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Purpose: Microteaching is a teacher training method based on microclasses (groups of four or five students) and microlessons lasting no more than 5-20 min. Since it was first explored in the late 20th century in experiments at Stanford University, microteaching has evolved at the interdisciplinary level. The purpose of this paper is to examine the networks found via an analytical bibliometric study of the scientific output related with microteaching in teacher training, through a study and examination of the Web of Science database. Design/methodology/approach: This research was conducted with the VOSviewer tool for content analysis through data mining and scientific network structure mapping by means of the normalisation technique. This technique is based on the association strength indicator, which is interpreted as a measurement of the similarity of the units of analysis. Findings: Two hundred and nine articles were thus obtained from the Web of Science database. The networks generated and the connections among the various items, co-authorship and co-citation are presented in the results, which clearly indicates that there are significant authors and institutions in the field of microteaching. The largest cluster is made up of institutions such as Australian Catholic University. The most often-cited document is by Rich and Hannafin. Allen (1968), who defines microteaching as a technique based on microclasses and microlessons, is the author most often cited and has the largest number of connections. Research limitations/implications: This research's limitations concern either aspects that lie beyond the study's possibilities or goals that have proved unattainable. The second perspective, which focuses on skill transfer, contains a lower percentage of documents and therefore has a weaker central documentary structure. Lastly, the authors have also had to bear in mind the fact that the scientific output hinges upon a highly specific realm, the appearance and/or liberalisation of digital technologies and access to those technologies in the late 20th century. Originality/value: This research shows that microteaching is a promising area of research that opens up vast possibilities in higher education teacher training for application in the realm of technologies. This paper could lead to several lines of future research, such as access to and the universal design of learning from the standpoint of different communication and pedagogical models based on microteaching.

The paper provides an overview of the global research on graduate education. The study applied a combination of a bibliometric and social network analysis methods to bibliographic data from Thompson Reuters' Web of Science. More specifically, a keyword search approach was used to retrieve 2,454 articles on graduate education from 1996 until 2020. The set was processed with the VantagePoint software. The paper reports the findings in the form of lists of top scholars, research centres, and countries contributing to research on graduate education. The findings include similar lists of the key funding agencies, contributing disciplines and publication venues, as well as maps representing collaborative activity in the field between institutions, and countries. Finally, the frequency of utilisation of groups of author-supplied keywords is analysed to determine the basic thematic structure of the research on the topic. The originality of the paper consists in the fact that it represents the first attempt to map the landscape of research on graduate education using bibliographic data. It can be used to supplement the results of literature reviews on the topic, which apply a more in-depth content analysis-based approaches to a limited number of papers to determine the thematic structure of the field.

The scholarly journal is an increasingly homogenised global institution marked by pro forma writing, standardised processes of review and production and uniform design aesthetics. Recognising that this model does not necessarily serve the interdisciplinary agenda of a small community of music scholars in South Africa, the journal South African Music Studies has resisted absorption into large corporate publishing houses. The importance of remaining independent became clear in 2015 and 2016 when the most important student revolts since 1976 forced the editors to reconsider the responsibility of the journal to publish content that responded in interesting and significant ways to the national #FeesMustFall crisis. This paper discusses some of the strategies followed by the editors to foreground -- and indeed, to privilege -- Africa-centred modes of writing and reasoning during this turbulent time. These decolonial strategies included reconceptualising the role of editor as a proactive figure and employing novel modes of structural and visual design. Not without its pitfalls, this editorial approach and its resultant controversies raised important legal questions about freedom of expression and about the scholarly journal as an institution of knowledge production and transformation in Africa.

