Hierarchies of knowledge, incommensurabilities and silences in South African ECD policy: Whose knowledge counts?

Bacchi, C. (2000). Policy as discourse: What does it mean? Where does it get us? Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 21 (1), 45-57.10.1080/01596300050005493Search in Google Scholar

Bacchi, C. (2009). Analysing policy: What’s the problem represented to be? Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. : Pearson Education.Search in Google Scholar

Biersteker, L., & Rudolph, N. (2005). Protecting the rights of orphans and vulnerable children aged 0-8: South African case study. Unpublished report for ECD Network Africa (ECDNA).Search in Google Scholar

Burman, E. (2008). Developments: Child, image, nation. London Routledge.Search in Google Scholar

Children’s Institute. (2016). Statistics on children in South Africa. Retrieved 7 March 2017, from Children’s Institute http://www.childrencount.org.zaSearch in Google Scholar

Cross, M. (2015). Knowledge hierarchies and the politics of educational policy in South Africa. Education as Change, 19 (2), 37-57.10.1080/16823206.2015.1085611Search in Google Scholar

Department of Basic Education. (2015a). The South African national curriculum framework for children from birth to four: Comprehensive version. Pretoria: Department of Basic Education. Retrieved February 16, 2017 from Department of Basic Education website http://www.education.gpg.gov.za/Documents/SAF_resources_ncfcomprehensive.pdf.Search in Google Scholar

Department of Basic Education. (2015b). The South African national curriculum framework for children from birth to four: abridged version. Retrieved on February 16, 2017 from Department of Basic Education website http://www.unicef.org/southafrica/SAF_resources_ncfabridged.pdf.Search in Google Scholar

Department of Education. (1996). Interim policy for early childhood development. Pretoria: Department of Education.Search in Google Scholar

Eagle, G. T. (2005). Therapy at the cultural interface: Implications of African cosmology for traumatic stress intervention. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 35 (2), 199-209.10.1007/s10879-005-2700-5Search in Google Scholar

Ebrahim, H. B. (2014). Foregrounding silences in the South African national early learning standards for birth to four years. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 22 (1), 67-76.10.1080/1350293X.2012.738869Search in Google Scholar

Foucault, M. (1980). Power/knowledge : Selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press.Search in Google Scholar

Goldberg, D. T. (2009). A political theology of race: Articulating racial southafricanization. Cultural Studies, 23 (4), 513-537.10.1080/09502380902950955Search in Google Scholar

Howells, K. (2014). Exploring Cultural Diversity through the Lens of the Practice of Gratitude in Education. The International Journal of Diversity in Education, 13 (2), 41-52.10.18848/2327-0020/CGP/v13i02/40091Search in Google Scholar

James, A., & James, A. L. (2004). Constructing childhood: Theory, policy and social practice. China: Palgrave MacMillan.10.1007/978-0-230-21427-9Search in Google Scholar

Keane, M., Khupe, C., & Muza, B. (2016). It matters who you are: Indigenous knowledge research and researchers. Education as Change, 20 (2), 163-183.10.17159/1947-9417/2016/913Search in Google Scholar

Lightfoot-Rueda, T., & Peach, R. L. (2015). Global perspectives on human capital in early childhood education: Reconceptualizing theory, policy, and practice. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.10.1057/9781137490865Search in Google Scholar

Marfo, K., & Biersteker, L. (2010). Exploring culture, play, and early childhood education practice in African contexts. In S. Rogers (Ed.), Rethinking play and pedagogy in early childhood education: Concepts, contexts and culture (pp. 161-187). Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.Search in Google Scholar

Millei, Z., & Imre, R. (2016). Childhood and nation: Interdisciplinary engagements. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.10.1057/9781137477835Search in Google Scholar

Millei, Z., & Joronen, M. (2016). The (bio)politicization of neuroscience in Australian early years policies: Fostering brain-resources as human capital. Journal of Education Policy, 31 (4), 389-404.10.1080/02680939.2016.1148780Search in Google Scholar

Mji, G. (2012). The health knowledge utilised by rural older Xhosa women in the management of health problems in their home situation, with special focus on indigenous knowledge. Unpublished Dissertation presented for the Degree of Doctor in Philosophy in Family Medicine, Stellenbosch University. Provided by author.Search in Google Scholar

Morabito, C., Vandenbroek, M., & Roose, R. (2013). ‘The Greatest of equalisers’: A Critical review of international organisations’ Views on early childhood care and education. Journal of Social Policy, 42 (03), 451-467.10.1017/S0047279413000214Search in Google Scholar

Moss, P. (2015). There are alternatives! Contestation and hope in early childhood education. Global Studies of Childhood, 5 (6), 226-238.10.1177/2043610615597130Search in Google Scholar

