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- pie-10
- author: Molepo, Lephodisa S.; Maunganidze, Levison; Mudhovozi, Pilot; Sodi, Tholene
- title: Teacher ratings of academic achievement of children between 6 and 12 years old from intact and non-intact families
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 5151
- flesch: 58
- summary: Child study research: current perspectives and applications. For example, in African communities boy children are valued more than girl children.
- keywords: academic; achievement; african; age; amato; analysis; atwood; average; better; boys; children; conners; current; data; development; differences; different; divorce; education; effect; expectations; experience; families; family; female; findings; fulfilling; grade; impact; intact; intact families; intact intact; journal; level; lower; march; marriage; negative; non; non intact; old; outcomes; parent; parental; perceptions; performance; perspectives; prophecy; psychology; range; rate; ratings; reading; research; results; school; scores; self; sex; significant; single; social; south; structure; studies; study; teachers; volume; year
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- author: Magare, Ishmael; Kitching, Ansie Elizabeth; Roos, Vera
- title: Educators’ experiences of inclusive learning contexts: an exploration of competencies
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 6647
- flesch: 49
- summary: The successful im plementation of inclusive education relies heavily on educators. The com plexity of the interactive relationships between different system s, such as learners, educators, fam ilies, schools and the learning context, was recognised in this research and an eco system ic perspective consequently applied.
- keywords: acceptance; africa; analysis; approach; barriers; care; challenges; child; children; colleagues; competencies; contexts; data; depth; design; development; different; discussion; diverse; education; educators; engelbrecht; environment; est; experiences; findings; focus; focused; following; group; guide; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; inclusive learning; individual; interviews; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; learning environment; level; lewis; london; march; methods; needs; observations; onald; parents; participants; personal; perspectives; practice; pretoria; process; psychology; publications; publishers; qualitative; relationships; research; ritchie; sage; schaik; school; skills; social; som; south; special; study; support; supportive; system; teaching; themes; training; use; van; volume
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- pie-12
- author: Bosch, Ronel; Oswald, Marietjie
- title: Adolescents’ perceptions of an adventure-based programme
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 9199
- flesch: 60
- summary: T hree participants of other encounters that did not form part of the documentary were also interviewed in order to get a variety of views. Whole school positive behaviour support: Effects on student discipline problems and academic performance.
- keywords: activities; adolescents; adulthood; adults; adventure; africa; awareness; behaviour; building; cape; care; caring; challenging; change; children; communities; community; control; culture; data; decision; department; development; difficulties; education; educo; emotional; environment; esteem; experience; experiencing; experiential; females; findings; focus; following; fostering; future; growth; herefore; home; identity; impact; individuals; intervention; journal; learners; learning; life; literature; lives; making; manifesting; march; need; new; nurturing; order; outcomes; outdoor; participants; passage; past; people; personal; perspectives; physical; positive; potential; process; programmes; psychological; psychology; purpose; qualitative; relationships; research; resilience; respect; review; rights; risk; rites; school; self; sense; skills; social; steyn; study; support; supportive; teachers; team; things; tim; trust; van; volume; vulnerable; western; wilderness; wilderness rites; young; young people; youth
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- pie-15
- author: Kutame, Azwidohwi Philip
- title: Identifying sensitive issues in education in Limpopo province, South Africa
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 5302
- flesch: 51
- summary: K eyw ords: deceptive answers; educators charged; sensitive educational research; sensitive issues in education; sensitive research; social relations Introduction M any school principals in South Africa, particularly in rural areas, work under extremely stressful conditions which are often characterised by low staff morale, poor resources, inadequate facilities, mismanagement, social problems such as gangsterism and substance abuse, disillusioned learners (D e Jong, 2000; E bersohn & E loff, 2002; H ayward, 1992), and teachers trying to cope with children in trauma or suffering emotionally from untold loss of family members from H IV & AID S (Coombe, 2002). For the p urp oses of this article, we therefore regard the following as a working definition: Sensitive research topics are those topics that pose a potential threat in some way to those participating in the research both the researcher and the researched. 91Perspectives in Education, Volume 28(1), March 2010 Theories of sensitive research T he study looked at the question of whether sensitive research implies specific threats to the data collection methodology and the validity of the results, and if these do indeed exist, in what way they threaten the participants.
- keywords: able; abuse; aids; answers; areas; conditions; corporal; data; difficult; disciplinary; eds; education; educators; experience; half; hiv; information; investigation; issues; item; journal; learners; lee; literature; london; management; march; matters; methodological; moral; personal; perspectives; policy; principals; problems; punishment; questionnaire; questions; reasons; record; regard; reliable; religious; report; research; researchers; respondents; response; results; sage; sample; school; secondary; sensitive; sensitive issues; sensitive research; sensitivity; sexual; sieber; significant; social; south; study; threat; topics; understanding; volume; work; years
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- pie-16
- author: Carrim, Nazir
- title: Primary school teacher deployment: a comparative study
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 1705
- flesch: 58
- summary: As such, this book is a welcome and valuable contribution to debates about EFA and the factors that are at work in, and which at times constrain, the achievement of EFA and the education M D G s. Kelleher brings into focus a significant and central factor in the overall challenges facing the education M D G s and EFA , viz. Kelleher points out that the criteria for selecting the countries used in this study were informed by the M illennium Development Goals (M D G s) and the Education for All (EFA) campaign of the United Nations.
- keywords: areas; book; countries; deployment; different; education; efa; elleher; need; policies; practices; primary; rural; schooling; schools; specific; study; teachers
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- pie-1664
- author: Pendlebury, Shirley
- title: Editorial
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 864
- flesch: 31
- summary: Editorial All the articles in this special issue contribute – some more directly than others – to theoretical repertoires for thinking about the participatory rights of children, understood in legal terms as people younger than 18 years. All three also raise questions, albeit obliquely, about taken-for-granted relationships between children and adults.
- keywords: africa; articles; children; different; governance; henderson; learner; participation; participatory; political; research; rights; school; social; south; spaces; theoretical; understanding
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- pie-1665
- author: Henderson, Patricia; Pendlebury, Shirley; Tisdall, E. Kay M.
- title: Theorising children’s participation: Trans-disciplinary perspectives from South Africa
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 2630
- flesch: 30
- summary: A creative rub existed at the seminar between disciplines that sought to create models around the notion of child participation and those that favoured the deployment of local metaphors in making processes of child participation salient. There was agreement that existing typologies of child participation risk being static.
- keywords: adults; africa; anthropology; articles; cape; children; ciespi; department; disciplines; education; formal; forms; governance; henderson; ideas; institute; international; issue; network; participation; participatory; people; perspectives; policy; political; power; processes; public; research; rights; school; seminar; social; society; south; spaces; special; studies; theorising; tisdall; town; university; work; young
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- pie-1666
- author: Bray, Rachel; Moses, Sue
- title: Children and participation in South Africa: Exploring the landscape
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 7124
- flesch: 54
- summary: Child participation in research: Reflections on ethical challenges in the southern African context. The weaknesses of child participation processes in the public arena include their dependence on champions, both employees of the state who prioritise their mandate to include children and the individual researchers and consultants who facilitate these processes and their de facto status as useful additions, rather than critical components to policy reform.
- keywords: access; act; adults; africa; aids; apartheid; bray; cape; cape town; centre; change; children; clacherty; community; constitution; consultation; council; cultural; decision; delivery; democracy; development; different; eds; education; engagement; environment; example; formal; general; governance; government; high; hiv; human; influence; informal; institute; johannesburg; labour; landscape; law; legal; legislation; making; matters; moses; new; notions; paper; parents; participation; participatory; pendlebury; perspectives; policy; political; poor; poverty; power; press; pretoria; processes; protest; public; relationships; report; research; researchers; reynolds; rights; school; seekings; service; shifts; social; society; soul; south; south africa; spaces; state; status; support; time; town; university; views; volume; ways; years; young
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- pie-1667
- author: Henderson, Patricia C.
- title: Theorising creative expression in children’s participation
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 5916
- flesch: 48
- summary: These “impassioned” forms of expression are contrasted with child participation as invitation to “speak” within the public sphere in ways that are limited and perhaps limiting. Questioning the parameters of child participation
- keywords: adults; africa; aids; aspects; cape; case; children; citizenship; clacherty; conceptions; creation; creative; cultural; das; death; democratic; different; education; environment; everyday; example; experience; expression; forms; henderson; hiv; images; important; knowledge; life; lives; living; local; london; making; memory; mother; multi; new; pain; paper; participation; people; performance; perspectives; photography; place; play; power; press; process; processes; programmes; project; public; radio; refugee; relatives; repertoires; research; self; sense; set; social; south; space; state; suitcases; time; town; tree; university; use; voices; volume; ways; welvering; work; world; young
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- pie-1668
- author: Newfield, Denise
- title: Multimodality and children’s participation in classrooms: Instances of research
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 5627
- flesch: 55
- summary: What I wish to stress through this instance of multimodal classroom practice is the way a multimodal approach generated an ongoing process of semiosis in relation to poetry and identity, which lasted from Grade 10 to Grade 12. Instances of multimodal research in classrooms In this section of the paper, I describe three instances of multimodal classroom research used to focus on particular aspects of multimodal theory and practice.
- keywords: affordances; africa; audience; body; children; classrooms; cloth; communication; democratic; different; dolls; drawing; education; english; figures; forms; freire; instances; jewitt; kress; language; learners; learning; like; literacy; london; makers; making; material; maungedzo; meaning; modes; multiliteracies; multimodal; multimodality; new; newfield; order; paper; participation; pedagogies; performance; poems; poetry; practices; process; project; representation; research; resources; robert; role; routledge; school; semiosis; semiotic; sign; social; south; space; stein; story; teachers; teaching; university; use; ways; work; writing; york
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- pie-1669
- author: Linington, Vivien; Excell, Lorayne; Murris, Karin
- title: Education for participatory democracy: a Grade R perspective
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 5818
- flesch: 52
- summary: Including child as thinker Attributing reason “in the deepest sense” to children, and elevating the status of ‘child’ as thinker to a “valuable stranger” and the “outsider within”, are essential for the ‘self-regulation’ and ‘self-organisation’ required for participatory democracy (Kennedy, 2006:148). Keywords: early childhood development, Grade R, developmentally appropriate practice, socio- cultural historical approach, philosophy for children, community of enquiry, reasonable person, thinking skills, participatory democracy, inclusion, childhood, voice Introduction Internationally, the conceptual base guiding educational practice in the early years is slowly changing (Anning, Cullen & Fleer, 2009).
- keywords: africa; anning; approach; biesta; childhood; childhood education; children; coe; community; construction; context; cultural; curriculum; dap; democracy; democratic; department; developmental; didactic; different; early; early childhood; ece; education; enquiry; frog; grade; haynes; historical; ideas; implications; individual; informed; knowledge; learning; london; murris; notion; orientation; paper; participation; participatory; particular; pedagogy; perspective; philosophy; play; practice; press; questions; reasons; relational; research; role; routledge; sch; school; social; socio; south; story; teachers; teaching; theoretical; theories; theory; thinking; understanding; university; young
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- pie-1670
- author: Bentley, Kristina
- title: Learning through doing: Suggesting a deliberative approach to children’s political participation and citizenship
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 6111
- flesch: 49
- summary: This is followed by an account of the emerging debate about deliberative democracy as a more substantive approach to political participation, and by some consideration of how this relates to the rights and capabilities of children as political actors. This paper focuses on the issue of children’s political participation, and to that end it considers the idea of political participation understood as a human right, and contingently it considers the question of children as agents or potential political actors, as well as the assumed limitations of their role.
- keywords: account; africa; age; approach; argument; available; bentley; case; census; childhood; children; citizenship; civil; concept; consideration; context; convention; crc; debate; deliberative; deliberative democracy; democracy; democratic; duties; economic; education; end; general; human; human rights; ideal; institutions; international; journal; learners; mcdevitt; model; paper; participation; passive; perspectives; point; political; political participation; potential; process; programme; question; reference; rights; role; schools; section; social; society; socio; south; south africa; terms; time; universal; view; western
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- pie-1671
- author: Bozalek, Vivienne
- title: Judging children’s participatory parity from social justice and the political ethics of care perspectives
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 6093
- flesch: 50
- summary: In other words, the capabilities approach offers a way of taking into account where children are positioned and what they are able to do with personal, material and social resources, rather than merely examining what resources children have access to and assuming that they are equally placed in relation to these resources. In many of the families described, children are perceived as a group rather than as individuals and as having a lower status than adult members of the household: Children have to work for their parents and if they marry they still have to look after them if necessary.
- keywords: ability; able; accounts; african; age; approach; arrangements; bozalek; cambridge; capabilities; care; children; different; education; equal; ethics; example; extent; family; food; framework; fraser; generation; household; human; justice; life; members; model; needs; normative; nussbaum; order; parity; participation; participatory; participatory parity; people; perspectives; political; practices; press; recognition; relation; resources; sen; social; social justice; spaces; students; terms; university; women
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- pie-1672
- author: Roodt, Monty J.; Stuurman, Sonwabo
- title: Participation, local governance and attitudes of youth: a Grahamstown case study
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 5775
- flesch: 49
- summary: Allan Cochrane (1986), who refers to the attempts at local level participation as “community politics”, was cautious about the success of community initiatives as far back as the 1980s. It is apparent therefore, that the Constitution, White Paper and the Department of Provincial and Local Government (DPLG) strongly support the idea of community participation when it comes to local issues.
