Browsing PER: 2015 Volume 18 No 6 (Special Edition) by Issue Date
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The role of law in prompting parents to participate accountably with education partners
(2015)Bearing in mind the previous Gauteng Education MEC's recent indication that "discipline starts at home",1 our article focuses on what South African law has contributed during the past 20 years to prompt parents participate ... -
Between norms and facts: the constitutional court's commitment to pluralism in South Africa's radically heterogeneous public schools
(2015)The recognition of pluralism constitutes a golden thread that runs through the Constitutional Court’s entire oeuvre of work. This ‘right to be different’ finds its initial footing in Gauteng Education Bill, Prince, and ... -
Educator sexual misconduct: exposing or causing learners to be exposed to child pornography or pornography
(2015)The law recognises that non-contact sexual offences can cause harm and several offences were created to regulate non-contact sexual child abuse offences. Several of these offences deal with the exposure or causing exposure ... -
Reconceptualising the standard of care in Sport: the case of youth rugby in England and South Africa
(2015)Sport is an important area of civil society in both South Africa and England, and this article is broadly concerned with the relationship between sport and personal injury. More specifically, the article compares how rugby ... -
The right to freedom of expression: the mother of our democracy
(2015)This paper explores student-teachers' understanding of the right to freedom of expression in education. Analyses of case law and legal principles affirm that the right to freedom of expression is an essential prerequisite ... -
School governing body election deficiencies: deliberative democracy knocking at the door
(2015)As forums, School Governing Bodies have the makings of a great and unique South African democratic tradition as they reflect local deliberations, participative decision-making by stakeholders in education. The main contention ... -
Experiences and challenges of evidence leaders ("prosecutors") in learner disciplinary hearings in public schools
(2015)After the abolition of corporal punishment at schools, teachers have been faced with an increase in unacceptable learner behaviour and threatening situations in their classrooms. An urgent need arose to address learner ... -
A dance or a marriage? The relationship between education and the law in South Africa some personal observations from two vantage points
(2015)This article deals with the debate in education and law circles about the convergence of the two fields of knowledge in an area conveniently called education law. It recognises that there is no universal acknowledgement ... -
Cyberbullying: should schools choose between safety and privacy?
(2015)In this theoretical article, we explore the tangled messiness of the application of human rights versus the 21st-century monster called "cyberbullying" in schools and focus on some of the challenges schools face daily. The ... -
The nexus between the rights to life and to a basic education in South Africa
(2015)This article aims at exploring the nexus between the fundamental rights to life and to a basic education within the ambit of the legal framework created by both the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and ...
