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SUMMARY:Speaking truth to power: Understanding postgraduate education rese
 arch and the educational turn in South Africa's new century - Professor Ro
 bert Balfour\, North West University\, South Africa
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:Knowledge generation  over the decade 1995-2004 in South Afric
 a\, and its relationship to the changing nature of socio-economic landscap
 es\, suggests an ever closer relationship between the research produced in
  higher education\, and its social and scientific purposes. These have bee
 n identified largely by the State through its regulatory frameworks\, econ
 omic\, and social agendas. In this talk I examine the research generation 
 of postgraduate students of education in twenty South African higher educa
 tion institutions in the first decade after apartheid. Using the Project f
 or Postgraduate Education Research (PPER) as an example\, we explore the r
 ole of large scale research projects in South Africa\, and how such work m
 ight respond to Government priorities\, as well as issues identified by so
 ciety and the academy in partnership with the State.\n\nRobert John Balfou
 r is Professor and Dean of Education Sciences at North West University (Po
 tchefstroom Campus) and Honorary Professor of Education at the University 
 of KwaZulu-Natal. He was formerly Registrar at St Augustine College of Sou
 th Africa and has held fellowships at the Institute of Commonwealth Studie
 s and Clare Hall (Cambridge). He teaches courses in Applied Language Studi
 es and his latest publication Culture\, Capital and Representation was rel
 eased by Palgrave in 2010. He is widely published in applied linguistics a
 nd literature and holds degrees from the University of Rhodes\, Natal\, an
 d Cambridge respectively\, and is a published creative writer\, poet\, and
  also an exhibited painter.
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge\, room 2S3
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