- keywords: adults; africa; apartheid; article; attitudes; cape; case; child; children; citizens; civil; committees; community; concept; constitution; corruption; delivery; democracy; democratic; development; different; economic; education; example; focus; governance; government; grahamstown; group; human; issues; learners; level; life; local; local governance; local government; nations; nature; number; old; participation; participatory; people; political; politicians; politics; problems; processes; right; roodt; service; social; society; state; structures; student; study; stuurman; system; united; university; views; ward; young; youth
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- pie-1673
- author: Carrim, Nazir
- title: Modes of participation and conceptions of children in South African education
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 5786
- flesch: 49
- summary: Within schools children participate in various activities in various spaces, which range from activities they engage in with each other – including bullying, playing and teasing, CARRIM — Modes of participation and conceptions of children 75 to making and being friends – to engagements with various adults at the school and en route there; and which occur in and outside of classroom, to and from school, in toilets, playgrounds and corridors. Yet, this view of children as relatively autonomous, capable, rational and critical human beings contrasts sharply with the SASA’s exclusion of primary school children on SGBs and severely limited scope for secondary school students to participate as representatives on their SGBs.
- keywords: account; act; african; age; article; assumed; carrim; categories; children; class; community; conceptions; critical; curriculum; data; democracy; differences; education; experiences; gender; governance; inclusion; interests; learners; legislation; level; lives; modes; national; opportunities; participation; participatory; pedagogy; people; perspectives; policies; policy; representation; research; sasa; sayed; school; schooling; sgbs; south; south african; spaces; stakeholders; structures; students; university; ways
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- pie-1674
- author: Walton, Elizabeth
- title: “They discluded me”: possibilities and limitations of children’s participation in inclusion research in South Africa
- date: 2011-03-25
- words: 6458
- flesch: 48
- summary: “They discluded me”: possibilities and limitations of children’s participation in inclusion research in South Africa ELizaBETH WaLTon University of the Witwatersrand Beyond realising the right of children and young people to be heard in routine interactions, there is much scope for research with (rather than on) children. Keywords: Participation, voice, children, young people, inclusion research, inclusive education, inclusion, disability, exclusion, marginalisation Introduction Explaining why she was alone and tearful on the playground, Lerato said, “They [pointing to a group of four eleven-year-old girls] discluded me!”
- keywords: access; africa; ainscow; allan; approach; attitudes; barriers; change; children; context; development; different; dilemma; disabilities; disability; education; example; exclusion; experiences; expression; field; group; inclusion; inclusion research; inclusive; inclusive education; individual; journal; learners; learning; lewis; listening; london; marginalisation; nations; needs; new; paper; participants; participation; particular; people; perspectives; possibilities; potential; practice; research; researchers; rights; rose; routledge; school; schooling; social; south; special; teachers; understanding; united; views; voice; walton; way; ways; young; young children; young people
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- pie-1677
- author: de Wet, Corene
- title: Editorial
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 754
- flesch: 42
- summary: The starting point of this edition of Perspectives in Education is provided by two thought-provoking articles which grapple with important themes in higher education, namely transformation and social justice. The second relates to the need to transform higher education in South Africa in order to overcome the legacies of apartheid as captured in policies that have been developed to redress past inequalities.
- keywords: africa; article; assessment; education; grange; higher; higher education; history; learners; perspectives; service; social; south; system; teaching; transformation
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- pie-1678
- author: le Grange, Lesley
- title: (Re)thinking (trans)formation in South African (higher) education
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 6258
- flesch: 49
- summary: work and to make sense of transformation processes occurring in South African higher education. I shall look at some of the changes that these developments have effected in South African higher education over the past decades.
- keywords: academic; access; african; african higher; apartheid; biesta; black; challenges; changes; committee; contemporary; context; control; crisis; developments; discrimination; doe; economy; education; event; example; excellence; gibbons; global; grange; higher; higher education; human; humanism; idea; institutions; issues; jansen; journals; knowledge; life; list; london; mode; modern; need; new; outcomes; particular; past; pedagogy; performativity; points; policy; present; press; production; programmes; quality; race; research; society; soudien; south; south african; state; students; system; teaching; term; todd; transformation; universities; university; way; white; words; work; world
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- pie-1679
- author: Tjabane, Masebala; Pillay, Venitha
- title: Doing justice to social justice in South African higher education
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 5428
- flesch: 47
- summary: Social justice and South African policy initiatives In South Africa concerns with social justice, in line with the liberal and radical tradition, have always been high on the agenda of the anti-apartheid movement. 10 Doing justice to social justice in South African higher education MAsEBALA TJABANE Vaal University of Technology VENIThA PILLAy University of Pretoria “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come to help me because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together” Lila Watson, Aboriginal Australian.
- keywords: 2001; african; agency; agenda; collective; conservative; context; critical; current; democracy; democratic; documents; economic; education; education policy; enlightenment; equality; freedom; freire; gerwitz; global; government; habermas; higher; higher education; human; important; inclusive; injustices; journal; justice; justice agenda; knowledge; liberal; liberalism; literature; neo; new; paper; pedagogy; perspectives; philosophy; policy; political; position; pretoria; progressive; promotion; radical; radical social; redistribution; rights; social; social justice; society; socio; south; south african; starr; state; study; theory; tradition; transformation; university; waghid; york
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- author: Toledo, Maria Isabel; Magendzo, Abraham; Gazmuri, Renato
- title: Teaching recent history in countries that have experienced human rights violations: Case studies from Chile
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 5251
- flesch: 56
- summary: The diversity of models is cause for concern because not all of them encourage students to understand the present as a result of a historical process and how to operate within it. Given the immediacy of the events, both teachers and students are involved in the recent history that is taught.
- keywords: allende; analysis; article; chile; class; classroom; collective; concepts; confessional; conflict; content; coup; curriculum; democracy; development; dictatorship; different; discourse; education; emotions; events; groups; historians; historical; historiographical; history; human; information; keet; knowledge; learning; memory; military; model; necessary; past; peace; perspectives; political; present; process; questions; reading; recent; recent history; regime; rights; school; sciences; second; secondary; slides; social; students; subunit; teacher; teaching; text; transition; violations; work
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- pie-1681
- author: Wilmot, Mark; Naidoo, Devika
- title: ‘Behind the doors of learning’: The transmission of racist and sexist discourses in a History classroom
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 7080
- flesch: 53
- summary: (2009) who note the non-reconstructive responses of white teachers in former whites-only schools towards ‘dismantling apartheid’ and that perceived group interest overrode national equity goals. The unexamined whiteness of teaching: How White teachers maintain and enact dominant racial ideologies.
- keywords: african; analysis; apartheid; authority; aztecs; binary; black; bombers; bourdieu; brain; classroom; colonised; cortés; critical; cultural; culture; curriculum; david; description; discourses; doors; education; established; extension; fairclough; field; form; goliath; habitus; historical; history; horses; ideological; ideology; impression; knowledge; language; learners; lesson; male; meanings; means; men; metaphor; michael; mode; multi; naidoo; nature; number; opportunities; people; person; perspectives; power; question; race; racist; relations; ridicule; school; self; sexist; sexist discourses; social; soudien; south; spanish; speaker; staff; statement; students; subject; suicide; teacher; teaching; texts; transmission; use; value; volume; white; women; word
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- author: de Vos, Mark; Belluigi, Dina Zoë
- title: Formative assessment as mediation
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 5240
- flesch: 46
- summary: 39 Formative assessment as mediation MARK DE VOs Rhodes University DINA ZOë BELLUIGI Rhodes University Whilst principles of validity, reliability and fairness should be central concerns for the assessment of student learning in higher education, simplistic notions of ‘transparency’ and ‘explicitness’ in terms of assessment criteria should be critiqued more rigorously. In such a context, critique of the notion of transparency in assessment criteria has been minimal, resulting in widespread compliance (for critiques of transparency in other contexts, see Strathern, 2000; Knight, 2001; Parker, 2003).
- keywords: anner; approach; article; assessment; assessor; behaviourist; biggs; bloom; classroom; cognitive; community; conceptions; constructivist; context; cra; criteria; criterion; curriculum; different; education; evaluation; explicit; explicitness; field; focus; formative; haiku; higher; intellectual; issues; journal; knight; knowledge; learning; measurement; mediation; mediative; mediator; neutrality; new; outcomes; perspectives; power; practice; price; process; professional; reed; reliability; research; shay; skills; south; standards; student; taxonomy; teaching; theory; transparency; understandings; use; way
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- pie-1683
- author: Omidire, M. F.; Bouwer, A. C.; Jordaan, J. C.
- title: Addressing the assessment dilemma of additional language learners through dynamic assessment
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 3565
- flesch: 50
- summary: Per CA cycle, the CDA procedure took the form of linguistically focused debriefing and mediation regarding assessment questions. Mediational assessment then entailed the 51OMIDIRE, BOUWER & JORDAAN — Addressing the assessment dilemma 51 linguistic adaptation of assessment questions set by the teachers to mediate cognitive-linguistic acts of response at both levels, and scaffolding in the form of a glossary.
- keywords: academic; affect; alternative; assessment; barriers; bouwer; cda; challenges; cognitive; cummins; curriculum; data; debriefing; development; dilemma; dynamic; dynamic assessment; eds; education; examination; international; journal; knowledge; language; learners; learning; level; lidz; linguistic; lolta; london; mediation; new; observation; participants; performance; potential; pretoria; process; proficiency; questions; research; results; school; south; study; teaching; terms; tzuriel
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- pie-1684
- author: Jahng, Kyung Eun
- title: English education for young children in South Korea: Not Just a collective neurosis of English fever!
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 5641
- flesch: 45
- summary: The realities and practical plans of early English education. 한국열린유아교육학회 2008년 춘계학술대회, 11-20. The aim of this article is to rethink English education for young children in South Korea through exploring a great variety of complex, interrelated terrains in terms of its emergence and popularity in an era of globalisation.
- keywords: acquisition; american; bhabha; bourdieu; capital; childhood; childhood english; children; context; cosmopolitanism; cultural; cultures; development; developmentalism; different; discourses; discursive; early; early childhood; economic; economy; education; english; english education; english language; foucault; global; government; governmentality; graddol; historical; human; hybridity; imperialism; instrumentalism; international; kim; kindergarten; knowledge; korea; language; learning; lee; linguistic; national; new; park; particular; period; perspectives; political; popkewitz; popularity; postcolonial; power; press; private; regime; research; resources; second; set; social; society; south; south korea; symbolic; term; truth; university; volume; way; western; world; york; young; young children
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- pie-1685
- author: Cosser, Michael
- title: Pathways through the education and training system: Do we need a new model?
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 3834
- flesch: 45
- summary: As Lolwana (2010) advocates, single-purpose institutions, such as nursing colleges, agricultural colleges and education colleges, are needed to allow learners greater opportunities for further learning at this level. The proposed system accommodates the demand for extended learning opportunities by providing for three post-basic education and training stages: Stage 1 (red), which includes education and training in schools (post-grade 12/sixth form) and in colleges (nursing, agricultural, technical, and vocational) towards the achievement of certificates; Stage 2 (blue), which includes education and training in the same institutions, and in education colleges, towards the achievement of diplomas; and Stage 3 (green), which comprises education and training in universities towards the achievement of degrees and postgraduate certificates.
- keywords: academic; achievement; african; agricultural; basic; certificate; colleges; community; cosser; diploma; education; fet; grade; higher; hsrc; institutions; intermediate; learners; learning; level; model; national; need; new; nqf; nursing; pathways; phase; post; preferred; programme; progression; qualification; school; sector; skills; south; study; system; technical; technology; track; training; universities; university; vocational; year
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- pie-1686
- author: Kucukoglu, Adnan
- title: Opinions of pre-service teachers towards community service-learning experiences
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 5408
- flesch: 53
- summary: The CSL course aims to encourage pre-service teachers to become aware of current community issues, prepare projects to solve these problems, and participate as an audience member, speaker or organiser in scientific events, such as panels, conferences and symposiums (HEB, 2007). With this general objective, the current study attempts to answer the following questions: What are the opinions of pre-service teachers regarding the implementation process of the CSL course 1. in Turkey?
- keywords: 2004; academic; activities; addition; analysis; approach; awareness; benefits; billig; children; coding; community; course; csl; csl course; csl process; data; development; disabled; education; experiences; findings; furco; higher; interview; knowledge; learning; melchior; needs; opinions; parents; participants; pre; process; qualitative; questions; research; responsibility; school; service; service learning; service teachers; skills; social; special; students; studies; study; successful; support; table; teachers; training; turkey; university; use; working
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- pie-1687
- author: Wabike, Paul
- title: The Burden of Educational Exclusion: ‘Understanding and Challenging Early School Leaving in Africa’ by Jacques Zeelen, Dorothy Nampota, Josje van der Linden, Maximiano Nga-Birano (Eds)
- date: 2011-06-30
- words: 879
- flesch: 50
- summary: The book provides a fresh look at problems associated with early school leaving, and proposes reforms by means of first-person accounts of those who have lived through the experience. It is difficult to face the problems associated with early school leaving, particularly for communities who have few resources and who often live under difficult circumstances, both politically and socially.
- keywords: africa; book; burden; culture; early; education; exclusion; leaving; netherlands; policymakers; problems; school; university; zeelen
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- pie-1688
- author: Herman, Chaya
- title: Editorial introduction: Doctoral education in South Africa - research and policy
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 3046
- flesch: 44
- summary: Despite this long history, doctoral education in South Africa has been an unknown phenomenon, mostly conducted behind closed doors, as a private affair between the doctoral student and a supervisor. Since the transition to democracy in 1994, doctoral education has increased and diversified.
- keywords: africa; articles; attrition; bridges; capacity; cohort; country; critical; current; discourse; doctoral; doctoral education; doctorate; economy; education; factors; graduates; herman; international; issue; knowledge; lack; learning; model; mouton; new; number; phd; policy; policymakers; production; programme; quality; quantitative; research; significance; south; south africa; students; studies
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- pie-1689
- author: Jansen, Jonathan D.
- title: Editorial: What could second-generation research on the doctorate be like?
