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Drivers, actors, and resistance: Trends in artisanal and small-scale mining
Get PDFKENNEDY MANDUNA advocates for a broader understanding of the ASM sector, encompassing all downstream and upstream activities and participants involved throughout its entire value chain. This article is the outcome of a webinar titled \u27Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Africa\u27 hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Southern Africa and the Institute for African Alternatives
The use of Artificial Intelligence in English language assessment: Empirical evidence and future directions
Get PDFArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly recognised as a useful tool for assessment, but its specific role in English language assessment remains unexplored. We conducted a scoping review of peer-reviewed studies published between 2011 and 2025, following the framework by Arksey and O’Malley (2005). Results show seven main ways AI is used in English assessment: generating test items, using chatbots for conversation practice, marking and scoring, supporting self-assessment, enabling adaptive testing, giving instant feedback, and recognising speech. AI helps make assessments more efficient, keeps students engaged, and supports more personalised learning. We also found that AI is helping teachers develop flexible teaching practices, meet standards, and manage assessments more effectively. This review highlights both the potential and the challenges of using AI in English language assessment and calls for more research to support its responsible and effective use in schools
Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans: Political and Scholarly Possibilities
Get PDFShefer, T., Bozalek, V. and Romano, N. (Eds.). 2024 Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans: Political and Scholarly Possibilities. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978103240899
International co-operation in criminal matters in South Africa: A comprehensive analysis of mutual legal assistance and extradition
Get PDFThis article examines legal frameworks and mechanisms of international co-operation in criminal matters, focusing on mutual legal assistance (MLA) and extradition, with a particular emphasis on South Africa’s role within the global legal community. It explores the effectiveness of South Africa’s legislative and judicial systems in facilitating international criminal justice, especially in combatting transnational crimes such as terrorism, drug trafficking, and human trafficking. By analysing the International Co-operation in Criminal Matters Act 75 of 1996 and its regulations, alongside key international treaties such as the United Nations Convention against Corruption, this article assesses the adequacy of existing legal provisions and the challenges faced in implementing MLA and xtradition. It highlights the complexities involved in the extra-territorial application of South African law and the potential for legal reform to improve international co-operation. Through a review of case law, legislation, and international agreements, the article proposes recommendations for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of MLA and extradition processes in South Africa to ensure they meet the evolving demands of global criminal justice
Curate’s egg: Effects of Parental Migration on Well-being of Zimbabwean Children Left Behind
Get PDFZimbabwe has a long history of labor migration to Global North nations such as Britain and the United States of America, as well as to several Global South countries like South Africa and Botswana. This migration has seen a surge in remittances, spurring the crafting of policies and strategies to tap into this economic window for national development. While parental migration may be bringing economic relief to the nation and households left behind, it has often been associated with numerous challenges,particularly in the well-being of children left behind. In exploring challenges faced by children whose parents live and work abroad, a growing body of literature has emerged. This study reviews studies carried out in Zimbabwe on the effects of parental migration on the well-being of children left behind. It used a systematic literature review (SLR) methodology for primary studies deposited in three electronic libraries and downloaded by 31 December 2023. The purpose of the SLR is to develop a basis for empirical research, since this is a new study area in the country. It is anticipated that the study will contribute to the discourse on parental migration and its effects on development and nurturance practices of children left behind. Overall, the study asserts that there are both positive and negative effects of parental migration on children left behind; hence, the phenomenon is regarded as a curate’s egg
Disrupting monolingual practices: The role of multilingualism as a pedagogy of possibility in Writing Centres
Get PDFMonolingual practices that dominate university spaces can contribute to othering, resulting in the marginalisation and exclusion of students who are less competent in the dominant discourse. These limitations must be addressed to create a more inclusive learning space that accommodates all students regardless of their social, economic, educational, and linguistic backgrounds. This paper explores how peer tutors in writing centre leverage their South African indigenous language repertoire to help students access disciplinary content knowledge and improve their academic writing practices. This paper discusses the findings from two focus group discussions with peer tutors at the Wits School of Education Writing Centre (WSoE WC). We explore how peer tutors\u27 integration of multilingualism during writing consultations can inform a new writing centre pedagogy. We also leveraged the principles of wayfinding to navigate and orient peer tutors within a complex university space, which challenges the university\u27s stated educational transformation with a concrete proposition. Data analysis shows how peer tutors and students collaboratively explore and map out academic writing using familiar languages to navigate the rigid structure of academic writing in a manner that respects and incorporates students\u27 linguistic backgrounds. Through wayfinding, peer tutors disrupt monolingual practices and by doing so, increase student participation and chances of success in higher education. Writing centres, as wayfinding spaces, are instrumental in championing the adoption of multilingual pedagogies, thus disrupting dominant monolingual practices in higher education
Stay with the trouble: Entangled relations – a tribute to Professor Elmarie Costandius’s embodied arts-based practice
Get PDFThis paper explores the pedagogical entanglements of embodiment, thinking-through-doing, and visual redress in higher education through a post-qualitative and autoethnographic approach. Engaging with the work of Professor Elmarie Costandius, I reflect on how intra-actions between students, materials, and spaces shape learning in arts-based education. Moving beyond representation, this inquiry considers how embodied arts practices disrupt entrenched binaries, allowing for more relational, emergent ways of knowing. While the discussion is situated within a specific pedagogical context, it also raises larger philosophical and global concerns about inclusive knowledge production and justice—challenging dominant modes of learning that marginalise material, affective, and embodied engagements. In doing so, this paper contributes to ongoing conversations about response-ability in arts-based education, foregrounding the ethical and epistemic stakes of making, knowing, and being in entangled pedagogical spaces
