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Integrating principles underlying ancestral spirits belief in counseling and psychotherapy
(Ife Centre for Psychological Studies, 2013)
This article discusses the traditional beliefs, of many indigenous cultures of Africa, associated with ancestral spirits and its use as powerful therapeutic agent for
influencing behavior or lifestyle changes. Explanatory ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Case study of isiXhosa-speaking foundation phase learners who experience barriers to learning in an English-medium disadvantaged Western Cape school
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2020)
In the study reported on here, we focused on the use of English as language of learning and teaching (LoLT) for isiXhosaspeaking Foundation Phase learners in a historically disadvantaged school in the Western Cape, South ...