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 1957
- flesch: 46
- summary: This proposed direction for second-generation research has nothing to do with academic freedom or autonomy; academics should remain free to choose their own content and directions for student research in Masters and doctoral studies. There is a wealth of scholarship on the governance and organisation of higher education, the founding legislation and policies that govern post-school education after apartheid, the problems of equity, access and success in higher learning given the poverty of the school system, and the persistent legacies of racism and authoritarianism inside universities.
- keywords: academic; africa; course; curriculum; degrees; directions; doctoral; doctorate; education; fact; generation; higher; higher education; important; institutions; knowledge; model; new; phd; quality; research; second; sense; south; south africa; students; study; training; universities; value
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- pie-1690
- author: Nerad, Maresi
- title: What we know about the dramatic increase in PhD degrees in the reform of doctoral education worldwide: Implications for South Africa
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 6914
- flesch: 45
- summary: Higher education research and innovation: Changing dynamics. Reforms in doctoral education are being shaped by the changing needs of society, of research modes, and of a changed labor markets for PhD holders.
- keywords: academic; academy; africa; australia; brazil; business; centres; changes; china; class; countries; country; degrees; development; disciplinary; doctoral; doctoral education; doctoral students; doctorate; economic; economy; eds; education; employment; engineering; european; evans; excellence; expansion; forces; forms; foundation; funding; germany; global; government; growth; heggelund; higher; higher education; increase; india; industry; innovation; international; ireland; japan; knowledge; malaysia; master; mode; nations; nerad; new; nsf; number; perspectives; phd; phds; plan; policies; postgraduate; practices; press; production; programmes; quality; reform; research; researchers; review; schools; science; seattle; sectors; september; society; south; students; studies; training; union; universities; university; volume; washington; world; year
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- pie-1691
- author: Mouton, Johann
- title: Doctoral production in South Africa: Statistics, challenges and responses
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 5600
- flesch: 47
- summary: In a bold move – and quite unique in terms of international practice – acceptance of the new model would mean that the production of (research) master’s and doctoral students would be rewarded in a similar manner to other research outputs (such as papers in peer-reviewed journals). At postgraduate level, there are 5% of master’s students and 1% of doctoral students, with the remainder of students (8%) enrolled in lower postgraduate programmes (honours degrees and postgraduate diplomas).
- keywords: africa; annual; article; attrition; candidates; capacity; challenges; completion; country; current; degree; department; development; doctoral; doctoral production; doe; dst; education; enrolments; fact; faculty; figure; gardner; goals; graduates; growth; higher; higher education; human; increase; level; master; model; national; need; new; number; outputs; past; phd; policy; postgraduate; pretoria; production; programmes; quality; rates; reasons; recent; research; science; south; south africa; statistics; students; studies; study; supervision; supervisory; system; technology; time; training; trends; universities; years
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- pie-1692
- author: Backhouse, Judy
- title: Doctoral discourses in South Africa
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 5740
- flesch: 49
- summary: There are tensions between these discourses resulting from the assumptions they make about the purpose of doctoral education, and the ways in which they position doctoral people, as well as the resultant approaches to practice. Table 1 summarises key features of the three. table 1: Comparing doctoral discourses in South africa Scholarly Labour market Personal development Product or out- put of doctoral education New knowledge An independent, ra- tional scholar A highly-trained human resource Knowledge for the knowl- edge economy A critical intellectual New knowledge Assumptions Only a certain type of person is “research material” PhD people already have research skills Knowledge (of a certain kind) is valuable People have identifiable careers which need identifi- able skills The PhD comes near the beginning of a career Knowledge must be useful or profitable
- keywords: academic; africa; careers; concerns; development; different; discipline; discourse; doctoral; doctoral discourses; doctoral education; doctorate; doe; economy; education; established; focus; graduates; higher; human; independent; kind; knowledge; labour; level; market; national; need; new; number; paper; people; personal; perspectives; phd; postgraduate; practice; process; programmes; public; purpose; quality; research; resources; result; scholarly; science; skills; south; students; studies; study; supervision; supervisors; tensions; time; training; understandings; university; view; ways; work
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- pie-1693
- author: Herman, Chaya
- title: Obstacles to success – doctoral student attrition in South Africa
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 7937
- flesch: 48
- summary: 40 Obstacles to success – doctoral student attrition in South Africa CHaYa HerMaN University of Pretoria The article explores doctoral attrition in South Africa, investigating and comparing the attributions of attrition of doctoral students and PhD programme leaders. Keywords: Doctoral student attrition, attribution theory, doctoral education, South Africa Introduction One of the burning issues in higher education in South Africa is the rate of student attrition (Letseka & Maile, 2008).
- keywords: 2009b; academic; access; africa; analysis; article; attribute; attributions; attrition; career; causes; challenges; commitment; completion; data; department; disciplines; doctoral; doctoral attrition; doctoral students; drop; education; equipment; external; facilities; factors; faculty; family; fields; financial; funding; gardner; graduate; herman; higher; international; lack; leaders; level; lovitts; main; number; obstacles; p<001; personal; ph.d; phd; phd programme; poor; problems; programme; programme leaders; rate; reasons; research; sciences; significant; skills; south; south africa; student attrition; students; studies; study; success; supervision; supervisors; support; theory; time; understanding; universities; university; work; working
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- pie-1695
- author: Sehoole, Chika Trevor
- title: Student mobility and doctoral education in South Africa
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 6433
- flesch: 45
- summary: This article uses comparative education methods to compare the patterns of enrolment of doctoral education students in South Africa during 2005 and 2009. This substantial number of international doctoral students in South Africa provides the rationale for the focus of this article.
- keywords: africa; article; bhandari; blumenthal; capacity; countries; country; data; development; doctoral; doctoral education; doctoral students; economy; eds; education; education programmes; engineering; english; enrolments; factors; global; globalisation; government; graduates; herman; higher; higher education; inequalities; information; institutions; international; international students; knowledge; mobility; nerad; new; number; opportunities; patterns; phd; phenomenon; production; programmes; pull; push; quality; research; resources; role; sadc; south; south africa; state; student mobility; students; study; system; table; technology; total; training; universities; university; world
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- pie-1696
- author: Halai, Nelofer
- title: Evolution of doctoral education in Pakistan: Challenges and successes of doctoral students of education in a public sector university of Pakistan
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 8125
- flesch: 53
- summary: Challenges and successes of doctoral students of education in a public sector university of Pakistan NeLoFer HaLai aga khan University The research question that has guided this inquiry is: What are the experiences of doctoral students of education enrolled in a public sector university of Pakistan?
- keywords: academic; access; analysis; bank; commission; countries; coursework; data; degree; department; development; doctoral; doctoral education; doctoral programme; doctoral students; doe; education; effort; evolution; experience; faculty; february; findings; focus; gardner; graduate; halai; hec; higher; higher education; independent; induction; international; interview; issues; journal; khan; knowledge; large; learning; level; literature; management; master; members; model; mphil; national; need; new; opportunities; outside; pakistan; paper; phd; phd programme; place; plagiarism; pnu; policies; policy; private; process; professional; programme; public; quality; reform; research; researchers; resources; review; role; sector; students; studies; study; supervisor; support; survey; teachers; teaching; time; understanding; universities; university; world; years
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- pie-1697
- author: Samuel, Michael; Vithal, Renuka
- title: Emergent frameworks of research teaching and learning in a cohort-based doctoral programme
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 7710
- flesch: 44
- summary: History of and background to the cohort doctoral programme In the early 1990s the Faculty of Education at the University of Durban-Westville, much like other such Faculties at historically black and disadvantaged institutions, was predominantly undergraduate with honours programmes and barely a sprinkling of masters and doctoral students and hardly any research or publications to speak of. For example, a Danish-South African mathematics education doctoral programme (Vithal, 2010) provided a different model of international supervisor who travelled to South Africa periodically to support a group of doctoral students, while working alongside local South African supervisors successfully enabled all 6 students who participated in the programme to graduate.
- keywords: 2006; academic; academy; africa; apprenticeship; approach; article; average; che; cohort; cohort model; collaborative; community; critical; design; development; different; disciplinary; disciplines; doctoral; doctoral cohort; doctoral education; doctoral graduands; doctoral programme; doctoral research; doctoral students; doctoral study; education; emergent; faculty; frameworks; graduands; graduates; group; higher; higher education; influence; knowledge; learning; level; master; methodological; methodology; model; multiple; national; nature; new; pedagogy; perspectives; phases; phd; philosophy; possibilities; postgraduate; potential; present; press; process; production; productivity; programme; quality; report; research; research learning; research teaching; scaffolding; sciences; seminar; september; serendipity; skills; south; space; staff; students; studies; study; supervision; supervisors; support; system; teaching; thesis; time; traditional; ubuntu; university; vithal; work; world; year
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- pie-1698
- author: Govender, Krish; Dhunpath, Rubby
- title: Student experiences of the PhD cohort model: Working within or outside communities of practice?
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 7254
- flesch: 46
- summary: The cohort sessions, which supplement the support offered to students by one-to-one supervision, draw on the expertise of experienced and novice supervisors from within the Faculty who also act as cohort supervisors. The seminar sessions also allow for “real-time” appraisal of students’ work in progress by both peers and cohort supervisors.
- keywords: able; academic; addition; africa; challenges; cohort; cohort model; cohort programme; cohort seminar; cohort sessions; cohort supervisors; collaboration; collegiality; communities; completion; critical; data; degree; development; different; doctoral; education; experiences; faculty; focus; following; group; guidance; issue; learning; model; new; paper; participants; particular; peers; perspectives; phase; phd; phd cohort; position; practice; principal; programme; proposal; research; seminar; seminar sessions; sessions; south; student experiences; students; studies; study; supervision; supervisors; support; tensions; time; ukzn; university; vithal; wenger; work; year
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- pie-1699
- author: Hattingh, Annemarie; Lillejord, Sølvi
- title: A networked pathway to the PhD: The African-Norwegian case of Productive Learning Cultures
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 5915
- flesch: 46
- summary: 100 A networked pathway to the PhD: The African-Norwegian case of Productive Learning Cultures aNNeMarie HattiNGH University of Cape town SØLVi LiLLeJorD University of oslo How do PhD students become socialised into the professional world of academic work? The purpose of this article is to describe how researchers within PLC have over the years developed a support structure for PhD students.
- keywords: academic; activities; africa; annual; article; assaf; challenges; collaboration; communities; community; cooperation; coordinators; countries; cultures; design; development; doctoral; education; family; female; focus; funding; higher; indigenous; institutions; international; journal; knowledge; learning; level; lillejord; local; model; networked; new; north; nufu; outcomes; partners; pathway; perspectives; phase; phd; phd students; plc; postgraduate; practice; pretoria; process; productive; programme; progress; project; quality; research; saharan; scholarly; school; science; second; south; students; studies; study; sub; supervision; supervisors; support; sustainability; systems; team; time; universities; university; workshops; writing
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- author: Robinson, Maureen
- title: Learning to teach in South Africa
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 1222
- flesch: 48
- summary: “W e need to retrieve a sense of the centrality of teaching” (p. 2) • “T he task of professional teachers is, centrally, to organize systematic learning that kind of learning which leads to epistemological access” (p. 3) • “… without a shared moral discourse it is not possible to have a significant discussion on the aims of education” (p. 142). During this period W ally M orrow wrote 11 essays, all from the viewpoint of the truly engaged intellectual (with one essay being written later in 2005).
- keywords: africa; book; discussion; education; essays; learners; learning; orrow; period; politics; practical; professional; south; systematic; teachers; teaching; volume; work
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- pie-1702
- author: Grossman, Elly S.; Cleaton-Jones, Peter E.
- title: Pipelines or pipe dreams? PhD production and other matters in a South African dental research institute 1954-2006
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 5949
- flesch: 52
- summary: PhD research degrees: Entry and completion. Mean =2.8 Range 0-18 Median = 0 Mode = 0 n=10/30 (33%) Research for thesis published 27/35 (77%) 10/30 (33%) Number of publications arising from thesis Mean =2.5 Range 0-10 Median = 1 Mode = 1 Mean =0.6 Range 0-4 Median = 0 Mode = 0 Prior and/or thesis publication 32/35 (91%) 17/30 (57%) Figure 1: Postgraduate research activity at the DRI over time.
- keywords: academic; activity; africa; assaf; betterment; candidates; cleaton; clinical; cohort; completion; course; data; degree; dental; department; doctoral; doh; dri; dropouts; education; environment; figure; future; grossman; health; higher; iadr; individuals; institute; jones; journal; level; masters; mdent; mean; median; medical; mode; msc; mscs; number; personal; phd; phds; pipeline; postgraduates; practitioner; presentation; prior; private; publication; qualification; range; rate; research; results; sciences; skills; south; specialist; students; study; table; teaching; thesis; time; training; university; wits; year
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- pie-1703
- author: Wolhuter, Charl
- title: Research on doctoral education in South Africa against the silhouette of its meteoric rise in international higher education research
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 7250
- flesch: 42
- summary: The rise of Mode II knowledge has also affected doctoral education programmes, in a shift of dissertation research from basic (“blue sky”) research mission-oriented or developmental-research – i.e. research aimed at surmounting an obstacle or effecting development in industry, business or public service (Probst & Lepori, 2008; Hirasawa, 2010:21); and the rise of interdisciplinary research within doctoral education (Gnares, 2010). 126 Research on doctoral education in South Africa against the silhouette of its meteoric rise in international higher education research CHarL WoLHUter North-West University
- keywords: academic; access; administration; africa; article; assaf; assessment; content; contextual; corpus; degree; development; doctoral; doctoral education; doctoral students; doctorate; economic; eds; education; education research; empirical; european; example; experience; foundation; funding; global; graduates; herman; higher; higher education; hiroshima; increase; industry; international; issues; journal; kehm; knowledge; learning; lee; level; literature; management; martinez; method; model; need; nerad; new; number; objectives; order; outcomes; paradigms; perspectives; phd; pillay; postgraduate; practice; process; production; professional; programmes; publications; quality; rates; reform; report; research; return; role; scholarly; science; september; skills; social; society; south; south africa; students; studies; study; supervision; supervisors; survey; system; theory; topic; universities; university; usa; volume; worldwide
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- pie-1704
- author: Jansen, Jonathan D.
