PiE 2012 Volume 30 Issue 1
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Understanding pre-service teacher education discourses in Communities of Practice: a reflection from an intervention in rural South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)Drawing on an evaluation experience of a teacher education preparation project in a rural area of South Africa, this paper attempts to explore the possibility of using Communities of Practice (CoP) in teacher preparation. ... -
Rurality and resilience in education: place-based partnerships and agency to moderate time and space constraints
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)In an ongoing longitudinal intervention study (STAR)1 we found that, although similarities existed in the way teachers promoted resilience, rural schools (in comparison to other STAR case schools) took longer to implement ... -
Repositioning educational research on rurality and rural education in South Africa: beyond deficit paradigms
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)Almost two decades after the demise of apartheid, rural communities in South Africa are still plagued by seemingly insurmountable challenges, with no change in sight for those who need it most. In spite of the many ... -
Social justice and rural education in South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)Social justice is undeniably grounded in efforts at circumventing provisions that seek to uphold ostracism and exclusionary practices which have permeated South Africa and many other societies worldwide for extensive periods ... -
Revisiting rurality and schooling: a teacher’s story
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)This paper presents an understanding of what it means to be a teacher in a school defined as ‘rural’. From a sociological perspective, we consider the mechanisms and ways of knowing that are adopted by a teacher for ... -
Early school leavers and sustainable learning environments in rural contexts
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)In this paper, I show by means of Yosso’s community cultural wealth theoretical framework how equal numbers of early school leavers (ESLs) from the rural and the urban parts of the North-West province cite similar reasons ... -
Rurality research and rural education: exploratory and explanatory power
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)This article presents analysed data from the first year of the Rural Teacher Education Project (RTEP 2007–2009) with a view to illustrating how a generative theory of rurality as education research was developed, and for ... -
Rural school children picturing family life
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)Rurality is an active agent and central to the lived experiences of children growing up on a farm and attending a farm school. It is a key to their everyday experiences, and influences family life, schooling and their ... -
The journey to school: space, geography and experiences of rural children
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)This paper gives prominence to rural children’s accounts of their journey to school. Twelve children (male = 6; female = 6) from three different rural villages in Lesotho participated in the study. Individual and focus ... -
The diverse educational needs and challenges of Information Technology teachers in two black rural schools
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)This article reflects on the first phase of a research project aimed at the empowerment of Information Technology (IT) teachers in black rural schools in the North-West province of South Africa. In order to empower these ... -
“Our culture does not allow that”: exploring the challenges of sexuality education in rural communities
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)Within sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS is becoming a greater threat to rural communities due to the high numbers of urban dwellers and migrant labourers who return to their rural villages when they fall ill and due to the lack ... -
Within and between the old and the new: teachers becoming inclusive practitioners
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)This paper explores how 20 African teachers in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, construct their identities in the light of inclusive education, and how they negotiate the tensions and contradictions emerging from the ... -
Rural education and rural realities: the politics and possibilities of rural research in southern Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)Abstract not available
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