South Africa: Touched by the vengeance of AIDS 1

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa is at a critical phase. Until now, the spread of HIV/AIDS has not been controlled, and the government has yet to adopt a coherent policy. The National AIDS Plan, developed in 1994, is largely unimplemented, despite having been praised as an innovative programme. Complicating the situation are the politics between government and various non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) over the control of resources on one hand, and the control of turf on the other. Perceived incompatibilities in agendas cause infighting between NCOs themselves and between NCOs and government. A successful HIV/AIDS policy in South Africa must include the efforts of government, NCOs and communities.     

Women Educators and Transnational Networking in the Twentieth-Century Nursery School Movement

In this article I argue that women educators' personal and professional networks underpinned the growth of nursery school education into a transnational movement in the interwar years. Edna Noble White, Lillian de Lissa, Mary Gutteridge and Gwendolyn Watkins' interlocking networks facilitated and connected the nursery school movements in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia. Although these women educators were at the centre of a feminised domain, I also show that their work and the movement were impacted by gender relations in the broader fields of education and child development research. Just as nursery school education transcended national boundaries and was reconfigured in each national context, so too the priorities and tensions in education and developmental psychology.