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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 ...
Nature of Problem-Solving Skills for 21st Century STEM Learners: What Teachers Need to Know
(Springer, 2020)
Since the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution which calls for a new model of learning for the twenty-first century learners, it has been argued that the nature of problems that learners must solve in science, ...
Sympoiesis ‘becoming with and through each other’: Exploring collaborative writing as emergent academics
(Critical Studies in Teaching & Learning, 2020)
This paper explores our journey as three female academics as we collaboratively engage in the process of writing for scholarly publication. We read our experience through a Political Ethic of Care, Slow scholarship, and ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...