent research points to the importance of also considering environmental influences on the executive system. This book is unique in its focus on how experiences in children's early lives influence and are influenced by executive functions. Viewing executive functions through this broad lens is critical for professionals who intervene when children's access to executive functions is less than optimal. This book addresses a wide range of topics, including the neurological basis of executive functions in young children, the assessment of children's executive functions, theoretical and historical conceptions of executive functions, the relations between executive functions and theory of mind, multilingualism, early school transitions, and the relationship of executive functions to Autism and ADHD. This volume will be useful to professionals in applied psychology, undergraduate and graduate students, and social science and applied researchers.

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