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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 ... -
Episteme, sports, and media: Review of the film saina
(Media Asia, 2023)Background: In recent years, the Indian Hindi film industry has produced a number of films like Mary Kom (Kumar, Citation2014) on boxing, Dangal (Tiwari, Citation2016) on wrestling, Panga (Tiwari, Citation2020) on kabaddi, ... -
Exploring the internationalization of Zimbabwe’s higher education institutions through a decolonial lens: Postcolonial continuities and disruptions
(SAGE Publications, 2021)Looking through the history of higher education in Zimbabwe, we argue that the concept of internationalization of higher education is not new to Zimbabwe. Understandings, manifestations, and processes of the phenomenon ... -
factors affecting students
(University of the Free State, 2023)There is a need for synchronous and inclusive online peer tutoring in large, undergraduate classes. As a lack of data or internet connectivity may limit online peer tutoring, the use of a data-free instant messenger was ... -
Factors influencing the in-service programmes: Case study of teachers with learner-centred strategies in Blue Waters setting
(Education Association of South Africa, 2018)Key policies on teacher development emphasise the necessity of a teaching force that is competent to apply learner-centred practices. Barriers to learning, like poverty, present huge classroom challenges and have implications ... -
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, ... -
For sustainable funding and fees, the undergraduate system in South Africa must be restructured
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2016)South Africa has the most diverse and differentiated higher education system in Africa – despite some persistent attempts at academic drift and mimetic normative isomorphism. Globally, in the 2008 country system ranking ... -
From colonialism to postcolonialism: Decolonized social work education in South Africa
(Routledge, 2023)In a postcolonial context, the influences of South African colonial and apartheid history are still visible, and much has been written about the need to decolonize learning and teaching practices. However, student protest ... -
From theory to practice: Beginner teachers’ experiences of the rigour of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme
(© UV/UFS, 2016)This article focuses on how recent graduates perceive the rigour of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) initial teacher education (ITE) programme. The article is based on qualitative data collected from a ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Higher education research in African contexts: Reflections from fieldwork in flagship universities in South Africa, Mozambique and Ethiopia
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)This article is written with the recognition that, as higher education studies evolve as a multidisciplinary area of inquiry, there is a need to reflect on the theoretical and practical concerns emerging from conducting ... -
Higher education students’ perceptions of online learning during COVID-19 a comparative study
(MDPI Educ. Sci., 2021)The pandemic and subsequent ‘lockdowns’ dramatically changed the educational landscape of higher education institutions. Before-COVID-19, traditional universities had choices in pedagogical practice, which included a variety ... -
How language challenges affect the behaviour of immigrant learners in the foundation phase at three schools in Gauteng, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2020)The education of immigrant children is influenced by many factors that emanate from global socio-economic and political issues. In the South African education system, teachers do not have guidelines on how to include ...