Browsing Research Articles (Scholarship of Teaching & Learning) by Title
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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 ... -
Trained nurse preceptors ’ perceptions of a preceptorship training programme offered by a university in the Western Cape
(International Scholars Journals, 2014)The School of Nursing at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the Directorate of Nursing Services in the Western Cape Department of Health undertook a collaborative project to strengthen the clinical teaching skills ... -
Transforming teaching with emerging technologies: Implications for higher education institutions
(SUN, 2013)A gulf is widening between the technologies used by students, those used by educators and those provided by institutions. However, knowledge about the impact of so-called emerging technologies on learning or the readiness ... -
Transition to university: the role played by emotion
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Students experience transition to university as challenging. Recent studies implicate emotion in university success. This paper reports on a pilot study to examine the extent to which school to university transition is ... -
Translanguaging and English-African language mother tongues as linguistic dispensation in teaching and learning in a black township school in Cape Town
(Routledge, 2018)Drawing on the notion of translanguaging, I show how learners in a Black township secondary school in Cape Town use their multilingual repertoire to achieve power, agency and voice. I use the conceptualisation of the ... -
Travelling into the other’s world: South African pre-service teacher education students’ construction of difference, belonging and identity
(Education Faculty, Stellenbosch Library, 2018)Against the backdrop of continuing racism ‒ both overt and subtle – in South Africa’s classrooms, this article describes one lecturer’s attempt at facilitating conversations around race relations in South Africa with nine ... -
Undergraduate nurses reflections on Whatsapp use in improving primary health care education
(Curationis, 2015-08)Background: The global use of mobile devices with their connectivity capacity, and integrated with the affordances of social media networks, provides a resource-rich platform for innovative student-directed learning ... -
Undergraduate nurses reflections on Whatsapp use in improving primary health care education
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)BACKGROUND: The global use of mobile devices with their connectivity capacity, and integrated with the affordances of social media networks, provides a resource-rich platform for innovative student-directed learning ... -
Undergraduate nurses’ experience of the family health assessment as a learning opportunity
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2012)The practice of community health nursing (CHN) may enhance the life experiences of families and communities, particularly amongst the poor and socially marginalised. CHN provides for a deeper understanding of the health ... -
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 ... -
Understanding what it means to be a health practitioner: biographies of care and concern
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)INTRODUCTION: I am not a health practitioner, although I work in a Health Sciences Faculty. As the faculty’s ‘Education Advisor’, I am intimately involved in the education of health practitioners. I mentor students to learn ... -
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. ... -
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 use of emerging technologies for authentic learning: A South African study in higher education
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)It is now widely accepted that the transmission of disciplinary knowledge is insufficient to prepare students leaving higher education for the workplace. Authentic learning has been suggested as a way to bring the necessary ... -
The use of synchronous videoconferencing teaching to increase access to specialist nurse education in rural Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
(KM&EL, 2010)ABSTRACT: In KwaZulu-Natal more than 50% of the population lives in the rural area but most of the health workers are based in urban centres where teaching hospitals and high incomes are common. Nursing provides the backbone ... -
The use of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) to facilitate authentic learning: experiences of South African social work educators
(Stellenbosch University, 2015)Pedagogies incorporating technology-enhanced learning (TEL) are growing in social work education. However, there have been few explorations of the effectiveness of use of particular pedagogical designs based upon authentic ... -
Use of web 2.0 technologies by library and information science students
(UNISA Press, 2016)The research reported on in this article investigated the use of Web 2.0 technologies by library and information science (LIS) students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. Blumer and Katz’s Uses and ... -
Using a disciplinary discourse lens to explore how representations afford meaning making in a typical wave physics course
(Springer Verlag, 2013)We carried out a case study in a wave physics course at a Swedish university in order to investigate the relations between the representations used in the lessons and the experience of meaning making in interview–discussions. ... -
Using Google Drive to facilitate a blended approach to authentic learning
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)While technology has the potential to create opportunities for transformative learning in higher education, it is often used to merely reinforce didactic teaching that aims to control access to expert knowledge. Instead, ... -
Using the human capabilities approach as a normative framework to evaluate institutional teaching and learning interventions at UWC
(UNISA, 2013)This article uses the human capabilities approach to evaluate an institutional approach to teaching and learning at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The human capabilities framework makes it possible to examine ...