Browsing Research Articles (Scholarship of Teaching & Learning) by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Teaching for clinical reasoning – helping students make the conceptual links
(Informa Healthcare, 2010)INTRODUCTION: The paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding how conceptual learning is achieved, and the way in which conceptual understanding influences clinical reasoning and the ability to transfer ... -
‘Your thrust is to understand’ - how academically successful students learn
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)The article sets out to understand how academically successful students learn. Self-regulated learning theory is used as a lens to explicate the learning strategies adopted by a cohort of academically successful dentistry ... -
Moving beyond description: research that helps improve teaching and learning
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010)This paper is premised on the assumption that education research, in order to be relevant, needs to generate explanations that have educational significance and applicability. It argues that much of the health sciences ... -
Effect of active learning techniques on students’ choice of approach to learning in Dentistry: a South African case study
(Unisa Press, 2011)The purpose of this article is to report on empirical work, related to a techniques module, undertaken with the dental students of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. I will relate how a range of different ... -
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 ... -
Investigating the significance of the 2008 Matric curriculum on first-year Economics performance
(UNISA Press, 2011)The academic success of first-year Economics students has been the focus of many South African studies in Economic Education. Many used the last school examination (Matric) results as a proxy for students’ academic ... -
Understanding what it means to be a health practitioner: biographies of care and concern
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)INTRODUCTION: I am not a health practitioner, although I work in a Health Sciences Faculty. As the faculty’s ‘Education Advisor’, I am intimately involved in the education of health practitioners. I mentor students to learn ... -
Relevant computing curricula in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2011)The principle objective of this research was to establish what computing curricula are required for the Sub-Saharan Africa region. Input from academics, businessmen and the analyses of curricula from several African ... -
Service learning in pharmacy: Opportunities for student learning and service delivery
(Academic Journals, 2011)High patient load and understaffing in public health care facilities preclude the provision of optimal pharmaceutical services in South Africa. A Service Learning in Pharmacy (SLIP) programme for the University of the ... -
Debriefing interviews and coaching conversations: strategies to promote student reflexivity and action
(UNISA Press, 2011)Without conscious will and engagement in critical reflexivity as a process of growth and learning in research, students remain unaware of their subjective biases and the effect of bias on the inquiry. A qualitative, ... -
Exploring the key performance areas and assessment criteria for the evaluation of students' clinical performance: a Delphi study
(AOSIS Publishing, 2011)BACKGROUND: Evaluating students’ clinical performance is an integral part of the quality assurance in a physiotherapy curriculum, however, the objectivity during clinical examination have been questioned on numerous ... -
Challenges and opportunities related to postgraduate evidence-based practice module using blended learning
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011)The use of information and communications technology (ICT) has become integral to health professions education worldwide. The incorporation of online facilities and maintaining of the face-to-face element make blended ... -
The Council of Europe’s White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue: an analysis using the ethic of care
(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 ... -
Writing in and for the academy: collaborative writing development with students and lecturers at the UWC Writing Centre
(SUN Media, 2011)Writing and reading critically are core academic practices that many South African tertiary students struggle with throughout undergraduate study. This is partly due to a lack of competency in English as a first language, ... -
Acknowledging privilege through encounters with difference: Participatory Learning and Action techniques for decolonizing methodologies in Southern contexts
(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 ... -
Making the most of teaching at the chairside
(Wiley, 2011)This paper examines the chairside as an opportunity for teaching and learning. It sets out to understand how students learn in the dental clinic so that they can better be supported in their clinical learning. The paper ... -
An investigation into the use of emerging technologies to transform teaching and learning across differently positioned higher education institutions in south africa2
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This paper reports on a project which was initiated in 2011 and which aims to learn more about emerging technologies in higher education in South Africa and their potential impact on enhancing learning in an inequitable ... -
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 ... -
A cross-sectional survey to compare the competence of learners registered for the Baccalaureus Curationis programme using different learning approaches at the University of the Western Cape
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2012)The purpose of the study was to compare the extent to which the different teaching approaches applied in the Baccalaureus Curationis programme adequately prepare graduating learners for professional competence.