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/ 25 April 2005

Local knowledge needs a new home

The launching of the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) and targets set by the African Renaissance project have direct implications for education and training in South Africa and on the African continent. Both of them aim to put Africa at the cutting edge of global development in this century. To achieve this aim, Africa’s […]

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/ 25 April 2005

Integration in the curriculum

‘It is taken for granted, apparently, that in time students will see for themselves how things fit together. Unfortunately, the reality of the situation is that they tend to learn what we teach. If we teach connectedness and integration they learn that. If we teach separation and discontinuity, that is what they learn. To suppose […]