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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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For sustainable funding and fees, the undergraduate system in South Africa must be restructured
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2016)South Africa has the most diverse and differentiated higher education system in Africa – despite some persistent attempts at academic drift and mimetic normative isomorphism. Globally, in the 2008 country system ranking ... -
Unlocking the grid: Language-in-education policy realisation in post-apartheid South Africa
(Routledge, 2014)This paper reflects on the state of educational language policy two decades into a postApartheid South Africa caught between official multilingualism and English. The focus is on the national language-in-education policy ... -
Testing the waters: Exploring the teaching of genres in a Cape flats primary school in South Africa
(Routledge, 2015)Twenty years after democracy, the legacy of apartheid and hitherto unmet challenges of resourcing and teacher development are reflected in a severely inequitable and underperforming education system. This paper focuses ... -
Skills for sustainable development: Transforming vocational educationand training beyond 2015
(Elsevier, 2016)There have been recent calls to transform VETand to transform development. This double call leads us toask how can skills development best support development that is sustainable for individuals,communities and the planet, ... -
Reflecting on the global report on adult learning and education in the “post-truth society”
(SAGE, 2017)This article contextualizes and reviews the third global report on adult learning and education (ALE) released by UNESCO in 2016. The authors suggest that it is a visionary document, which is articulated through the ... -
Women in South Africa: Striving for full equality post-apartheid
(Springer Nature, 2017)Life for South African women post-apartheid reflects both legislative advances and lingering challenges. Despite progress in the post-apartheid world, South Africa is still characterized by a high level of economic disparity, ... -
Literacy teaching in disadvantaged South African schools
(WILEY, 2019)This article analyses the experiences of teachers of literacy working in underprivileged communities in the Western Cape, South Africa. The purpose is to provide teachers in poorly resourced schools within economically ... -
Unmasking the state of basic education in South Africa
(José Frantz, 2021)The Covid-19 lockdown period laid bare the fibre of South African society: poverty, homelessness, welfare dependence, domestic violence, police and military brutality, healthcare and hunger are all suddenly under national ... -
Literacy teaching in disadvantaged South African schools
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)This article analyses the experiences of teachers of literacy working in underprivileged communities in the Western Cape, South Africa. The purpose is to provide teachers in poorly resourced schools within economically ... -
The tale of academic practice in a rising knowledge society: focus on a university in South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020)This paper is based on a study conducted to establish if academic practice in a university designated as Azania is aligning or diverting from the expectations of the rising knowledge society in South Africa. The paper is ... -
Being and becoming a university teacher
(Taylor & Francis group, 2017)This study examined how one academic framed the enablements and constraints to her project of being and becoming an academic. Complexity facilitated reflection in that it provided a visual representation of data, which was ... -
The baseline assessment of Grade 1 learners’ literacy skills in a socio-economically disadvantaged school setting
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)Research has revealed that the academic performances of learners in South Africa are below the required level. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) launched the literacy and numeracy strategy 2006–2016 in response ... -
Predictors of academic performance among second-year nursing students at a university in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch University, 2016)Students with low grades in high school science related subjects as well as those that obtained low grades in their first year of study should be given the necessary support to avoid the risk of unsatisfactory academic ... -
A curriculum of inclusivity: Towards a “lived-body” and “lived-experience” curriculum in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s “lived body” theory, we argue for a shift towards a lived-experience and body-specific curriculum in South Africa. Such a curriculum would view learning as a lived, embodied, social and culturally ... -
Creating ‘safe-ish’ learning spaces—attempts to practice an ethics of care
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)One way to approach the project of decolonising the university is to employ decolonising pedagogies, which allow the whole of people’s lived experience into teaching and learning spaces, affirm this experience as worthy ... -
Activity theory as a lens to examine pre-service teachers' perceptions of learning and teaching of mathematics within an intervention programme
(Routledge, 2012)This study was prompted by concerns around mathematics teaching and learning in the South African education system. Contributory factors to this situation are the lack of competent mathematics teachers in the classroom ... -
Working the ‘in-between-spaces’ for transformation within the academy
(South African Journal of Education, 2018)This paper considers the importance of ‘in-between spaces’ within the academy for challenging dominant institutional culture and hegemonic power relations towards a ‘de-colonised’ university. It questions ‘mainstreaming’ ... -
The body as blind spot: Towards lived experience and a body-specific philosophy in education
(UNISA Press, 2018)What do the philosophies of phenomenological scholars such as Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty tell us about education in South Africa? How can we use the philosophies of these scholars to develop the minds of our ... -
What mathematics education may prepare students for the society of the future?
(Springer Verlag, 2017)This paper attempts to engage the field in a discussion about what mathematics is needed for students to engage in society, especially with an increase in technology and digitalization. In this respect, mathematics holds ... -
A schizoanalytical praxis for social justice education
(University of Johannesburg and UNISA Press, 2017)This paper uses Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis to interrogate concepts of social justice in relation to the crisis of neo-liberal capitalism by referring to the work of the Situationist International movement, the posthuman ...
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