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Debating High Skills and Joined-up Policy
Andre Kraak, Hugh Lauder, ...

Human Sciences Research Council, 2007

Debates about good governance are increasingly focused on the coordination failure that occurs when several agencies are required to act in concert with each other, and this monograph looks at just such a case in the South African government's efforts to "join up" education and work to produce a skilled labor force.

The Recognition of Prior Learning Power, Pedagogy & Possibility: Conceptual and Implementation Guide
Judy Harris

Human Sciences Research Council, 2000

RPL: Power, Pedagogy and Possibility is a useful guide for academics, planners, policy-makers and practitioners who deal with the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). Its theme of "knowledgeable practice" marks a departure from much international literature in that it understands RPL as a social practice situated in context, rather than as a set of neutral technical procedures. The Conceptual Guide presents the theoretical perspectives developed ...

Human Resources Development Review 2008: Education, Employment and Skills in South Africa

Human Sciences Research Council, 2008

Through 25 chapters authored by some of the leading researchers in the field, this extensive overview outlines the contextual factors driving human resources development in South Africa. A key theme throughout the volume is the importance of a multifaceted skills-development strategy operating at three levels. The first entails high-skills policies aimed at expanding export-oriented manufacturing production and services provision, particularly ...

Shifting Understandings of Skills in South Africa: Overcoming the Historical Imprint of a Low Skills Regime

Human Sciences Research Council, 2005

The South African preoccupation with worker skills and skills acquisition is addressed and analyzed in this compilation of essays on the multiple and shifting meanings of the word skill within the country.

Changing Modes: New Knowledge Production and Its Implications for Higher Education in South Africa

Human Sciences Research Council, 2000

This book examines the influence of an important body of international literature on the development of post-apartheid policies in higher education and training and in science and technology. Known as the "Mode Two" knowledge debate, it refers to the emergence of a new mode of knowledge production which has its origins in the synergy and cross-fertilisation taking place between established disciplines, and in the interaction of higher education ...

An Overview of South African Human Resources Development
Andre Kraak

Human Sciences Research Council, 2005

Using theory and social research, this overview of human resources development in South Africa focuses on three institutional subsystems in South African society?the youth labor market, the world of work, and the national system of science and innovation. Arguing for policy implementation, this volume identifies five key determinants?from educational institutions to the absence of internal labor market practices?to study the possibility of ...

Education in Retrospect: Policy and Implementation Since 1990

Human Sciences Research Council, 2001

Education in Retrospect presents a view of the general relationship between theory, policy and its implementation as it applies to curriculum reform. However, the specific focus of this book is on the role of qualifications; work-based learning; and the broader issue of unifying the systems of further and higher education. Firstly, the book aims to be a contribution to the current range of policy reviews. Secondly, there are many aspects of ...