This essay looks at the influence of ranking and incentive systems on decisions higher education institutions are making with respect to research and academic publishing. It describes and analyses how institutions within the South African higher education system have navigated their way through the contradictory forces confronting them. Characterizing these forces are, on the one hand, the country's higher education policy platform which calls for institutions to address South Africa's legacy issues of inclusion and social redress, and, on the other, the demands for institutions to maintain and grow their research profiles. The paper argues that South African institutions are struggling with this tension, as they struggle to pose, to articulate, and deliberately to respond to the question of what it means to be "excellent." Drawing upon institutional documents in the public domain, this paper shows how significantly this tension animates the decisions that institutions are making about their research and publication policies and practices

In many countries publications in Web of Knowledge journals are dominant in the evaluation of educational research. For various purposes comparisons are made between the output of philosophers of education in these journals and the publications of their colleagues in educational research generally, sometimes also including psychologists and/or social scientists. Taking its starting-point from Hayden's article in this journal ("Stud Philos Educ" 31:1-27, 2012), this paper discusses the situation of educational research in three countries: The Netherlands, South Africa and Norway. In this paper an alternative for comparing research output is offered by invoking comparisons with colleagues at the international level from within the same sub-discipline. It is argued that if one would do so a different picture would emerge, even if one were to limit oneself to particular kinds of publications. The case is then made that if comparisons are regarded as a necessary part of the evaluation of an individual scholar (for appointment, promotion, tenure, and/or funding application purposes), it would be more fair to use a proxy system which is sub-discipline specific, or minimally contains some kind of correction factor in relation to the over-all quality assessment device. Debates about the relevance or irrelevance of philosophy of education in the context of educational sciences are now obscured, even poisoned by focusing almost exclusively on a particular kind of publication output. As the 'reward' system that is developed accordingly is possibly the most important driver of educational research, it puts the sub-discipline unduly under pressure to the extent that it possibly cannot survive.

In this paper, the authors reviewed the empirical augmented reality (AR) and online education studies, and those focused on designing or development of AR to help students learn, published in SSCI, SCI-EXPANDED, and A&HCI journals from 2003 to 2012. The authors in this study found that the number of AR and online education studies has significantly increased since 2009. Based on this review, it is found that contributors from Spain, Romania, Taiwan, and Germany had the most publications on AR and online education during 2003 to 2012. Moreover, the analysis of these selected papers reveals that most empirical AR and online education studies were conducted at universities, as well as in computer science courses. Furthermore, the quantitative research method was used more in the reviewed papers. The findings and analysis from this review may provide potential directions and insights for future AR and online education research.

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of highly cited articles published in the Web of Science category "Education and Educational Research" in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). A total of 2091 journal articles published in this category and cited more than 100 times up to the end of the year 2016 were retrieved as highly cited articles. Distributions of highly cited articles per publication year, journals, institutions and countries were analysed, as well as the citation life cycle of the top-cited articles. The USA, its institutions and researchers are the absolute leaders in the category of Education and Educational Research according to the results of the conducted analysis.

This paper aims to map the landscape of higher education transformation in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations while exploring the status of BRICS nations in some of the global university rankings and analysing their potential to give new meaning to notions such as excellent and world-class universities. The study provides different theoretical perspectives about global university ranking and about the notion of "world-class/excellence." Based on the literature exploration, the gathered data from some of the global university ranking agencies and the critical reflections from purposefully selected respondents, it is considered that the quest for world-class universities is articulated in several public policy documents of BRICS nations. While some attempts to achieve this quest vary (e.g. from China's strong effort to India's least effort), BRICS nations, like many other nations, seem to evolve towards this ambition, as universities have become the centre point of the development agenda. The ability of BRICS nations to provide new meaning to "world-class/excellence" notions, although not clear, cannot be disputed given the indications that the BRICS bloc is emerging as an alternative economic force and the role higher education is playing in this emergence.

The call for paper for the August 2007 issue of "South African Journal of Education" is presented.

The article presents guidelines for submitting papers for publication in the "Society in Transition," the journal of the South African Sociological Association. Three paper copies must be submitted. An electronic copy of the final version of the manuscript can be sent by email to the scientific editor. The first page should contain the following: title of the article, the author's name, address, email address and the abstract. Each article must be preceded by a short abstract and a short list of five important keywords should be provided.

