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Skills development and structural change: possibilities for and limitations of redressing structural racial inequalities in South Africa
(Springer, 2013)
Improving structural racial equality for historically-disadvantaged Black South Africans, including low-skilled and unemployed adults and youths, is a pertinent challenge for the South African government during the ongoing ...
Towards leadership for school cultures associated with good academic performance in South African township secondary schools: the ‘power’ of organic emergence, diversity and service
(2008)
The South African government has over the past fourteen years been introducing numerous efforts aimed at improving the academic performance of schools who have been struggling in this regard for some time now. However, ...
Comparing the technological literacy of pre-service teachers and secondary school students in South Africa
(IATED, 2012)
Technology education was introduced for the first time after the abolition of Apartheid in South Africa in 1994. The technology curriculum required that students become technologically literate. However, in order for ...
Local languages: good for the informal marketplace but not for the formal classroom?
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The maxim that ‘Languages develop through use, particularly in high domains such as education and the courts’ was propagated by Neville Alexander. He was committed to ‘intellectualising African languages’. In the spirit ...
Developing the language of thinking within a classroom community of inquiry: pre-service teachers’ experiences
(Education Association of South Africa, 2012-08)
We argue that the “community of inquiry” approach, using reading materials
modelled on Lipman’s Philosophy for Children programme, is a theoretically justified
and teacher-friendly means of promoting effective thinking ...
Key dimensions of effective leadership for change: a focus on township and rural schools in South Africa
(SAGE, 2010)
The article identifies key dimensions of effective leadership for change in historically disadvantaged, township and rural schools in South Africa. It is based on original case study research in 13 schools in Kwa-Zulu ...
Use of indigenous stone play in child psychological assessment
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)
The purpose of the study was to investigate an indigenous stone play called Masekitlana, as a projection technique in child psychological assessment. A qualitative research approach, guided by an interpretivist epistemology, ...
The Rise of the University without Classrooms after COVID-19
(CSSALL, 2020)
In this chapter we argue that university face-to-face teaching will gradually be replaced in the future with online teaching. In particular, we argue, this will happen in the light of the Fallist movement that has affected ...
Contemporary Problems of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics Education
(City University of New York., 2021)
The way mathematics teaching and learning activities are presented to learners
can make them hate or like the subject. The question of accomplishing the mathematics
education of the learner from primary to post-secondary ...
The influence of local worldview presuppositions on learners’ conceptions of selected mechanics topics
(EASA, 2021)
The study is situated within a worldview theory as espoused by socio-cultural constructivists. Science classrooms in
secondary schools in Swaziland are culturally largely homogeneous where learners and their teachers have ...