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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 – ...
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 ...
Power, democracy and technology: the potential dangers of care for teachers in higher education
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2015)
Internationally, there is a growing interest in the potential of care ethics as a
useful normative framework to evaluate teaching and learning in higher
education. However, to date there has been little engagement with ...
The reading habits and practices of undergraduate students at a higher education institution in South Africa: a case study
(Independent Institute of Education, 2017)
Research conducted in South Africa has shown that the reading literacy level of students entering higher
education is lower than is desirable. In an attempt to gain an understanding of students’ reading habits
and ...
Lecturers’ perceptions: the value of assessment rubrics for informing teaching practice and curriculum review and development
(Taylor and Francis, 2015)
The assessment rubric is increasingly gaining recognition as a valuable tool in teaching and learning in higher education. While many studies have examined the value of rubrics for students, research into the lecturers’ ...
A realist assessment of the implementation of blended learning in a South African higher education context
(South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE), 2016)
Opportunities for further studies by working adults came under threat as the University of the Western Cape stopped the offering of after-hours classes in most of its Faculties. Unqualified and under-qualified librarians ...
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 ...
Student nurses' experiences of the common teaching platform for undergraduate nursing in the Western Cape Province, SA
(2013)
The higher education system in South Africa transformed over the last two decades in response to societal changes and the new democratic order since 1994. Nursing education programmes in South Africa’s higher education ...
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 ...
Making a case for the teaching of reading across the curriculum in higher education
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)
Over the past two decades there has been much written in the literature about the
importance of reading and the importance of teaching students reading strategies
to improve their reading comprehension. Reading is one ...