In the context of open-access (OA) academic publishing, the mounting pressure cross global academe to publish or perish has spawned an exponentially growing number of dodgy academic e-journals charging high fees to authors, often US$300-650, and even triple that amount, promising super-fast processing and publication open-access (OA) online. Jeffrey Beall (Scholarly Open Access, http://scholarlyoa.com) has characterized this phenomenon as "predatory OA publishing," since it is oriented largely to extorting a high fee from authors. This exponential growth in start-up cyber-journals galore of questionable quality and dubious upstart origin is driven largely by the globalization of Euro-Atlantic research cultures into the Global South and lower-income economies everywhere, part of the now rapid internationalization of scientific research (Jha 2011) and "researching under the audit" (Illner 2011: 70), and is potentially a form of "academic racketeering." It tends to attract and exploit lesser-privileged academics, often on "knowledge production peripheries." They are a segment of a hugely expanding global constellation of researchers, in some ways a "research proletariat" (Harvie 2000), many of whom can can least afford the "cyber-services" of these start-up, fee-gouging OA journals. Yet researchers anywhere, including doctoral students and others in an "academic precariat," may be lured to publish there, given a turnaround time of three weeks from submission to acceptance and publication often offered and implemented (Stratford 2012). A certain kind of "market cynicism" (Power 2010) may take hold, where young academics are forced to think of themselves largely in economic terms and the "price" of quick dubious publication. In essential ways, the phenomenon of predatory academic journals is also part of the largely ex-colonial and subalternized "academic periphery striking back" against that Eurodominance of research cultures, involving basic contestations about asymmetrical power and representation and the geopolitics of hegemonic and subaltern knowledge production and dissemination on a global scale, the "coloniality of power/knowledge" (Quijano 2000; Grosvoguel 2008; Jaramillo 2012) within the changing face of biopolitical production and the emergence of a new "common" (Hardt 2010; Hardt & Negri 2009) inside globalized immaterial capitalist production. Racist subtexts about "academic scams based in Africa and South Asia" need to be confronted and avoided. In resisting trends toward corporate, high-cost Western-dominated academic publication, cost-free OA knowledge publication paradigms need to be expanded in the (re)appropriation of a "knowledge commons" under late capitalism. These include arXiv.org, journals like JCEPS, the Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Qualitative Social Research (bit.ly/xjc0mD), and more than 7,000 others associated with the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org) -- in the spirit of the Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics (bit.ly/zPYYFJ) and the work of the Public Knowledge Project (http://pkp.sfu.ca), Open Journal Systems (tinyurl.com/2ydklr), SciELO (http://socialsciences.scielo.org/) in Latin America--and other initiatives for "Green OA" in open-access repositories elsewhere. These OA needs to be reconceived in the struggle for a "communism of the common" (Hardt 2010: 140). That re appropriation and its self-organization should become a main goal in confronting and dismantling the regime of monopolistic knowledge control today by giant "knowledge enclosure" corporations like Thomson-Reuters, Springer and Wiley. A key aim of the present paper is to spotlight these "predatory" journals and urge further empirical research. Despite the huge amount of largely bourgeois analysis of OA, there is very scant critical inquiry into such academic journals and their burgeoning conglomerates.

Presents the preface for the September 1, 2002 issue of "Environmental and Applied Acarology", which contains the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens held at The Banff Centre in Banff Alberta, Canada, from 21 to 26 July 2002. Continuation of the tradition established in 1992 at the first Conference in St. Paul Minnesota, USA, and developed subsequently at Kruger National Park, South Africa (1995) and the High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia (1999); Further division of the papers into sessions concerning the tick?pathogen interface (three papers), tick?host interface (3 papers), tick?host?pathogen interface (8 papers), remote sensing and mapping of tick-borne pathogens (3 papers) and finally session six containing six papers dealing with various aspects of tick control; Acknowledgement of those contributing to such a successful conference:.

The article presents abstracts of articles published in "International Journal of Urban and Regional Research." South Africa's urban landscape is undergoing a period of rapid change. This is due to increasing levels of black urbanization and the repeal of apartheid legislation governing urban settlement. The aim of the paper "The changing face of the South African City: From apartheid to the deracialization of space" is to schematically sketch out the diverse urban processes occurring in South Africa. It is argued that while the racial dimension of the urban landscape in South Africa is changing, the urban poor nevertheless remain excluded from the fruits of desegregation. The paper "Urban land development under socialism: China between 1949 and 1977" outlines mechanisms underlying urban land development in China between 1949 and 1977 by adopting a better-informed framework of the Chinese state. It shows how resources have been siphoned into and away from the urban land development process in response to shortages in inputs in the resource-constrained economy.

