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Research paper thumbnail of 5 Voices in the dialogue: on morality and values

Research paper thumbnail of Punching below their weight: young South Africans' recent voting patterns

Research paper thumbnail of Race, racism and racialisation in wellbeing

Paper presented at Better Lives in Troubling Times: The HSRC Flagship Study on Poverty and Inequa... more Paper presented at Better Lives in Troubling Times: The HSRC Flagship Study on Poverty and Inequality, University of the Western Cape, 26 March

Research paper thumbnail of Impunity as a moral phenomenon: a review of origins, types and correctives

Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting Association for Moral Education, Barcelona, 8-10 November

Research paper thumbnail of A Charter for Global South Youth Studies Scholars

Journal of Applied Youth Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Race, restitution and religion

Research paper thumbnail of Youth in the Global South: Emerging Theories, Methodologies, Histories and Policies

Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Youth in the Global South: Divergences, Absences, Universalities

Research paper thumbnail of Ready or not!: race, education and emancipation: a five-year lingitudinal, qualitative study of agency and impasses to success amongst higher education students in a sample of South African universities

Commissioned by the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, Department of Higher Educa... more Commissioned by the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), May

Research paper thumbnail of The moral ecology of South Africa's township youth (IKASI) 2004-05: Western Cape. Interviews 1 and 3 - A qualitative study

Description: The data set consists of 37 first and 34 third transcribed interviews with South Afr... more Description: The data set consists of 37 first and 34 third transcribed interviews with South Africa's township youth in the Western Cape. Participants came from one class in a Langa township school, and from one class in a nearby suburban school. The sample is 37, 31 from the township school and 6 from the suburban school. The six participants from the suburban school all live in Langa. Not all participants from the township school live in Langa. Abstract: Voices of young people who live in a context of poverty are largely unheard in the study of morality. Instead moral debates are dominated by strictly bounded academic discourses, official calls for 'moral regeneration' and moral panics. Furthermore, the emphasis on individual moral development has neglected the socio-cultural contexts of young people's moral formation. In contrast, this study offers a complex youth ethnography of the moral sphere that explores how young people living in a context of poverty unders...

Research paper thumbnail of Social restitution: a human response to poverty and inequality

Paper presented at the HSRC Social Sciences Research Conference, Indaba Hotel, Midrand, 22-23 Sep... more Paper presented at the HSRC Social Sciences Research Conference, Indaba Hotel, Midrand, 22-23 September

Research paper thumbnail of Agency, access, silence and ethics: How young people’s voices from Africa can contribute to social and educational change in adult-dominated societies

Research paper thumbnail of Social restitution: theoretical and empirical reflections and possibilities

Research paper thumbnail of Developing young people's capacities to navigate adversity

92 There are multiple factors that can help interrupt the intergenerational transmission of pover... more 92 There are multiple factors that can help interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Education and employment are central: keeping young people in school, and ensuring that the quality of education received enables access to further skills training to improve their chances of entering the labour market. Accessing public goods such as health care, good nutrition, clean water and sanitation and housing that provides shelter and dignity is also fundamental. Social, cultural and symbolic capitals1 that enable access to networks, improve psychosocial well-being, provide insight into the so-called “rules of the game” and open opportunities for advancement and entry into the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship are also critical. Previous editions of the South African Child Gauge have shown how the lives of children and young people are affected not only by their immediate contexts2 of home, school and community, but also by structural systems such as polic...

Research paper thumbnail of Gender respect: Empirical insights for (moral) educators about women’s struggles for respect in the Global South

Journal of Moral Education, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Ensuring an optimal environment for peer education in South African schools: Goals, systems, standards and policy options for effective learning

African Journal of AIDS Research, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Implications for Research, Classrooms, and Communities

The Moral Ecology of South Africa’s Township Youth, 2009

I began this book by referring to Pierre Bourdieu’s description of “Anglo-American ideology” that... more I began this book by referring to Pierre Bourdieu’s description of “Anglo-American ideology” that suggests the poor are both intellectually and morally deficient: “The poor are not just immoral, alcoholic and degenerate, they are stupid, they lack intelligence” (1998, p. 43). This study has attempted to move away from such an ideological analysis by providing a rich and complex youth ethnography of the moral sphere. I also called attention to the way in which the study of human morality in general and young people’s morality in particular has been individualized and atomized along strictly bounded academic lines. Throughout this book I have made a case for a sociocultural understanding of morality that privileges young people’s own constructions of right and wrong and their moral decision-making processes. In this final chapter I turn to how such contextual knowledge can be applied to community and school interventions, and the extent to which a multimethod, ethical ethnography can inform academic research on morality.

Research paper thumbnail of Youth citizenship and the politics of belonging

Gender and Education, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Journal of Moral Educationreferees in 2009

Journal of Moral Education, 2010

Help: about the FAC B Database The Food Additives and Contaminants - Surveillance Database is a s... more Help: about the FAC B Database The Food Additives and Contaminants - Surveillance Database is a searchable database containing all the surveillance data published in Food Additives and Contaminants Part B (FAC B) since its launch in June 2008. Search results may be ...

Research paper thumbnail of Is Kwaito South African Hip Hop?

Why the answer matters and who it matters to. A, 2003

... Both employ call-response in their singing, but this similarity can be explained by understan... more ... Both employ call-response in their singing, but this similarity can be explained by understanding some of the history of South African music. The music of the seventies was ... Page 14. 14 streetwear have been taken over by huge fashion houses and are now so over priced, kids ...

