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    Reading parents : parody and paradox in Go the Fuck to Sleep
    (Elsevier BV, 2021-03) Smith, Jade; Adendorff, Ralph
    Aimed at frustrated parents whose young children refuse to go to bed, Go the Fuck to Sleep was a bestseller before it hit the shelves in 2011. Much of the book's humour lies in its juxtaposition of profanity-laden poetry with illustrations of children and nature that would not be out of place in a typical children's picture book – the books that parents read repeatedly to satisfy their restless children. Although the writer is a father speaking from his experience, creating this in-joke nurtures an imagined community of any caregivers who suffer the same fate night after night. A combination of APPRAISAL analyses, both verbal (cf. Martin and White 2005) and visual (cf. Painter et al. 2013), provides evidence for the ways in which the book shows how the child takes the power role in the bedtime routine of middle-class households. Visual choices follow the typical format of children's bedtime stories, with the child increasingly at the centre of the images. Verbal evaluations show that, at first, parents deny their children the items or activities that they want but later concede to their demands. As the narrator becomes more frustrated and desperate, the evaluations move from the idea of a secure sleep for the child, to questioning the child's honesty, to denouncing his parenting skills. This paradoxical role-reversal in the book allows parents some relief from the guilt that they might be bad parents because of their nightly loss of authority over the child. However, it also foregrounds the ideological issues at stake at bedtime.
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    Managing teacher performance and its appraisal : dilemmas of school principals
    (Scientific Methodical Center, 2014) Mpungose, Jabulani E.; Ngwenya, Thengani H.
    Utilizing a grounded theory approach to understand the issues surrounding teachers’ performance appraisal, the researchers investigate the principals’ understanding of the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) and also explore the problems and flaws in its implementation. A purposive sampling procedure was used to select six school principals from three education regions in KwaZulu-Natal for the study. The results of the data analysis indicate that the implementation of the IQMS at schools has not been smooth. There has been a lot of hostility, negativity and resistance from the teachers that were appraised. The challenges that the principals were faced with, emanated from the lack of coordination, lack of trust, lack of clarity of roles and poor training. It is recommended that trust and better understanding be built between principals and teachers through information-sharing seminars and workshops, and regular feedback from the education officials.