This paper explores the African American response to an interracial heart transplant in 1968 through a close reading of the black newspaper press. This methodological approach provides a window into African American perceptions of physiological difference between the races, or lack thereof, as it pertained to both personal identity and race politics. Coverage of the first interracial heart transplant, which occurred in apartheid South Africa, was multifaceted. Newspapers lauded the transplant as evidence of physiological race equality while simultaneously mobilising the language of differing 'black' and 'white' hearts to critique racist politics through the metaphor of a 'change of heart'. While interracial transplant created the opportunity for such political commentary, its material reality--potential exploitation of black bodies for white gain--was increasingly a cause for concern, especially after a contentious heart transplant from a black to a white man in May 1968 in the American South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Harnessing international support for the struggle against apartheid was a major aspect of international solidarity work, and publicising the atrocities of apartheid and the role of the liberation movements in combating apartheid was therefore a campaign priority. The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) emphasised informing the British public about developments in South Africa as one of its core functions. In this article one aspect of this activity - namely the AAM's own publication, The Anti-Apartheid News - is analysed. A survey of the paper illustrates how the AAM used it to inform the British public about both apartheid and the African National Congress's (ANC) history and ideology. Through the newspaper the AAM was able to increase international solidarity with and support for the ANC. The article argues that the AAM therefore played a pivotal role in popularising the ANC and helping to establish its reputation internationally as the authentic representative of the people of South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research, with a capital 'R', is a subject of considerable concern within South African ruling circles. There's not enough of it, and it's not the right kind, or so the argument runs. Recognising the importance of the material conditions of the researchers and the need for a bottom-up approach to developing research priorities, this paper focuses on the state of sociology research in South Africa today. It demonstrates that, over the past twelve years, a marked increase in the output of masters and doctoral graduates has been accompanied by a decline in the level of completed research by qualified sociologists. In terms of publications, there has been a significant increase in the proportion produced by women, but a negligible change in the number by black scholars. The paper rejects pessimistic assessments of the state of South African sociology. It concludes by arguing that the discipline should place itself at the centre of an integrated and engaged social science by drawing diverse strands together at a local level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on the Barker Memorial Prize which is given in memory of Dr. Anthony Barker and Dr. Maggie Barker, who developed and ran a hospital tirelessly for over 30 years in South Africa. Guidelines on how to join and write a paper in the journal is also presented. The paper should be related with health and disease among the people whom the Barkers worked, such as the dispossessed, or poor urban or rural communities.

Today one of the most contentious issues within the emerging field of Science and Technology Studies in South Africa relates to the position and participation of women scientists in academia. This paper presents the results of a secondary analysis of data contained in a national database of journal publications and their authors. The objective is to describe the nature and extent of gender differences in journal publication productivity among South African academics during the period 1990-2001. The paper also makes a methodological contribution by highlighting issues and making recommendations for further analyses of South African bibliometric databases. The data show that, on average during the period studied, men published almost twice as many articles in accredited journals as women, and that gender differences in both extremes of publication productivity determined this gap. Possible explanations for the observed differences are put forward in the form of a summary of the most important theoretical explanations for gender differences in publication productivity. An assessment is made of their potential relevance in the South African context, in order to identify priorities for future research on the issue of gender differences in publication productivity among South African academics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

summary of articles, related to interprofessional care, published in several journals. The purpose of one article was to determine if the results of community interagency collaboration could be detected through family perceptions and client outcomes. Based on the Conceptual Model for Community Interagency Collaboration, the researcher focused on the assessment of situational factors with families who had received three or more community services within the preceding year. Another article describes a South African participatory action research study that explored the experience and role of supervisors in the health clinics that form the basis of the new district based health system of that country. Another discussion paper looks at collaborative working between social services and primary health.

