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(Mis)framing higher education in South Africa
(Blackwell Publishing, 2012)
The question of how to make higher education more inclusive has been a central concern in South Africa and elsewhere over the past two decades. However, in South Africa there remains a disjuncture between policy aimed at ...
Perceptions of students and educators on the potential use of mobile devices in an undergraduate nursing module
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
Higher education is in the midst of an electronic transformative change cycle attributable to advancements in mobile technology. This transformative process took us from stationary desktop computers to laptop computers and ...
Converging institutional expertise to model teaching and learning with emerging technologies
(UNISA Press, 2013)
There is an increasing disjuncture between the use of technologies and the impact that this has on teaching and learning practice. This challenge is compounded by the lack of institutional preparedness to support emerging ...
The Council of Europe’s White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue: an analysis using the ethic of care
(Symposium Journals, 2011)
This article examines what an ethic of care could offer to discussions about
Europe’s increasing cultural diversity by analyzing the important White Paper on Intercultural
Dialogue published by the Council of Europe in ...
Designing the project: theoretical approaches
(HSRC Press, 2012)
Education in South Africa is in crisis. Low literacy and numeracy rates, poor discipline, and a sense of despair pervade the education landscape. At the same time, educators are called upon to achieve more, with universities ...
Using Google Drive to facilitate a blended approach to authentic learning
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
While technology has the potential to create opportunities for transformative learning in higher education, it is often used to merely reinforce didactic teaching that aims to control access to expert knowledge. Instead, ...
Acknowledging privilege through encounters with difference: Participatory Learning and Action techniques for decolonizing methodologies in Southern contexts
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)
Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) research techniques can contribute to
decolonising methodologies by alerting participants to privilege and marginalisation
through encounters across difference. Consciousness of ...
Haunted Walks of District Six: Propositions for Counter-Surveying
(SAGE, 2022-02)
This article traces a pedagogical trajectory in South African higher education that started in engineering education and leads to walking-as-research. Situated on District Six, a well-known site of apartheid forced removals, ...
An investigation into the use of emerging technologies to transform teaching and learning across differently positioned higher education institutions in south africa2
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This paper reports on a project which was initiated in 2011 and which aims to learn more about emerging technologies in higher education in South Africa and their potential impact on enhancing learning in an inequitable ...