Browsing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Subject "Higher education"
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The academic transitional experiences of masters’ students at the University of the Western Cape
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2012)Transition has been a major focus of educational institutions. However, most of the research into student transition focuses on the challenges related the transition from high school to university. Not much emphasis has ... -
Addressing dualisms in student perceptions of a historically white and black university in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Normative discourses about higher education institutions may perpetuate stereotypes about institutions. Few studies explore student perceptions of universities and how transformative pedagogical interventions in university ... -
Analysing the professional development of teaching and learning from a political ethics of care perspective
(Routledge, 2014)This paper uses Tronto’s political ethics of care as a normative framework to evaluate a model of teaching and learning professional development. This framework identifies five integrated moral elements of care – ... -
Attending to the affective: exploring first year students’ emotional experiences at university
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)This study engaged students at the affective level in order to acquire a better understanding of their emotional experiences at university with the ultimate aim of improving teaching and learning. A qualitative research ... -
A collaborative auto-ethnographic exploration of socially just practices by new academics in two South African higher education institutions
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Challenges experienced in the higher education context require new academics to engage with issues of social justice in their pedagogical practices. This article focuses on such challenges and how these are met by the ... -
Development of students’ academic literacies viewed through a political ethics of care lens
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)This article explores insights which the political ethics of care (Tronto 1993; 2013) offers to academic literacies development of students. Research on ethics of care has been conducted in contexts ranging from micro to ... -
Diffracting socially just pedagogies through stained glass
(South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE), 2016)This article emerges from our relationship with Theo Combrinck, a colleague, a passionate social and academic activist, a recovering addict and a PhD student, who left our living space during 2014 - a death that was ... -
Editorial: Massive open online courses (MOOCs): Disrupting teaching and learning practices in higher education
(Wiley, 2015)Although the higher education sector is currently facing economic austerity measures globally, with the threat of closure for some, higher education institutions are simultaneously being driven to increase intake, as well ... -
Editorial: The ethics of care and academic development
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Higher education institutions have commonly understood ethics and care as separate functions, rather than as an integrated practice, and have tended to delegate these responsibilities to research ethics committees, ... -
Evaluation of assessment skills using essay rubrics in student self-grading at first year level in higher education: a case study
(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2018)This paper reports on a study in which students self-graded an assessment task with the aid of an assessment rubric. On comparing student selfgrades with those of the tutor it was found that majority (72.6%) of the students ... -
An evaluative framework for a socially just institution
(SUN Press, 2012)The term ‘public good’ is very broad and can include a variety of ideologically informed positions. In this volume it is described by Bozalek and Leibowitz (chapter five) as a concern with participatory parity and equality, ... -
The everyday life information behaviour of visually impaired students at Stellenbosch University
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2018)This article investigated the everyday life information behaviour of students with visual impairment at Stellenbosch University (SU). Ten students with sight disabilities from various faculties completed a questionnaire ... -
Evidence-based practices of promoting entrepreneurship education in higher education institutions in Africa
(International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD), 2016)This research applies the changing of cognitive mechanisms of University students through Entrepreneurship Education (EE). The study hypothesises that entrepreneurial orientation (achievement orientation, personal control, ... -
Exploring participatory parity in higher education: Experiences of social work students
(Stellenbosch University, 2017)This study uses the principle of participatory parity (PP) espoused by Fraser (2008, 2009) for exploring social work students’ experiences of enabling and constraining factors in advancing their engagement with and involvement ... -
Exploring participatory parity in higher education: experiences of social work students
(Department of Social Work, Stellenbosch University, 2018)This study uses the principle of participatory parity (PP) espoused by Fraser (2008, 2009) for exploring social work students’ experiences of enabling and constraining factors in advancing their engagement with and involvement ... -
A framework for effective collaboration: a case study of collaboration in nursing education in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2012)A fundamental purpose of mergers between higher education institutions (HEIs) in 2002 was to enable sharing of scarce resources between more advanced universities and those historically disadvantaged by the apartheid ... -
Gender equality is a human problem’ Teaching men and masculinities in a South African undergraduate classroom’
(SUN press, 2018)What is transformation in contemporary South African higher education? How can it be facilitated through research and pedagogic practices? These questions are addressed in this edited collection by established academics ... -
Incubating a slow pedagogy in professional academic development: An ethics of care perspective
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)The current neoliberal impetus in higher education has effects on all aspects of academic life, including professional academic development. These effects include increasing workloads and more casualisation of academic ... -
The infusion of emerging technologies in complex higher education settings
(Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2015)In the context of an increasing reliance on, and integration of, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into the Higher Education (HE) sector, innovative approaches are being sought in response to infrastructural ... -
Learning to teach STEM disciplines in higher education: a critical review of the literature
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Enrolments in STEM disciplines at universities are increasing globally, attributed to the greater life opportunities open to students as a result of a STEM education. But while institutional access to STEM programmes is ...