- title: The quality of doctoral education in South Africa: A question of significance
- date: 2011-08-31
- words: 5486
- flesch: 47
- summary: At the heart of this concern was the significance of doctoral research and not simply more PhDs. This article seeks to advance thinking about how significance in doctoral research can be attained against the background of this national study, and its concerns, about quality PhDs.
- keywords: academic; achievement; africa; argument; article; broader; capacity; claim; class; course; culture; data; doctoral; education; effects; example; field; findings; good; grade; impact; important; kind; knowledge; limitations; literature; low; major; need; new; particular; performance; phds; practical; practice; problem; quality; question; requirement; research; retention; scholar; scholarly; school; second; significance; size; social; south; specific; stand; state; students; studies; study; subject; time; topic; work; writing; years; young
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- pie-1709
- author: Niemann, Rita
- title: Editorial
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 795
- flesch: 39
- summary: Prinsloo examines the divergences between educational language policy calls and the realities of language and learning in South African schools. Teacher agency needs constant interrogation, because of the potential influence teachers have on the lives of thousands of children who constitute the future of a country.
- keywords: african; agency; articles; education; focus; governance; issue; language; learning; participation; reading; schools; skills; south; teachers; year
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- pie-1711
- author: Prinsloo, Mastin
- title: The odd couple: Diverging paths in language policy and educational practices
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 5678
- flesch: 52
- summary: Keywords: Language policy, ethnography, multilingualism, bilingualism, literacy. In its 3PRINSLOO — The odd couple: Diverging paths in language policy and educational practices opening chapter, under the heading ‘Founding Provisions’ the Constitution first names the eleven “official languages of the Republic”2 (RSA 1996:clause 6.1).
- keywords: access; additive; african; apartheid; approach; bilingualism; blommaert; class; classroom; constitution; contexts; couple; development; different; direction; education; education policy; endangerment; english; example; heller; home; january; kinds; language; language policy; learning; linguistic; literacy; local; medium; ministry; mobility; money; mother; multilingualism; non; odd; official; paper; paths; people; perspective; policies; policy; practices; research; resources; rights; scales; schooling; schools; separate; set; social; south; speakers; statement; status; students; teacher; teaching; tongue; township; turtle; use; users; varieties; view; way
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- pie-1713
- author: van Staden, Annalene
- title: Put reading first: Positive effects of direct instruction and scaffolding for ESL learners struggling with reading
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 7623
- flesch: 45
- summary: As this pilot study focuses on intermediate phase ESL learners, the interrelatedness of prior knowledge, vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension, as well as specific reading comprehension strategies that might be useful for ESL learners will be discussed next. For example, the majority of learners in Grade 4 have barely mastered reading comprehension skills in L1, but are still expected to be proficient in L2 reading comprehension (Pretorius, 2002).
- keywords: 2011; ability; academic; acquisition; activities; african; application; awareness; background; barriers; chiappe; children; cognitive; comprehension; control; department; development; direct; early; education; educators; effective; english; esl; esl learners; evidence; example; exercises; experiences; experimental; explicit; findings; geva; grade; group; identification; important; instruction; interactive; intervention; journal; knowledge; language; learners; learning; levels; linguistic; lipka; literacy; majority; memory; nel; phonological; post; present; prior; problems; proficiency; readers; reading; reading comprehension; reading skills; related; research; results; scaffolding; schools; scores; second; siegel; sight; significant; skills; south; specific; spelling; staden; strategies; students; studies; study; support; syntactic; teaching; techniques; test; verhoeven; vocabulary; word
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- pie-1714
- author: Mgqwashu, Emmanuel Mfanafuthi
- title: Reflexive pedagogy for reading across the curriculum: The University of KwaZulu-Natal Faculty of Education experience
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 6685
- flesch: 47
- summary: The most appropriate, possible to measure and credible standards for the purposes of this article are: Testimony from students in the form of verbal responses to interview questions and their written • work; Students’ informed, precise and critical response to prescribed academic readings and lecturers’ • comments on their written work and; Students’ improved attitudes towards reading in general, and reading complex academic texts in • particular. The potential benefits of reflexive pedagogy to students in terms of learning to read and write academically, and whether or not it can ensure access to knowledge to close the ability gap amongst first year students, are the main thrusts of the qualitative evaluation discussed in this article.
- keywords: 29(4; ability; academic; access; africa; ale; approach; argument; article; assessment; context; curriculum; december; development; education; english; epistemological; evaluation; explicit; fact; genre; grammatical; higher; india; knowledge; language; learning; literacy; majority; markets; means; mgqwashu; module; multinationals; natal; new; pedagogic; pedagogy; perspectives; phase; philosophy; point; practice; process; purpose; qualitative; questions; reading; reflexive; reflexive pedagogy; research; role; rose; school; south; stage; students; teaching; terms; text; university; use; volume; ways; words; work; writing; year
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- author: Mbokodi, Sindiswa Madgie; Singh, Prakash
- title: Parental partnerships in the governance of schools in the Black townships of Port Elizabeth
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 5597
- flesch: 56
- summary: Black schools are those schools that were historically serviced by the former Department of Education and Training (DET) as opposed to former Model A, B and C schools. 40 Perspectives in Education, Volume 29(4), December 2011 Figure 1: Parental partnerships in school governance
- keywords: 29(4; activities; africa; aim; article; attendance; black; black parents; chairpersons; children; communication; data; doe; education; effective; elizabeth; fees; financial; findings; functional; governance; home; illiteracy; interviews; involvement; learners; learning; management; meetings; members; method; need; non; parental; parental involvement; parental partnerships; parents; parties; partnerships; perspectives; poor; principals; qualitative; relationship; research; role; sasa; school governance; schools; section; sgbs; singh; south; study; support; teachers; teaching; townships; training; volume; work
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- author: Morojele, Pholoho; Muthukrishna, Nithi
- title: Child participation in school governance: The case of prefects at a primary school in Lesotho
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 5128
- flesch: 55
- summary: They would need to understand that child participation often involves challenging children’s traditional ideologies about children and childhood, and examining the relationships of power between adults and children. 55MOROJELE & MUTHUKRISHNA — Child participation in school governance Many scholars have drawn attention to a greater need for micro-level, situated understandings of participation initiatives structures and spaces (Hinton, 2008; Bray & Moses, 2011; Sonn, Santens & Ravau, 2011). 49 Child participation in school governance: The case of prefects at a primary school in Lesotho Pholoho MoRoJElE University of KwaZulu-Natal Nithi MUthUKRiShNA University of KwaZulu-Natal This paper draws on literature that has theorised child participation within the sociology of childhood framework to examine how children participate in governance within school spaces.
- keywords: active; adults; agency; authentic; child participation; childhood; children; context; convention; data; decision; education; focus; governance; hinton; individual; initiatives; international; journal; key; learners; lesotho; literature; lives; making; management; need; organisations; participants; participation; participatory; people; perspectives; power; prefects; primary; principal; processes; protection; research; rights; school; skills; social; society; structures; study; teachers; uncrc; unicef; university; views; voice; work; young
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- pie-1717
- author: Ebrahim, H. B.; Verbeek, D. C.; Mashiya, J. N.
- title: Enabling roles to reclaim teacher agency: Insights from the Advanced Certificate in Teaching (Foundation Phase)
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 4564
- flesch: 51
- summary: Conceptual framework In examining the concept of teacher identity we found explanations of identity to be fixed and unitary; therefore, unhelpful for our purpose. Miller (1992) argues that a critical examination of educational roles of teachers through a critical lens foregrounds how teacher identities are influenced by the social, historical and political forces which shape their personal assumptions about teaching.
- keywords: action; agency; agents; assessment; beliefs; children; context; critical; curriculum; development; early; eds; education; experience; foundation; foundation phase; framework; identities; identity; instruction; journal; knowledge; learning; lessons; literacy; mezirow; module; need; new; opportunities; order; people; personal; perspectives; phase; plans; practice; present; press; professional; reading; reflection; roles; scripted; self; south; standards; statement; students; studies; study; teacher; teaching; theory; thinking; tool; transformative; university; use; view; ways; work
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- pie-1718
- author: de Wet, Corene
- title: The professional lives of teacher victims of workplace bullying: A narrative analysis
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 8142
- flesch: 57
- summary: An important finding of 67DE WET — The professional lives of teacher victims of workplace bullying Tracy, Lutgen-Sandvik and Alberts’ (2006:177) grounded metaphor analysis on workplace bullying is that victims struggle to translate their experiences into words. Since then, 71DE WET — The professional lives of teacher victims of workplace bullying he has done everything in his power to humiliate her, to bring her into discredit with the parents and colleagues and to break her spirit.
- keywords: 2010a; abuse; africa; analysis; article; beale; behaviour; bullying; charles; colleagues; context; conversations; data; dispensation; dreams; education; einarsen; example; experiences; fact; findings; foster; hall; head; health; hoel; interviews; journal; learners; learning; leave; life; lives; lutgen; management; margaret; narrative; narrative analysis; national; new; participants; people; perspectives; phase; pietersen; post; principal; professional; provincial; qualitative; quine; reasons; relations; research; researchers; respect; salin; samuel; sandvik; school; secondary; self; south; stories; story; study; subject; teachers; teaching; time; tracy; van; victimisation; victims; violence; way; wet; workers; workplace; workplace bullying; wyk; years
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- pie-1720
- author: Mokhele, Matseliso Lineo
- title: Integrated environmental teaching in South Africa: An impossible dream?
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 5687
- flesch: 44
- summary: Discussion of the key findings In my discussion of the findings from the two case studies, I need to pause to examine the similarities and differences in the implementation patterns of environmental education policy at the two case study schools. One implication of this new focus on environmental education was that all the children at basic education level were to be introduced to environmental education concepts and content.
- keywords: africa; approach; areas; case; colleagues; content; curriculum; different; discussion; documents; education; education policy; environmental; environmental education; environmental learning; focus; framework; guidance; hillside; implementation; integrated; learners; learning; level; mafolofolo; mpumalanga; mrs; national; new; opportunities; opportunity; otl; point; policies; policy; primary; province; provincial; research; school; sea; south; specific; statement; studies; study; subject; teachers; teaching; tieho; time; topics
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- pie-1721
- author: Amory, Alan; Molomo, Bolepo; Blignaut, Seugnet
- title: The Game Object Model and expansive learning: Creation, instantiation, expansion, and re-representation
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 3876
- flesch: 44
- summary: A research project was therefore initiated to (1) identify types of computer games that, according to students, might be useful in teaching and learning; (2) evaluate student opinions related to computer games; (3) develop a game based on student opinions; and (4) assess the impact of computer video games on teaching and learning. Thereafter the open- ended reflections of participants who attended a workshop to re-represent the GOM as an instrument to evaluate computer games for the classroom were analyzed using both interpretive and deductive qualitative approaches.
- keywords: activity; amory; analyses; computer; contradictions; cycle; data; design; development; educational; empiricist; engeström; evaluation; expansive; expansive learning; games; gom; individual; instrument; journal; learning; linear; model; narrative; new; non; number; object; paper; participants; production; related; representation; research; social; system; teaching; theoretical; theory; tool; transformation; understanding; use; version; video; views; workshop; world
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- pie-1722
- author: Naicker, Suraiya R.; Mestry, Raj
- title: Distributive leadership in public schools: Experiences and perceptions of teachers in the Soweto region
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 5299
- flesch: 50
- summary: The education leadership literature is dominated with research that is focused on the principal, entrenching the assumption that leadership is synonymous with the principal (Hargreaves & Fink, 2006:96), and overlooking other sources of school leadership. The essentials of school leadership.
- keywords: activity; african; analysis; climate; collaborative; collective; culture; data; day; decision; development; distributed; distributive; distributive leadership; eds; education; factor; findings; grant; gronn; hargreaves; harris; hierarchical; hierarchy; hopkins; improvement; journal; leadership; learning; making; management; mestry; movement; need; participants; participative; perspectives; phase; practice; principals; professional; public; qualitative; relationships; research; respondent; role; school; south; soweto; spillane; structures; study; styles; teachers; theory; traditional; van; view; work
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- pie-1723
- author: Nkomo, Mokubung
- title: Barbarism in Higher Education: Once Upon a Time in a University by Nhlanhla Maake
- date: 2011-12-16
- words: 1582
- flesch: 49
- summary: Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press Murray BK 1997. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.
- keywords: academic; accounts; africa; apartheid; barbarism; black; discrimination; education; higher; institutions; johannesburg; knowledge; maake; memoir; narrative; nhlanhla; past; press; pretoria; report; social; society; south; time; transformation; uct; universities; university; wits; witwatersrand
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- pie-1725
- author: Balfour, Robert J.; de Lange, Naydene; Khau, 'Mathabo
- title: Rural education and rural realities: The politics and possibilities of rural research in Southern Africa
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 3160
- flesch: 42
- summary: This special issue, Rural education and rural realities: The politics and possibilities of rural research in Southern Africa, originates from an International Symposium, Every voice counts: Critical partnerships for teacher education and rural communities, held in Durban, at the Killie Campbell Collections, on 26-27 February 2009. The symposium was envisaged around the work done in the NRF-funded Every vii voice counts: Teacher development in rural communities in the age of AIDS,1 a research niche area in the University of KwaZulu-Natal Faculty of Education, bringing together both national and international academics to share their work and to debate issues on rural education in the context of HIV and AIDS.
