Browsing by Subject "Social justice"
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‘All quiet on the social work front’: experiences of Zimbabwean day labourers in South Africa
(Sage, 2017)Migration, particularly when triggered by economic or political hardship, has significant psychological and socio-economic consequences for the individuals concerned. While an impressive amount of research has been ... -
Appraisal of Selected Themes on the Impact of International Standards on Labour and Social Security Law in South Africa
(PER/PELJ, 2022)For many years, South African courts have relied on International Labour Organisation conventions to interpret and give meaning to the fundamental social security and labour law rights enshrined in the Constitution, 1996. ... -
An assessment of Khayelitsha Churches involvement in social justice from 1994 to 2018 : a public pastoral study
(North-West University (South-Africa), 2021)The purpose of this study is to assess the involvement of churches in Khayelitsha in matters pertaining to social justice from 1994 to 2018. Throughout this study, the researcher seeks to answer the following questions ... -
Can universities meet their mandate to be socially critical as well as constructive?
(HESA / Unisa Press, 2014)This article defends the claim that two conditions facilitate sustainable development, namely, a democratic citizenry, and social justice, and that in establishing these, the university is indispensable and ideally placed. ... -
Citizenship education and human capabilities: lynchpin for sustainable learning environment and social justice
(2013)The paper builds on and contributes to literature in citizenship education studies in higher education. Many studies in this field have explored the history, development and implementation of various forms of citizenship ... -
A collaborative approach to developing social justice praxis through service-learning for teacher education in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2022)In this thesis, I present my learning from working collaboratively with an action learning group to develop guidelines for critical service-learning to foster social justice praxis in teacher education. Pre-service teachers ... -
Creating sustainable postgraduate supervision learning environments through critical emancipatory research
(2013)This article articulates pedagogic praxis for postgraduate supervision couched within sustainable learning environments with emancipatory aims. The paper probes the discourses of hegemony as a form of power that relies ... -
A Critical Analysis of the Impact of the Role of Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration on Social Justice in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2008)Employment relations in South Africa have evolved through various phases culminating in the current dispensation initiated by the democratic system of government in 1994. The South African Constitution is the supreme law ... -
A critical exploration into curriculum transformation at a South African university
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)Curriculum transformation is often seen as a complex and grappling process in the South African and global Higher Education landscape. Transformation often has nuances of political, social, historical, or cultural connections ... -
A critical investigation of the relevance and potential of IDPs as a local governance instrument for pursuing social justice in South Africa
(2013)Unlike the situation in the past, when local government’s role was limited to service delivery, local government is now constitutionally mandated to play an expanded developmental role. As a “co-responsible” sphere of ...