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Research conducted in the Faculty of Education reflects the following areas of interest: education policy research, curriculum research, professional teacher education, adult education, science teaching, maths education, and the history of education in South Africa.
Electronic theses and dissertations are available in the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository .
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Principals’ views on the implementation of the no-fee policy through the lens of capability theory
(Education Association of South Africa, 2020)The purpose of the study reported on here was to investigate the implementation of the no-fee schools policy in quintile 1 schools in the Frances Baard district of the Northern Cape province. The South African schooling ... -
21st Century competencies in technical and vocational education and training: rhetoric and reality in the wake of a pandemic
(University of KZN, 2021)There is general agreement about the need for vocational education and training to embrace so-called modern technologies in gearing up to deliver to young people a broad range of what have become known as 21st ... -
How language challenges affect the behaviour of immigrant learners in the foundation phase at three schools in Gauteng, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2020)The education of immigrant children is influenced by many factors that emanate from global socio-economic and political issues. In the South African education system, teachers do not have guidelines on how to include ... -
21st Century competencies in Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Rhetoric and reality in the wake of a pandemic
(SAGE Publications, 2021)There is general agreement about the need for vocational education and training to embrace so-called modern technologies in gearing up to deliver to young people a broad range of what have become known as 21st ... -
Illuminating the persistence and departures of previously disadvantaged students at an Engineering faculty
(Stellenbosch University, 2021)The low success rate of many students from previously disadvantaged groups endangers the face and fate of many tertiary institutions, hence an Engineering Faculty’s explorations into the causes of these students’ persistence ... -
The efect of school summer holidays on inequalities in children and young people’s mental health and cognitive ability in the UK using data from the millennium cohort study
(BMC Public Health, 2022)Background: Summer learning loss has been the subject of longstanding concern among researchers, the public and policy makers. The aim of the current research was to investigate inequality changes in children’s mental ... -
Emerging research university in Africa: Divergent views on relevance and experiences
(2021)This article provides an analytical literature review on the emerging research university in Africa. Specifically, we advance a deliberation of whether a research university is relevant and various experiences that denote ... -
The impact of the neoliberal technological epoch and Covid-19 on the decolonization of the university curriculum
(Stellenbosch University, 2021)In this article we will argue that South Africa’s capitalist neoliberal agenda for higher education, where the focus is on the shift from a knowledge economy to a digital economy, will choke the life of indigenous knowledge ... -
Critical human rights, citizenship, and democracy education: Entanglements and regenerations
(Springer, 2020)My reading of this text does not come from within the field of citizenship (CE), democracy (DE) or human rights education (HRE). I am an outsider as far as the debates between CE, HRE and DE go. My interest in the problems ... -
The African intellectuals’ project
(UNISA Press, 2020)Soon after taking the position of editor of IJARS at the beginning of 2019, I was contacted by the dean of Unisa’s College of Graduate Studies (CGS), Prof. Lindiwe Zungu, who informed me that the university’s principal ... -
Data literacy on the road: Setting up a large-scale data literacy initiative in the DataBuzz projec
(University of Rhode Island, 2020)This paper presents the DataBuzz Project. DataBuzz is a high-tech, mobile educational lab, which is housed in a 13-meter electric bus. Its specific goal is to increase the data literacy of different segments of society ... -
Data literacy and education: Introduction and the challenges for our field
(University of Rhode Island, 2020)Data literacy is a hot topic, which is currently discussed in many different fields from open data initiatives, statistics, computer societies, coding initiatives, and beyond. The resulting literature is inspiring but ... -
Decentering and recentering the writing centre using online feedback: Towards a collaborative model of integrating academic literacies development
(Stellenbosch University, 2019)Since its inception in 1994, the University of the Western Cape’s Writing Centre has been on the margins, viewed as an add-on to central learning and teaching activities at the university (Archer and Richards 2011, ... -
The role of Parliament in promoting active citizenship in relation to the Grade 11 Life Orientation in the South African curriculum
(AOSIS, 2019)The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa plays a pivotal role in promoting active citizenship to ensure the deepening of democracy. This article, as based on the study by Arendse, explored the extent to which ... -
The manifestations of the practice of within-class homogeneous ability grouping
(AOSIS, 2019)This article casts the analytical spotlight on the practice of within-class homogeneous (same) ability grouping where learners are placed in small groups for instruction based on their perceived performances, reading ... -
A cluster analysis of peer support training needs for foster parents
(Springer, 2021)Peer volunteers provide valuable support to foster parents. However, there has been limited research on what they consider to be valuable preparation for the role. In the present study, they were asked: “What is essential ... -
Early protein intake predicts functional connectivity and neurocognition in preterm born children
(Nature Research, 2021)Nutritional intake can promote early neonatal brain development in very preterm born neonates (< 32 weeks’ gestation). In a group of 7-year-old very preterm born children followed since birth, we examined whether early ... -
Contemporary Problems of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics Education
(City University of New York., 2021)The way mathematics teaching and learning activities are presented to learners can make them hate or like the subject. The question of accomplishing the mathematics education of the learner from primary to post-secondary ... -
The Rise of the University without Classrooms after COVID-19
(CSSALL, 2020)In this chapter we argue that university face-to-face teaching will gradually be replaced in the future with online teaching. In particular, we argue, this will happen in the light of the Fallist movement that has affected ... -
Science Teachers’ Views and Applications of Technology-Based Teaching
(Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal, 2020)This paper investigates the following research questions: i) What are South African Further Education and Training physical science teachers’ views about the use of WhatsApp, Facebook, and YouTube in the classroom? and ii) ...
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