Structured Group Supervision (SGS): A Pilot Study

The article reports the pilot study results of a Structured Group Supervision (SGS) model. The structured model of group supervision seemed superior in comparison with “control” group supervision.     

Wittgenstein: Spiritual Practices

This essay suggests that Wittgenstein's philosophy can be read as an example of what Hadot and Foucault call spiritual practices, and it uses that reading to cast light on the way certain experiences can change one's life. These experiences could as simple as reading a book or even, as might be the case with Thoreau, living alone by a pond. The essay concentrates on the spiritual practices of the Tractatus, but it uses the Investigations' discussion of noticing a change in aspect to characterise these life‐altering experiences. Wittgenstein sought to transform our vision of the world and to induce a metamorphosis in our being by weaning us from the expectation that philosophy will solve the problem of life and by pointing us in the direction of a pedagogy of things.     

Legislation and Educational Policy in Zimbabwe: The state and the reproduction of patriarchy

This paper discusses the inadequacies of modernisation theory of development, and of research informed by modernisation theory, in explaining the continuing exploitation and discrimination experienced by women in Zimbabwe. A historical overview of the role of the state in perpetuating and reproducing patriarchy in the colonial and neo-colonial periods is presented. The paper focuses on legislation and educational policy and practice as two of the major mechanisms by which the state has accommodated pre-colonial patriarchal structures and gender relations which have facilitated the continued domination and exploitation of women.