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View article: Turning the spotlight on the politics, power and problems in primary education
Turning the spotlight on the politics, power and problems in primary education Open
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View article: Why so few Ps become As: The character, choices and challenges of South Africa’s most talented young researchers
Why so few Ps become As: The character, choices and challenges of South Africa’s most talented young researchers Open
In this research article, we examine why so few of the most promising young scientists in South Africa, those who obtain a P or ‘prestigious’ rating from the South African National Research Foundation, go on to obtain an A rating, i.e. bec…
Developing a Comprehensive Higher Education Service Quality Model in Ethiopian Context Open
The existing literature lacks a comprehensive service quality model to measure higher education service quality, particularly from the Ethiopian higher education context. The main purpose of this study was to address this literature gap. T…
View article: Shedding light on the vexed question of science and uncertainty
Shedding light on the vexed question of science and uncertainty Open
Slim brings this formidable talent to connect to a wary readership on pandemics by detailing what actually happened in the rarified atmosphere of the COVID-years.I learnt for the first time that there were famous scientists who, in Slim's …
View article: Care and academic work in a pandemic lockdown: a study of women academics in South Africa
Care and academic work in a pandemic lockdown: a study of women academics in South Africa Open
The lack of women in leadership across higher education has been problematised in the literature. Often, contemporary discourses promote “fixing the women” as a solution. Consequently, interventions aimed at helping women break through “th…
View article: Learning from COVID-19: A social science perspective on pandemic medicine. Comments on Benatar (S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(11/12))
Learning from COVID-19: A social science perspective on pandemic medicine. Comments on Benatar (S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(11/12)) Open
Understanding the public health crisis in the wake of COVID-19 requires the complementary knowledges of the biomedical and the social sciences.It also demands that we examine closely the ways in which health inequalities between the Global…
View article: Academics in Lockdown: A Gendered Perspective on Self-Esteem in Academia during the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown
Academics in Lockdown: A Gendered Perspective on Self-Esteem in Academia during the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown Open
This qualitative research explores the experiences and sense-making of self-worth of 1857 South African women academics during the enforced pandemic lockdown between March and September 2020; the study was conducted through an inductive, c…
View article: The problem with decolonisation: entanglements in the politics of knowledge
The problem with decolonisation: entanglements in the politics of knowledge Open
In the heat of the decolonisation struggles of the 2000s, there has been little space or tolerance for conceptual criticism of this important moment in global history. Using the South African case, this article outlines some of the dilemma…
View article: The changing meaning of ‘home’ in the work of South African women academics during the pandemic-enforced lockdown
The changing meaning of ‘home’ in the work of South African women academics during the pandemic-enforced lockdown Open
This article shows how the meaning of home and ‘working from home’ were fundamentally transformed by the pandemic-enforced lockdown for women academics. Drawing on the experiences of more than 2,000 women academics, we show how the endurin…
The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences Open
This book combines fascinating histories of medicine with contemporary politics of medicine in the African continent.
View article: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Female Academics with Young Children in South Africa
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Female Academics with Young Children in South Africa Open
Against the backdrop of an increase in research on the effects of COVID-19, this article uses the analysis of survey data of female academics from the 26 higher education institutions in South Africa to identify how female academics with y…
View article: How COVID reconfigured family relationships: Explaining the work of academic women through the lens of complexity theory
How COVID reconfigured family relationships: Explaining the work of academic women through the lens of complexity theory Open
Since 2020, there has been a flurry of research on the impact of Covid-19 on families, and some research on the effects of the pandemic on academic parents. However, little is known about how the pandemic reshaped academic women’s family l…
View article: The New Scholar’s Journey
The New Scholar’s Journey Open
Imagine that on your first academic appointment in a
View article: Breaking into a free state of mind: Rationale and evidence for ‘study abroad’ out of rural South Africa
Breaking into a free state of mind: Rationale and evidence for ‘study abroad’ out of rural South Africa Open
This edited volume reveals how the journey of transformation at the University of the Free State (UFS) became interwoven with student leadership development and global learning. The UFS initiated two intersecting co-curricular programmes, …
View article: Leadership for Change: Developing transformational student leaders through global learning spaces
Leadership for Change: Developing transformational student leaders through global learning spaces Open
This edited volume reveals how the journey of transformation at the University of the Free State (UFS) became interwoven with student leadership development and global learning. The UFS initiated two intersecting co-curricular programmes, …
View article: Who gets in and why? Race, class and aspiration in South Africa’s elite schools
Who gets in and why? Race, class and aspiration in South Africa’s elite schools Open
A main road snakes from the City Bowl in the north to Fish Hoek in the south, along which corridor sit some of the most prestigious academic schools on the continent, in sight of Africa’s leading tertiary institution, the University of Cap…
View article: ‘More eyes on the problem’: What the social sciences and humanities allow us to see and do in response to COVID-19
‘More eyes on the problem’: What the social sciences and humanities allow us to see and do in response to COVID-19 Open
CITATION: Jansen, J. 2020. More eyes on the problem : what the social sciences and humanities allow us to see and do in response to COVID-19. South African Journal of Science, 116(7/8), Art. #8501, doi:10.17159/sajs.2020/8501.