Browsing Faculty of Education by Author "Du Preez, Petro"
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Critical Transformation in Higher Education: Ethical Reflections on #Mustfall Movements and Concomitant Gender-Based Violence
Du Preez, Petro; Simmonds, Shan Robyn; Chetty, Desiree John (Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2017)Protest movements such as the #MustFall currently dominate the South African higher education landscape. This article focuses on such protest movements, paying particular attention to protests against gender-based violations ... -
Discourse Shaping Human Rights Education Research in south Africa: Future considerations
Simmonds, Shan Robyn; Du Preez, Petro (Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2017)Human rights education is critiqued for being traditionalist and conceptually imprisoned. This view stems from the distrust in its ability to transform deeply rooted injustices and inequalities etched within South Africa's ... -
Human rights values or cultural values? Pursuing values to maintain positive discipline in multicultural schools
Du Preez, Petro; Roux, Cornelia Delina (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2010) -
Ideological illusions, human rights and the right to education: the in(ex)clusion of the poor in post-apartheid education
Becker, Anne; Du Preez, Petro (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2016)Against the background of global concern about the political and social consequences of human rights, this article uses an ideological lens to explore the (non)existence of the right to education in South Africa. We argue ... -
Participative intervention research: the development of professional programmes for in-service teachers
Roux, Cornelia; Du Preez, Petro (Taylor & FrancisUnisa Press co-published journal, 2008) -
Reconciliation through dialogical nostalgia in post-confict societies: a curriculum to intersect
Du Preez, Petro (Routledge, 2014)The curriculum has been proposed as a powerful means with the potential to initiate social transformation. It reflects the dominant social, economical and political discourses and for this reason it seems reasonable to ... -
Teaching-learning and curriculum development for human rights education: two sides of the same coin
Du Preez, Petro; Simmonds, Shan; Roux, Cornelia (University of KwaZulu Natal, 2012)The diverse nature of South African classrooms presents a number of challenges. One of these is creating a culture of human rights. Although South African school curricula promote the infusion of human rights, teachers are ... -
Understanding how we understand girls' voices on cultural and religious practices: toward a curriculum for justice
Simmonds, Shan Robyn; Du Preez, Petro (Educational Association of South Africa (EASA), 2011)It is imperative to take account of the many faces of justice when exploring the elements of a curriculum for justice. Justice is not only about equity, equality and fairness, but about creating spaces where people can ...