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  • Worth the Fight

    Fixing failure in South African schools

    by Jonathan Jansen ...
    Jonathan Jansen goes back to school: to the Cape Flats high school next door to where he grew up.After learning that the school got the worst matric results in the Western Cape in 2023, Jansen signed up to help out. He spent two years in the principal's office, teaching some of the science subjects and getting to the bottom of extreme pressures bearing down on teachers and learners, for whom it ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Corrupted

    A study of chronic dysfunction in South African universities

    by Jonathan D Jansen ...
    In South African higher education, the images of dysfunction are everywhere. Student protests. Violence. Police presence. Rubber or real bullets. Class disruptions. Burning tyres. Damaged buildings. Injury and sometimes death. Reports of wholesale corruption. Year after year, often in the same set of universities; the problem of routine instability seems insoluble.The financial, academic and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • As by Fire

    The End of the South African University

    by Jonathan Jansen ...
    What are the real roots of the student protests of 2015 and 2016? Is it actually about fees? Why did the protests turn violent? Where is the government while the buildings burn? Former Free State University vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen delves into the unprecedented disruption of universities that caught South Africa by surprise. In frank interviews with eleven of the VCs most affected, he ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Breaking Bread

    A Memoir

    by Jonathan Jansen ...
    Professor. Pundit. Public nuisance. In his columns, books and on social media, Jonathan Jansen is prolific, and he likes to speak his mind about schools and universities, race, politics and our complex South African society. He has brought incisive analysis, compassion and a sense of humour to some of the most controversial issues in our country for many years. And now, in this memoir, Jansen goes ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Leading for Change

    Race, intimacy and leadership on divided university campuses

    by Jonathan Jansen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Educational Leadership
    This book offers new theoretical ground for thinking about, and transforming, leadership and higher education worldwide. Through an examination of the construct of intimacy and ‘nearness’, including emotional, spiritual, psychic, intellectual, and physical closeness, Jonathan Jansen demonstrates its power to influence positive leadership in young people. He argues that sensory leadership, which ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Decolonization of Knowledge

    Radical Ideas and the Shaping of Institutions in South Africa and Beyond

    by Jonathan D. Jansen, Cyrill A. Walters ...
    In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town used the slogan #RhodesMustFall to demand that a monument of Cecil John Rhodes, the empire builder of British South Africa, be removed from the university campus. Soon students at Oxford University called for the removal of a statue of Rhodes from Oriel College. The radical idea of decolonization at the forefront of these student protests continues ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • On Discovery

    How Knowledge is Produced across the Disciplines

    Edited by Jonathan Jansen ...
    How is new knowledge produced in the social, natural, and biomedical sciences? What is the role of serendipity versus planning? How has technology changed knowledge production, from AI to large datasets? This book presents insights into the pursuit of new knowledge from fields as diverse as medicine, engineering, linguistics, and theology. Over twenty researchers and scientists describe the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • In the Lair: A Fantasy Bridge Anthology

    by Robert Jeschonek, David Estes, Jonathan Moeller, Vincent Trigili, Patty Jansen, Steven Savile, Jaime Castle, Craig Halloran, Brandon Barr, Benjamin Wallace, Anthea Sharp, J.T. Williams, Chris Pourteau, Jean Lowe Carlson, M.S. Verish, D.K. Holmberg ...
    Fantasy Bridge is thrilled to present its first collection from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories transport you to new and wondrous worlds. Places where dragons roam free and where magic is as natural as blood. From epic battles to the temptations of demons, the exciting stories within 'In the Lair' will thrill, inspire, and keep you up all night wondering what will ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decolonisation in Universities

    The politics of knowledge

    Edited by Jonathan Jansen ...
    In this collection of case studies and stories from the field, South African scholars come together to trade stories on how to decolonise the universityShortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the decolonisation of universities. It was a word hardly heard in South Africa’s struggle lexicon and many asked: ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • We Write What We Like

    Celebrating Steve Biko

    Edited by Darryl Accone, Zithulele Cindi, Saths Cooper, Duncan Innes, Jonathan Jansen ...
    A celebration of Steve Biko's legacy of freedomSteve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only thirty years old, but his ideas and political activities changed the course of South African history and helped hasten the end of apartheid. The year 2007 saw the thirtieth anniversary of Biko's death. To mark the occasion, the then ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences

    South/African Perspectives

    Edited by Jonathan Jansen, Jess Auerbach ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In the wake of the decolonization movement in South Africa and around the world, this edited work presents fresh evidence and advances new arguments on the politics and economics of colonial biomedical knowledge in South Africa and other parts of the African continent. Covering a richly diverse set of fields---including human genetics, obstetrics, occupational therapy, medical photography and the ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Breaking Bread

    A Memoir

    by Jonathan Jansen ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Jansen, Alistair Izobel ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 33 min

    Professor. Pundit. Public nuisance. In his columns, books and on social media, Jonathan Jansen is prolific, and he likes to speak his mind about schools and universities, race, politics and our complex South African society.He has brought incisive analysis, compassion and a sense of humour to some of the most controversial issues in our country for many years. And now, in this memoir, Jansen goes ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook