Curriculum lies at the core of education and higher learning, yet its study and practice grow more complex amid global challenges. This volume explores how African universities navigate curriculum in the context of COVID-19, calls for decolonisation, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, it examines the tensions between traditional, Eurocentric edu…
A collection of essays by leading experts explores how open education—encompassing open technology, content, and knowledge—can fundamentally shift the economics and dynamics of learning. Drawing on diverse initiatives—from courseware and simple games to open-source platforms—contributors highlight the untapped potential of shared educational resources. They call for not just technical i…
Since inclusive education was introduced in South Africa in 2001, its success has depended on robust support services for both learners and teachers facing barriers. This book examines support systems at multiple levels—school-based teams, district-based teams, and special/full-service schools—highlighting their current fragmented implementation across the country.
This insightful meta‑narrative examines the global “natural experiment” of COVID‑19–induced distance education and explores its effects— or lack thereof—on school culture and traditional educational norms. Despite the massive shift to online teaching precipitated by the pandemic, the authors argue that core roles, relationships, and hierarchies between students and teachers in sch…
This open-access volume provides a solid theoretical foundation and empirical insight into the pedagogical dimensions of leadership in higher education. Framed by Non-Affirmative Theory (NAT), the book explores how educational leadership operates simultaneously across multiple levels—supranational/national policy, organizational structures, and interpretive interactional practices within clas…
This open-access book explores how Open Science practices can transform higher education, especially in response to global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It promotes a shift toward openness, collaboration, and transparency in research, education, and innovation. The contributors examine how open data, open access publishing, and citizen science can enhance the quality, relevance, and…
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring their current structures, challenges, and development potentials. It brings together case studies and research from various countries in the region, focusing on how VET can contribute to economic growth, employment, and poverty reduction. The volume highlights the diversity …
This edited volume explores the learning trajectories and identities of non-traditional adult learners across varied educational settings, emphasizing both continuity and discontinuity in their learning careers. Based on European and international case studies, the book examines how social inequalities—including class, gender, ethnicity, age, and disability—both enable and constrain adults …
This open‑access volume, edited by Muchativugwa L. Hove and Martha Matashu, explores the complex interplay between education, social justice, gendered violence, and human rights within South African schools and universities. Drawing on rich and diverse classroom-based scholarship, the contributors examine how the “economies of education” and social justice imperatives shape the live…
This book presents a rich, longitudinal narrative spanning over 50 years of research into Sri Lanka’s education system. It highlights the nation’s early strengths in literacy and education—once viewed internationally as a development benchmark—and examines how these gains evolved amid political, economic, and social upheavals. Through collaborations with local researchers, educators, …