The article presents information on the "Report on a Strategic Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa," that is being distributed among higher education institutions, members of the research community and all parties that have interest in the dissemination of scholarly research in South Africa. The Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology commissioned this report in December 2001 and was prepared in partnership with a number of organizations, convened under Wieland Gevers. The report uses the "impact factor," based on the definition adopted by Thomson Institute for Scientific Information databases, to assess the quality of South Africa's journals and the country's contributions to global science. It provides many tables of statistical information related to journals in South Africa.

In the management sciences, there are different approaches to research. These depend upon the specific research questions and objectives and their impact upon the findings. At post graduate level, the supervisor and the student need to be au fait with the full spectrum of research strategies and be able to link the appropriate design to the specific research question and objectives. More than that, qualitative and quantitative methods are viewed as opposites rather than strategies on continuum. This limits the research and its value and allows for the predisposition of the supervisor to influence the student's work. In the past, it was believed that certain specialisations/functional areas in the management sciences use specific research strategies rather than employ the full spectrum available. This paper provides an objective view of the research strategies employed by matching these strategies to the field of specialisation and to the planned outcomes from the research. This article looks at the five accredited management journals in South African during the period 2006/2007 in order to determine the link between the research objectives and the research design employed. The journal articles were studied using proportional stratified random sampling, the research design and strategies and the conclusion. A model as presented by Scandura and Williams (2000) was selected to use. However the model was not sensitive enough with respect to the vast range of inaccuracies picked up by the review team. The model was thus reworked using a content analysis approach in conjunction with theory building and modelling. The reworked research metric was then used to study a total of 120 of the 208 articles over the time period under review. The stratification allows for possible differences between the journals and trends thus developed. From these findings it seems that the current review process is not as strict as we believe and/or the reviewers are either not strict enough or not strong enough in all areas of research design and research methodologies in order to see the gaps in the articles. Also the formats of the review forms and the time constraints we face may influence the important function of the review process. Despite these, accredited outputs play an important role in funding and academic promotions. These aspects should be more intensely investigated and, to this, it is our aim to continue with this study and also to compare the local contribution to their international bedfellows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article looks at the development of the South African daily newspaper market between 1990 and 2006. The leading interest is to find out whether the market was able to develop from its apartheid-trenched roots, and in which areas the market is still influenced by its specific past. The market determinants, namely participants, growth, entrance barriers, distribution, readership, economic and editorial concentration, will be scrutinised over the 16 years. The relevant political, economical and legal background and the transformations taking place in these areas will be articulated. The data will reveal that by growing more and more, especially since the turn of the century, the market enables itself to break free from its old structure. This is mainly due to the successful introduction of new papers which break with the traditional orientation of South African papers towards a wealthy readership and thus win new readers for the product newspaper in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The boards of directors are subject to strong political and contextual pressures that on one side, make difficult the practice of an instructional leadership and, on the other, head for a bureaucratic, managerial and perpetualizing development of its function. The situation is revised by means of resources and significant experts from so disparate locations as the United States of America, Finland, Russia or South Africa. The paper also makes evident the role the main international journals about that field are playing, being one of them directed by one of this paper's author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the growing online access of the journal "Occupational Medicine" by developing countries. It cites the advantages of using electronic communication by a journal, such as immediate paper submission and review process and in-depth information for people who read beyond abstract. Through the Oxford University Press (OUP), any not-for-profit educational institution from countries like India and South Africa will be given free access to the journal. OUP is working with entities like the World Health Organization (WHO) for this project.

This paper explores the potential to converge the theory of political ecology with the environmental justice discipline as means to promote more effective civil society actions against macro-economic risks, whilst analysing the case of South Africa. Such a convergence could result in mutual benefit for both arenas that already share a commitment towards justice. Whilst political ecology has focused on theoretical perspectives, which are mostly applied in rural areas, and examined justice in a larger macro-economic framework, environmental justice has been confined to an empirical focus at a local urban level, which is unable to link local struggles to larger political economic frameworks. Additionally, both arenas generally view civil society as coherent entities that act against the state and industry. Both disciplines should re-evaluate geographic scales and reconfigure romanticised understandings of civil society actions in order to attain justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on the March 2009 issue of the journal "Anthropology Southern Africa," Volume 32. It features a series of papers collectively titled "Knowledge Contests, South Africa 2009," edited by Lesley Green of the University of Cape Town. In addition, the journal has a new section dedicated to current debates in South African anthropology.

