scholarly journals Curriculum Implementation And The Right To Education During Covid-19 In South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bothwell Manyonga ◽  
Sindile Ngubane
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Curriculum Implementation ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals Building the Builders to Ensure Delivery of Good Quality Education in South Africa: A Critical Legal Insight

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Isaiah Mmatipe Sefoka
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

This paper examines how educators are playing a dynamic role in ensuring the realisation of the right to quality education through their educational pedagogies. Teaching and learning have now become an essential tool in shaping the right to access quality education. The paper articulates the intervention by the judiciary through its pronouncements, laws, structures, policies and salient programmes in promoting the right to quality education. It emphasises the importance of capacitating educators with relevant expertise and knowledge so that they will impart that education to the learners. It also hints the importance of having good infrastructural amenities as they augment the delivery of the right to quality education. This paper emphasizes that jurisprudentially speaking, the right to education is inalienable and as such, it is incumbent on the government and institutions responsible for delivery of education to ensure that the right is promoted and always provided for. The paper adopted a non-empirical approach generally acceptable in legal research activities. It recommends that government must capacitate and empower educators as this will enable them to improve their pedagogic methods and as a result deliver an education of good quality and high standard.   Received: 21 December 2020 / Accepted: 8 April 2021/ Published: 8 July 2021

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NIGERIA (PART 1)

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elijah Adewale Taiwo ◽  
Avinash Govindjee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legislative Measures

This is the first of the two articles dealing with the implementation of the right to education in South Africa and Nigeria. The article examines the meaning and the process of implementation of the right to education as well as the general nature of states’ obligations under the international human rights instruments regarding the right to education. The article examines the measures put in place at the international level towards realizing the right to education. While this first article examines legislative measures, the follow-up article examines the non-legislative measures, that is, administrative measures as well as other measures put in place to ensure theimplementation of the right to education. The right to education is an empowerment right which is given wide recognition in a number of important international and regional human rights instruments as well as in national constitutions. The article argues that in terms of the international human rights instruments, states are obliged to make primary, secondary and higher levels of education available, accessible, acceptable and adaptable to all in their territories. It posits that by having ratified those international agreements in which the right to education is guaranteed, both South Africa and Nigeria assumed obligations under international law enjoining themto realize the right to education and to respect freedoms in education in their respective territories. It submits that, despite the international obligations and commitments to provide education for all, there is a significant gap between what is stipulated and the practical realities in the two countries.

Critical Analysis of the Right to Education for Pregnant School-going Teenage Girls in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Isaiah M. Sefoka ◽  
◽  
Kola O. Odeku
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
The Right ◽  
Out Of School

Most inadvertently, teenage girls in school fall pregnant. Over recent years, South Africa has seen an exponential increase in teenage pregnancy. A significant number of pregnant teenage girls end up dropping out of school as often they are unable to cope with the huge responsibility associated with pregnancy, and some schools are not supportive of pregnant learners. However, pregnant teenage girls still have the right to education. To make it methodologically sound, this study utilized a literature review research approach, mainly sourced from google scholar search engine, to address issues relating to the legal protection of pregnant teenagers. The study found that, in schools, pregnant girls were discriminated against on different grounds, and sometimes expelled. The research presented consequences of teenage pregnancy such as, dropping out of school, loneliness, anxiety/stress, and so on. More importantly, using the jurisprudence of the South African courts, the paper accentuates that pregnant teenagers still have the right to education, and being pregnant cannot be used to deprive or deny them this fundamental human right. It prohibits discrimination in schools on the basis of pregnancy, and presents arguments for continuation of schooling, and all assistance needed to ensure that the right to education is protected at all costs, even during pregnancy.

scholarly journals Perspective on Transformative Educational Interventions Developed for Empowerment and Capacitation of Learners in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Isaiah Mmatipe Sefoka ◽  
Kolawole Sola Odeku
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Training

In South Africa, progressive transformative educational interventions have been implemented since the country became a democratic government in 1994. These interventions were meant to eliminate all past colonial and apartheid eras educational segregation laws and policies which denied the black majority access to quality education. This paper explains the intrinsic contents and contexts of these interventions by demonstration how these interventions are being used to redress the past educational segregation and injustices. It highlights that the Constitution provides for the right to education and that other legislation, policies and educational institutions were introduced to enable and ensure the delivery of quality education to learners in order to make them competent and employable in the workplaces and/or to establish their own businesses and be self-employed. The paper concludes that in order to develop capable and competent human capital and resources, access to and delivery of quality education and training are essential potent tools to accomplish this feat.

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NIGERIA (PART 2)

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elijah Adewale Taiwo ◽  
Avinash Govindjee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Prime Factors ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legislative Measures

This is the concluding part of the two articles dealing with the implementation of the right to education in South Africa and Nigeria. While the first article examines legislative measures put in place towards implementing the right to education, this follow-up article examines the non-legislative measures, that is, administrative and other measures. The article also identifies some problems such as inadequate planning, poor implementation of policies, inadequate resources and commitments as the prime factors hampering the effective implementation of the right to education in the two countries. It concludes by submitting that solving these problems andmaking the right to an education realizable call for a renewed government commitment and investment of appropriate human and financial resources on education.

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