Research paper thumbnail of 5 Voices in the dialogue: on morality and values

Research paper thumbnail of Punching below their weight: young South Africans' recent voting patterns

Research paper thumbnail of Race, racism and racialisation in wellbeing

Paper presented at Better Lives in Troubling Times: The HSRC Flagship Study on Poverty and Inequa... more Paper presented at Better Lives in Troubling Times: The HSRC Flagship Study on Poverty and Inequality, University of the Western Cape, 26 March

Research paper thumbnail of Impunity as a moral phenomenon: a review of origins, types and correctives

Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting Association for Moral Education, Barcelona, 8-10 November

Research paper thumbnail of A Charter for Global South Youth Studies Scholars

Journal of Applied Youth Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Race, restitution and religion

Research paper thumbnail of Youth in the Global South: Emerging Theories, Methodologies, Histories and Policies

Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Youth in the Global South: Divergences, Absences, Universalities

Research paper thumbnail of Ready or not!: race, education and emancipation: a five-year lingitudinal, qualitative study of agency and impasses to success amongst higher education students in a sample of South African universities

Commissioned by the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, Department of Higher Educa... more Commissioned by the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), May

Research paper thumbnail of The moral ecology of South Africa's township youth (IKASI) 2004-05: Western Cape. Interviews 1 and 3 - A qualitative study

Description: The data set consists of 37 first and 34 third transcribed interviews with South Afr... more Description: The data set consists of 37 first and 34 third transcribed interviews with South Africa's township youth in the Western Cape. Participants came from one class in a Langa township school, and from one class in a nearby suburban school. The sample is 37, 31 from the township school and 6 from the suburban school. The six participants from the suburban school all live in Langa. Not all participants from the township school live in Langa. Abstract: Voices of young people who live in a context of poverty are largely unheard in the study of morality. Instead moral debates are dominated by strictly bounded academic discourses, official calls for 'moral regeneration' and moral panics. Furthermore, the emphasis on individual moral development has neglected the socio-cultural contexts of young people's moral formation. In contrast, this study offers a complex youth ethnography of the moral sphere that explores how young people living in a context of poverty unders...

Research paper thumbnail of Social restitution: a human response to poverty and inequality

Paper presented at the HSRC Social Sciences Research Conference, Indaba Hotel, Midrand, 22-23 Sep... more Paper presented at the HSRC Social Sciences Research Conference, Indaba Hotel, Midrand, 22-23 September

Research paper thumbnail of Agency, access, silence and ethics: How young people’s voices from Africa can contribute to social and educational change in adult-dominated societies

Research paper thumbnail of Social restitution: theoretical and empirical reflections and possibilities

Research paper thumbnail of Developing young people's capacities to navigate adversity

92 There are multiple factors that can help interrupt the intergenerational transmission of pover... more 92 There are multiple factors that can help interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Education and employment are central: keeping young people in school, and ensuring that the quality of education received enables access to further skills training to improve their chances of entering the labour market. Accessing public goods such as health care, good nutrition, clean water and sanitation and housing that provides shelter and dignity is also fundamental. Social, cultural and symbolic capitals1 that enable access to networks, improve psychosocial well-being, provide insight into the so-called “rules of the game” and open opportunities for advancement and entry into the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship are also critical. Previous editions of the South African Child Gauge have shown how the lives of children and young people are affected not only by their immediate contexts2 of home, school and community, but also by structural systems such as polic...

Research paper thumbnail of Gender respect: Empirical insights for (moral) educators about women’s struggles for respect in the Global South

Journal of Moral Education, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Ensuring an optimal environment for peer education in South African schools: Goals, systems, standards and policy options for effective learning

African Journal of AIDS Research, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Implications for Research, Classrooms, and Communities

The Moral Ecology of South Africa’s Township Youth, 2009

I began this book by referring to Pierre Bourdieu’s description of “Anglo-American ideology” that... more I began this book by referring to Pierre Bourdieu’s description of “Anglo-American ideology” that suggests the poor are both intellectually and morally deficient: “The poor are not just immoral, alcoholic and degenerate, they are stupid, they lack intelligence” (1998, p. 43). This study has attempted to move away from such an ideological analysis by providing a rich and complex youth ethnography of the moral sphere. I also called attention to the way in which the study of human morality in general and young people’s morality in particular has been individualized and atomized along strictly bounded academic lines. Throughout this book I have made a case for a sociocultural understanding of morality that privileges young people’s own constructions of right and wrong and their moral decision-making processes. In this final chapter I turn to how such contextual knowledge can be applied to community and school interventions, and the extent to which a multimethod, ethical ethnography can inform academic research on morality.

Research paper thumbnail of Youth citizenship and the politics of belonging

Gender and Education, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Journal of Moral Educationreferees in 2009

Journal of Moral Education, 2010

Help: about the FAC B Database The Food Additives and Contaminants - Surveillance Database is a s... more Help: about the FAC B Database The Food Additives and Contaminants - Surveillance Database is a searchable database containing all the surveillance data published in Food Additives and Contaminants Part B (FAC B) since its launch in June 2008. Search results may be ...

Research paper thumbnail of Is Kwaito South African Hip Hop?

Why the answer matters and who it matters to. A, 2003

... Both employ call-response in their singing, but this similarity can be explained by understan... more ... Both employ call-response in their singing, but this similarity can be explained by understanding some of the history of South African music. The music of the seventies was ... Page 14. 14 streetwear have been taken over by huge fashion houses and are now so over priced, kids ...