- keywords: africa; agricultural; areas; article; balfour; black; carnegie; challenges; children; classrooms; collection; colonial; communities; community; context; critical; development; education; experiences; focus; history; human; identity; issue; life; livelihoods; mitchell; new; particular; partnerships; place; relation; report; research; rural; rural education; rurality; schools; social; south; south africa; special; sustainable; teacher; teaching; university; urban; voices; white
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- pie-1726
- author: Moletsane, Relebohile
- title: Repositioning educational research on rurality and rural education in South Africa: Beyond deficit paradigms
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 4989
- flesch: 50
- summary: Beyond deficit paradigms RELEBOHILE MOLETSANE University KwaZulu-Natal Almost two decades after the demise of apartheid, rural communities in South Africa are still plagued by seemingly insurmountable challenges, with no change in sight for those who need it most. Thus, the paper aims to critically reflect on the nature of rurality and to map the issues that face rural communities as well as the limitations of dominant research paradigms and their impact on social change (or lack thereof).
- keywords: affected; africa; aids; assets; balfour; challenges; change; children; communities; community; contexts; deficit; development; education; example; face; human; impact; international; interventions; issues; journal; knowledge; kwazulu; learners; lives; marginalised; mitchell; moletsane; natal; need; new; paper; paradigms; participants; participatory; particular; people; perspectives; place; poor; poverty; research; resilience; resources; rural; rurality; scholars; scholarship; schools; social; social change; south; strength; stuart; studies; study; teachers; theory; visual; voices; women; work
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- pie-1727
- author: Balfour, Robert J.
- title: Rurality research and rural education: Exploratory and explanatory power
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 4614
- flesch: 47
- summary: In order to focus on rural education through a combination of research and intervention strategies , one objective of RTEP was to develop a cohort model for partnerships between higher education institutions and rural schools that would equip student teachers, teacher mentors and managers to act as agents for development and social change in relation to issues affecting rural communities. I argue for the application of a social theory in which the rural is linked to the possibilities of identity and interaction in terms of the quality of teacher education and the quality of education in rural communities.
- keywords: africa; analysis; article; balfour; change; cloke; cohort; communities; community; context; data; development; drawing; education; education research; figure; focus; generative; group; identity; islam; learners; mitchell; moletsane; need; new; place; professional; project; questions; relation; research; resources; role; rtep; rural; rural education; rurality; school; south; space; student; studies; teachers; terms; theory; time; university; year
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- pie-1729
- author: Islam, Faisal
- title: Understanding pre-service teacher education discourses in Communities of Practice: A reflection from an intervention in rural South Africa
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 5912
- flesch: 52
- summary: The paper concludes that the concept of CoP is powerful in providing spaces for self- reflection to pre-service teachers and challenging the dominant urban-based teacher education discourses in relation to rural schools. Keywords: communities of practice, pre-service teachers, teacher preparation, self-reflection, rural communities.
- keywords: africa; aids; apartheid; areas; balfour; broader; change; cohorts; communities; context; cop; development; different; discourses; education; environment; example; existing; experience; focus; group; individual; influence; interview; islam; issues; lack; language; learners; learning; local; members; mitchell; new; participation; perspectives; practice; pre; preparation; press; professional; project; relation; research; role; rtep; rural; rural areas; rural schools; schools; self; service; service teachers; social; south; students; teacher education; teachers; teaching; understanding; university
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- pie-1730
- author: Ebersöhn, Liesel; Ferreira, Ronél
- title: Rurality and resilience in education: place-based partnerships and agency to moderate time and space constraints
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 5704
- flesch: 54
- summary: 30 Rurality and resilience in education: place-based partnerships and agency to moderate time and space constraints LIESEL EBERSÖHN University of Pretoria RONÉL FERREIRA University of Pretoria In an ongoing longitudinal intervention study (STAR)1 we found that, although similarities existed in the way teachers promoted resilience, rural schools (in comparison to other STAR case schools) took longer to implement strategies to buoy support and found it difficult to sustain such support. From literature we know that teachers in rural schools are often scripted as under- and unqualified (Human Sciences Research Council – Education Policy Consortium, 2005).
- keywords: access; african; agency; aids; available; balfour; barriers; case; challenges; children; cloke; communities; community; data; dissertation; ebersöhn; education; families; female; ferreira; following; food; garden; handbook; health; high; hiv; howley; information; intervention; journal; learners; limited; london; med; members; needs; partnerships; perspectives; photograph; place; poverty; pretoria; primary; prioritised; relationships; research; resilience; resources; rural; rural education; rural schools; rurality; sage; school; secondary; services; social; south; space; star; strategies; studies; support; teachers; time; university; unpublished; urban; use; van; vegetable; work
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- pie-1732
- author: Pillay, Daisy; Saloojee, Sheeren
- title: Revisiting rurality and schooling: A teacher’s story
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 6486
- flesch: 58
- summary: Taking stock: Teacher education in dangerous times. The data focused on his daily lived experiences and the social realities of working in the context of rural education to offer an expanded social and collective approach to teacher identity.
- keywords: africa; albino; balfour; butler; care; challenges; change; children; commitment; communities; community; context; daily; different; discourses; district; education; epc; experiences; foucault; hilton; history; hope; hsrc; identity; individual; knowledge; lange; lawler; learners; life; lives; meanings; mitchell; moletsane; new; nieto; parents; participatory; particular; people; perspectives; pillay; position; power; practices; press; project; relations; research; rural; rural community; rurality; school; schooling; self; sense; settings; social; south; story; teacher; teaching; understanding; volume; ways; work; world; york; young
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- pie-1733
- author: D'Amant, Antoinette
- title: Within and between the old and the new: Teachers becoming inclusive practitioners
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 5044
- flesch: 50
- summary: Changing patterns of teacher education in South Africa. In Lewin K, Samuel M & Sayed Y (eds), Changing patterns of teacher education in South Africa: Policy, practice and prospects.
- keywords: african; african teachers; attitudes; capacity; challenges; change; community; conceptual; contexts; contradictions; development; education; engelbrecht; evidence; exclusion; experiences; findings; framework; identities; identity; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; individual; journal; justice; learners; mclaren; need; new; old; paper; participants; policy; practices; practitioners; process; research; rural; rural contexts; schools; sense; social; south; study; system; teachers; tensions; time; traditional; transformation; understanding; values; way; white
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- pie-1734
- author: Khau, 'Mathabo
- title: “Our culture does not allow that”: Exploring the challenges of sexuality education in rural communities
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 5179
- flesch: 54
- summary: 61 “Our culture does not allow that”: Exploring the challenges of sexuality education in rural communities ′MATHABO KHAU Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Within sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS is becoming a greater threat to rural communities due to the high numbers of urban dwellers and migrant labourers who return to their rural villages when they fall ill and due to the lack of information and health services. Thus, in terms of sexuality education, rural communities would want a sexuality education that recognises and appreciates rural histories and cultures.
- keywords: africa; aids; areas; bad; basotho; challenges; children; classrooms; communities; community; countries; cultural; culture; curriculum; data; discussions; education; experiences; formal; girls; groups; high; hiv; human; important; information; initiates; initiation; innocence; issues; labia; lesotho; morija; need; new; order; paper; parents; past; people; pleasure; practices; research; rural; rural communities; rurality; schooling; schools; sexuality; sexuality education; social; students; study; teachers; teaching; themes; traditional; unaids; university; urban; villages; women; young; youth
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- pie-1735
- author: Mentz, Elsa; Bailey, Roxanne; Havenga, Marietjie; Breed, Betty; Govender, Desmond; Govender, Irene; Dignum, Frank; Dignum, Virginia
- title: The diverse educational needs and challenges of Information Technology teachers in two black rural schools
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 5411
- flesch: 61
- summary: The provincial Departments of Education should also take into consideration that standard communication channels between rural schools and the department is not a given; thus, additional measures should be taken to ensure that rural school receive all notices and information. Rural schools and educational technology: A case study of rural schools in the Molopo district, Mafikeng.
- keywords: access; africa; areas; basic; black; case; challenges; class; computer; curriculum; data; department; development; education; equipment; experience; grade; home; information; internet; interviews; john; knowledge; learners; learning; march; necessary; needs; north; order; problem; programming; regard; research; resources; results; rural; rural schools; schools; science; skills; software; south; specific; study; subject; supply; support; teachers; teaching; technology; time; tom; university; urban; west; working
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- pie-1740
- author: de Lange, Naydene; Olivier, Tilla; Geldenhuys, Johanna; Mitchell, Claudia
- title: Rural school children picturing family life
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 5695
- flesch: 61
- summary: Rural school children picturing family life with meals as part of a school feeding scheme. These experiences include 83DE LANGE et al. — Rural school children picturing family life playing outside in the river or dam, on the gravel road running past their homes, or in the orchard near their homes.
- keywords: activities; africa; alcohol; approach; areas; cape; childhood; children; coloured; context; data; development; diaries; diary; doe; drawings; education; environment; everyday; experiences; families; family; family life; farm; farm school; figure; fruit; haldar; homes; human; income; international; journal; lange; learners; learning; life; lives; living; mandela; methodology; multigrade; nelson; parents; participants; play; playing; population; project; research; rights; rural; rural education; rural school; school; school children; schooling; shop; small; social; soft; south; south africa; study; teachers; teaching; teddy; terms; town; toy; university; visual; water; western; work
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- author: Morojele, Pholoho; Muthukrishna, Nithi
- title: The journey to school: Space, geography and experiences of rural children
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 5498
- flesch: 64
- summary: Rural people’s scarce resources are consumed in caring for the sick, covering funeral expenses and supporting orphans, with, as illustrated in this study, devastating consequences for school children (International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2009). Figure 3 Contestations among the children over the navigation of safe and risky spaces were marked by both terror and pleasure for school children.
- keywords: agency; aids; areas; background; boys; childhood; children; christensen; circumcision; community; context; cultural; data; diamond; different; drawing; dynamics; education; everyday; experiences; family; figure; findings; focus; forest; geographies; girls; group; hiv; home; human; identities; individual; initiates; interviews; journey; lesotho; life; lives; long; muthi; muthukrishna; participants; perspectives; places; poverty; power; relationships; research; rural; rural children; school; school journey; situated; social; spaces; spatial; studies; study; ways; world
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- pie-1743
- author: Mahlomaholo, Sechaba M. G.
- title: Early school leavers and sustainable learning environments in rural contexts
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 6351
- flesch: 61
- summary: To date, rural learners have been deliberately and/or inadvertently excluded and marginalised; thus, to remedy the situation I propose the creation of sustainable learning environments in rural schools as well. The above conclusion indicates that there is nothing intrinsically inferior or backward about rural learners and their settings.
- keywords: africa; analysis; attrition; capital; classroom; community; creation; critical; cultural; curriculum; data; department; development; dieltiens; different; discussions; district; early; education; educators; environments; esls; example; focus; government; grade; high; home; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; learning environments; leavers; levels; mahlomaholo; march; matlho; minnaar; motala; north; paper; perspectives; point; policy; power; practices; problem; province; reasons; regard; research; resources; role; rural; rural education; rural esls; rural learners; rurality; school; schooling; settings; social; south; studies; study; support; sustainable; sustainable learning; teachers; teaching; time; university; urban; volume; wealth; west; work; yosso
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- pie-1744
- author: Hlalele, Dipane
- title: Social justice and rural education in South Africa
- date: 2012-03-30
- words: 4989
- flesch: 47
- summary: Therefore, delivery of rural education should be shaped around and be responsive to rural social justice issues pertinent to the unique and diverse rural context (Alston, 2007). 111 social justice and rural education in south Africa DIPANE HLALELE University of Free State Social justice is undeniably grounded in efforts at circumventing provisions that seek to uphold ostracism and exclusionary practices which have permeated South Africa and many other societies worldwide for extensive periods of time.
- keywords: access; africa; approach; areas; attributes; benefits; calderwood; challenge; children; communities; community; concerns; conditions; context; critical; development; difference; discourse; distribution; diverse; diversity; doe; economic; education; efforts; enrolment; equity; framework; fraser; higher; human; injustice; international; issue; journal; justice; lack; learners; learning; living; low; malhoit; need; opportunities; people; perspective; places; policies; policy; poor; population; poverty; problems; provision; public; quality; rates; research; resources; rights; rural; rural areas; rural education; schools; services; social; social justice; society; south; special; states; teachers; theory; unique; urban
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- pie-1753
- author: Nkoane, Molebatsi Milton
- title: Editorial
- date: 2012-06-29
- words: 766
- flesch: 33
- summary: In their article, “From clinic to classroom: A model of teacher education for inclusion”, Elizabeth Walton and Gillian Lloyd address the challenges associated with the implementation of inclusive education in South Africa. The final contributions to this volume have Higher Education as a focus.
- keywords: africa; areas; article; contributions; curriculum; discussions; education; inclusive; learning; rural; scientific; south; students; teachers; university; volume
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- author: Jita, Loyiso C.; Mokhele, Matseliso L.
- title: Institutionalising teacher clusters in South Africa: Dilemmas and contradictions
- date: 2012-06-29
- words: 7320
- flesch: 46
- summary: Teacher clusters are one such recent experiment designed to bring teacher professional development closer to the classroom. 1 Institutionalising teacher clusters in South Africa: Dilemmas and contradictions LOYISO C. JITA University of the Free State MATSELISO L. MOKHELE University of South Africa Increasingly, teacher clusters are being used as a substitute for the more traditional approaches to the professional development of teachers.
- keywords: administrative; africa; agenda; alternative; alternative clusters; article; central; change; circuit; classroom; cluster leaders; clustering; clusters; collaboration; collegiality; consequences; content; contrived; curriculum; data; department; development; education; fact; focus; hargreaves; implementation; important; institutionalisation; issues; knowledge; leaders; learning; mathematics; meetings; mpumalanga; networks; new; office; official; perspectives; processes; professional; professional development; project; province; research; role; schools; science; set; sharing; south; south africa; structural; study; subject; support; teacher; teacher clusters; teacher development; teacher professional; teaching; time; view; work
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- author: Diaz-Puente, José M.; Moreno, Francisco José Gallego; Zamorano, Ramón
- title: Training as a tool for community development: 25 years of experience in sparsely populated rural areas in Cuenca, Spain
- date: 2012-06-29
- words: 5402
- flesch: 47
- summary: This results in training activity that does not facilitate finding a job in the area. This leads to a lack of coordination between training activities and other tools for supporting the development process.
