Browsing Research Articles (Education) by Title
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ABET and development in the Northern Cape province: Assessing impacts of CACE courses, 1996-1999
(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 ... -
Activity theory as a lens to examine pre-service teachers' perceptions of learning and teaching of mathematics within an intervention programme
(Routledge, 2012)This study was prompted by concerns around mathematics teaching and learning in the South African education system. Contributory factors to this situation are the lack of competent mathematics teachers in the classroom ... -
The Anthropocene crisis and higher education: A fundamental shift
(South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE), 2016)This article seeks to address a fundamental shift that has occurred in reality; a displacement that requires us to critically account for the ways in which knowledge is both being produced and taught at universities. The ... -
At-risk student teachers’ attitudes and aspirations as learners and teachers of mathematics
(AOSIS, 2015)This study explored foundation phase first year student teachers’ perceptions about mathematics. The focus on their attitudes towards mathematics in two roles – (1) as learners of mathematics, based on their prior ... -
Authentic learning for teaching reading: Foundation phase pre-service student teachers’ learning experiences of creating and using digital stories in real classrooms
(AOSIS, 2016)Teaching and learning, an evolving endeavour, is associated with many factors, with advancements in technology, playing an ever-growing role in the classroom. It is therefore important to include the use of interactive ... -
The baseline assessment of Grade 1 learners’ literacy skills in a socio-economically disadvantaged school setting
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)Research has revealed that the academic performances of learners in South Africa are below the required level. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) launched the literacy and numeracy strategy 2006–2016 in response ... -
The body as blind spot: Towards lived experience and a body-specific philosophy in education
(UNISA Press, 2018)What do the philosophies of phenomenological scholars such as Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty tell us about education in South Africa? How can we use the philosophies of these scholars to develop the minds of our ... -
Brexit: some implications for African higher Education
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)This article considers how the decisions of the UK government, following the Brexit referendum, may impact on higher education in Africa. Ghana and South Africa are the two countries chosen to exemplify the claim that ... -
A capability analysis on the implementation of the school progression policy and its impact on learner performance
(Wayne Hugo, 2016)This paper focuses on the extent and consequences of learner progression in the form of ‘automatic promotion’ or grade promotion for reasons other than academic achievement, as propagated by the existing School Progression ... -
Changing conceptions of literacies, language and development: Implications for the provision of adult basic education in South Africa
(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 ... -
COMPARE Forum: The idea of North-South and South-South collaboration
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The idea of having a Compare Forum focusing on the above title was first discussed with one of the Editors of Compare during a PhD defence in Oslo in 2011. The PhD dissertation itself was linked to a larger project in which ... -
Comparing the technological literacy of pre-service teachers and secondary school students in South Africa
(IATED, 2012)Technology education was introduced for the first time after the abolition of Apartheid in South Africa in 1994. The technology curriculum required that students become technologically literate. However, in order for ... -
Creating ‘safe-ish’ learning spaces—attempts to practice an ethics of care
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)One way to approach the project of decolonising the university is to employ decolonising pedagogies, which allow the whole of people’s lived experience into teaching and learning spaces, affirm this experience as worthy ... -
A curriculum of inclusivity: Towards a “lived-body” and “lived-experience” curriculum in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s “lived body” theory, we argue for a shift towards a lived-experience and body-specific curriculum in South Africa. Such a curriculum would view learning as a lived, embodied, social and culturally ... -
Developing the language of thinking within a classroom community of inquiry: pre-service teachers’ experiences
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