The article gives information about papers published in the vol. 18 of the periodical Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics. The eighty items constituted in the volume were categorized into regular articles, reviews, academic, clinical and technical research notes. Atleast 25 items were directly relevant to clinical work in general optometric practice. The majority of the overseas submissions originated from optometry research centres in North America and Australasia, the remainder and an increasing proportion being made up from Hongkong, mainland Europe, South Africa and the Middle East.

The author reflects on the editorial written by Colin Smith, chairperson of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal "Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science," which discussed the need for the journal to improve its value for its target audience in South Africa. He states that he was disappointed when nobody answered the question he posted in his editorial. He notes that he is happy with the support given by the Southern African Institute of Forestry (SAIF).

Finansies & Tegniek and Finance Week, two South African financial magazines, offer the ideal research opportunity for a comparative study of English and Afrikaans texts. The fact that the magazines can be read internationally lends an interesting dimension to the strategy of the editors when the articles realise in one of the other official languages in South Africa. The hypothesis is that the Afrikaans headings are more culture-specific, local and specific in nature, whereas the English headings are more global and general. The concepts 'globalising' and 'localising' and the function of these concepts with reference to the process of translation, as described by Paskal (2005), are used as the instrument for describing the headings in the financial magazine articles. This paper demonstrates that the headings of the English magazine articles present global and general characteristics; while the Afrikaans headings are cultural-specific, with prominent local characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We performed a critical analysis of the South African scientific serials literature, including 'international' journals indexed by international bibliographical databases, such as Thomson Scientific's Web of Science and other citation indices, as well as 'local' journals that are processed for these sources. A 'composite extended journal impact factor' was applied in order to compute robust measures of international citation impact that can cope with the small numbers of citations within the international research literature to local journals. Statistical analyses of publication output and citation impact of some 200+ South African journals indicate that the vast majority of local journals are indeed virtually invisible within the global science arena. The outcomes of this novel approach raise important issues about criteria for selecting the most appropriate sets of journals for journal-based research funding formulas, quality assurance systems, and evaluations of research performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the impact of democracy on journalism. Efforts of journalists to fight against state, corporate and political pressures under apartheid in South Africa in the 1990s; Impact of the release of political activist Nelson Mandela on the credibility of journalists in the country; Experiences of the periodical "Weekly Mail" while investigating rumors regarding liberation leader Winnie Mandela.

The article presents information on African Journal of Information & Communication Technology. The journal provides a publication vehicle for coverage of topics of interest to those involved in computing, communication networks and bioinformatics. AJICT's first issue contains papers from China, Italy, Germany, Norway, South Africa, and the United States. The papers address new and existing areas of information and communication technology (ICT). Despite of being international, the journal is called "African" so as to provide fruits of ICT to people of all nations including the developing countries in Africa. The journal includes papers on ICT research problems relevant to the specific needs of developing countries. The journal is available as an open source periodical of high quality, dealing with contemporary and emerging technical, policy and regulatory matters in ICT.

The article focuses on the 30th volume of the journal "Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies," and the articles published in the issue. The journal was started in the year 1980 as "Ecquid Novi: South African Journal for Journalism Research," by the founding editor Arnold de Beer with the purpose of serving South African scholars for debate and research output and to establish contact with the journalism researchers abroad. Academic research cannot claim neutral space due to intense intellectual sparring. The article by Hayes Mabweazara and Larry Strelitz on the popularity of tabloid newspaper "uMthunywa," in Zimbabwe. Another article by Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u discusses the use of investigative journalism to uncover corruption in Nigeria.

