...STS limitations in teaching education and research questions Stig Broström from Denmark raises an interesting question: What is pedagogical quality from a child’s retrospective perspective? The paper focuses on ten-year-olds’ reflections on their lives in preschool. An interesting and specific research method was applied in this study, where twelve ten-year-old children collected data from their classmates. We hope the reader will be particularly delighted reading the findings of this research, which, in general, describes preschool as a positive period of life – “a life full of positive and exciting activities, and as a place of unrestrained freedom.” Gerd Pettersson from Sweden, Kristina Ström from Finland and Jan-Birger Johansen from Norway take the reader to rural Nordic schools. Using interviews with teachers as a research method, this Nordic research team present to the reader the teachers’ views on the resources available for supporting students with special educational needs. Such categories as relationship, collaboration, distance and concerns were taken into account, where “relationship and collaboration are enabling conditions for support while distance and concern are constraining conditions.” The reader will get the confirmation that “rural schools, regardless of location, are learning environments in which inclusion and diversity are natural and integral.” Christel Sundqvist and Emma Lönnqvist from Finland invite the reader to continue the discussion about the...
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...Gangsterism is an age-old problem that has affected families as well as whole communities. Entire towns and cities have, at one stage or another, had to deal with the scourge that is gangsterism. Innocent men, women and children have – knowingly and unknowingly – become entangled with gangsters. Most have suffered dearly as a result. Many still bear the scars of their involvement; both physical and emotional scars. Countless others have lost their lives, usually in a savage manner and sometimes for something of little or no significance. Those that have tried to get out, have either been hunted and killed, or are now fugitives, living in fear of being found by their fellow gang members. Over the years, gangsterism evolved, changing with the times, with new gangs springing up, changing or disintegrating. Their modus operandi also evolved with time. Most of the old terminology retained its nineteenth century significance, although much of it became distorted or started to mean something different altogether. Gangs also became more dangerous and violent. Whole communities or sections of towns or cities lived in fear of gangsters. Disruptions and intimidation became more prevalent. Gangs gained more and more power in communities, and they began spreading. The forced removals of Coloureds from District Six in 1966, helped disperse gangsterism throughout the Cape Flats. In essence, there are two types of gangs – street gangs and organised gangs. Street gangs are usually smaller...
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