EDUCARE - University of South Africa

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Editor's page
The articles in this number of EDUCARE present a scope of
research which includes philosophical, theoretical as well as
empirical considerations, all of importance to educational theory
and schooling.
Volume 30 of EDUCARE appears against a background of 30
years' existence during which time span some 349 articles were
published. The spectrum of themes covers theoretical and
practical issues indicative of the discipline of education and its
various sub-disciplines. The original intention was explained by
the first editor, Prof JD Vrey, in volume 1, 1972 as follows:
The faculty wishes to provide information for its students about the
content, theories, views and approaches to pedagogics as a particular
form of practising science.
Since 1972 this policy was adhered to according to changes and
developments related to scientific-scholarly endeavours in the
field of education. It should be mentioned that the following
lecturers made valuable contributions as editors to the existence
of EDUCARE: Proff. JD Vrey (1972±1976), CJG Kilian (1977±
1979), TL Verster (1980±1983), PC van Wyk (1984). Since 1985 the
present editor is serving in this capacity.
In 1994 a full democracy was constituted in South Africa. The
following editorial comment from that year's edition of EDU-
CARE is still the basic editorial tenor of the journal:
Critical theoretical self-reflection coupled with differential theoretical
thought processes made possible by a multitheoretical and multi-