Side Events

Nelson Mandela Legacy Lecture

Date: 22 September 2022
Time: 17h00 – 18h30
Venue: Webinar

The lecture will critically engage with Mandela’s celebrated statement that “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Without diminishing the importance of education, the lecture will argue that it is but one strand (albeit a crucial one) in the tapestry of economic, political, social and ecological policies and practices. Education itself is shaped by the economic and social structures of society and the agency of social forces that constitute racialised, classed and gendered lives. In this crucible, education can reproduce extant social relations and inequality or it can transform them.

Speaker: Prof Salim Vally

Early Career Researchers (ECRs) ONL INE WORKSHOP

Date: 19 October 2022 
Time: 15:00 to 16:45
Venue: Webinar

From a long PhD to a short article: an invitation to early career researchers

SAERA aims to professionalise, cohere, and improve educational research and academic work in South Africa. For this reason, SAERA invites ECRs from higher education institutions to this online workshop. The workshop aims to equip ECRs with relevant skills and knowledge on producing an article(s) from their Masters and/or PhD study.
An Early Career Researcher (ECR) is someone who has completed his/her PhD within the last five (5) years and/or persons who are still pursuing a Doctoral or Masters studies or a postdoc.
There is no cost to attend the workshop. However, registration is required in order to receive the workshop link.

For more information please contact: modismp@unisa.ac.za

Speakers: Prof Michael Samuel, Dr Carmelita Jacobs, Dr Bridget Horner & Dr Mphoentle Modise

Pre-conference workshop 1: Posthumanism and curriculum inquiry

Date: 25 October 2022
Time: 13h00 – 16h00
Venue: Auditorium 2, Two Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town, South Africa

Overview:

In this workshop the presenters will interactively engage attendees with theoretical and philosophical discourses that have shaped curriculum inquiry and that is still shaping it. Particular attention will be placed on posthumanism and what it means for curriculum inquiry in broad terms. We take our cue from Snaza, Appelbaum, Bayne, Carlson, Morris, Rotas, Sanlin, Wallin and Weaver (2014:52) who argue that “while we cannot offer any specific vision of what a new posthumanist curriculum studies will do, we are at the dead end of humanism, and now, together, we have to burrow in other directions”. As such, it raises questions as to what, where and how curriculum scholars might ‘burrow’ differently?

Speakers: Shan Simmonds; Lesley le Grange; Labby Ramrathan; Suriamurthee Maistry; Chris Reddy; Sylvan Blignaut; Petro du Preez

Pre-conference workshop 2: Starting to Write an Academic Article Journal

Date: 25 October 2022
Time: 13h00 – 16h00
Venue: Auditorium 1, Two Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town, South Africa

Overview: 

The process of writing an academic article starts with knowing what contribution to want to add to the body of scholarship. In this workshop, we will start at the beginning: clarifying what your argument is and knowing who you wish to persuade. This means selecting appropriate journals for your paper in terms of choosing the right audience as well as thinking about your own career trajectory. You will work on writing your abstract first as a way to clarify your thinking and focus. 

The workshop will be helpful to anyone new to the process of publishing journal articles. It will be particularly useful if you come with an idea for a paper that you can work on as there will be some time in the workshop for thinking and writing.

Speaker: Prof Carol Bertram, School of Education, UKZN

Book Launch & Cocktails

Date: 25 October 2022
Time: 18h30 – 19h30
Venue: Shark Tank Exhibition, Two Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town, South Africa

Join us for cocktails at the pre-conference book launch. 
It will be held in the Shark Tank Exhibition.

Books to be presented: 

THE CHANGING FACE OF COLONIAL EDUCATION IN AFRICA: EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT

ACADEMICS AND STUDENT-TEACHERS CHAMPION INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES IN SOUTH AFRICA: EXPERIENCES, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

WORKING BETWEEN THE FOLDS: SCHOOL LEADERS’ REIMAGINING SCHOOL LIFE

Author: Peter Kallaway

Editors: Yusuf Sayed and Nicoleen Janneker

Authors: Labby Ramrathan, Daisy Pillay and Inbanathan Naicker