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Research conducted in the Faculty of Education reflects the following areas of interest: education policy research, curriculum research, professional teacher education, adult education, science teaching, maths education, and the history of education in South Africa.
Electronic theses and dissertations are available in the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository .
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‘Sometimes I wonder if our best really is our best’: Tutor reflections on shifting to online tutoring during the covid-19 pandemic
(University of the Free State, 2023)Tutors play an important role in higher education, as they may facilitate learning, promote engagement, and assist with student success. Students also often feel more comfortable seeking assistance from them than from ... -
‘It does not feel like I am a university student’: Considering the impact of online learning on students’ sense of belonging in a ‘post pandemic’ academic literacy module
(University of the Free State, 2023)Belonging is important for student motivation, retention and engagement. However, belonging is difficult to foster in the online environment, and the pandemic necessitating a shift to online learning has meant that many ... -
Towards flexible learning and teaching: Lessons learned for blended learning and teaching post covid-19 pandemic
(University of the Free State, 2023)This discussion explores student and educator academic experiences of online learning and teaching (OLT) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose was to report on lessons ... -
From colonialism to postcolonialism: Decolonized social work education in South Africa
(Routledge, 2023)In a postcolonial context, the influences of South African colonial and apartheid history are still visible, and much has been written about the need to decolonize learning and teaching practices. However, student protest ... -
Reframing listening for belonging and participation in early childhood care and education settings: a case in South Africa
(Routledge, 2023)This study is part of larger South African project funded by the Department of Higher Education and Training and EU which focused on how practitioners listen to young children in early childhood care and education to ... -
Bell hooks’ feminist, and ancient Egypt’s philosophy of education for an enabling afrocentric education
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023)In 2021, bell hooks, an African-American anti-colonial education and feminist educator, passed on. hooks’ passing coincided with the 40th publication anniversary of her book, Ain’t I a woman: Black Women and Feminism. Her ... -
Shifting assessment paradigms in South African higher education: Evolving towards transformative approaches to policy development
(University of Johannesburg, 2023)Assessment policies facilitate the optimisation of learning and academic performance through the provision of fair, equitable, and standardised criteria for evaluation. In recent years, the assessment policies of three ... -
Language and employability in higher education research: A scoping review
(Emerald Publishing, 2023)In an ever-interconnected world dominated by discourses on the internationalization and marketization of higher education, concerns related to language and employability have been the focus of recent debates. There is, ... -
English first additional language learning and teaching with digital resources
(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2023)This paper investigates the learning and teaching of English as a first additional Language (EFAL) using digital resources. It was a qualitative study conducted in a Grade 10 township classroom in the Western Cape, South ... -
factors affecting students
(University of the Free State, 2023)There is a need for synchronous and inclusive online peer tutoring in large, undergraduate classes. As a lack of data or internet connectivity may limit online peer tutoring, the use of a data-free instant messenger was ... -
Moral dogma and ethical relativity in joseph conrad’s almayer’s folly
(Routledge, 2022)This paper studies the intricate treatment of the abstract and dogmatic order of imperial, racial, and religious morality, and the issue of ethical commitment in the concrete and fleeting relationships between individual ... -
Implementation of an intervention program to enhance student teachers’ active learning in transformation geometry
(SAGE Publications Inc, 2023)Active learning strategies are purported to be effective in enhancing students’ understanding of concepts that would otherwise be difficult to master through other strategies of mediating learning. This study forms part ... -
Mapping higher education policymaking in Ghana with aquadruple helix framework
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)Whilst research works have identified many actors involved inhigher education public policymaking in the Ghanaian context,there is a paucity of empirical studies on how the application of aquadruple helix network of policy ... -
The affective effect: exploring undergraduate students’ emotions in giving and receiving peer feedback
(Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2023)While the peer feedback process has an important role to play in student learning and has many benefits, it is not without its challenges. One of these is the effect that emotions may have on the way that students engage ... -
Keeping sites in sight: Conversations with teachers about the design of toolkits peculiar to a continuous professional development initiative
(AOSIS, 2019)The aim of this article is to shift the notion of ‘sites’ as places of work peculiar to continuous professional development (CPD) to a theoretical level, independent of, yet intimately connected to, their physical meanings, ... -
Internationalisation of the curriculum in higher education: A case from a Mozambican university
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)Internationalisation of the curriculum has been the subject of various debates in recent years in higher education institutions. In particular, the need to incorporate local knowledge systems when internationalising the ... -
Choreographic cartographies with-in learning: towards response-ability in higher education pedagogy
(Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, 2023)In this article, I seek to engage the liberatory impetus of critical pedagogies through an attentiveness to body-space-time so as to enrich the former with the notion of response-ability. Several learning activities are ... -
The Namibian inclusive education policy’s responseto gender nonconforming learners
(Wiley, 2023)The provision of education to children is a human right that most countries including Namibia are trying to achieve. Hence, through educational inclusion, educators strive for removal of barriers within education systems ... -
Multilingual tasks as a springboard for transversal practice: Teachers’ decisions and dilemmas in a functional multilingual learning approach
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)Functional Multilingual Learning (FML) aims to leverage pupils’ full language repertoire in a strategic and transversal way across the curriculum in order to enhance access to conceptual understanding and improve skills ... -
Welfare and education in British colonial Africa, 1918–1945
(Springer, 2020)The relevance of historical research for an explanation of the roots of contemporary educational policy and its relationship to notions of equity, democracy and development has been sadly neglected in recent years. This ...
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