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Validating the grit-s scale among postgraduate students in a South African distance education institution
(Frontiers Media SA, 2023)Grit has been associated with student success in a plethora of higher education (HE) studies. In order to measure and evaluate the predictive validity of grit in student success in a particular context, an appropriate, ... -
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 ... -
Doctoral supervision and COVID-19: Autoethnographies from four faculty across three continents
(2021)Doctoral students represent the fresh and creative intellectuals needed to address the many social, economic, political, health care, and education disparities that have been highlighted by the 2020 pandemic. Our work as ... -
The Ambivalence of Indianness in Ahmed Essop’s The Hajji and Other Stories
(2021)This article explores the ambivalence of Indianness in Ahmed Essop’s debut collection of short stories, The Hajji and Other Stories, 1978, against the contested discourse of the nation. The article is underpinned by ... -
Humiliated consciousness in Ronnie Govender’s The Lahnee’s pleasure and Ben Okri’s In Arcadia
(Routledge, 2021)Ronnie Govender entitled both his major play (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1977) and his later novel (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2008) The Lahnee’s Pleasure, articulating that life was, and still is, a pleasure ground for a ... -
Inducting BEd Hons students into a research culture and the world of research: the case of a research methods course in the BEd Hons programme
(Unisa Press, 2013)It has become a policy imperative that the training of future researchers in Education should start at the Honours level. This training presents particular challenges as students entering the Bachelor of Education Honours ... -
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 ...