HED4805 Assignment 2 Semester 1 2026 – Due 26 June 2026

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9.5.2 Assignment 02

Assignment 02

History of Education
Due date: 26 June 2026
Unique assignment number:
100 marks

Question 1
(25)
Section A of this question 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% of all authors (South Africa: 0.8% and
Zaire: 0.8%), as shown in table 2.3.