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oapen-20.500.12657-494062021-06-04T01:06:10Z Education Studies in South Africa Wolhuter, Charl C. Ankiah-Gangadeen, Aruna Botha, Carolina Khanare, Fumane P. Kruger, Corné Kwatubana, Siphokazi Munje, Paul N. Muthusamy, Nirashnee Nadal, Pascal S. Rens, Julialet Schoonen, Andri Spamer, Tanja Wessels, Elsabé Whalen, Catherine Wood, Lesley Wolhuter, Charl C. Education research Relevance Rigour Restructuring Structure Classroom management Teaching and learning bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies & policy The thesis of this volume is that the fields of scholarly enquiry of Education — internationally as well as in South Africa in particular — despite being fields of virile scholarly activity and output, are in need of a major overhaul. In this collected work this want in research is encapsulated in three words: relevance, rigour and restructuring. Research in the scholarly field(s) of Education is predominantly of small scale, non-accumulative, widely condemned as not of a comparable standard to research done in other social sciences, much less upon a par with research in the natural sciences, and lacking structure in the sense of being anchored in a firm theory. To make matters worse, scholars in Education internationally and in South Africa have till very recently eschewed discussion as to the packaging or structuring of knowledge produced by Education research. The book consists of chapters containing original research unpacking these desiderata from a variety of angles. The authors had them served by a variety of methods, from deductively argued position papers, to empirical research, the latter both quantitative (survey research) and qualitative. 2021-06-03T09:33:01Z 2021-06-03T09:33:01Z 2020 book ONIX_20210603_9781928523604_3 9781928523604 9781928523581 9781928523598 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49406 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9781928523604.pdf https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/155 AOSIS 10.4102/aosis.2020.BK155 10.4102/aosis.2020.BK155 d7387d49-5f5c-4cd8-8640-ed0a752627b7 208c8d2f-51b9-4ce8-94fd-a03ac746f4e3 9781928523604 9781928523581 9781928523598 408 Durbanville [grantnumber unknown] North-West University Noordwes-Universiteit open access
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The thesis of this volume is that the fields of scholarly enquiry of Education — internationally as well as in South Africa in particular — despite being fields of virile scholarly activity and output, are in need of a major overhaul. In this collected work this want in research is encapsulated in three words: relevance, rigour and restructuring. Research in the scholarly field(s) of Education is predominantly of small scale, non-accumulative, widely condemned as not of a comparable standard to research done in other social sciences, much less upon a par with research in the natural sciences, and lacking structure in the sense of being anchored in a firm theory. To make matters worse, scholars in Education internationally and in South Africa have till very recently eschewed discussion as to the packaging or structuring of knowledge produced by Education research. The book consists of chapters containing original research unpacking these desiderata from a variety of angles. The authors had them served by a variety of methods, from deductively argued position papers, to empirical research, the latter both quantitative (survey research) and qualitative.
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