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The Story of South African Academic Development in International Perspective: Have We Lost the Plot?
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Direct linkVolbrecht, T. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2003
South African Academic Development (AD) emerged as a liberatory educational and social movement in the 1980s. AD (often called educational development) has burgeoned as an international phenomenon, but with a focus on quality rather than on liberation. South African AD now seems to be struggling to construct its post-apartheid identity, if one…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Social Change, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
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The objectives of the Launching Conference of the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) are reviewed, and its recommendations are explored. The conference participants considered how theories, teaching, and administrative practices in distance education worldwide could be used to design a new distance education system for a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Networks, Conferences, Democracy
