The Human Sciences Research Council has established a policy research initiative to monitor household food security and to identify and evaluate policy options. In this special edition, a selection of articles from this project is assembled. While deep chronic hunger has fallen with the expansion of the social grants, under-nutrition is a very serious and widespread challenge. This special edit...

This special edition of the IEJ explores the cognitive, cultural, biological, social, emotional, and even spiritual notions of human abilities and the links with very advanced levels of intellectual functioning. In addition, this IEJ Edition’s twenty original papers include practical research findings, guidelines for curriculum design, for curriculum change, and for policy development. This art...