SACHES and comparative, international and development education in Southern Africa: the challenges and future prospects - Sheldon Weeks et al.

This paper commences with an overview of the international position of Comparative, International and Development Education. This is followed by a survey of the history and present state of SACHES. Thirdly, the focus falls on the position of Comparative Education in South Africa. While Comparative Education has considerable potential in Southern Africa, it needs to address the following: the thin and slowly growing membership base of SACHES, especially outside South Africa, most of all in the francophone and lusophone Southern African countries; the need to rebuild and strengthen an institutional infrastructure for Comparative Education at Southern African universities; effective and dynamic leadership from SACHES's professional members; the development of a well-oiled, effective administrative and logistical underpinning for SACHES; and the need for relevant, high-quality and critical scholarship that is eventually duly integrated into the international corpus of Comparative Education knowledge.
From: SARE with EWP, Vol. 12 no. 2 (2006), pp. 5-20