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The tale of academic practice in a rising knowledge society: focus on a university in South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020)
This paper is based on a study conducted to establish if academic practice in a university designated as Azania is aligning or diverting from the expectations of the rising knowledge society in South Africa. The paper is ...
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 ...
Nature of Problem-Solving Skills for 21st Century STEM Learners: What Teachers Need to Know
(Springer, 2020)
Since the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution which calls for a new model of learning for the twenty-first century learners, it has been argued that the nature of problems that learners must solve in science, ...
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 ...
Sympoiesis ‘becoming with and through each other’: Exploring collaborative writing as emergent academics
(Critical Studies in Teaching & Learning, 2020)
This paper explores our journey as three female academics as we collaboratively engage in the process of writing for scholarly publication. We read our experience through a Political Ethic of Care, Slow scholarship, and ...
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 ...
The Rise of the University without Classrooms after COVID-19
(CSSALL, 2020)
In this chapter we argue that university face-to-face teaching will gradually be replaced in the future with online teaching. In particular, we argue, this will happen in the light of the Fallist movement that has affected ...