From the Hood to the PWI: A Self-Reflective Journey as Learner and Educator

“Hip-Hop Permeates Everything I Do”: The Intersections of Education, Hip-Hop, and Global Politics

The Implied Student

This study argues that life skills, as conceptualized in South African vocational education, are disconnected from the lived realities of mature women students. A hermeneutic curriculum analysis of official guides and textbooks used in life skills education (LSE) in a South African vocational context was conducted, gui...

Listening Across Difference: Pláticas as a Practice of Connection and Transformation for Adult Learners

This article explores the integration of pláticas—informal, culturally grounded conversations rooted in Chicana/Latina feminist methodologies—as a transformative pedagogical tool in adult learning contexts. Drawing from experiences as doctoral students and educators at a Hispanic-Serving Institution, the authors illust...

Graffiti as public pedagogy: Cross-institutional collaboration for student expression, healing, and transformation

Higher education in South Africa has been widely critiqued for privileging Eurocentric epistemologies that marginalise local knowledge systems and distance learning from the socio-political realities students inhabit. Such dynamics constrain students’ capacity to critically engage the historical and structural forces s...

How social and cultural capital supports the transition of international foundation students to higher education

This study explores the experiences of international foundation students in the UK, focusing on how they develop and mobilise academic, social and cultural capital to navigate their transition into higher education. Drawing on alumni perspectives as experts of their lived experiences and using participatory methods, li...

DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MENTORING: FORMATIVE VALENCES AND SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES IN CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLS

This study analyzes from a psychopedagogical and academic perspective the fundamental needs of modern early childhood education, focusing on the reconfiguration of the educator's professional identity as a vector of change. Premised on the idea that the evolution of current generations demands a definitive abandonment...