Browsing Research Articles (Scholarship of Teaching & Learning) by Title
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Factors explaining the academic success of second-year economics students: an exploratory analysis
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)Factors influencing the academic success of first-year economics students have been intensely researched. Lecture and tutorial attendance, age, gender, as well as matriculation results have been identified as significant ... -
Factors influencing student usage of an online learning community: the case of a rural South African university
(Inderscience, 2017)Technology adoption within higher education is becoming popular. This has often resulted in hubs of learning referred to as an online learning community. The success of such platforms is dependent on full system utilisation. ... -
Featuring dental education research: Applying the principles of action research to improve teaching of dental prosthetics
(South African Dental Association, 2009)This article focuses on educational research conducted at the newly merged UWC faculty of dentistry. The research emphasizes the change in teaching methods employed to address the concerns experienced in teaching large ... -
Fieldwork education in health contexts: Experiences of fourth-year BSW students
(Stellenbosch University, 2014)The Social Work profession experiences various challenges in practice that influence the practice education of students. Educators, practitioners and the experiences of students should inform practice education in curriculums. ... -
Finding a method to analyse qualitative data: using a study of conceptual learning
(American Association of Dental Schools, 2009)There is increasing awareness in the health sciences of the potential of qualitative research to address questions that quantitative research cannot satisfactorily answer. While a growing number of studies in health sciences ... -
First year learner nurses' perceptions of learning motivation in self-directed learning in a simulated skills laboratory at a higher education institution
(2014)Employing self-directed learning (SDL) methodologies, that are associated with improvement in the affective and psychomotor domains, could be advantageous to learner nurses. Despite the efforts to expose students to SDL ... -
Flipped out in the blended classroom, the good, the bad and the ugly: When academics become students
(Sabinet, 2018)This article explores the well-being of three academics from different higher education institutions and disciplines, as they engage in professional academic development (PAD) courses using technology. A collaborative ... -
Foundation provision - a social justice perspective
(Unisa Press, 2015)The article uses data gathered during monitoring and evaluation work at two institutions, policy documents, published articles, correspondence with key role-players at South African higher education institutions and other ... -
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 ... -
From classroom teaching to clinical practice: experiences of senior dental students regarding the shortened dental arch concept
(Journal of Dental Education, 2014)This study explored the barriers to a meaningful translation of didactic classroom instruction to clinical practice, using the shortened dental arch (SDA) concept as a case study. A combination of survey and individual and ... -
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 ... -
Gender and race distribution of dental graduates (1985 - 2004) and first year dental students (2000 - 2005) in South Africa
(South African Dental Association, 2005)This paper, written at the close of a decade of democracy in South Africa, sets out to analyse the demographic profile of dental graduates from 1985-2004 at the five Faculties/Schools of Dentistry in South Africa. A ... -
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 ... -
Haunted Walks of District Six: Propositions for Counter-Surveying
(SAGE, 2022-02)This article traces a pedagogical trajectory in South African higher education that started in engineering education and leads to walking-as-research. Situated on District Six, a well-known site of apartheid forced removals, ... -
"I could go work in a factory, but this is something I want to achieve": Narratives into social action
(Routledge, 2004)This paper is conceptually informed by a reading of Peter McLaren's work (1993). Drawing on the relationship that he signals between identity, narrative, and social action, it sets out to examine the ways in which identity ... -
"I feel that I get by with what I do" - Using narrative as a conceptual tool for understanding social identity
(School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2003)Drawing on a qualitative study of a cohort of final year preprimary teacher college students, this paper motivates for narrative analysis as a suitable tool for accessing ‘insider accounts’ of social reality. Through an ... -
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 ... -
Informal mobile learning in nurse education and practice in remote areas-a case study from rural South Africa
(Elsevier, 2014)BACKGROUND: With the proliferation of portable digital technology, mobile learning is becoming increasingly popular in nursing education and practice. Most of the research in this field has been concentrated on small-scale ... -
Information behaviour of Nigerian undergraduates in the world of Web 2.0
(Sabinet, 2018)This study investigated the information behaviour of Nigerian undergraduates in the world of Web 2.0 at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria. The study is drawn from a doctoral thesis that used a mixed ... -
Integrating research into teaching: needs assessment for staff development
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014)Background: The scholarship of teaching involves the integration of research into teaching activities, critical reflection of practice, and communication, and dissemination of the practice of one’s subject. However, it is ...