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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 ... -
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 ... -
The African intellectuals’ project
(UNISA Press, 2020)Soon after taking the position of editor of IJARS at the beginning of 2019, I was contacted by the dean of Unisa’s College of Graduate Studies (CGS), Prof. Lindiwe Zungu, who informed me that the university’s principal ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Principals’ views on the implementation of the no-fee policy through the lens of capability theory
(Education Association of South Africa, 2020)The purpose of the study reported on here was to investigate the implementation of the no-fee schools policy in quintile 1 schools in the Frances Baard district of the Northern Cape province. The South African schooling ... -
Case study of isiXhosa-speaking foundation phase learners who experience barriers to learning in an English-medium disadvantaged Western Cape school
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2020)In the study reported on here, we focused on the use of English as language of learning and teaching (LoLT) for isiXhosaspeaking Foundation Phase learners in a historically disadvantaged school in the Western Cape, South ... -
Service-learning as a higher education pedagogy for advancing citizenship, conscientization and civic agency: A capability informed view
(Taylor & Francis Open Access, 2020)Universities are criticised for overemphasising instrumental values. Instrumental values are important but universities risks undermining cultivation of humanity, critical consciousness and civic agency. Service-learning ... -
The integration of semiotic resources and modalities in the teaching of geometry in a Grade 9 class in a South African high school: The four cases of congruency
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2020)In this article we examine the nature of inter-semiotic and intermodal construction in the exposition of a solution for a geometry rider. In the tradition of hermeneutic phenomenology, this case study involved an exploration ... -
Welfare and education in British colonial Africa, 1918–1945
(Springer, 2020)The relevance of historical research for an explanation of the roots of contemporary educational policy and its relationship to notions of equity, democracy and development has been sadly neglected in recent years. This ... -
Unmasking the state of basic education in South Africa
(José Frantz, 2021)The Covid-19 lockdown period laid bare the fibre of South African society: poverty, homelessness, welfare dependence, domestic violence, police and military brutality, healthcare and hunger are all suddenly under national ... -
Thoughts on the Future of Higher Education in the UK: A Personal View with a Historical Context
(MDPI, 2021)Before the effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic, there had been continued debate about the future of Higher Education (HE) in the UK. It is now accepted that the effect of the pandemic will have a long-lasting effect on HE ... -
Teaching thinking in South African schools: Selected school leaders’ perceptions
(South African Journal of Education, 2021)In this article we argue that school leaders should ensure that teachers experience a supportive professional learning community committed to collaborative, thoughtful inquiry and be enabled to create similar communities ... -
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 ... -
A cluster analysis of peer support training needs for foster parents
(Springer, 2021)Peer volunteers provide valuable support to foster parents. However, there has been limited research on what they consider to be valuable preparation for the role. In the present study, they were asked: “What is essential ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The influence of local worldview presuppositions on learners’ conceptions of selected mechanics topics
(EASA, 2021)The study is situated within a worldview theory as espoused by socio-cultural constructivists. Science classrooms in secondary schools in Swaziland are culturally largely homogeneous where learners and their teachers have ... -
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 ... -
The impact of the neoliberal technological epoch and Covid-19 on the decolonization of the university curriculum
(Stellenbosch University, 2021)In this article we will argue that South Africa’s capitalist neoliberal agenda for higher education, where the focus is on the shift from a knowledge economy to a digital economy, will choke the life of indigenous knowledge ...