- keywords: active; activities; activity; adaptation; areas; association; characteristics; communication; community; community development; content; creation; cuenca; day; desarrollo; development; economic; educación; education; endogenous; environment; european; flexibility; group; human; idc; idc cuenca; implementation; important; information; institute; lack; local; methodology; national; needs; new; objectives; order; participants; participation; people; personal; perspectives; phase; populated; population; problems; process; processes; production; programmes; project; promotion; province; puente; quality; regard; resources; result; rural; rural areas; rural development; services; social; spain; spanish; support; technical; tena; tool; training; training activity; work; years
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- author: Mudaly, Vimolan
- title: Diagrams in mathematics: To draw or not to draw?
- date: 2012-06-29
- words: 4133
- flesch: 52
- summary: The researcher was, in fact, attempting to show that by drawing diagrams students attain some level of understanding of the problem itself. Only 14% of those students from Group A (who received pre-drawn diagrams) answered the question correctly (that is, that it was not possible to cut out triangles).
- keywords: construction; correct; cox; diagrams; different; drawing; education; experience; experiential; explanatory; figure; group; information; inherent; knowledge; kolb; learners; learning; mathematics; meaning; mental; new; perspectives; prior; problem; process; question; questionnaires; representations; research; results; self; solution; solving; students; symbols; teaching; theory; transformation; understanding; use; visual; word
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- pie-1757
- author: du Toit, Erna
- title: Constructive feedback as a learning tool to enhance students’ self-regulation and performance in higher education
- date: 2012-06-29
- words: 5239
- flesch: 50
- summary: 35DU TOIT — Constructive feedback as a learning tool to enhance students’ self-regulation Based on the premise that feedback has as its purpose the engagement of the student in both a formal and an informal way, Yorke (2003) states that feedback is under-conceptualised and that the “disciplinary epistemology theories of intellectual and moral development, stages of development and the psychology of giving and receiving feedback” should be taken into account. By constructive feedback we have realised that we will have to understand not only the “technical structure of feedback such as accuracy, comprehensiveness and appropriateness, but also the accessibility to the student’s thinking processes” (Sadler, 1983).
- keywords: academic; aspects; assessment; black; constructive; dick; education; feedback; gap; goals; hattie; higher; improved; information; items; learning; level; mcdowell; mcfarlane; mistakes; negative; nicol; opportunities; opportunity; performance; positive; practice; process; processes; quality; regulation; research; self; skills; strategies; students; support; table; task; teaching; timperley; tool; understanding; way; william; work
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- author: Frith, Vera
- title: A quantitative literacy course for Humanities and Law students: The challenges of a context-based curriculum
- date: 2012-06-29
- words: 5053
- flesch: 42
- summary: Keywords: Quantitative literacy, numeracy, quantitative literacy course, curriculum, higher education, humanities, law, disciplinary discourse, quantitative literacy practice, mathematical content Introduction The importance of quantitative literacy (also known as numeracy) for higher education is recognised internationally (Chapman, 1998; Yasukawa, 2007; Steen, 2004). I adopt the following definition of quantitative literacy: Quantitative literacy is the ability to manage situations or solve problems in practice, and involves responding to quantitative (mathematical and statistical) information that may be presented verbally, graphically, in tabular or symbolic form; it requires the activation of a range of enabling knowledge, behaviours and processes and it can be observed when it is expressed in the form of a communication, in written, oral or visual mode (Frith & Prince, 2006:30).
- keywords: academic; adult; african; concepts; context; course; curriculum; demands; development; different; disciplinary; disciplines; discourse; eds; education; example; experience; frith; higher; humanities; information; journal; kind; knowledge; language; law; learning; literacies; literacy; literacy course; mathematical; new; numeracy; percentage; practice; prince; quantitative; quantitative literacy; research; social; south; specific; statistical; students; studies; summary; teaching; technology; understanding; university; year
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- pie-1759
- author: Ramnarain, Umesh
- title: Exploring the use of a cartoon as a learner scaffold in the planning of scientific investigations
- date: 2012-06-29
- words: 6029
- flesch: 58
- summary: 50 Exploring the use of a cartoon as a learner scaffold in the planning of scientific investigations UMESH RAMNARAIN University of Johannesburg Despite curriculum imperatives, in South Africa and worldwide, for learners to have more autonomy in investigations, they remain largely teacher controlled with learners having only limited opportunities in planning. This design-based study explored how a cartoon can be employed in a Grade 9 Natural Sciences class in prompting learners to plan investigations.
- keywords: african; analysis; approach; autonomy; betty; cartoon; characters; class; concept; curriculum; data; design; dialogue; education; experience; figure; grade; hypothesis; innovation; inquiry; investigation; journal; kekana; language; learners; learning; lesson; miss; need; perspectives; planning; practical; practice; problem; process; prompt; prompt sheet; questions; research; scaffolding; school; science; scientific; sheet; sipho; south; step; study; support; tea; teacher; teaching; use; variables; work
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- pie-1760
- author: Lloyd, Gillian
- title: From clinic to classroom: A model of teacher education for inclusion
- date: 2012-06-29
- words: 5691
- flesch: 48
- summary: 62 From clinic to classroom: A model of teacher education for inclusion ELIZABETH WALTON University of Witwatersrand GILLIAN LLOYD University of Witwatersrand One of the challenges associated with the implementation of inclusive education in South Africa is the effective training of teachers to meet diverse learning needs in their classrooms. After a brief review of international and local models of teacher education for inclusion, we describe and reflect on the development and implementation of a postgraduate course in inclusive education offered at our university.
- keywords: africa; approach; article; challenges; change; classroom; clinic; cochran; collaborative; concerned; context; course; critical; development; diverse; education; effective; experience; forlin; fullan; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; individual; inquiry; international; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; lecturers; local; london; loreman; lytle; models; needs; new; pedagogies; perspectives; postgraduate; practice; professional; report; research; routledge; school; service; smith; south; special; stance; strategies; students; support; teacher; teacher education; teaching; theory; training; university; use; way; work; years
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- pie-1761
- author: Naidoo, Ana
- title: Leading curriculum renewal in a faculty of education: a story from within
- date: 2012-06-29
- words: 5741
- flesch: 53
- summary: Kruss (2008) maintains that the competing models for teacher education are based on the curriculum designers’ historical backgrounds and ideological positions. Teacher education aims to produce such critical citizens who, in turn, will contribute to the process of developing critical thinkers in the school system.
- keywords: africa; audit; bed; change; coherence; community; content; credits; critical; curriculum; departments; design; discipline; education; education modules; faculties; faculty; fet; figure; focus; framework; higher; higher education; journal; justice; knowledge; learning; lecturers; members; methodology; modules; muller; need; order; perspectives; phase; practice; pretoria; process; programmes; reflection; renewal; report; required; research; school; second; service; social; south; specialisation; staff; students; subject; teacher; teacher education; teaching; theory; university; year
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- author: Garnett, A.; Mahomed, F. E.
- title: I want to publish but ...: Barriers to publishing for women at a University of Technology
- date: 2012-06-29
- words: 6016
- flesch: 51
- summary: The second was that women academics at the UoTs were likely to have experienced a number of gendered challenges to the publishing imperative. How the idea came about … The University of Technology where the research was conducted is not immune to having to conform to national pressure to produce publications; arguably even more so due to having to transform from a Technikon to a University of Technology.1 To stimulate publishing outputs, the research directorate of the institution decided to initiate a “Women in Research” (WIR) programme at the institution with the aim of establishing a CoP to encourage women academics at the institution to write and publish accredited academic articles.
- keywords: ability; academia; academics; african; article; barriers; case; codes; confidence; context; cop; data; document; education; environment; experiences; female; findings; gender; gravett; group; hemmings; higher; institution; intrinsic; joining; lack; learning; literature; maürtin; notion; overload; participants; personal; perspectives; practice; pressure; professional; programme; publishing; qualitative; regard; research; researchers; responses; review; role; sample; scholarly; self; south; stress; study; support; teaching; technology; time; total; traditional; universities; university; wenger; wir; women; work; workload; writing
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- pie-1763
- author: de Wet, Corene
- title: Editorial
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 1226
- flesch: 28
- summary: In their contribution to this issue “Difficult conversations: lessons learnt from a diversity programme for pre-service teachers”, Adré le Roux and Percy Mdunge contend that in any educational programme for pre-service teachers that pursues excellence in both academics and social justice, teacher educators must capacitate student teachers to work in areas of social justice. The next four contributions to this volume focus on teachers and prospective teachers.
- keywords: article; curriculum; development; discourses; education; engagement; english; issues; language; learning; members; mixed; pre; programme; prospective; research; resources; sciences; service; social; staff; students; teachers; university; vivisection
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- author: Nel, Willy
- title: Conversations among Black staff members at a historically White Afrikaans university campus on issues of race, social justice and reconciliation
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 7562
- flesch: 51
- summary: 1 Conversations among Black staff members at a historically White Afrikaans university campus on issues of race, social justice and reconciliation WILLY NEL University of the Free State In an ethnographically designed study, guided by a critical community psychology framework, Black staff members at a historically White Afrikaans university campus conducted email conversations relating to issues of race, social justice and reconciliation. The main findings are: Compared to the potential number of respondents (32 Black staff members or 18% of all faculty staff), very few colleagues (9 or 28% of Black staff members) responded via email to the invitations but, when met in person, all expressed strong views on the topics or prompts used in the initialising emails.
- keywords: academics; african; afrikaans; analysis; apartheid; approach; awareness; bitterness; black; black staff; campus; colleagues; community; community psychology; concern; contact; conversations; correspondence; council; critical; critical discourse; critique; discourse; domain; eds; education; email; engagement; ethnography; faculty; fast; fear; framework; higher; higher education; institutional; invitation; issues; jansen; journal; justice; knowledge; local; members; nature; non; number; oppression; participants; people; personal; perspectives; power; powerlessness; practices; prilleltensky; psychology; psychopolitical; qualitative; race; racial; reception; reconciliation; relations; research; resistance; responses; rogers; self; september; silence; social; social justice; south; south african; space; staff; staff members; state; strong; students; study; theory; topics; transformative; tredoux; understanding; university; volume; white; workplace
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- pie-1765
- author: Constandius, Elmarie; Rosochacki, Sophia
- title: Educating for a plural democracy and citizenship – a report on practice
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 4976
- flesch: 41
- summary: Finally, it considers to what extent the module has been successful in promoting attitudes of tolerance and social cohesion in a racially and culturally mixed educational environment, using qualitative data collected from participants in the module, and reflects on the ethical and practical challenges that critical citizenship education might face. The second part of this paper aims to explore the role of the university (particularly South African universities) in addressing social and democratic development through critical citizenship education.
- keywords: africa; arts; citizenship; cohesion; conception; conditions; context; critical; cultural; democracy; democratic; department; design; development; difference; discrimination; education; engagement; equality; global; group; higher; human; identity; individual; institutions; interaction; issues; kayamandi; knowledge; learning; module; need; neutral; new; notion; nussbaum; osler; particular; people; perspectives; pluralism; political; public; research; role; school; social; south; starkey; stellenbosch; students; teaching; theory; tolerance; transformation; understanding; universities; university; values; visual; weinstein; white
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- pie-1766
- author: Singh, Lorraine
- title: Drama education in the age of AIDS
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 6144
- flesch: 61
- summary: The workshop theatre project described in this article aimed to allow drama students to explore and expose the myths, practices and world view associated with the sexual behaviour of young people in two townships and on two campuses. Other students interviewed a practising nurse, a priest, and two senior community members (including a grandmother), all from Kwa Mashu Township in Durban.
- keywords: africa; age; aids; analysis; applied; approach; article; attitudes; awareness; behaviour; beliefs; characters; context; critical; cultural; data; different; drama; education; emancipatory; experiences; female; findings; focus; gender; girls; hiv; hooks; interviews; issues; journal; knowledge; leach; life; material; methods; nichole; nicholson; participants; partners; pedagogy; people; perspectives; play; power; process; project; questions; research; researchers; sash; school; second; sexual; social; south; students; study; terms; theatre; topic; university; use; way; women; workshop; workshop theatre; young; zama
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- pie-1767
- author: Geber, Hilary; Bentley, Alison
- title: Can low-cost support programmes with coaching accelerate doctoral completion in Health Science Faculty academics?
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 5150
- flesch: 50
- summary: One overloaded woman asserted: I had to incorporate PhD work into my daily routine of managing a busy laboratory. Training of internal coaches at Wits For the Faculty of Health Sciences programme, four Wits permanent staff members, with discipline expertise in health education, psychology and information technology, and who had previously trained as professional coaches, were selected.
- keywords: academics; additional; coaches; coaching; complete; completion; cost; courses; data; degree; doctoral; education; effectiveness; faculty; geber; goal; grant; health; health sciences; higher; important; individual; internal; journal; learning; life; low; members; model; number; outputs; participants; phd; phds; postgraduate; process; programme; research; sciences; skills; south; staff; stress; structured; students; studies; study; support; teaching; time; total; training; university; valuable; wits; work; writing; year
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- pie-1768
- author: Engelbrecht, Petra
- title: Research in a South African faculty of education: A transformative approach
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 6708
- flesch: 38
- summary: These complex contextual issues had a profound effect on research development in education faculties. The resultant escalation of policy concern with respect to accountability in higher education and the adoption of selective performance- related funding procedures have had a dramatic effect on research development (Light & Cox, 2001; Oancea, Engelbrecht & Hoffman, 2009).
