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Technology enhanced teaching and learning in South African higher education – A rearview of a 20 year journey
(Wiley, 2016)
In the last 20 years, the South African higher education has changed significantly, influenced by global trends national development goals and pressure from local educational imperatives, in the context of a digitally ...
The scholarship of teaching and learning from a social justice perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
We argue that there is a reciprocal relationship between all scholarly activities, most importantly between teaching, learning, research and professional learning. The article builds on the work of others who call for a ...
A diffractive reading of dialogical feedback through the political ethics of care
(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 ...
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University
(Springer, 2016)
This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ...
Collaborative research in contexts of inequality: the role of social reflexivity
(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 ...
From theory to practice: Beginner teachers’ experiences of the rigour of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme
(© UV/UFS, 2016)
This article focuses on how recent graduates perceive the rigour of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) initial teacher education (ITE) programme. The article is based on qualitative data collected from a ...
Critical posthumanism, new materialisms and the affective turn for socially just pedagogies in higher education
(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 ...
A diffractive exploration of affect: Learning, research and teaching in obstetrics
(South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE), 2016)
Instances of abuse, neglect and disrespect to women in labour are not uncommon in South Africa's public health birthing facilities. These social injustices are surrounded by a pervasive silence that confronts undergraduate ...
Exploring pedagogical possibilities for transformative approaches to academic literacies in undergraduate Physics
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
How can research on academic literacies throw light on the challenge to widen access to
undergraduate science studies? This article explores what an academic literacies approach
might mean in the context of undergraduate ...
Lessons learnt from teachers’ perspectives on mobile learning in South Africa with cultural and linguistic constraints
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
South Africa’s classrooms are characterised by a wide variety of cultural and linguistic differences, providing teachers with educational challenges, particularly in mathematics and science subjects. In response, various ...