Vernon Mckay
Biographic Data
| ID | 270877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vernon Mckay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vernon |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckay |
| SIGNATURE | MCKAY V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2819-7891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From novice to nurtured: The influence of school-based mentoring on new teachers’ transition and efficacy
This article examines mentor–mentee relationships among 203 newly qualified teachers (NQTs) and 84 mentors in South African schools. Positioned at the intersection of research and programme evaluation, the study employs an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, drawing on survey data followed by interviews. Quantitative analyses, including exploratory factor analysis and reliability testing, identified key dimensions of mentoring support th…
South African Kha Ri Gude mass literacy campaign and Australian Aboriginal adult literacy campaign ‘Yes, I can: A Comparative Study
In 2008 the South African Government launched the Kha Ri Gude mass literacy campaign to address the country’s adult illiteracy problem. The Campaign drew upon the Cuban Yo, Si Puedo campaign model. In 2012, an Australian non-governmental organisation, Literacy for Life Foundation, likewise informed by the Cuban Yo, Si Puedo campaign model, launched its ‘Yes, I Can!’ adult literacy campaign aimed at addressing low English literacy among its Aborig…
Adult learning and education as a tool to contain pandemics: The Covid-19 experience
Learning for development: Learners’ perceptions of the impact of the Kha Ri Gude Literacy Campaign
Learning in the mother tongue: Examining the learning outcomes of the South African Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign
Lifelong literacy: Towards a new agenda
Measuring and monitoring in the South African Kha Ri Gude mass literacy campaign
Narratives of agency: The experiences of Braille literacy practitioners in the Kha Ri Gude South African Mass Literacy Campaign
In this article, we locate the Kha Ri Gude South African Mass Literacy Campaign within the context of the problem of illiteracy and exclusion in South Africa, while concentrating on various post-apartheid initiatives designed to give visually challenged adults the opportunity to become literate. We shall provide a detailed account of focus group sessions organised in 2012; the aim of these sessions was to explore the experiences of blind literacy…
Active research towards the addressal of HIV/Aids in the informal economy in Zambia: Recognition of complicity in unfolding situations
In this article we offer an account of research undertaken for the International Labour Organization (on behalf of the National Aids Council in Zambia) in relation to HIV/AIDS and the informal economy in Zambia. We concentrate on how we tried to operate in terms of a conscious recognition of (and acceptance of responsibility for) our complicity as inquirers (together with others) in the development of the unfolding situations being explored. We i…
Re-exploring feminist methodology
In an endeavour to humanize feminist research methodology, the author aims at exploring and developing the humanist nuances inherent in the feminist research tradition. The author draws parallels between the reflexive humanist methodological approach and the feminist methodological approach and attempts to offer a way in which the theoretician could contribute to the humanization of reality
American Foreign Policy in the Congo, 1960-1964
Progress Toward African Unity
Essay| May 01 1969 Progress Toward African Unity Vernon McKay Vernon McKay Director of the Program of African Studies, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Vernon McKay has belonged to many United States delegations to sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and Trusteeship Council. He has made numerous trips to Africa. From 1936 to 1945, he taught history at Syracuse University; from 1945 to 1948 he was a Research A…
Southern Africa and the United States
The Research Climate in Eastern Africa (Report on a Mission for the Research Liaison Committee of the African Studies Association, July-September, 1967)
The formulation of valid generalizations about the climate for research in the social sciences and humanities in eastern Africa is a perplexing task. When one thinks one has reached a useful generalization, one is likely to be confronted with conflicting evidence. Moreover, changes are occurring with increasing frequency. In Zambia, for example, certain kinds of research especially important for political scientists were banned in July, 1967. Two…
African Diplomacy: Studies in the Determinants of Foreign Policy
Cooperation for Order in Africa
Essay| March 01 1966 Cooperation for Order in Africa Vernon Mckay Vernon Mckay Director of the Program of African Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Vernon McKay has belonged to many United States delegations to sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and Trusteeship Council. He has made numerous trips to Africa. From 1936 to 1945, he taught history at Syracuse University; from 1945 to 1948 he was a Research A…
L'Afrique dans le monde
South Africa 1906-1961: The Price of Magnanimity
A History of Sierra Leone
Africa in World Politics
Development in Africa: A Study in Regional Analysis with Special Reference to Southern Africa
A Tribute to Governor Williams
When Carl Rosberg, the chairman of our program committee, asked me to deliver a presidential address at tonight's banquet, I agreed to do so only if I could not find a better speaker for the occasion. Happily for you, I found him. Moreover, if you'll forgive a commercial, you can read all my potential presidential addresses anyway - in my book Africa in World Politics which Harper's is publishing next month. So you can have the best of both world…
A United States Policy for the New Africa
Essay| July 01 1959 A United States Policy for the New Africa Vernon McKay Vernon McKay Professor of African Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University Vernon McKay resigned as Deputy Director of the Office of Dependent Area Affairs, September, 1956, to organize a program of African studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D. C. From 1936 to 1945, he taught history at Syracuse Unive…
Foreign Aid in Africa
Africa and the Western World
The Economic Development of French Indo-China
A History of the Gold Coast
Measuring and monitoring in the South African Kha Ri Gude mass literacy campaign
South Africa 1906-1961: The Price of Magnanimity
The Gold Coast: A Survey of the Gold Coast and British Togoland, 1919-1946
