Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Recent submissions
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Making inter-disciplinary spaces for talk about and change in student writing and literacy development
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This paper discusses the role of a writing centre in creating spaces for talk about and change in disciplinary writing pedagogy. It asks how collaborative partnerships between disciplinary academics and Writing Centre ... -
Service learning in a course in children's & youth library & information services: a case study
(Community High Education Service Partnership, 2008)The case study describes a service learning project in Library and Information Science. In 2002, 14 students enrolled for the service learning elective – the 4th year second semester module, Children’s and Youth Library ... -
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 ... -
Introducing dental students to e-learning at a South African University
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012)This article serves to report on the introduction of an innovative ‘blended learning’ approach in the Paediatric Dentistry Department at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town, South Africa. This intervention ... -
(Mis)framing higher education in South Africa
(Blackwell Publishing, 2012)The question of how to make higher education more inclusive has been a central concern in South Africa and elsewhere over the past two decades. However, in South Africa there remains a disjuncture between policy aimed at ... -
The use of a wiki to facilitate collaborative learning in a South African physiotherapy department
(South African Society of Physiotherapy, 2012)The dominant form of teaching in higher education remains the lecture, even though evidence suggests that it alone is inadequate to facilitate the development of the higher order thinking skills required in clinical practice. ... -
Challenges for information literacy education at a university of technology
(University of Kwazulu Natal, 2010)The article reports on an action research project to investigate the effectiveness of an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). The ... -
The use of assisted performance within an online social network to develop reflective reasoning in undergraduate physiotherapy students
(Informa Healthcare, 2012)Background: The development of practice knowledge is an important component of clinical education and reflective reasoning is known to play a role in its development. Online social networks may have some potential for ... -
The role of blended learning in clinical education: A systematic review
(Association for Medical Education in Europe, 2012)BACKGROUND: Developing practice knowledge in healthcare is a complex process that is difficult to teach. Clinical education exposes students to authentic learning situations, but students also need epistemological access ... -
Staging historical argument: History I at the University of the Western Cape
(Routledge, 1996)This article focuses on the lecture-room debates which have been the central feature of the first-year history course at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) since 1993. The UWC History Department takes the position ... -
Education for actuarial quality
(Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA), 2009)This paper is located in the field of actuarial professional education. It draws on current literature and empirical evidence to argue the need for developing generic ‘normative’ capabilities and values in the actuarial ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
"Then you get a teacher" - Guidelines for excellence in teaching
(Routledge, 2007)Background: Current literature calls for the explicit teaching to health-science educators of the skills, knowledge and dispositions that are required for successful teaching in higher education. Aims: This paper draws ... -
"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 ... -
Understanding diversity as a framework for improving student throughput
(Maastricht University, 2007)INTRODUCTION: Literature suggests that a diverse body of healthcare graduates could extend health service delivery. However, the literature also indicates that the throughput of minority, working class, and historically ... -
Who teaches the teachers? Identity, discourse and policy in teacher education
(Elsevier, 2006)In this article we argue that understanding the identities that teacher educators construct for themselves is central to effecting innovation within a changing policy environment. The article begins with a theoretical ... -
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 ... -
"We are not in the least bit used to these ways of studying": Developing academic competence in all students
(American Association of Dental Schools, 2005)This article is located in the field of academic development in oral health science education. Specifically, it examines the academic difficulties experienced by oral hygiene students in their transition from high school ... -
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 ...