The ‘experiences of black students in education’ was not a topic I was initially aware of or focused on. However, I began to notice a pattern revealing disproportionate challenges that affect black students’ ability to excel in the UK education system. My attention was first drawn to the challenges faced by black boys, young men… Read More »A Narrative Reflection on the Experiences of Black Students in the UK Education System

It is increasingly being acknowledged that climate change disproportionately harms children, including threatening their basic rights to life, education, food, water, health, and a safe environment. This is compounded by the fact that climate risks not only appear faster but have also become more severe than before. While climate change tends to particularly harm the… Read More »Climate Change and Child Rights in Africa: Snippet of Pertinent and Contemporary Issues

The legacy of Professor Mike Neary (1956–2023) and the Social Science Centre in Lincoln lives through a radical vision for education: Student as Producer. This model offers a profound rethinking of the purpose and potential of higher education. Born out of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research—a collaboration between the University of Warwick and Oxford… Read More »Student as Producer: Reclaiming Education as a Radical, Collective Endeavour

Male adolescents endure complex transitions from childhood. This is because “adolescence is a developmental period characterised by rapidly transformative biological, neurological, psychological and social changes” (Nguyen, et al., 2022). Furthermore, adolescence is a unique period in an individual’s life history, characterised by a myriad of changes related to sexual maturation, growth, immunological transformation, and emotional… Read More »Male Adolescents’ Interpersonal and Non-verbal Communication Traits in Namibia’s Urban Areas

Schooling has acquired symbolic value as the prime means of escaping household poverty and inequality and realising ambitions for social mobility, especially for Ethiopian migrant children in South Africa whose parents are not formally educated. While parents connect migration with the process of ‘becoming somebody in life’ and their high educational aspirations, the need to… Read More »Refugeeism, Invisibility and Visibility: The Challenges of Ethiopian Youth and Children Living in Permanent Temporalities

State violence is ubiquitous and can be witnessed almost everywhere in the world. The wars in Europe, and the Middle East, violence in Asia and the other pockets of violence across African countries can be classified as state violence since these are perpetuated by state machinery. Most of these wars show that there is hardly… Read More »State Violence, Peacekeeping and its Impact on Children’s Rights in West Africa

Children’s rights in Southern Africa are deeply entangled with the region’s socio-economic, political, and cultural dynamics, creating a multifaceted landscape that profoundly impacts children’s well-being and opportunities. Despite legal frameworks like the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC),… Read More »The state of children’s rights in Southern Africa: A Wellness Perspective

The coalition governance system is becoming phenomenal as alternative governance is in the hands of opposition political parties contesting power. Heywood (2019:264) defines a coalition as a grouping of rival political actors brought together either through the perception of a common threat or through the recognition that their goals cannot be achieved by working separately.… Read More »Coalition Governments in Post-Conflict Societies: A Comparative Study

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) states that children have rights that are bespoke to them. These rights apply equally to children around the world, including children who have migration backgrounds. However, while migrant children have the potential to make a huge and positive contribution to their schools and societies,… Read More »Migrant children and their right to be listened to in school and research: A case of South Africa

Globalisation has led to an unprecedented increase in migration during the last twenty years and brought many challenges to different host nations of the world. In the UK the record shows that 14% of the population were born outside the UK in 2021 (The Migration Observatory, 2022). Recently and in the past, the British government… Read More »Interculturalism in an era of globalisation: Challenges for educators and health practitioners