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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 ...
Preparing isiXhosa home language teachers for the 21st century classroom: Student teachers' experiences, challenges and reflections
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The aim of the article is to identify the gaps between theory and practice in pre-service teacher training with special reference to the teaching of isiXhosa as a home language in the Further Education and Training (FET) ...
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. ...
The stability of learners’ choices for real-life situations to be used in mathematics
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
One of the efforts to improve and enhance the performance and achievement in mathematics of learners is the incorporation of life-related contexts in mathematics teaching and assessments. These contexts are normally, with ...
Skills development and structural change: possibilities for and limitations of redressing structural racial inequalities in South Africa
(Springer, 2013)
Improving structural racial equality for historically-disadvantaged Black South Africans, including low-skilled and unemployed adults and youths, is a pertinent challenge for the South African government during the ongoing ...
Local languages: good for the informal marketplace but not for the formal classroom?
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The maxim that ‘Languages develop through use, particularly in high domains such as education and the courts’ was propagated by Neville Alexander. He was committed to ‘intellectualising African languages’. In the spirit ...
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 ...
Integrating principles underlying ancestral spirits belief in counseling and psychotherapy
(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 ...