Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape (South Africa) (Masters Thesis)

Swanson, D.M.

Where have all the fishes gone?: Living Ubuntu as an ethics of research and pedagogical engagement (2009)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. (2009). Where have all the fishes gone?: Living Ubuntu as an ethics of research and pedagogical engagement. In D. Caracciolo, & A. M. Mungai (Eds.), In the Spirit of Ubuntu: Stories of Teaching and Research (3-21). Sense

Roots/Routes: Part II (2008)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M. (2008). Roots/Routes: Part II. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(1), 58-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004090150010402

This narrative acts as an articulation of a journey of many routes. Following Part I of the same research journey of rootedness/routedness, it debates the nature of transformation and transcendence beyond personal and political paradoxes informed by... Read More about Roots/Routes: Part II.

Roots/Routes (2008)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M. (2008). Roots/Routes. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(1), 49-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800408321631

This narrative and poetic rendering acts as an articulation of a journey of many routes. It is a storying of critical research issues and events as performances of lived experience. It is a métissage of hybrid, but interrelated, themes that find cohe... Read More about Roots/Routes.

Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa (2005)
Thesis
Swanson, D. M. Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa. (Thesis). University of British Columbia. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14601775

"Voices in the Silence" is a critical exploration of the construction of disadvantage in school mathematics in social context. It provides a reflexive, narrative account of a pedagogic journey towards understanding the pedagogizing of difference in m... Read More about Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa.

Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa (PhD thesis) (2005)
Thesis
Swanson, D. Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa (PhD thesis). (Dissertation). https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/16506441

"Disadvantage" and School Mathematics: The Politics of Context (2002)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. (2002). "Disadvantage" and School Mathematics: The Politics of Context. International Journal of Learning, 9, 1471-1480

Beyond the Bondage of Boundaries (2001)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M. (2001). Beyond the Bondage of Boundaries. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 6(4), 313-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/108114401317087824

Teaching Mathematics in Two Independent School Contexts: The Construction of "Good Practice" (2000)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M. (2000). Teaching Mathematics in Two Independent School Contexts: The Construction of "Good Practice". Educational Insights, 6(1),

This paper compares constructions of mathematics teaching and learning practices in two geographically different school contexts. It looks at the constructions of "good practice" within the schooling communities across these two contexts and describe... Read More about Teaching Mathematics in Two Independent School Contexts: The Construction of "Good Practice".

Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape (1998)
Thesis
Swanson, D. M. Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape. (Dissertation). University of Cape Town. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14601779

A small-scale study was conducted within a historic and traditional, independent, all-boys secondary school in the Western Cape, the focus of which is the exploration of subject positions potentially available to the black male students of the "Black... Read More about Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape.

Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape (South Africa) (Masters Thesis) (1998)
Thesis
Swanson, D. Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape (South Africa) (Masters Thesis). (Dissertation). https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/16506442

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