What is open access?

HSRC Press is Africa’s leading scholarly publisher committed to the dissemination of high-quality social sciences and humanities research-based books, in print and electronic form. HSRC Press has an online open access platform, a pioneering model established in 2003, ensuring strong worldwide impact and dissemination of its distinctive, evidence-based books, as well as global access to the important research content inside these books.

Our open access also contributes significantly to knowledge production. The worldwide access to our knowledge helps broaden the research base, particularly for African-led research, and results in high citation for researchers. Our online readership is 35 times the number of books we sell annually worldwide.

Based on 2013 Google Analytics data, HSRC Press book titles were downloaded from 212 countries worldwide in the 10 years since HSRC Press launched its open access platform. Initially, the US and Europe were our top regional users. Today, India and Kenya are on our top 10 list, with Zimbabwe, China, Brazil and Botswana among the top 20 list of countries that download our books. Africa is the fastest-growing region in terms of readership of HSRC Press books on open access, having grown from zero percent of our downloads in 2003 to over 25% in 2013 and more than 30% in 2016. Recent entrants to our open access platform include Myanmar, Russia and Indonesia.

The map of the world below shows the countries using HSRC Press’s open access platform:

HSRC Press open access allows one free download per reader, but unlimited page viewing. The HSRC Press site hosting HSRC Press open access books has grown significantly as a worldwide resource. The daily use rate has increased from the low hundreds to peaking at more than a thousand users on the site at any given time during the day.

Partnerships in action University-school-community

Pia Prelims

Foreword

1: Activating partnerships: The Schools Improvement Initiative at the University of Cape Town

2: Setting the scene: Schooling in Khayelitsha

3: A snapshot of a partner primary school: Intshayelelo Primary

4: A snapshot of a partner secondary school: Usasazo High

5: Reimagining interdisciplinary collaboration through a university–school partnership

6: Policy ideas distilled through a university– district partnership: Lessons from the iKwezi Lead Teacher Project

7: Building organisational capacity through a principals’ community of practice

8: Critical occupational therapy in the margins: Parent participation in under-resourced schools

9: Introducing microteaching as a developmental tool for library assistants in under-resourced school libraries

10: New possibilities for supporting homework practices through a university–school partnership

11: Facilitating social inclusion through communication: How do speech- and language therapy students negotiate their transition into community practice?

Open access

What is open access?

The map of the world below shows the countries using HSRC Press’s open access platform:

Partnerships in action University-school-community

Pia Prelims

Foreword

1: Activating partnerships: The Schools Improvement Initiative at the University of Cape Town

2: Setting the scene: Schooling in Khayelitsha

3: A snapshot of a partner primary school: Intshayelelo Primary

4: A snapshot of a partner secondary school: Usasazo High

5: Reimagining interdisciplinary collaboration through a university–school partnership

6: Policy ideas distilled through a university– district partnership: Lessons from the iKwezi Lead Teacher Project

7: Building organisational capacity through a principals’ community of practice

8: Critical occupational therapy in the margins: Parent participation in under-resourced schools

9: Introducing microteaching as a developmental tool for library assistants in under-resourced school libraries

10: New possibilities for supporting homework practices through a university–school partnership

11: Facilitating social inclusion through communication: How do speech- and language therapy students negotiate their transition into community practice?

12: Rethinking approaches to occupational therapy intervention: Learning in and from an under-resourced school

13: Partnerships in action: Establishing a model of collaborative support for student and mentor teachers through a university–school partnership

14: Reflections on community engagement through interdisciplinary collaboration for the purpose of whole-school improvement

15: Enlarged thinking and asymmetrical reciprocity in an ethics of engagement: A reflection on university–school partnerships

Index

Glossary

The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)

What is open access?

The map of the world below shows the countries using HSRC Press’s open access platform:

Partnerships in action University-school-community

Pia Prelims

Foreword

1: Activating partnerships: The Schools Improvement Initiative at the University of Cape Town

2: Setting the scene: Schooling in Khayelitsha

3: A snapshot of a partner primary school: Intshayelelo Primary

4: A snapshot of a partner secondary school: Usasazo High

5: Reimagining interdisciplinary collaboration through a university–school partnership

6: Policy ideas distilled through a university– district partnership: Lessons from the iKwezi Lead Teacher Project

7: Building organisational capacity through a principals’ community of practice

8: Critical occupational therapy in the margins: Parent participation in under-resourced schools

9: Introducing microteaching as a developmental tool for library assistants in under-resourced school libraries

10: New possibilities for supporting homework practices through a university–school partnership

11: Facilitating social inclusion through communication: How do speech- and language therapy students negotiate their transition into community practice?

12: Rethinking approaches to occupational therapy intervention: Learning in and from an under-resourced school

13: Partnerships in action: Establishing a model of collaborative support for student and mentor teachers through a university–school partnership

14: Reflections on community engagement through interdisciplinary collaboration for the purpose of whole-school improvement

15: Enlarged thinking and asymmetrical reciprocity in an ethics of engagement: A reflection on university–school partnerships

Index

Glossary