Browsing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Author "Bozalek, Vivienne"
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Acknowledging privilege through encounters with difference: Participatory Learning and Action techniques for decolonizing methodologies in Southern contexts
Bozalek, Vivienne (Taylor and Francis, 2011)Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) research techniques can contribute to decolonising methodologies by alerting participants to privilege and marginalisation through encounters across difference. Consciousness of ... -
Addressing dualisms in student perceptions of a historically white and black university in South Africa
Carolissen, Ronelle; Bozalek, Vivienne (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
Bozalek, Vivienne; McMillan, Wendy; Marshall, Delia; November, Melvyn; Daniels, Andre; Sylvester, Toni (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 – ... -
Beyond knowledge and skills: the use of a Delphi study to develop a technology-mediated teaching strategy
Rowe, Michael; Frantz, Jose M.; Bozalek, Vivienne (BioMed Central, 2013)Background: While there is evidence to suggest that teaching practices in clinical education should include activities that more accurately reflect the real world, many educators base their teaching on transmission models ... -
Collaborative research in contexts of inequality: the role of social reflexivity
Leibowitz, Brenda; Bozalek, Vivienne; Farmer, Jean; Garraway, James; Herman, Nicoline; Jawitz, Jeff; McMillan, Wendy; Mistri, Gita; Ndebele, Clever; Nkonki, Vuyisile; Quinn, Lynn; van Schalkwyk, Susan; Vorster, Jo-Anne; Winberg, Christine (Springer, 2016)This article reports on the role and value of social reflexivity in collaborative research in contexts of extreme inequality. Social reflexivity mediates the enablements and constraints generated by the internal and external ... -
Collaborative research in contexts of inequality: the role of social reflexivity
Leibowitz, Brenda; Bozalek, Vivienne; Farmer, Jean; Garraway, James; Herman, Nicoline; Jawitz, Jeff; McMillan, Wendy; Mistri, Gita; Ndebele, Clever; Nkonki, Vuyisile; Quinn, Lynn; van Schalkwyk, Susan; Vorster, Jo-Anne; Winberg, Christine (Springer Verlag, 2017)This article reports on the role and value of social reflexivity in collaborative research in contexts of extreme inequality. Social reflexivity mediates the enablements and constraints generated by the internal and external ... -
Converging institutional expertise to model teaching and learning with emerging technologies
Bozalek, Vivienne; Ng'ambi, Dick; Gachago, Daniela (UNISA Press, 2013)There is an increasing disjuncture between the use of technologies and the impact that this has on teaching and learning practice. This challenge is compounded by the lack of institutional preparedness to support emerging ... -
The Council of Europe’s White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue: an analysis using the ethic of care
Zembylas, Michalinos; Bozalek, Vivienne (Symposium Journals, 2011)This article examines what an ethic of care could offer to discussions about Europe’s increasing cultural diversity by analyzing the important White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue published by the Council of Europe in ... -
Critical interdisciplinary dialogues: Towards a pedagogy of well-being in stem disciplines and fields
Bozalek, Vivienne; Winberg, Christine; Conana, Honjiswa; Wright, J; Wolff, K; Pallit, N; Adendorff, H (South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Students enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) globally and in South Africa are generally not in a state of well-being. International and South African research studies show that undergraduate ... -
Critical posthumanism, new materialisms and the affective turn for socially just pedagogies in higher education
Bozalek, Vivienne; Zembylas, Michalinos (South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE), 2016)Critical posthumanism, new/feminist materialisms and the affective turn have a great deal in common with each other, and can be seen as similar perspectives with slightly different emphases in each framework, all focusing ... -
Designing the project: theoretical approaches
Bozalek, Vivienne; Carolissen, Ronelle (HSRC Press, 2012)Education in South Africa is in crisis. Low literacy and numeracy rates, poor discipline, and a sense of despair pervade the education landscape. At the same time, educators are called upon to achieve more, with universities ... -
Developing scholarship of teaching and learning through a community of enquiry
Bozalek, Vivienne; Dison, Arona; Alperstein, Melanie; Mitchell, Veronica (UWC, 2017)A growing interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in higher education requires the seeking of opportunities for its development within and across disciplines and institutions. However, rewards for ... -
Diffracting learning/teaching entanglements: A South African vice-chancellor’s perspective
Bozalek, Vivienne; McMillan, Wendy (Routledge, 2016)This chapter considers data from interviews conducted with eight vice-chancellors from both historically advantaged and disadvantaged higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, as part of a larger national project ... -
Diffracting socially just pedagogies through stained glass
Bozalek, Vivienne; Bayat, Abdullah; Motala, Siddique; Mitchell, Veronica; Gachago, Daniela (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 ... -
Diffraction or reflection? Sketching the contours of two methodologies in educational research
Bozalek, Vivienne; Zembylas, Michalinos (Taylor & Francis, 2017)Internationally, an interest is emerging in a growing body of work on what has become known as ‘diffractive methodologies’ drawing attention to ontological aspects of research. Diffractive methodologies have largely been ... -
A diffractive reading of dialogical feedback through the political ethics of care
Bozalek, Vivienne; Mitchell, Veronica; Dison, Arona; Alperstein, Melanie (Taylor & Francis, 2016)With regard to improving higher education feedback practices, there is an increasing interest in using the efficacy of dialogue rather than the more traditional unidirectional approaches. We build on this impetus by ... -
Editorial: Massive open online courses (MOOCs): Disrupting teaching and learning practices in higher education
Ng’ambi, Dick; Bozalek, Vivienne (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
Bozalek, Vivienne; Winberg, Christine (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, ... -
Ethics @ http://www.kewl.uwc.ac.za : The potential for e-learning to democratise the social work curriculum
Bozalek, Vivienne (Department of Social Work, University of Johannesburg, 2007)This article describes the design and implementation of a module on Advanced Social Work Ethics using a blended learning approach and relying substantially on e-learning as a pedagogical tool. The design is contextualised ... -
An evaluative framework for a socially just institution
Bozalek, Vivienne; Leibowitz, Brenda (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, ...