Nieuwenhuys, O. (2010). Keep asking: Why childhood? Why children? Why global? Childhood, 17 (3), 191-196.10.1177/0907568210369323Search in Google Scholar

Postma, D., Spreen, C. A., & Vally, S. (2015). Education for social change and critical praxis in South Africa, education as change. Education as Change, 19 (2), 1-8.10.1080/16823206.2015.1085609Search in Google Scholar

Richter, L., Biersteker, L., Burns, J., Desmond, C., Feza, N., Harrison, D., & Slemming, W. (2012). Diagnostic review of early childhood development. Retrieved on March 6, 2016 from http://www.dpme.gov.za/keyfocusareas/evaluationsSite/Evaluations/DiagnosticReviewofEarlyChildhoodDevelopment.pdf.Search in Google Scholar

Rico, A. R. (2016). Seeking balance: African autobiography as philosophy in Malidoma Patrice Somé’s of water and the spirit: Ritual, magic and initiation in the life of an African shaman. Research in African Literatures, 47 (1), 76-94.10.2979/reseafrilite.47.1.76Search in Google Scholar

RSA. (2010). Guide to the outcomes approach, Version 27. Retrieved on Jan 15, 2015 from website of the South African Government http://www.gov.za/sites/www.gov.za/files/guide_outcomes_approach.pdfSearch in Google Scholar

RSA. (2011). National Development Plan: Vision for 2030. Retrieved on July 16, 2014 from South African Government website http://www.gov.za/issues/national-development-plan-2030).Search in Google Scholar

RSA. (2015). National Integrated Early Childhood Development Policy. Pretoria: Government Printers.Search in Google Scholar

Rudolph, N. (1996). Building an educative community for early childhood development. International Journal of Early Education, 4 (3), 61-71.10.1080/0966976960040305Search in Google Scholar

Rudolph, N. (2003). Building a child rights advocacy strategy using an appreciative inquiry approach. Unpublished report on workshop facilitated for Early Learning Resources Unit (ELRU) in Cape Town March 2003.Search in Google Scholar

Rudolph, N. (2005). Building a safety net to support child well-being in Hammanskraal and Temba. Unpublished background report to the South African Case Study for Early Childhood Development Network Africa (ECDNA), Protecting the rights of orphans and vulnerable children aged 0-8. Available at https://www.academia.edu/22795468/Protecting_the_Rights_of_Orphans_and_Vulnerable_Children_Aged_0_-_6_YearsSearch in Google Scholar

Rudolph, N., & James, M. (2015). Reconceptualising services for young children through dialogue in a South African village. In L. Newman, & C. Woodrow (Eds.), Practitioner research in early childhood : International issues and perspectives. London Sage Publications Ltd.Search in Google Scholar

Samuels, M., Taylor, S., Shepherd, D., van der Berg, S., Jacob, C., Deliwe, C., & Mabogoane, T. (2015). Reflecting on an impact evaluation of the Grade R programme: Method, results and policy responses. African Evaluation Journal, 3 (1), 10.10.4102/aej.v3i1.139Search in Google Scholar

Santos, B. de Sousa (2007). Beyond abyssal thinking: from global lines to ecologies of knowledges*. Review of African Political Economy, 30 (1).Search in Google Scholar

Somé, M. P. (1995). Of water and the spirit: Ritual, magic and initiation in the life of an African shaman. New York: London Penguin.Search in Google Scholar

Somerville, M. (2014). Entangled objects in the cultural politics of childhood and nation. Global Studies of Childhood, 4 (3), 183-194.10.2304/gsch.2014.4.3.183Search in Google Scholar

Soudien, C. A. (2010). ‘What to teach the natives’: A historiography of the curriculum dilemma in South Africa. In W. F. Pinar (Ed.), Curriculum studies in South Africa: Intellectual histories and present circumstances (pp. 19-51). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.10.1057/9780230105508_2Search in Google Scholar

Soyinka, W. (2012). Of Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Subreenduth, S. (2013). Theorizing social justice ambiguities in an era of neoliberalism: The case of postapartheid South Africa. Educational Theory, 63 (6), 581-599.10.1111/edth.12043Search in Google Scholar

Suttner, R. (2006). Talking to the ancestors: National heritage, the freedom charter and nation-building in South Africa in 2005. Development Southern Africa, 2 (1), 3-27.10.1080/03768350600556570Search in Google Scholar

Swart, T., Berman, L., Mahahlela, M., Mlonzi, L., Phakhati, L., & Sixako, L. (1996). Mothers’ ideas of model offspring inform training. Recovery, 22-26.Search in Google Scholar