Review of: "School instability in South Africa: a Systematic Review of Reflections and Experiences for a way forward"
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School instability is a topical issue, particularly in light of the South African legislation prohibiting corporal punishment, thus requiring nuanced approaches to maintaining school discipline in the holistic molding of learners.In fact, it could be said that the way teachers are trained -what they are trained to know and do in schools -is perhaps far behind the dynamic situation taking place in the schooling context.In a democratic South Africa, where also family structures are broken down and societies outside engage in violence, it is a no wonder that violence permeate all spheres of social life, including schools.Thus, the topic promises to address a thorny societal issue infiltrating schools.My concerns relate to how the topic is framed, the absence of a description of methodology, focused justification of relevance of theory.I also make comments of technical nature at the end of this review.Overall, I think the study could benefit from being more focused on relevant, concise descriptions of its themes, while avoiding narrative accounts, including adding more recent scholarly, empirical work to back its assertions than sometimes relying on anecdotal evidence and fewer sources. TOPICYour topic, "School instability in South Africa: a Systematic Review of Reflections and Experiences for a way forward" should be more focused, consistent it states the purpose of the study in either in the abstract or introduction.On one occasion, you (authors) say your study "elucidates the primary factors contributing to school instability in KwaZulu-Natal, as derived from current academic literature", while you had just said, "The present study investigates diverse factors contributing to educational instability in KwaZulu-Natal, drawing upon data derived from published literature and the authors' first hand involvement as education administrators" in the abstract (my bold italics).Firstly, I am not convinced that the use of the word "primary" is more appropriate.I think it is hard to say with certainty that factors extracted from reflections and literature are primary, let alone those discovered by reflective experience, for one can still dig beneath "primary" to find even deeper factors.Moreover, the words "primary" and "diverse" may be removed.While you have found some factors, they may be diverse than primary.
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