Learning in the mother tongue: Examining the learning outcomes of the South African Kha Ri Gude literacy campaign
Active research towards the addressal of HIV/Aids in the informal economy in Zambia: Recognition of complicity in unfolding situations
In this article we offer an account of research undertaken for the International Labour Organization (on behalf of the National Aids Council in Zambia) in relation to HIV/AIDS and the informal economy in Zambia. We concentrate on how we tried to operate in terms of a conscious recognition of (and acceptance of responsibility for) our complicity as inquirers (together with others) in the development of the unfolding situations being explored. We i…
Adult learning and education as a tool to contain pandemics: The Covid-19 experience
Learning for development: Learners’ perceptions of the impact of the Kha Ri Gude Literacy Campaign
South African Kha Ri Gude mass literacy campaign and Australian Aboriginal adult literacy campaign ‘Yes, I can: A Comparative Study
In 2008 the South African Government launched the Kha Ri Gude mass literacy campaign to address the country’s adult illiteracy problem. The Campaign drew upon the Cuban Yo, Si Puedo campaign model. In 2012, an Australian non-governmental organisation, Literacy for Life Foundation, likewise informed by the Cuban Yo, Si Puedo campaign model, launched its ‘Yes, I Can!’ adult literacy campaign aimed at addressing low English literacy among its Aborig…
The Research Climate in Eastern Africa (Report on a Mission for the Research Liaison Committee of the African Studies Association, July-September, 1967)
The formulation of valid generalizations about the climate for research in the social sciences and humanities in eastern Africa is a perplexing task. When one thinks one has reached a useful generalization, one is likely to be confronted with conflicting evidence. Moreover, changes are occurring with increasing frequency. In Zambia, for example, certain kinds of research especially important for political scientists were banned in July, 1967. Two…
Demographic Survey of the British Colonial Empire. Volume 1, West Africa
Lifelong literacy: Towards a new agenda
American Foreign Policy in the Congo, 1960-1964
A History of Sierra Leone
Development in Africa: A Study in Regional Analysis with Special Reference to Southern Africa
Too Slow or Too Fast? Political Change in African Trust Territories
C ARTOGRAPHERS who attempt to keep the political map of Africa up to date during the next decade will find it a busy and frustrating task. Four new nations-Libya, the Sudan, Morocco and Tunisia-have already appeared across the northern belt of Africa, and the former Italian colony of Eri trea is now federated with independent Ethiopia. Next in line for similar changes is the middle belt of tropical Africa which includes not only the Gold Coast, N…
The Progress of Underdeveloped Areas
The Economic Development of French Indo-China
La Federation Francaise: Contacts et civilisations d'outre-mer
A Short History of Eritrea
A History of the Gold Coast
Demographic Survey of the British Colonial Empire. Volume 1, West Africa
The Government of Ethiopia
The Gold Coast: A Survey of the Gold Coast and British Togoland, 1919-1946
Needs and Opportunities in Africa
Demographic Survey of the British Colonial Empire. Volume 2 [South Africa High Commission Territories, East Africa, Mauritius, Seychelles]
The Progress of Underdeveloped Areas
Demographic Survey of the British Colonial Empire. Volume 3, West Indian and American Territories
Foreign Aid in Africa
Africa and the Western World
Too Slow or Too Fast? Political Change in African Trust Territories
C ARTOGRAPHERS who attempt to keep the political map of Africa up to date during the next decade will find it a busy and frustrating task. Four new nations-Libya, the Sudan, Morocco and Tunisia-have already appeared across the northern belt of Africa, and the former Italian colony of Eri trea is now federated with independent Ethiopia. Next in line for similar changes is the middle belt of tropical Africa which includes not only the Gold Coast, N…
A United States Policy for the New Africa
Essay| July 01 1959 A United States Policy for the New Africa Vernon McKay Vernon McKay Professor of African Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University Vernon McKay resigned as Deputy Director of the Office of Dependent Area Affairs, September, 1956, to organize a program of African studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D. C. From 1936 to 1945, he taught history at Syracuse Unive…
A Tribute to Governor Williams
When Carl Rosberg, the chairman of our program committee, asked me to deliver a presidential address at tonight's banquet, I agreed to do so only if I could not find a better speaker for the occasion. Happily for you, I found him. Moreover, if you'll forgive a commercial, you can read all my potential presidential addresses anyway - in my book Africa in World Politics which Harper's is publishing next month. So you can have the best of both world…
South Africa 1906-1961: The Price of Magnanimity
A History of Sierra Leone
Africa in World Politics
Development in Africa: A Study in Regional Analysis with Special Reference to Southern Africa
Cooperation for Order in Africa
Essay| March 01 1966 Cooperation for Order in Africa Vernon Mckay Vernon Mckay Director of the Program of African Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Vernon McKay has belonged to many United States delegations to sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and Trusteeship Council. He has made numerous trips to Africa. From 1936 to 1945, he taught history at Syracuse University; from 1945 to 1948 he was a Research A…
L'Afrique dans le monde
African Diplomacy: Studies in the Determinants of Foreign Policy
Southern Africa and the United States
The Research Climate in Eastern Africa (Report on a Mission for the Research Liaison Committee of the African Studies Association, July-September, 1967)
The formulation of valid generalizations about the climate for research in the social sciences and humanities in eastern Africa is a perplexing task. When one thinks one has reached a useful generalization, one is likely to be confronted with conflicting evidence. Moreover, changes are occurring with increasing frequency. In Zambia, for example, certain kinds of research especially important for political scientists were banned in July, 1967. Two…
Political science (24 works) · Geography (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · History (13 works) · African history and culture studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · History (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works)