Systematic Reviews of Research in Basic Education in South Africa
About this ebook
Albert Chanee
Head of Planning, Gauteng Department of Education
For too long the weight of educational scholarship produced in South Africa has been limited to that simple and standard form called the literature review. Now, for the first time, education researchers are provided with an African-based text on the concepts and methods of conducting systematic reviews. In this exceptional work of editorship, Felix Maringe brings together some of the leading researchers on South African education to model and demonstrate how to review a significant body of research on a chosen topic which is adjudicated strictly on the basis of the quality and efficacy of the evidence in hand. I have no doubt that this remarkable book will become a standard reference for educational researchers in and beyond the African continent. It will also lift the quality of educational inquiry by equipping a new generation of scholars with the capacity for doing evidence-based research that compels the attention of policymakers, planners and practitioners alike.
Prof Jonathan Jansen
Stellenbosch University
About the author
Felix Maringe is a Professor of Higher Education at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg where he has been the Head of the Wits School of Education until December 2020. He has worked in three Higher Education systems in Zimbabwe, the UK and South Africa. Felix did his undergraduate and Masters degree studies at the University of Zimbabwe and completed his PhD Degree at the University of Southampton in 2003.
