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Topic: South African Education

Project

How do you sign it? Creating a multimedia multilingual descriptive grammar of South African Sign Language on a digital platform

In August 2023 South African Sign Language (SASL) became the 12th language to be officially recognized in South Africa. This has drastically...

Anne Baker Anne Baker

Publication

Measuring the legal protection of academic freedom: The scorecard for South Africa

Beiter, K. D., & Karran, T. 2025. Measuring the legal protection of academic freedom: The scorecard for South Africa. South African Jour...

Klaus Beiter Klaus Beiter

Publication

Language, translanguaging, and epistemic justice: Multilingual learning across the curriculum

Kerfoot, Caroline. 2024. Language, translanguaging, and epistemic justice: Multilingual learning across the curriculum. South African Journa...

Caroline Kerfoot Caroline Kerfoot

Project

Towards epistemic justice: Language, identity, and relations of knowing in postcolonial schools

This project is concerned with the role of language in epistemic justice, defined as an ethical project of reversing epistemic exclusions, mitigating epistemic harm, and seeking parity of epistemic authority for historically marginalized speakers and knowers.

Caroline Kerfoot Caroline Kerfoot

Publication

STIAS Series Volume 13: Race in Education

Race in Education Gerhard Maré (Editor) SUN PRESS (2019, 139pp) ISBN: 978-1-928480-14-3 https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928480150 For a prev...

Gerhard Mare Gerhard Mare

Project

A transdisciplinary analysis of the role of social identity on performance under social stratification and stigmatisation

The emergent fields of stratification economics and identity economics offer new theoretical insights for explaining economic inequality, specifically the unique role that intersectionality (the existence of multiple social identities) might play.

Debra Shepherd Debra Shepherd