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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 ...
Emergences and affordances as opportunities to develop teachers’ mathematical content knowledge
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Teachers’ mathematical content knowledge has been under scrutiny for some time. This development is in the wake of learners’ unsatisfactory performance in national examinations and international achievement tests. A widely ...
Sexual diversity and the role of educators on a South African teacher education module
(Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2017)
This article is a reflection on a 5-credit, 50 hour stand-alone module titled ‘Sexual Diversity and the Role of Educators’ for final-year pre-service education students at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. ...
An instrument to determine the technological literacy levels of upper secondary school students
(Springer, 2014)
In this article, an instrument for assessing upper secondary school students’
levels of technological literacy is presented. The items making up the instrument emerged
from a previous study that employed a phenomenographic ...
From theory to practice: Beginner teachers’ experiences of the rigour of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme
(© UV/UFS, 2016)
This article focuses on how recent graduates perceive the rigour of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) initial teacher education (ITE) programme. The article is based on qualitative data collected from a ...
Indigenous knowledge systems and early literacy development: An analysis of isiXhosa and isiZulu traditional children’s folktales and songs
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
This paper provides an analysis of IsiXhosa and IsiZulu folktales and traditional children’s songs in order to highlight the relationship between Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and early literacy development in young ...
The effects of examination-driven teaching on mathematics achievement in Grade 10 school-based high-stakes examinations
(AOSIS, 2018)
Various efforts are underway to improve achievement in high-stakes examinations in school
mathematics. This article reports on one such initiative which focuses on the development of
quality teaching of school mathematics ...
Pre-service science teachers’ understanding of argumentation
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
The study is part of a larger project concerned with addressing the problem that Eritrean science teachers face in their attempt to implement a new learner-centred science curriculum. Specifically, the study attempted to ...
Revisiting the role of the ‘expert other’ in learners’ acquisition of workplace competence
(UKZN, 2017)
Skills development policies in South Africa and further afield consider learning in and from
the workplace as critical to the training of artisans at intermediate level, bringing together
theoretical learning undertaken ...
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 ...