Michael Gardiner
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Multigrade schools and classrooms are the only means of formal education for 30% of primary school learners in the world.
Learning from the community
There have been a number of calls recently to intensify local and community participation in school education. Teacher unions, education MECs, the ANC, committees of enquiry as…
Who will teach the teachers?
Education development centres could be the key to much-needed teacher support THE need for a rethink on the ways in which support for qualified teachers is offered and made…
Adieu to a ‘particular kind of liberal’
Peter Brown is likely to be remembered in South Africa as the national chairperson of the Liberal Party. He was one of its founders in 1953 and was its chairperson when it…
How to change the system
South Africa’s current educational system is very young and very new. The major legislation that expunged the labyrinthine, racist and pedagogically brutal system of the…