Browsing Research Articles (Scholarship of Teaching & Learning) by Title
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Philosophical enquiry as a pedagogical tool to implement the CAPS curriculum: Final-year pre-service teachers’ perceptions
(University of Pretoria, 2016)In this paper, we argue that philosophical enquiry, as practised using community of enquiry pedagogy, is an appropriate implementation strategy for Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) if the principles that ... -
Physiotherapy Students’ Use of Online Technology as part of their Learning Practices: A Case Study
(Aosis, 2012)The relevance of non-technical skills have long been acknowledged as important components of clinical learning, and there is evidence that integrating technology can facilitate their development by encouraging reflection, ... -
Piloting of a service-learning pedagogical model: student perceptions of the gender based violence service-learning module at a school of nursing in the Western Cape
(African Association for Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance, 2015)Research indicates that most higher education institutions in South Africa fail to establish a standard practice for service-learning (SL) in the formalised systems of their respective academic programmes. An intervention ... -
Planning lifelong professionalisation learning for actuaries
(Actuarial Society of South Africa, 2006)This paper presents a model for what is termed Lifelong Professionalisation Learning for actuaries. The model is grounded on the proposition that professions are dynamic, offering the public varying quantities and qualities ... -
Posthumanist and new materialist perspectives as navigational tool in art education research: A diffractive analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)An art project conducted with twelve Grade 10 learners at an art centre in Cape Town from April 2016 to June 2016 was analysed diffractively using perspectives of posthumanism and new materialism. This post-qualitative ... -
The potential of authentic learning and emerging technologies for developing graduate attributes
(Unisa Press, 2014)Graduate attributes, such as critical thinking and problem-solving in real-world contexts, are increasingly being recognised as crucial for students to develop in higher education for employability and critical citizenship. ... -
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 practical in theory and the theoretical in practice: Facilitating integration in teaching and learning
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)INTRODUCTION: The integration of theory and practice in student learning is a challenge faced by teachers in health science education, where the curriculum contains large sections of learning in clinical or fieldwork settings. ... -
Practitioners’ experiences of student supervision in the bachelor of social work degree
(UNISA Press, 2016)The developing and evolving social welfare system in South Africa coupled with inadequate human and material resources and high staff workloads, all impact on student learning in the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree. ... -
Pre-service science teachers’ understanding of argumentation
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The study is part of a larger project concerned with addressing the problem that Eritrean science teachers face in their attempt to implement a new learner-centred science curriculum. Specifically, the study attempted to ... -
Principles of sound assessment practice in Health Professions Education
(E-Cronicon, 2017)In the broad sense, assessment is a systematic method of obtaining information or sampling data about teaching and learning in order to make specific inferences about characteristics which reflect student learning and ... -
Producing relevant medical education through community-engaged scholarship
(FIRE, 2018)Some African higher education institutions (HEIs) were founded on the notion that they would serve the specific needs of African communities. Other HEIs have borrowed the concept of community-engaged scholarship (CES) from ... -
Pursuing a corporate understanding of service-learning in nursing education: a case study
(Unisa press, 2014)A corporate definition of service-learning (SL) could help to mainstream SL in higher education institutions (HEIs). Concepts like ‘service-learning’, ‘community engagement’ and ‘community service’ tend to be used ... -
"Quality is bound up with our values" - Evaluating the quality of mentoring programmes
(Routledge, 2005)This paper discusses quality evaluation of health sciences mentoring programmes. The discussion highlights the way in which perceptions of what constitutes quality shape evaluative purposes. Potential tensions between ... -
Randomised controlled trials in educational research: Ontological and epistemological limitations
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016)Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are a valued research method in evidence-based practice in medical and clinical settings because they are associated with a particular ontological and epistemological perspective that ... -
Re-imagining socially just pedagogies in higher education: the contribution of contemporary theoretical perspectives
(University of Johannesburg and UNISA Press, 2017)Despite post-apartheid policy intentions to redress the effects of apartheid, inequalities in higher education have remained an endemic problem in South Africa, and continue to have a major influence on students and educators ... -
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 ... -
Recruiting and retaining rural students: evidence from a Faculty of Dentistry in South Africa
(Deakin University, 2012)There is a shortage internationally of adequately trained health professionals to service rural areas. Health professionals are more likely to practice in communities that are like the one in which they grew up. The WHO ... -
Reflecting on some of the challenges facing postgraduate nursing education in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2010)Considering the dearth of professional nurses in South Africa today, and the fact that postgraduate nursing education can contribute towards enhancing the competences of those in the profession, I shall examine some of the ... -
Reflecting on the process of teaching reflection in higher education
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)Higher education plays an important role in nurturing life-long learning and critical citizenry. One way to foster these is through developing a reflective practice. Given the importance of reflection, this article ...