ICH4801 Assignment
4 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2025
, ICH4801 Assignment 4 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2025
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 in
Africa (ibid). Depaepe and Simon (1996) do not
include the geographical terrain of articles in their
research but do provide an interesting analysis of
author provenance. For the articles published
during 1961 to 1989 in Paedagogica Historica, the
rank-order of national provenance of authors is
illustrated in table 2.2. The pattern for the period
1990 to 1995 does not differ much. However, in
this period, the Global South fares worse with 1.6%
4 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2025
, ICH4801 Assignment 4 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2025
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 in
Africa (ibid). Depaepe and Simon (1996) do not
include the geographical terrain of articles in their
research but do provide an interesting analysis of
author provenance. For the articles published
during 1961 to 1989 in Paedagogica Historica, the
rank-order of national provenance of authors is
illustrated in table 2.2. The pattern for the period
1990 to 1995 does not differ much. However, in
this period, the Global South fares worse with 1.6%
