Browsing by Author "Gachago, Daniela"
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Converging institutional expertise to model teaching and learning with emerging technologies
Bozalek, Vivienne; Ng'ambi, Dick; Gachago, Daniela (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 ... -
Diffracting socially just pedagogies through stained glass
Bozalek, Vivienne; Bayat, Abdullah; Motala, Siddique; Mitchell, Veronica; Gachago, Daniela (South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE), 2016)This article emerges from our relationship with Theo Combrinck, a colleague, a passionate social and academic activist, a recovering addict and a PhD student, who left our living space during 2014 - a death that was ... -
'Family comes in all forms, blood or not': disrupting dominant narratives around the patriarchal nuclear family
Gachago, Daniela; Clowes, Lindsay; Condy, Janet (Taylor & Francis, 2016)After nearly 25 years of democracy, lives of young South Africans are still profoundly shaped by the legacies of apartheid. This paper considers how these differences are produced, maintained and disrupted through an ... -
Power, democracy and technology: the potential dangers of care for teachers in higher education
Bozalek, Vivienne; Watters, Kathy; Gachago, Daniela (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2015)Internationally, there is a growing interest in the potential of care ethics as a useful normative framework to evaluate teaching and learning in higher education. However, to date there has been little engagement with ... -
Technology enhanced teaching and learning in South African higher education – A rearview of a 20 year journey
Ng’ambi, Dick; Brown, Cheryl; Bozalek, Vivienne; Gachago, Daniela; Wood, Denise (Wiley, 2016)In the last 20 years, the South African higher education has changed significantly, influenced by global trends national development goals and pressure from local educational imperatives, in the context of a digitally ... -
Towards a shared understanding of emerging technologies: Experiences in a collaborative research project in South Africa
Gachago, Daniela; Ivala, Eunice; Backhouse, Judy; Bosman, Jan Petrus; Bozalek, Vivienne (The African Journal of Information Systems (AJIS), 2013)While the practice of using educational technologies in Higher Education is increasingly common among educators, there is a paucity of research on innovative uses of emerging technologies to transform teaching and learning. ... -
Transforming teaching with emerging technologies: Implications for higher education institutions
Bozalek, Vivienne; Ng’ambi, Dick; Gachago, Daniela (SUN, 2013)A gulf is widening between the technologies used by students, those used by educators and those provided by institutions. However, knowledge about the impact of so-called emerging technologies on learning or the readiness ... -
Travelling into the other’s world: South African pre-service teacher education students’ construction of difference, belonging and identity
Gachago, Daniela; Bozalek, Vivienne; Ng’ambi, Dick (Education Faculty, Stellenbosch Library, 2018)Against the backdrop of continuing racism ‒ both overt and subtle – in South Africa’s classrooms, this article describes one lecturer’s attempt at facilitating conversations around race relations in South Africa with nine ... -
The use of emerging technologies for authentic learning: A South African study in higher education
Bozalek, Vivienne; Gachago, Daniela; Alexander, Lucy; Watters, Kathy; Wood, Denise; Ivala, Eunice; Herrington, Jan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)It is now widely accepted that the transmission of disciplinary knowledge is insufficient to prepare students leaving higher education for the workplace. Authentic learning has been suggested as a way to bring the necessary ...