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Authentic professional development: Key to quality sevice delivery
(Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA), 2014)
The Actuarial Society of South Africa ('Actuarial Society') requires its members to honour their
professional promise to deliver specialist and up-to-date actuarial expertise that is ethical and
subject to professional ...
Learning styles among nursing students, the implications for higher education institutions: A systematic review
(Unisa Press, 2014)
Understanding the learning styles of nursing students has been highlighted as an area in
the scholarship of teaching that needs attention. The aim of this review was to determine
the common learning styles of nursing ...
Diffracting reflection: a move beyond reflective practice
(UNISA Press, 2017)
Reflective practice has become a core component in higher education studies. In the health sciences, reflective tasks are required throughout the undergraduate programmes, yet many students struggle to find value in these ...
Structured feedback on students’ concept maps: the proverbial path to learning?
(BMC, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Good conceptual knowledge is an essential requirement for health professions students, in that they
are required to apply concepts learned in the classroom to a variety of different contexts. However, the use ...
Being and becoming a university teacher
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
This study examined how one academic framed the enablements and constraints to her project of being and becoming an academic. Complexity facilitated reflection in that it provided a visual representation of data, which was ...
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 ...
Ownership and attitudes towards technology use in physiotherapy students from seven countries
(Elsevier, 2017)
PURPOSE: To assess differences in prerequisites to blended learning such as technology use and Internet access in an international sample of physiotherapy students from Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Luxembourg, Sudan, ...
Towards tailored teaching: using participatory action research to enhance the learning experience of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship students in a South African rural district hospital
(Spinger Nature, 2016)
Background: The introduction of Stellenbosch University’s Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) model as part of
the undergraduate medical curriculum offers a unique and exciting training model to develop generalist ...
The need for a new language? How historically disadvantaged institutions grapple with the effects of labelling in Higher Education: the case of the University of the Western Cape
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Tertiary institutions in South Africa have been dichotomised through the colonial structure and apartheid which sought to subjugate some institutions and elevate others. Not only have historically disadvantaged institutions ...
The scholarship of teaching and learning from a social justice perspective
(Routledge, 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 ...