Peter Rule

I am Director and Associate Professor in the Centre for Higher and Adult Education at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. I have an interest in and commitment to dialogue and learning.

My research interests include adult education, lifelong learning, dialogue and dialogic pedagogy, emancipatory education and qualitative research, especially case study research. I have been involved in a number of non-governmental organisations concerned with disability and education, early childhood development, and language and education.

Selected publications

Rule, P. & John, V. (Eds.) (2024). Handbook of case study research in the social sciences. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Rule, P. (2024). Dialogue, horizon and chronotope: Using Bakhtin’s and Gadamer’s ideas to frame online teaching and learning. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 43(2), 305-323.Rule, P., Bitzer, E. & Frick, L. (Eds.) (2021). The global scholar: Implications for postgraduate studies and supervision. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media.

Rule, P., Bitzer, E. & Frick, L. (Eds.) (2021), The global scholar: Implications for postgraduate studies and supervision. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media.

Nehal, M. & Rule, P. (2018). Imaginative play and reading development among Grade R learners in KwaZulu-Natal: An ethnographic case study. South African Journal of Childhood Education. 8(1), https://doi.org/10.4102/sajce.v8i1.518

Rule, P. & Land, S. (2017). Finding the plot in South African reading education. Reading & Writing, 8(1), a121. https://doi.org/10.4102/ rw.v8i1.121

Rule, P. (2017). Nelson Mandela and Dialogic Lifelong Learning. In C. Soudien (ed.), Nelson Mandela: Global Perspectives of his Significance for Education. (pp. 31-44). Rotterdam: Sense.

Naidoo, J. & Rule, P. (2016). Teachers’ subjectivities and emotionality in HIV/AIDS teaching. African Journal of AIDS Research, 15(3): 233–241. doi:10.2989/16085906.2016.1190768

Nuwagaba, E.L. & Rule, P. (2015). Navigating the ethical maze in disability research in an African context. Disability & Society, 30(5): 255-269. doi: 10.1080/09687599.2014.998333

Rule, P. (2015). Dialogue and boundary learning. Rotterdam: Sense. https://www.sensepublishers.com/media/2555-dialogue-and-boundary-learning.pdf

Rule, P. & John, V. (2011). Your guide to case study research. Pretoria: Van Schaik.

Rule, P. (2011). Bakhtin and Freire: Dialogue, dialectic and boundary learning. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 43(9): 924-942. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2009.00606.x