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ABET and development in the Northern Cape province: Assessing impacts of CACE courses, 1996-1999

Kerfoot, Caroline; Geidt, Jonathan; Alexander, Lucy; Dayile, Nomvuyo; Groener, Zelda; Hendricks, Natheem; Walters, Shirley (Centre for Continuing and Adult Education (CACE), University of the Western Cape, 2001)

This study presents the results of an investigation into the impact of CACE courses for adult educators, trainers and development practitioners. The report describes how the courses affected the training practices and ...
African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO): A disciplinary open archive

Mohamed, Shehaamah; Fullard, Allison (2009-10-14)

African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO) is an international disciplinary repository for research texts that focus on the practice and development of higher education in Africa. Distributed researchers upload their ...
Changing conceptions of literacies, language and development: Implications for the provision of adult basic education in South Africa

Kerfoot, Caroline (Centre for Bilingual Research, Stockholm University, 2009)

This study aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the circumstances under which adult education, in particular adult basic education, can support and occasionally initiate participatory development, social ...
Developing the language of thinking within a classroom community of inquiry: pre-service teachers’ experiences

Green, Lena; Condy, Janet; Chigona, Agnes (Education Association of South Africa, 2012-08)

We argue that the “community of inquiry” approach, using reading materials modelled on Lipman’s Philosophy for Children programme, is a theoretically justified and teacher-friendly means of promoting effective thinking ...
An e-learning collaborative environment: learning within a Masters in Education programme

Hendricks, Natheem (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2012)

This article contributes a debate of e-learning as a form of adult education. It is based on the experiences of South African students, describes and analyses group interaction in an intercontinental Masters in Adult ...
Emergences and affordances as opportunities to develop teachers’ mathematical content knowledge

Julie, Cyril (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 ...
English: Language of hope or broken dream?

Clifford, Marian; Kerfoot, Caroline (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 ...
Gender, age and teaching experiences differences in decision-making behaviours of members of selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panels

Aloka, Peter J.; Bojuwoye, Olaniyi (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. ...
Integrating principles underlying ancestral spirits belief in counseling and psychotherapy

Bojuwoye, Olaniyi (Ife Centre for Psychological Studies, 2013)

This article discusses the traditional beliefs, of many indigenous cultures of Africa, associated with ancestral spirits and its use as powerful therapeutic agent for influencing behavior or lifestyle changes. Explanatory ...
Interim guidelines for the national ABET curriculum framework

Kerfoot, Caroline (Centre for Education Policy Development (CEPD), 1995)

In anticipation of the reconstruction and development of the education and training system, the CEPD established a number of curriculum task teams to develop subject-specific curriculum frameworks in line with the vision ...
Key dimensions of effective leadership for change: a focus on township and rural schools in South Africa

Ngcobo, Thandi; Tikly, Leon Paul (SAGE, 2010)

The article identifies key dimensions of effective leadership for change in historically disadvantaged, township and rural schools in South Africa. It is based on original case study research in 13 schools in Kwa-Zulu ...
Learner perceptions of the introduction of computerassisted learning in mathematics at a peri-urban school in South Africa

Hartley, M. Shaheed; Treagust, M. David (Springer, 2014)

This study responded to a national call to improve the outcomes in mathematics in the Grade 12 matriculation examination in South Africa by reporting learners’ perceptions of the introduction of computer-assisted learning ...
Learning about action research

Kerfoot, Caroline; Winberg, Chris (Juta & Company Ltd, 1997)

The book gives detailed and theoretically-grounded practical advice on how to proceed collaboratively through the various stages of the action research cycle, including building a repertoire of literacy practices and ...
Neither ivory towers nor corporate universities: Moving public universities beyond the "mode 2" logic

Ravjee, Neetha (UNISA, 2002)

This article investigates the tensions in the "mode 2" thesis, which suggests the emergence of new, global trends in the production and dissemination of knowledge. I explain its influence in recent South African higher ...
The politics of e-learning in South African higher education

Ravjee, Neetha (University of the West Indies, Distance Education Centre, 2007)

Introduction: The appearance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) at the intersection of competing perspectives on higher education transformation in South Africa suggests that the increasing use of ICTs ...
Racial desegregation and the institutionalisation of ‘race’ in university governance: The case of the University of Cape Town

Luescher-Mamashela, Thierry (Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2009-12)

The racial desegregation of the student bodies of historically white universities in South Africa has had significant political implications for student politics and university governance. I discuss two key moments in ...
The roles of higher education in the democratization of politics in Africa: survey reports from HERANA

Mattes, Robert; Luescher-Mamashela, Thierry (CODESRIA, 2012)

Against the theory on the nexus of higher education and citizenship, this article brings together the main findings and conclusions of three related studies with African mass publics, parliamentarians from African ...
RPL as cognitive praxis in linking higher education, the African Renaissance and lifelong learning

Hendricks, Natheem; Volbrecht, Terry (Taylor & Francis, 2003)

This article argues that one can use the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) to conceptualise the project of bridging the articulation gap between further and higher education in South Africa by framing the cognitive praxis ...
South African responses to Open Access publishing: A survey of the research community

Fullard, Allison (Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2007)

Open access publishing offers wide benefits to the scholarly community and may also afford relief to financially embattled academic libraries. The progress of the open access model rests upon the acceptance and validation ...
Student involvement in university decision-making: Good reasons, a new lens

Luescher-Mamashela, Thierry (2011-04-04)

This paper proposes a framework for understanding student involvement in different domains of university decision-making based on the various reasons brought for and against student involvement. It briefly outlines the ...

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