School-university partnerships for educational change in rural South Africa : particular challenges and practical cases / edited by Faisal Islam ... [and others] ; with a foreword by C.A. Odora Hoppers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Islam, Faisal.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College-school cooperation--South Africa.

College-school cooperation.

Education, Rural--South Africa.

Education, Rural.

Teachers--Training of--South Africa.

Teachers.

Teachers--Training of.

South Africa.

Educational change--South Africa.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

viii, 264 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2011]

Contents:

School-university partnerships for educational change: an introduction / Faisal Islam ... [et al.]

Understanding rurality in the troubling context: prospects and challenges / Robert Balfour, Claudia Mitchell, and Relebohile Moletsane

School-university partnerships in preparing new teachers: possibilities and limitations / Faisal Islam

Transforming teacher education?: a rural teacher education project experience / Claudia Mitchell ... [et al.]

The challenge of teaching in under-resourced schools: a reflection on preservice teachers' journals / Vitallis Chikoko

Taking photographs, forming partnerships / Patricia Staniforth and Caitlin Wake

Finding allies and making connections in rural classrooms in addressing HIV and AIDS / Katie MacEntee

A university-school partnership in preparing preservice teachers to work in rural schools: a case study of blogging / John Pascarella

After-school engagement activities, teacher education, and service learning in a rural school in KwaZulu-Natal: challenges and opportunities / Rodney Handelsman

Youth as knowledge producers: re-visioning teacher/learner roles through extracurricular activities / Jean Stuart, Dorothe Raht, and Jessica Smith

What do schools gain?: one school's perspective on the school-university partnership / Faisal Islam

The experiences and expectations of mentor teachers in two rural schools / Martin Combrinck and Mari van Wyk

Landscape shapes mindscape: partnerships as agency in a community of learning / Jane Pennefeather

"What will we do with 24 ducks?": building community partnerships / Naydene de Lange and Martin Combrinck

New teachers for new times

and new places / Claudia Mitchell ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0773413987

9780773413986

OCLC:

672300091

Publisher Number:

99944002528