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Towards tailored teaching: using participatory action research to enhance the learning experience of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship students in a South African rural district hospital
(Spinger Nature, 2016)
Background: The introduction of Stellenbosch University’s Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) model as part of
the undergraduate medical curriculum offers a unique and exciting training model to develop generalist ...
Diffracting learning/teaching entanglements: A South African vice-chancellor’s perspective
(Routledge, 2016)
This chapter considers data from interviews conducted with eight vice-chancellors from both historically advantaged and disadvantaged higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, as part of a larger national project ...
Learning to teach STEM disciplines in higher education: a critical review of the literature
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Enrolments in STEM disciplines at universities are increasing globally, attributed to the greater life opportunities open to students as a result of a STEM education. But while institutional access to STEM programmes is ...
Examining the performance of the South African economics departments, 2005-2014
(Wiley, 2017)
This study examines the teaching and research activities of 17 Economics Departments in 2005-2014 by consulting the information from each university’s faculty prospectus, publication in accredited local and international ...
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
(Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service, 2018)
Student protests in South Africa over the last few years have re-energized the project of social justice in higher education. While emphasis has been on decolonizing the curriculum and the university spaces, there has also ...
A collaborative auto-ethnographic exploration of socially just practices by new academics in two South African higher education institutions
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)
Challenges experienced in the higher education context require new academics to engage with issues of social justice in their pedagogical practices. This article focuses on such challenges and how these are met by the ...
First year learner nurses' perceptions of learning motivation in self-directed learning in a simulated skills laboratory at a higher education institution
(2014)
Employing self-directed learning (SDL) methodologies, that are associated with
improvement in the affective and psychomotor domains, could be advantageous to
learner nurses. Despite the efforts to expose students to SDL ...
Development of students’ academic literacies viewed through a political ethics of care lens
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)
This article explores insights which the political ethics of care (Tronto 1993; 2013) offers to academic literacies development of students. Research on ethics of care has been conducted in contexts ranging from micro to ...
Reflecting on the process of teaching reflection in higher education
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)
Higher education plays an important role in nurturing life-long
learning and critical citizenry. One way to foster these is through
developing a reflective practice. Given the importance of reflection, this article ...
Beyond the lecture: Teaching for professional development
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016)
BACKGROUND. Clinical educators are being challenged to graduate students who can adapt to complex situations. Evidence suggests that one must go
beyond teaching students what to know and what to do, and help them learn ...