ICH4801 ASSIGNMENT 4 2025

ICH4801 ASSIGNMENT 4 2025 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS Answer all questions in this assignment. HISTORY OF EDUCATION [100] SECTION A: HISTORY OF EDUCATION [50] Question 1 Section A is based on the given extract from chapter 2 of the prescribed textbook (Seroto, Davids & Wolhuter 2020). Read the extract and then answer the questions that follow. Geographical focus of research and of authorship Scholars, analysts, progressive scholars and academics in all education sciences and beyond, have expressed concern that the corpus of scholarly publications is dominated by researchers in the global world and that their focus is lopsided in favour of the Global North or themes favoured by the interests of the Global North. In a content analysis of articles published in the first 50 years of the top journal in the field of Comparative and International Education, the Comparative Education Review, Wolhuter (2008:330-331) found that countries of the Global North dominate the geographical focus of research. In addition, where countries of the Global South are the subject of research, it is dominated by researchers from the Global North (cf Wolhuter, 2018). Of the 18 523 articles published in the total pool of Thomson-Reuters indexed education journals for the year 2012, a mere 2.13% were authored by scholars