Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts

Saturday, 8 October 2016

Multilingualism

Some notes, links and papers.

Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng nee Setati
Recently appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor Research at UCT
She was at Wits, then at UNISA and now she is at UCT

http://www.uct.ac.za/dailynews/?id=9535

http://www.becomingyou.co.za/women-at-work-an-interview-with-professor-mamokgethi-phakeng/

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/78181996_Mamokgethi_Setati

MAMOKGETHI SETATI and JILL ADLER
BETWEEN LANGUAGES AND DISCOURSES: LANGUAGE
PRACTICES IN PRIMARY MULTILINGUAL MATHEMATICS
CLASSROOMS IN SOUTH AFRICA
http://moscow.sci-hub.bz/6ccc9e4059ebcfa562eecdcf71d20322/setati2000.pdf

Teaching Mathematics in a Primary Multilingual Classroom
Mamokgethi Setati
University of theW itwatersrand
http://moscow.sci-hub.bz/a87435f6a5b309faadee2952c100b4bf/10.2307@30034945.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anthony_Essien/publication/280942447_Research_on_multilingualism_in_mathematics_education_in_South_Africa_2000-2007/links/55cdadb008aebebb8f578608.pdf?origin=publication_list&ev=auth_pub_xdl

http://cyber.sci-hub.bz/MTAuNTk1MS9qcmVzZW1hdGhlZHVjLjQ0LjEuMDExOQ==/10.5951@jresematheduc.44.1.0119.pdf

http://mamokgethi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Kgethi-CV-March-2014.pdf

http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/email/AbridgedCV.Phakeng.Dec2015.Final.pdf


THE CALCULUS OF SOCIAL CHANGE – MATHEMATICS AT THE CUTTING EDGE
Mamokgethi Setati Phakeng (Chair)
University of South Africa
The aim of this plenary panel is to explore the idea of a Mathematics Education that is at the cutting edge and on the cusp/crest of making a difference, hence the title, “The Calculus of Social Change – Mathematics at the Cutting Edge”. This theme will be addressed by four panellists. In this introduction I give the rationale for the plenary panel and describe how it has been organised.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.671.2061&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=353

Thursday, 6 October 2016

The Universities and the challenges facing South Africa.

Our country is in crisis and our universities reflect that instability.
What is the actual situation at our universities?
Here are some articles which describe the challenges facing our universities
Please note that my publishing these links does not necessarily reflect my agreement or disagreement with the views expressed. I publish them with the intent of trying to understand the problems from as many different perspectives as possible.

1. The UCT Vice-Chancellor, Dr Max Price's restrained report on the UCT situation on Tuesday the 4th October 2016.
https://www.uct.ac.za/dailynews/?id=9989

A report dated 4th November about the arrest of a UCT activist:
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/uct-fallist-masixole-mlandu-arrested-again-for-vio

2. Pastor  Xola Skosana's war with privileged spaces
http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2016/06/10/pastor-xola-skosana-declares-war/ 

3. The thoughts of a socialist student leader - Athabile Nonxuba
http://www.studentinvestor.co.za/athabile-nonxuba-feesmustfall-interview/


4, Wits student leader Mcebo Dlamini
https://madibazradio.wordpress.com/politics/political-report-by-qhawe-ka-mkhwane/the-rise-and-fall-of-mcebo-dlamini/

5. Three old ones from 2013 and 2014 when Adam Habib had just been appointed vice-chancellor of Wits
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-08-30-00-mg-litfest-imagination-needed-to-face-this-new-moment-of-reckoning

http://www.financialmail.co.za/coverstory/2014/01/23/which-sa-universities-get-top-marks

http://mg.co.za/article/2014-11-07-varsities-we-darent-let-the-bucks-stop-here

6. A recent article about South African Business schools
http://www.financialmail.co.za/coverstory/2016/09/29/ranking-the-mbas-which-business-school-is-in-the-driving-seat

7. A overview of the senior management at UCT
https://www.uct.ac.za/about/management/execdirectors/

8. A New York Times Article about affirmative action at UCT
https://www.criminology-dev.uct.ac.za/usr/about/intro/transformation/new_york_times.pdf

9. Two articles from Achille Mbembe
 
http://mg.co.za/article/2016-09-22-mantashe-and-student-protesters-agree-on-university-shutdowns-but-this-is-the-last-thing-africa-needs-1