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COMPARE Forum: The idea of North-South and South-South collaboration
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The idea of having a Compare Forum focusing on the above title was first discussed with one of the Editors of Compare during a PhD defence in Oslo in 2011. The PhD dissertation itself was linked to a larger project in which ... -
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 ... -
Contemporary Problems of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics Education
(City University of New York., 2021)The way mathematics teaching and learning activities are presented to learners can make them hate or like the subject. The question of accomplishing the mathematics education of the learner from primary to post-secondary ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Decentering and recentering the writing centre using online feedback: Towards a collaborative model of integrating academic literacies development
(Stellenbosch University, 2019)Since its inception in 1994, the University of the Western Cape’s Writing Centre has been on the margins, viewed as an add-on to central learning and teaching activities at the university (Archer and Richards 2011, ... -
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 ... -
Diffracting diffractive readings of texts as methodology: Some propositions
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-01-30)Re-turning to our experiences of putting a diffractive methodology to work ourselves, as well as engaging with the writings of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, we produce some propositions regarding a diffractive methodology ... -
Early protein intake predicts functional connectivity and neurocognition in preterm born children
(Nature Research, 2021)Nutritional intake can promote early neonatal brain development in very preterm born neonates (< 32 weeks’ gestation). In a group of 7-year-old very preterm born children followed since birth, we examined whether early ... -
Editorial: special issue TVET race and ethnicity in the global south and north
(Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 2023)The papers in this special issue (SI) comprise a range of scholarship, illustrating divergent approaches to examining technical and voactional education and training (TVET), race and ethnicity in the global south and north. ... -
The effect of school summer holidays on inequalities in children and young people’s mental health and cognitive ability in the UK using data from the millennium cohort study
(BMC Public Health, 2022)Background: Summer learning loss has been the subject of longstanding concern among researchers, the public and policy makers. The aim of the current research was to investigate inequality changes in children’s mental ... -
The effect size of an intervention focusing on the use of previous national senior certificate mathematics examination papers
(University of Venda, 2016)This study reports on an intervention that emanated from a concern a mathematics teacher had about the unsatisfactory performance of grade 12 learners in the school-based mid-year examination. The intervention was based ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Emerging research university in Africa: Divergent views on relevance and experiences
(2021)This article provides an analytical literature review on the emerging research university in Africa. Specifically, we advance a deliberation of whether a research university is relevant and various experiences that denote ... -
English first additional language learning and teaching with digital resources
(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2023)This paper investigates the learning and teaching of English as a first additional Language (EFAL) using digital resources. It was a qualitative study conducted in a Grade 10 township classroom in the Western Cape, South ... -
English: Language of hope or broken dream?
(Oxford University Press, 1992)In this chapter, the ESL approaches adopted by seven different literacy organisations in South Africa are described and analysed. The approaches are identified in relation to developments in the field of applied linguistics ...