| Programme: Ensuring Quality Public Education A Critical Discussion |
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DATE: 19 November 2010 TIME: 09h00 till 17h30 VENUE: Constitution Hill, Old Fort Conference Centre (Old Fort entrance on Kotze Street) Quality education is the preserve of a privileged few. This conference looks to raise critical questions around how the education system is failing the people, and what can be done to reverse the trend. It will emphasise public participation and social inclusion. Strategies that promote the privatisation of education will only deepen inequality and will make education for the public good even more elusive. Discussants and respondents will explore, amongst other areas, the role that libraries, literacy, language, ABET, ECD, skills, values, higher education, and discrimination are playing in social exclusion, and why these spaces are located as crucial sites in the struggle for ‘rights’ and reclaiming education as a public good. Discussants and respondents include: Salim Vally, Brian Ramadiro, Kim Porteus, Neville Alexander, Ivor Baatjes, Enver Motala, Everard Weber, David Macfarlane and Mokubung Nkomo. Arrival and registration 09h00 – 09h30 Welcoming 09h30 – 10h00 Session 1: The 3L’s – Libraries, literacy and language 10h00 – 11h00 Discussants: Brian Ramadiro & Kim Porteus Respondent: Neville Alexander Round table discussion: part 1 11h00-11h40 ECD &ABET: Ivor Baatjes Skills, values & knowledge: Enver Motala Tea 11h40-12h00 Round table discussion: part 2 12h00-13h15 Scholarship & Higher Education: Everard Weber Respondent to round table discussion: David Macfarlane Lunch 13h15 – 14h00 Session 3: Racism, discrimination and xenophobia 14h00 – 15h00 Discussant: Neville Alexander Respondent: Mokubung Nkomo Closing remarks 15h00- 15h30 Salim Vally Tea 15h30- 16h00 Launch of ‘rights’ booklet 16h00 – 17h30 Bookmark this article:          |
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