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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, ...
Gender differences on student disciplinary behaviours by disciplinary panels of selected Kenyan Secondary Schools
(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2013)
The study investigated gender differences in decisions on student disciplinary behaviours by selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panels which may be due to composition of disciplinary panels, perceptions of ...
First year students’ experience of access and engagement at a University of Technology
(Bioinfo Publications, 2017)
Universities in South Africa have opened access to a diverse population of students, which
has resulted in an increased participation of first-generation, low-income and mature
students. Concomitant to the widening access, ...
Gender, age and teaching experiences differences in decision-making behaviours of members of selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panels
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013)
The study investigated gender, age and teaching experiences differences in decision- making behaviours of
members of selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panels.
Mixed Methods design was adopted for the study. ...
The stability of learners’ choices for real-life situations to be used in mathematics
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
One of the efforts to improve and enhance the performance and achievement in mathematics of learners is the incorporation of life-related contexts in mathematics teaching and assessments. These contexts are normally, with ...
Student involvement in university decision-making: Good reasons, a new lens
(2011-04-04)
This paper proposes a framework for understanding student involvement in different domains of university decision-making based on the various reasons brought for and against student involvement. It briefly outlines the ...
Skills development and structural change: possibilities for and limitations of redressing structural racial inequalities in South Africa
(Springer, 2013)
Improving structural racial equality for historically-disadvantaged Black South Africans, including low-skilled and unemployed adults and youths, is a pertinent challenge for the South African government during the ongoing ...
Comparing the technological literacy of pre-service teachers and secondary school students in South Africa
(IATED, 2012)
Technology education was introduced for the first time after the abolition of Apartheid in South Africa in 1994. The technology curriculum required that students become technologically literate. However, in order for ...
Local languages: good for the informal marketplace but not for the formal classroom?
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The maxim that ‘Languages develop through use, particularly in high domains such as education and the courts’ was propagated by Neville Alexander. He was committed to ‘intellectualising African languages’. In the spirit ...
Developing the language of thinking within a classroom community of inquiry: pre-service teachers’ experiences
(Education Association of South Africa, 2012-08)
We argue that the “community of inquiry” approach, using reading materials
modelled on Lipman’s Philosophy for Children programme, is a theoretically justified
and teacher-friendly means of promoting effective thinking ...