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Nuraan Davids

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Nuraan Davids

Nuraan Davids is professor of education in the department of education policy studies at Stellenbosch University.

Mix and match: Teachers from different backgrounds bring other views into the school to the benefit of learners, teachers and parents and prepare the scholars for adult life in a diverse society. Photo: Gianluigi Gurcia/AFP

Schools need teachers with diverse identities

Despite desegregation, schools tend to retain their historical learner and teacher racial profiles

Our universities have an important role to play in overcoming legacies of inequality.

Academic activism is key for democracy

South Africa’s universities have an important role to play as they overcome legacies of inequality

Citizenship can’t be taught in a module

Citizenship can’t be taught in a module

Universities have an ethical duty to cultivate safe and inclusive spaces of recognition and respect

(John McCann/M&G)

Army must uphold constitutional values

The charges against Major Fatima Isaacs are another example of how liberal democracies try to prescribe Muslim women’s dress code

(John McCann)

Make democracy come alive at schools

Our schools have policies for citizenship education, now they need to provide the contexts necessary for democracy to thrive

A protester waving the Egyptian Flag in Tahrir Square

Active citizenship, a social contract, Islam and democracy in Egypt

Since the Arab Spring, Egypt’s fledgling democracy has regressed. Now the country needs a new social contract

‘Notions of democratic citizenship are seemingly inextricably embedded in particular sets of rights — meaning

Educate for democracy in Africa

Africans can become citizens by acting democratically and claiming their identity

From the exhibition Divine Violence.

Embrace the ecological university

It has an ethical concern to help people coexist and to understand each other and society

(John McCann)

Educate for real change

Universities need to produce graduates who act and think independently and research must be pertinent and humane

Boxed in: By consciously reaching out to their ­humanity

There are better ways to deal with school violence

Traditional school punishments do not work – cultivating care and compassion is far better.

Some Muslim women struggle to exercise their Islamic identity in a public space.

New voices in science in 2012

Stellenbosch University PhD students rose to the challenge of presenting their research findings in entertaining ways for a general audience.