This article reports that the Academy of Science of South Africa is 'reviewing and making strategy recommendations on research journals published in South Africa' and helping to 'refine the criteria for accreditation in terms of their usefulness in quantifying research outputs of institutions and awarding subsidy under the gazetted policy'. The exercise is being conducted on behalf of the Department of Science and Technology in conjunction with the Department of Education. Raising the quality of journals published locally would 'brand' South Africa's academic achievements and increase their national impact at home and abroad.

The article discusses the literary scene in South Africa and Zimbabwe in 2012, including publishing, literary criticism, and literary awards. Details related to the book “Philida” by André Brink, the book “Life Underwater” by Ken Barris, and the book “SoPhia” by Shafinaaz Hassim are presented. In addition, a bibliography is presented, including studies on individual writers, fiction, and journals.

The article announces that the April 2008 issue of the journal will not be possible to release a full-pledged issue on children's literature in South Africa. This is due to the technical constraints in the reviewing and the revising stages of the publishing process. It is said, however, that a cluster of articles will appear in September 2008 issue that will address recent developments in the context of traditional oral storytelling, thematic diversity, and contemporary theoretical currents and undercurrents.

The article presents abstracts of recently published papers in MENC journals. They include "The Use of Classwide Peer Tutoring in the General Music Classroom," by Alice-Ann Darrow, Pamela Gibbs and Sarah Wedel, "Using Rubrics as an Assessment Tool in Your Classroom," by Angela Leonhardt, "Music and Service Learning: A Case Study," by Dennis Siebenaler, and an article on what happened to music education in government primary schools in one province of South Africa since the coming of democracy in 1994 by Anri Herbst, Jacques de Wet and Susan Rijsdijk.

The article focuses on the publication of the private journals of Wesleyan Methodist Society missionaries in South Africa. It is indicated that in the winter of 1891, Owen Watkins led a group of men to Mashonaland in Zimbabwe. Watkins made correspondence to his wife describing his stay with other missionaries and natives. Wesleyan Missionary Notices (WMN) published his letters for missionary supporters in London. Excerpts from Watkins' private journal and the published versions in WMN are also mentioned.

The article provides an analysis of the popular 1950's South African magazine "Drum," which was marketed to appeal to a predominantly black Johannesburg, South Africa readership. The popularity of the magazine, during apartheid, is that it provided Africans a culturally rich, modern, cosmopolitan voice at a time when the white government was taking their urban homes, modern culture and humanity away. The analysis focuses on the way advertisements nuance the magazine to show that the desires revealed in its pages are more complicated than can be expressed by referring to the publication as pro-African or pro-black.

Examines a selection of stories that were published in the South African magazine, "Staffrider," between 1978 and 1996. Author's claim that the stories serve as repository of the popular imagination of predominantly ordinary South African black, Asian and colored writers; Reasons why the periodical became one of the most successful cultural journals ever published in the country; Articles' focus on the everyday experiences and imaginings of the dwellers of Johannesburg.

This article focuses on advertising in the South African media. Thandi and True Love specialize in personal relations. True to the general codes of women's magazines, they first present women as slim and glamorous through the models for fashion and beauty products. Thandi and True Love perfectly exemplify the method of women's magazines, whose stock in trade is the myth of the problem female body. South African ads freely employ phrases drawn from political discourse and copywriters would probably argue that in most cases these are simply used as jokes. The importance of the recognition for the production of historical subjects should be clear enough. The African American South African subject of the 1990s bears little resemblance to the revolutionary worker of the struggle as she/he hurries home fitted out by Sales House, in an entrepreneurial taxi, to watch the Bold and the Beautiful on television. The election slogan offered South Africans A better life for all. Working together for jobs, peace and freedom. Whether the terms that the advertisers set to erase will be retained is still disputed. But in the meantime, the atomized consumer subject favored by the market does seem an inadequate substitute for that democratic ideal.

Examines the role played by the African People's Organization (APO) periodical in assisting the coloured community in South Africa between the period 1910 and 1923. Background information on the APO; Indepth look at the social conditions among the coloured community; Details on the School Board Act; Criticism leveled at historians who wrote articles on the coloured community.