By Wally Morrow
Spanning pivotal years within the historical democratization of South Africa, this research offers a trenchant mirrored image of upper schooling in transition. Penned by means of certainly one of South Africa’s most advantageous philosophers of schooling, the critique grapples with very actual matters in greater schooling policymaking and perform, together with stakeholder politics, institutional cultures, and curriculum transformation and interrogation of the functionality of upper schooling associations in sleek societies. Exposing the tensions among egalitarian rules and the character of upper wisdom, the essays bring up inquiries to which there are no simple solutions. With attribute rigor, the research appears to be like into the assumptions underlying a lot of the puzzling over those questions and concludes failure to sharpen considering round greater education is a failure to acknowledge the epistemic worth of educational perform in a constructing democracy.
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37). On the one hand, they devoted their lives and work to the liberation of the working class, as the oppressed and exploited class in industrial society but, on the other hand, they ‘emphasize both the necessity and desirability of even human slavery in promoting human progress’ (p. 37). Engels claims that in ancient Greece the ‘introduction of slavery under the conditions prevailing at the time was a great step forward’ because ‘Without slavery, no Greek state, no Greek art and science; without slavery no Roman Empire’ (p.
185–193) and the councils, senates and forums of institutions (pp. 3 41 B ounds of democracy Nonetheless, the superbly succinct statement of our common aspirations, which we find in pages 70–76, is likely to be broadly endorsed by anyone who has the future of our country and its higher education system near to their hearts. The problem (which stands at the centre of the main line of argument) is that, given the resources available in and to the higher education system, these aspirations are unattainable within the framework of the traditional culture of Higher Education.
But, in order to make it into a sharp and useful tool in our thinking, we need to spell out clearly what we mean. For a start, consider the definition of open learning provided in the (very useful) glossary in the Report: Open learning: A flexible, learner-centred approach to education, seeking to increase access to educational opportunities by removing all unnecessary barriers to learning. This involves using the full spectrum of available resources to ensure quality and costeffectiveness in meeting diverse educational needs, including preparation of the widest possible range of learners for the process of lifelong learning.