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Students' Reasoning and Utilization of Argumentation Skills in Solving Chemical Kinematics Calculus-Based Problems
(International Journal of Research in Teacher Education, 2019)Developing students’ reasoning and utilization of argumentation skills in chemical kinematics entails learning to use basic facility of derivatives and integrals and their applications effectively and efficiently as applied ... -
Supporting reading literacy: A grade 6 pilot study
(University of Venda, 2012)This paper discusses a pilot reading-literacy development initiative in a class of Grade 6 township learners. The purpose of the study was to pilot a model of literacy development that could be implemented across a wider ... -
Sympoiesis ‘becoming with and through each other’: Exploring collaborative writing as emergent academics
(Critical Studies in Teaching & Learning, 2020)This paper explores our journey as three female academics as we collaboratively engage in the process of writing for scholarly publication. We read our experience through a Political Ethic of Care, Slow scholarship, and ... -
Taking risks: Exploring ecofeminist, climate-just popular education
(Linköpings University Electronic Press, 2023)The climate catastrophe is a clarion call to humanity to change how we live. How do radical popular educators respond to this call? We ‘join the dots’ using climate justice, ecofeminism and our own insights from our engaged ... -
The tale of academic practice in a rising knowledge society: focus on a university in South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020)This paper is based on a study conducted to establish if academic practice in a university designated as Azania is aligning or diverting from the expectations of the rising knowledge society in South Africa. The paper is ... -
Teaching thinking in South African schools: Selected school leaders’ perceptions
(South African Journal of Education, 2021)In this article we argue that school leaders should ensure that teachers experience a supportive professional learning community committed to collaborative, thoughtful inquiry and be enabled to create similar communities ... -
Testing the waters: Exploring the teaching of genres in a Cape flats primary school in South Africa
(Routledge, 2015)Twenty years after democracy, the legacy of apartheid and hitherto unmet challenges of resourcing and teacher development are reflected in a severely inequitable and underperforming education system. This paper focuses ... -
Thoughts on the Future of Higher Education in the UK: A Personal View with a Historical Context
(MDPI, 2021)Before the effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic, there had been continued debate about the future of Higher Education (HE) in the UK. It is now accepted that the effect of the pandemic will have a long-lasting effect on HE ... -
Towards a decolonial feminist intervention: Ethics and perspectives of françoise vergès
(Journal of Gender Studies, 2023)In this conversation with Françoise Vergès, a French political scientist, historian, film producer, independent curator, activist, and public educator, Vergès talks about postcolonial studies and decolonial feminism. While ... -
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, ... -
Tuition fees and the challenge of making higher education a popular commodity in South Africa
(Springer Verlag, 2012)The funding of higher education in South Africa has in the recent past been a subject of animated debate. This debate has ranged from the adequacy of government funding of higher education, the suitability of the funding ... -
Unlocking the grid: Language-in-education policy realisation in post-apartheid South Africa
(Routledge, 2014)This paper reflects on the state of educational language policy two decades into a postApartheid South Africa caught between official multilingualism and English. The focus is on the national language-in-education policy ... -
Unmasking the state of basic education in South Africa
(José Frantz, 2021)The Covid-19 lockdown period laid bare the fibre of South African society: poverty, homelessness, welfare dependence, domestic violence, police and military brutality, healthcare and hunger are all suddenly under national ... -
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, ... -
Values in preservice mathematics teachers’ discussions of the Body Mass Index - A critical perspective
(2023)This article explores the values that come to the fore when preservice mathematics teachers (PTs) 1 engage in critical discussions about the role of mathematical models in society. The specific model that was discussed was ... -
“Walking the talk”: The influence of an introduction to cognitive education on school leaders
(University of Pretoria, 2017)The current emphasis on curriculum leadership implies the need to update school leaders’ pedagogical knowledge. This paper will interest local and international readers because it highlights both essential content and the ... -
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 ... -
What mathematics education may prepare students for the society of the future?
(Springer Verlag, 2017)This paper attempts to engage the field in a discussion about what mathematics is needed for students to engage in society, especially with an increase in technology and digitalization. In this respect, mathematics holds ... -
Who should learn proving and why: An examination of secondary mathematics teachers’ perspectives
(Modestum, 2021)Reasoning-and-proving is a crucial part of students’ mathematical experiences in secondary school. There is scholarly debate, however, on the extent to which proving at the secondary level needs to be formal and whether all ... -
Women in South Africa: Striving for full equality post-apartheid
(Springer Nature, 2017)Life for South African women post-apartheid reflects both legislative advances and lingering challenges. Despite progress in the post-apartheid world, South Africa is still characterized by a high level of economic disparity, ...