- keywords: 2006; academic; access; activities; african; analysis; approach; capacity; change; clear; community; complex; culture; data; development; doctoral; education; engelbrecht; evaluation; excellence; experienced; external; factors; faculties; faculty; focus; focused; funding; groups; higher; higher education; historical; important; increase; individual; institution; international; journal; justice; knowledge; leadership; management; new; number; opportunities; order; organisational; outcomes; output; overall; participatory; period; perspectives; process; programme; publications; qualitative; quality; research; research development; researchers; resources; result; role; self; senior; social; south; south african; specific; staff; support; teacher; teaching; time; transformative; universities; university; van; view; years
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- pie-1769
- author: Dube, Cecilia; Kane, Sandra; Lear, Miriam
- title: The effectiveness of students redrafting continuous assessment tasks: the pivotal role of tutors and feedback
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 4839
- flesch: 52
- summary: Student motivation: Premise, effective practice and policy. Wherever it is found, the aim seems to be the same, namely to support student learning and progress.
- keywords: academic; advantage; assessment; better; clear; comments; continuous; education; effectiveness; efl; factors; feedback; gibbs; group; higher; interviews; learning; literacy; marks; motivation; opportunities; opportunity; order; performance; process; quality; questionnaire; reasons; redrafting; research; resubmission; role; self; simpson; small; specific; strategy; students; study; success; tasks; time; tutor; tutoring; understanding; university; work; year
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- pie-1770
- author: Shih, Chih-Min
- title: Policy analysis of the English graduation benchmark in Taiwan
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 5319
- flesch: 54
- summary: Keywords: English graduation benchmark, Taiwan, university students, washback, policy analysis Introduction In order to embrace globalisation and enhance students’ proficiency in English, it has become common practice in Taiwan to impose an English graduation benchmark on university students as one of their degree requirements.
- keywords: analysis; applied; assessment; benchmark; chu; critical; department; different; education; empirical; english; english graduation; evaluation; example; faculty; foreign; general; gept; government; graduation; graduation benchmark; heis; high; higher; impact; intermediate; issue; language; learning; level; major; members; moe; national; new; participants; perspectives; policy; proficiency; programmes; requirement; research; september; shih; stage; students; studies; study; taiwan; taiwanese; technology; test; testing; universities; university; validity; washback
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- pie-1771
- author: Henning, Elizabeth
- title: Learning concepts, language, and literacy in hybrid linguistic codes: The multilingual maze of urban grade 1 classrooms in South Africa
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 4955
- flesch: 56
- summary: The sociopragmatic skills (Myers-Scotton, 2002) that adults use when they mix language codes in single utterances are not yet well developed in young children (Cantone, 2007). 72 Perspectives in Education, Volume 30(3), September 2012 Interactionist theorists such as Vygotsky (1992), Bruner (1983), Rogoff (1990) and Tomasello (2004) emphasise this part of language development as partner to conceptual development.
- keywords: able; academic; acquisition; africa; article; basic; bilingual; bowerman; cal; cambridge; carey; change; children; classroom; code; cognitive; communication; concepts; conceptual; conceptual development; department; development; different; discourse; early; eds; education; environment; gopnik; grade; henning; hybrids; knowledge; language; learning; levinson; linguistic; literacy; longitudinal; mathematics; meaning; mixed; myers; new; oxford; perspectives; press; research; school; scotton; signs; social; south; specific; switching; theories; theory; time; university; urban; use; view; vygotsky; way; world; york; young
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- pie-1772
- author: le Roux, Adré; Mdunge, Percy
- title: Difficult conversations: Lessons learnt from a diversity programme for pre-service teachers
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 6151
- flesch: 51
- summary: 78 Difficult conversations: Lessons learnt from a diversity programme for pre-service teachers ADRÉ LE ROUX University of the Free State PERCY MDUNGE University of the Free State Premised on the notion that any educational programme for pre-service teachers pursues excellence in both academics and social justice, teacher educators must capacitate student teachers to work in areas of social justice. The dual purpose of schooling, namely the pursuit of excellence in academic and social justice (Kumashiro, 2004), subsequently highlights the challenge for teacher education programmes to not only find a balance between the two goals, but also strengthen their interconnection.
- keywords: african; article; assumptions; bell; challenge; change; class; complaint; conceptual; context; conversations; different; difficult; discomfort; discussion; diversity; education; experiences; forms; foundation; griffin; guidelines; identities; identity; issues; justice; kumashiro; learners; learning; lessons; new; opinions; oppression; outcomes; perspectives; phase; pre; privilege; programme; race; racism; sense; service; service teachers; session; social; social justice; south; space; strategies; students; teacher education; teachers; teaching; theory; time; work; year; york
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- pie-1773
- author: de Villiers, Rian
- title: The animal experimentation controversy: ethical views of prospective teachers
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 5902
- flesch: 50
- summary: Some people may feel that animal research is simply wrong, regardless of the crucial role it plays in medical progress, while others may feel that its morality depends on the objectives and achievements. Table 1: Results of statistically significant associations between gender and responses to animal research and vivisection statements (statistical probability value, p < 0.05) Statements x̄ s P-values More males agree than females: The use of monkeys in drug experiments to develop a vaccine against heroin addiction 3.56 1.40 0.0285 Genetically engineering sheep to produce medicines in their milk 3.06 1.48 0.0041 Experiments on cats to test the effec- tiveness and safety of a specific pill 3.58 1.35 0.0426 The use of dogs in heart disease research 3.48 1.31 0.0418 92 Perspectives in Education, Volume 30(3), September 2012 Statements x̄ s P-values Use of hamsters for research into malaria 3.11 1.41 0.0017 Cloning cattle 3.23 1.41 0.0050 Animal experimentation yields more benefits than abuses 3.27 1.08 0.0375 It is morally justifiable to take the lives of healthy animals for the sake of education 3.70 1.20 0.0324 More females agree than males: We don’t have the moral right to con- duct painful experiments on animals or make them suffer for our benefit 2.10 1.28 0.0153 P = probability value; x̄ = mean; s = standard deviation The results revealed that more male than female students agreed with eight statements (Table 1) at a 0.05 statistically significant level.
- keywords: 2004; 2005; african; alternatives; animals; attitudes; controversy; curriculum; data; department; dissection; dogs; education; educators; ethical; ethics; experience; experimentation; experiments; exposure; favour; female; gender; human; learners; life; life sciences; live; males; moral; national; natural; open; people; positive; prospective; prospective teachers; questionnaire; questions; regard; research; respect; responses; results; rights; schools; sciences; scientific; significant; society; south; statements; students; study; table; teachers; teaching; test; university; use; values; villiers; vivisection; year; zoology
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- pie-1774
- author: Bansilal, Sarah; Mkhwanazi, Thokozani; Mahlabela, Patisizwe
- title: Mathematical literacy teachers’ engagement with contextual tasks based on personal finance
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 7079
- flesch: 52
- summary: An important aspect of their participation is the communication with tutors and other students. The stipulation about the relationship between content and context offers us as mathematics educators an exciting opportunity to deepen our own understanding about how students engage with mathematics concepts which are embedded in real-life contexts.
- keywords: article; assessment; context; context rule; contextual; correct; domain; duty; education; engagement; equation; errors; house; input; inverse; items; learners; learning; levels; life; literacy; mathematical; object; participation; price; problem; process; question; r500; r895; real; resources; responses; routine; rule; set; sfard; skill; specific; students; study; subject; table; tasks; teachers; tools; transfer; transfer duty; understanding; use
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- pie-1775
- author: Basson, Ilsa; Kriek, Jeanne
- title: Are Grades 10-12 physical sciences teachers equipped to teach physics?
- date: 2012-09-28
- words: 6306
- flesch: 58
- summary: Teacher knowledge: Subject content knowledge The specific need and demand expressed for additional, better and more appropriate training strengthened our perception that physical sciences teachers lack the necessary subject content knowledge as well as pedagogical content knowledge. The concomitant changes put a very high demand on physical sciences teachers and also have an impact on teacher behaviour.
- keywords: african; assessment; attitudes; behaviour; beliefs; content; content knowledge; current; curriculum; department; development; education; equipped; example; experience; fet; figure; focus; force; framework; grades; implementation; journal; knowledge; kriek; lack; learners; learning; mathematics; matter; ncs; new; north; pedagogical; perspectives; physical; physical sciences; physics; positive; questionnaire; questions; reform; research; results; schools; sciences; sciences teachers; scientific; shulman; skills; south; statement; students; study; subject; subject content; survey; table; teacher knowledge; teachers; teaching; time; township; training; views; volume; years
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- pie-1776
- author: Keet, Andre; Carolissen, Ronelle
- title: Rethinking citizenship and social justice in education
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1270
- flesch: 46
- summary: Bozalek and Carolissen proceed on this trajectory by assessing the potential of critical feminist citizenship frameworks for citizenship and social justice in higher education. i Editorial Rethinking citizenship and social justice in education Notions of citizenship and social justice remain contested at the levels of theory, definition and praxis.
- keywords: citizenship; communities; concepts; conceptual; critical; different; education; epistemic; fraser; honneth; injustice; justice; lister; london; new; notions; pedagogy; political; press; research; social; theory; university
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- pie-1777
- author: Lange, Lis
- title: Understanding and action: Thinking with Arendt about democratic education
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 5479
- flesch: 49
- summary: Social science perspectives on citizenship education. 1 Understanding and action: Thinking with Arendt about democratic education LIS LANGE University of the Free State Taking as its point of departure Ahier’s location of the problem of citizenship in the context of the changes that globalisation and neo-liberalism have brought about in higher education
- keywords: action; agency; ahier; arendt; article; benhabib; capacity; change; citizenship; common; common world; condition; context; curriculum; democratic; development; education; exercise; freedom; hannah; hannah arendt; higher; higher education; human; individual; judgement; knowledge; liberal; natality; new; notion; participation; pedagogy; point; political; politics; press; process; public; purpose; republican; responsibility; role; section; self; sense; social; society; sphere; thinking; understanding; university; world; york; young
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- pie-1778
- author: Bozalek, Vivienne; Carolissen, Ronelle
- title: The potential of critical feminist citizenship frameworks for citizenship and social justice in higher education
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 6374
- flesch: 46
- summary: 9 The potential of critical feminist citizenship frameworks for citizenship and social justice in higher education VIVIENNE BOZALEK University of Western Cape RONELLE CAROLISSEN Stellenbosch University There is a paucity of South African literature that uses feminist critical approaches as a conceptual tool to examine intersections of social justice and citizenship. Citizenship, social justice, and evolving conceptions of access to education in South Africa: Implications for research.
- keywords: 2003; africa; approaches; article; beings; belonging; binary; boundaries; bozalek; cambridge; care; carolissen; central; citizenship; class; community; constructions; critical; cultural; debates; difference; dimension; discourses; economic; education; ethic; example; feminist; frameworks; fraser; gender; higher; higher education; human; important; individuals; institutions; interpretation; justice; london; marshall; misframing; needs; new; normative; nussbaum; parity; participatory; people; perspectives; political; politics; potential; practices; press; private; public; resources; rights; social; social justice; society; south; sphere; state; students; teaching; themes; traditional; tronto; university; view; ways; women; work; york; young
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- pie-1779
- author: Davids, Nuraan; Waghid, Yusef
- title: Re-imagining democratic citizenship education: Towards a culture of compassionate responsibility
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 6943
- flesch: 45
- summary: After a decade of implementing liberal conceptions of democratic citizenship education in public schools in South Africa, questions need to be asked about its credibility and success. We commence this article by analysing the Department of Basic Education’s (DoBE, 2011) recently produced Building a culture of responsibility and humanity in our schools: A guide for teachers – a practical guide for teachers that can hopefully engender democratic citizenship education in public schools.
- keywords: african; agreement; benhabib; citizenship; citizenship education; claim; collective; condition; course; debate; democracy; democratic; democratic citizenship; dialogue; dobe; education; exclusion; experiences; fact; form; guide; humanity; identity; individual; learners; learning; means; new; norms; notion; particular; pgce; political; practical; practical guide; press; privileges; public; responsibility; rights; schools; self; social; society; south; stories; students; taylor; teachers; teaching; training; understanding; university; values; waghid; way; young
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- pie-1780
- author: Davis, Danya; Steyn, Melissa
- title: Teaching social justice: Reframing some common pedagogical assumptions
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 6393
- flesch: 54
- summary: It indicates that we should reframe student resistance, cautions about uncritical use of dialogue and student experience in methodologies, and problematizes the advocacy of safety as a prerequisite for SJE. This, in turn, indicates that we should reframe student resistance, the uncritical use of dialogue and student experience in methodologies, and rethink our virtually taken-for-granted espousal of the notion of ‘safety’ as a prerequisite for SJE – at least in the way it currently plays itself out in reports of teaching practice.
- keywords: adams; africa; allen; article; assumptions; bell; berlak; boler; cargile; challenge; challenging; classroom; colour; common; conflict; critical; dialogue; discomfort; dlamini; dominant; eds; education; educators; experience; focus; francis; freire; goodman; groups; hemson; hooks; jansen; journal; justice; learning; leonardo; likely; london; moyenda; need; new; oppressed; oppressor; pain; pedagogical; pedagogies; pedagogy; people; perspectives; positionalities; power; privileged; problematic; race; racial; racism; resistance; rich; rossatto; safety; sense; sje; social; south; steinberg; stevens; steyn; students; teaching; theory; transformation; university; use; white; whiteness; work; york
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- pie-1781
- author: Potgieter, Cheryl; Reygan, Finn C. G.
