AlternationPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a6
Dorcas Ettang
{"title":"Migrant Learners in a COVID-19 Context: Exploring Strategies for School Leadership and Management","authors":"Dorcas Ettang","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a6","url":null,"abstract":"The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on learners, as evidenced by disrupted and reduced learning, limited engagement with their peers, and halted sports and physical activities. This article accounts for the challenges of migrant children within the context of COVID-19 and learning disruptions. This conceptual paper draws from the Ethics of Care Theory and its discourses of ‘caring’, to explore the role of school management and leadership in better managing the physical, social, and psychosocial impact of the pandemic on migrant learners, many of whom are already subject to circumstances that are not of their choosing. This article concludes with strategies, supported by examples from around the globe, on how school leadership and management can better respond to the particular challenges of migrant learners. The Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all requires that the experiences of migrant children, in particular, are acknowledged and included in achieving this vital goal.","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42963515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlternationPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a19
N. Mthembu
{"title":"Perceptions on the Relevance of Black African Faith-based Structures in Democratic South Africa","authors":"N. Mthembu","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49425844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlternationPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a20
Phillip Musoni
{"title":"‘Touch not mine anointed! …’: An Enchanted Worldview within the Millennium African Pentecostal Churches (MAPCs)","authors":"Phillip Musoni","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44776997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlternationPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n2a1
Daisy Pillay, T. Chisanga, A. Hiralaal, L. Masinga, I. Naicker, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan
{"title":"Academic Identities as Epicentres for Social Cohesiveness in Higher Education","authors":"Daisy Pillay, T. Chisanga, A. Hiralaal, L. Masinga, I. Naicker, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n2a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n2a1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41478435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlternationPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a3
S. Seyama
{"title":"Possibilities of Functional Stupidity in Leading Schools during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case for Pandemic Leadership","authors":"S. Seyama","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a3","url":null,"abstract":"The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic unexpectedly brought the world to its knees, creating health, economic, social and education crises. As a crisis, COVID-19 is characterised by uncertainties, anxieties, tensions and contradictions, requiring a strong leadership presence in its response. Consequently, people look up to leadership for answers, comfort, support and guidance in protecting people’s lives. However, drawing from critical leadership studies, this paper contends that the demand for leadership during crises risks encouraging leadership romanticism, thus sanctioning leadership power, which could cause more harm than good. Despite the justifiable need for leadership’s visibility and action during crises, there remains a risk of followers’ unquestioned reliance on the leader, thus slipping into functional stupidity with devastating consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a global education crisis, which is rendered more complex in education systems such as in South Africa which was already struggling with leadership legitimacy regarding its ability to provide equitable quality education and prepare learners for future work, prior to the pandemic. Thus, in this conceptual paper, pandemic leadership is proposed as a framework for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and to future pandemics, while simultaneously mediating against repressive and silencing power and functional stupidity. Pandemic leadership offers significant leadership practices that centralise expert knowledge and related flexibilities; acknowledge the significance of the pandemic; deliberate on decisions while being considerate of contextual conditions; mobilise alternative voices and collaboration; demonstrate compassion and provide timely, valid, honest and transparent communication that builds trust. Functional Stupidity in Leading Schools 51","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42482446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlternationPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c13
P. Baur
{"title":"Modelling the Possible Impact of COVID19 on Employment within the Arts Culture and Recreation Sector of South Africa","authors":"P. Baur","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45564654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathy Goggin, Nceba Gqaleni, Adonica Lindokuhle Mbhele, Mqansa Elliot Makhathini, Thanile Doreen Buthelezi, Sebenzile W Ndlovu, Vusumuzi F Shange, Mzomunye Arthur Thabethe, Dumisani A Mkhwanazi, Bonsekile L Nkomo-Gwala, Thandonjani Hlongwane, Themba Mdlalose, Langelihle Ngubane, Douglas Wilson, Albert W Wu, Patricia Bartman, Mary Gerkovich, Karen Williams, Jannette Berkley-Patton, Lungiswa Tsolekile, Thandi Puoane, Delwyn Catley, Quinton Johnson, William Folk
{"title":"The Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Patient-reported Outcome Measures for a Clinical Study Involving Traditional Health Providers and Bio-medically Trained Practitioners.","authors":"Kathy Goggin, Nceba Gqaleni, Adonica Lindokuhle Mbhele, Mqansa Elliot Makhathini, Thanile Doreen Buthelezi, Sebenzile W Ndlovu, Vusumuzi F Shange, Mzomunye Arthur Thabethe, Dumisani A Mkhwanazi, Bonsekile L Nkomo-Gwala, Thandonjani Hlongwane, Themba Mdlalose, Langelihle Ngubane, Douglas Wilson, Albert W Wu, Patricia Bartman, Mary Gerkovich, Karen Williams, Jannette Berkley-Patton, Lungiswa Tsolekile, Thandi Puoane, Delwyn Catley, Quinton Johnson, William Folk","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study reports on the cultural and language translation of measures for use with Zulu speakers in South Africa. The translation process was purposefully used to integrate our diverse 14 person study team by employing Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) strategies. Measures included: the Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV), Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). The translation was made complex by the variation in Zulu dialects across regions and even between two cities only forty-five minutes apart. Carefully conceived translations can simultaneously produce good translationsand deepen team members' understanding of each-other.</p>","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":"17 1","pages":"273-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4191735/pdf/nihms402633.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32741555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}