Leveraging Educational Quality in Southern African Educational Systems: A Practitioners� Perspective

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iii Table of Contents Acknowledgements……………………………………………... v Introduction……………………………………………………..vii Section I: Primary and Secondary Education………………. 1 Chapter 1 Child Education in Pre-colonial Africa: Lessons from traditional strategies used to raise and educate children in pre-colonial Zimbabwe (Munyaradzi Mawere)……………………………………………... 3 Chapter 2 Enhancing quality in the teaching and learning of English in Mozambique’s public education: Lessons from the past and current experiences (Munyaradzi Mawere)…………………………………………….. 23 Chapter 3 How the reluctance to use corporal punishment in public schools has affected Mozambique’s education system: Voices from education stakeholders (Munyaradzi Mawere)……………………………………………... 43 Section II: Tertiary Education……………………………….. 61 Chapter 4 Exploring the architecture of appropriation of emerging technologies at South African Universities: A critical review (Patient Rambe)…………………………………………………... 63 iv Chapter 5 Using Web 2.0 technologies to support blended collaborative learning of critical citizenship at a South African University (Patient Rambe)…………………………………………………... 107 Chapter 6 Towards a blended mobile social media model to deepen authentic, contextualised learning in South African higher education (Patient Rambe)…………………………………………………... 155 Section III……………………………………………………....207 Chapter 7 Academic scaffolding and emergent pedagogical change using Mobile Instant Messaging: Appropriating intelligent mobile applications for learning Information Technology at a South African University (Patient Rambe)…………………………………………………... 209 Chapter 8 Privatization of Tertiary Education in Developing Africa: Challenges and Implications for Quality with Reference to Mozambique’s University Education (Munyaradzi Mawere)……………………………………………... 237 Chapter 9 Dimensions of International Research Collaboration in Developing Africa’s Higher Education- Lessons from the University of Zambia (Anitha J. Menon, Jacqueline Jere-Folotiya & Tamara Chansa-Kabali)…. 259 ...