- title: Lesbian, gay and bisexual citizenship: A case study as represented in a sample of South African Life Orientation textbooks
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 7621
- flesch: 52
- summary: The Human Rights Watch (2001) report Hatred in the hallways: Violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youths in US schools is overwhelming evidence of this denial of sexual minority citizenship and its consequences. A case study as represented in a sample of South African Life Orientation textbooks CHERYL POTGIETER University of KwaZulu-Natal FINN CG REYGAN University of KwaZulu-Natal Over the past two decades, sexual citizenship has emerged as a new form of citizenship coupled with increased interest in the challenges to citizenship and social justice faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people and, in particular, by sexual minority youth within education systems.
- keywords: 2002; activity; africa; anti; article; bisexual; cape; citizenship; classroom; culture; curriculum; department; development; discrimination; diversity; education; experiences; francis; gay; grade; group; heinemann; heterosexual; homophobia; homosexuality; human; identities; inclusive; intersex; issues; journal; justice; knowing; learners; learning; lesbian; lgbti; life; life orientation; lister; london; minorities; minority; national; new; orientation; oxford; people; perspectives; press; question; representation; research; reygan; richardson; rights; school; section; series; sexual; sexualities; shooter; shuter; social; south; statement; students; study; system; teachers; teaching; terms; text; textbooks; town; training; transgender; young
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- pie-1782
- author: Fataar, Aslam
- title: Pedagogical justice and student engagement in South African schooling: Working with the cultural capital of disadvantaged students
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 16473
- flesch: 48
- summary: Students’ bodily carvings in school spaces of the post-apartheid city. Unlike the bifurcation suggested by those who favour a strict separation between horizontal and vertical knowledge discourses (Moore & Muller, 1999), I suggest that establishing a pedagogical relationship between these two knowledge discourses – one which respects the importance of the vertical logic of school knowledge – would provide a useful bridge between the life world contexts of disadvantaged students and the knowledge codes that inform school knowledge.
- keywords: 2007; able; access; active; administrative; administrative clerks; african; agency; approach; argument; article; authorities; basis; bernstein; bodily; bourdieu; capabilities; capital; care; challenge; class; classroom; clerks; code; complex; conceptual; consent; contexts; contributive; contributive justice; counter; critical; cultural; culture; curriculum; december; development; difference; dimension; disadvantaged; disadvantaged students; discourse; division; education; emphasis; engagement; engaging; everyday; experience; explicit; fataar; financial; focus; forms; gap; hand; impact; important; influence; information; injustice; intellectual; journal; justice; key; knowledge; knowledge code; knowledge engagement; labour; learning; lefebvre; life; life world; lingard; lives; making; management; material; message; nature; new; opportunity; orientation; particular; pedagogical; pedagogical approach; pedagogical justice; pedagogical recontextualisation; pedagogies; pedagogy; personal; perspectives; platform; policy; power; practices; press; principal; processes; production; recognition; recontextualisation; relationship; research; role; routine; sayer; school; school administrative; school code; school engagement; school knowledge; schooling; section; self; sgb; site; smt; social; social justice; social space; south; space; spatial practices; student engagement; students; success; support; system; tasks; teachers; teaching; unequal; university; use; value; vertical; view; volume; way; words; work; working; world; world knowledge
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- pie-1783
- author: Bayat, Abdullah
- title: The spatial practices of school administrative clerks: making space for contributive justice
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 8064
- flesch: 56
- summary: 64 The spatial practices of school administrative clerks: making space for contributive justice ABDULLAH BAYAT University of the Western Cape This article discusses the work practices of the much neglected phenomenon of the work of school administrative clerks in schools. Popular accounts of school administrative clerks portray them as subjectified – assigned roles with limited power and discretion – as subordinate and expected to be compliant, passive and deferent to the principal and senior teachers.
- keywords: 2007; administrative; administrative clerks; agency; article; authorities; bodily; capabilities; care; clerks; contributive; contributive justice; counter; data; decisions; development; division; education; everyday; experience; financial; focus; important; influence; information; injustice; internal; journal; justice; labour; lefebvre; life; making; management; material; meetings; new; occupation; office; parents; particular; pedagogic; personal; perspectives; practices; principal; production; recognition; relationship; research; role; routine; satisfaction; sayer; school; school administrative; section; self; sgb; smt; social; social space; south; space; spatial; spatial practices; students; support; surrogacy; sway; tasks; teachers; unequal; work; workers
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- pie-1784
- author: Zinn, Denise; Rodgers, Carol
- title: A humanising pedagogy: Getting beneath the rhetoric
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 7928
- flesch: 62
- summary: Keywords: Humanising pedagogy, humanising praxis, narrative inquiry, liberatory education, emancipatory methodology Introduction South Africa’s societal legacy of disempowerment and dehumanisation, particularly within education contexts, is long and in critical need of repair. In other words, both the fact and forms of the ‘agency’ of oppressive regimes have to be taken into full account, as they have implications for the ways in which both the theoretical and the practical issues of citizenship and social justice, and indeed the practice of humanising pedagogies, are conceptualised and addressed.
- keywords: action; african; agency; apartheid; awareness; beings; cape; carini; citizenship; class; community; context; critical; education; essential; experience; faculty; freire; hub; humanising; important; inquiry; jansen; justice; knowledge; language; learners; learning; manen; means; mutual; new; participants; pedagogy; people; perspectives; political; power; practice; praxis; present; press; process; project; recollections; relationship; rhetoric; rodgers; school; self; sense; social; society; south; space; staff; stories; story; students; teacher; teaching; thandi; themes; things; time; town; university; van; voice; volume; vulnerability; work; world; york; zinn
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- pie-1785
- author: Spreen, Carol Anne; Vally, Salim
- title: The curriculum and citizenship education in the context of inequality: Seeking a praxis of hope
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 6061
- flesch: 48
- summary: The evolution of citizenship education in South Africa The recent and growing violent xenophobic and racial attacks described below provide an important context for thinking about how and why critical citizenship education plays an important role in democratic and social transformation at this particular point in South African history. This approach to teaching critical citizenship education would fundamentally rest on new ways of understanding democracy and social justice – as part of a continued struggle to build solidarity and a sense of belonging for all those who comprise South African society, regardless of status, origin, language, culture, gender or race.
- keywords: africa; alexander; apartheid; article; basic; building; cape; carrim; chisholm; citizenship; citizenship education; civic; classrooms; conditions; constitution; context; continued; critical; critique; curriculum; democracy; democratic; department; development; divisions; economic; education; ethics; freire; government; history; hope; human; identity; important; inequalities; inequality; integration; issues; justice; keet; learners; manifesto; nation; national; new; notions; particular; pedagogy; people; perspectives; policy; political; post; praxis; pretoria; public; racial; report; research; respect; rights; role; schools; sense; social; social justice; society; south; south africa; state; teachers; teaching; use; vally; values
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- pie-1786
- author: Nkoane, Molebatsi Milton
- title: Critical emancipatory research for social justice and democratic citizenship
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 4504
- flesch: 49
- summary: 99NkoaNe — Critical emancipatory research for social justice and democratic citizenship Conceptualisation of critical emancipatory research I wish to start the discussion by being provocative, taking John 1:1 (Good News Bible 1994:1504): “In the beginning there was the word and the word was with God and the word was God”. Then they will have significant implications in challenging the 101NkoaNe — Critical emancipatory research for social justice and democratic citizenship dominant discourses and disrupting the narrative of the powerful vis-à-vis powerless dichotomy (Fox, 2008).
- keywords: analysis; article; beings; cer; citizenship; communication; construction; critical; democratic; discourse; discursive; education; emancipatory; fairclough; form; habermas; human; important; interactions; interpretations; journal; justice; knowledge; language; mahlomaholo; making; marginalised; meaning; means; methodological; narratives; new; nkoane; participants; people; power; practices; press; process; relations; research; researcher(s; social; social justice; society; texts; understanding; voices; words; world
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- pie-1788
- author: de Wet, Corene
- title: Editorial
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 1403
- flesch: 29
- summary: Underlying factors that supported student enrolment and retention were the reputation, credibility and image of the university and the department, and specific academic, disciplinary, technical and administrative competencies. A framework is developed in order to examine why teacher development initiatives evolve over time and why teachers do not benefit equally from these.
- keywords: academic; article; capabilities; challenges; development; discipline; education; educators; framework; gender; human; learners; learning; new; parents; perspectives; positive; pregnant; research; rights; school; social; south; students; study; teachers; teaching
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- pie-1789
- author: Shefer, Tamara; Bhana, Deevia; Morrell, Robert
- title: Teenage pregnancy and parenting at school in contemporary South African contexts: Deconstructing school narratives and understanding policy implementation
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 6556
- flesch: 58
- summary: We interrogate how school teachers and principals speak about pregnancy and parenting, and juxtapose their views with the reported experiences of a group of learners. When you want him to fill in some forms for you so you can carry on with your schooling somewhere else, he just tells you that he doesn’t deal with pregnant school girls.
- keywords: african; article; baby; bhana; black; broader; cape; child; children; class; context; department; discourse; dominant; durban; education; evident; experiences; female; gender; girls; high; home; interviews; kzn; learners; macleod; moral; morrell; mothers; narratives; national; ngabaza; normative; parenting; parenting learners; parents; participants; policy; practices; pregnancy; pregnant; pregnant learners; press; principals; responses; school; schooling; secondary; sexuality; shame; shefer; social; south; study; teachers; teenage; teenage pregnancy; town; university; women; work; young
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- pie-1790
- author: Bhana, Deevia; Mcambi, Sithembile Judith
- title: When schoolgirls become mothers: Reflections from a selected group of teenage girls in Durban
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 5770
- flesch: 64
- summary: Available statistics indicate that 32% of 14-19-year-olds living in KwaZulu- Natal, who had ever been pregnant, were currently attending school (Grant & Hallman, 2006); this has major implications for schools. Supporting pregnant teenagers and teenage mothers in schools is important (Chigona & Chetty, 2008), but remains a formidable task (Panday, Makiwane, Ranchod & Letsoalo, 2009). Recent research has seen the emergence of a more qualitative and theoretical understanding of the experience of teenage pregnancy and teenage mothers in schools, and illustrates some of the challenges facing young women 12 Perspectives in Education, Volume 31(1), March 2013 at school (Chigona & Chetty, 2008; Bhana, Morrell, Shefer & Ngabaza, 2010; Nkani & Bhana, 2010; Morrell, Bhana & Shefer, 2012).
- keywords: act; african; agency; article; baby; bhana; burden; care; challenges; chetty; chigona; child; children; department; education; environment; equality; experiences; fear; focus; gender; gendered; group; high; important; instance; learners; mcambi; mothers; ntwenhle; participants; peers; policy; pregnancies; pregnancy; pregnant; research; school; schoolgirls; schooling; sexuality; shame; sibongakonke; social; south; study; support; teachers; teenage; teenagers; women; work; young
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- pie-1791
- author: Mutekwe, Edmore; Modiba, Maropeng
- title: Perceived gender-based challenges endured by Zimbabwean secondary school girls in their academic and occupational prospects
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 5870
- flesch: 52
- summary: It became apparent that school girls who pursue the arts subjects’ curriculum tend to follow careers in areas such as teaching, law, hotel and catering, and general social work. Jansen (2008) contends that the gender-based curricula challenges for girls can also be viewed in terms of school subjects focusing on their nature, design organisation and effects on teaching and learning as well as attitudes among the various categories of learners.
- keywords: academic; accounting; advanced; analysis; arts; aspirations; attitudes; boys; career; case; challenges; choice; counterparts; country; curriculum; data; different; discussion; education; expectations; female; focus; following; gce; gender; general; girls; group; harassment; home; interview; jansen; jobs; journal; level; male; modiba; need; occupational; opportunity; parents; participants; particular; people; perceptions; perspectives; pupils; qualitative; questions; research; respondents; responses; results; role; school; school subjects; sexual; social; studies; study; subjects; tasks; teachers; teaching; time; trajectories; women; work; zimbabwe
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- pie-1792
- author: Niemann, Rita
- title: Revisiting expansive learning for knowledge production and capability development at postgraduate level in Higher Education Studies
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 5177
- flesch: 41
- summary: Changing modes: New knowledge production and its implications. By building particular capabilities 31NiemaNN — Revisiting expansive learning for knowledge production into the education of their students, lecturers in higher education can contribute to developing agents of change, both individually and collectively (Sen, 1989; Fakuda-Parr, 2003) by facilitating learning and teaching modes that will generate new knowledge that is relevant to the contexts in which it will be used.
- keywords: academic; actions; activity; africa; article; capabilities; configuration; context; coursework; development; disciplinary; education; engagement; engeström; existing; expansive; expansive learning; figure; framework; graduates; group; higher; higher education; human; knowledge; knowledge production; learning; level; master; means; need; new; new knowledge; order; place; postgraduate; practice; problem; process; production; research; role; scholarship; social; society; south; students; studies; teachers; teaching; terms; theoretical; theory; universities
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- pie-1793
- author: Niven, Penelope
- title: Teaching Political Science to first-year university students: Challenging ‘taxi-rank analysis’
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 6387
- flesch: 52
- summary: I turn now to the data that concern the teaching and teachers of Political Science in an attempt to understand how lecturers conceptualise the epistemology of their discipline, whether they share common values or approaches to TLA, how they view the learning resources of new students, and how these ideas, often unconsciously held, play out in particular kinds of curricular decisions and pedagogies. New students may well have an intuitive grasp of this system, easily transferring it into a learning domain, and it is possible that they did not experience it as confusing or contradictory at all.
- keywords: academic; access; african; analysis; approaches; aspects; becher; class; community; cultural; curriculum; democracy; department; different; disciplinary; discipline; discourses; education; epistemological; essay; example; experiences; higher; ideas; inner; issues; knowledge; learning; lecturers; literacies; literacy; making; mcarthur; necessary; new; northedge; outer; paper; particular; personal; perspectives; political; political science; politics; practice; rank; reading; regimes; research; resources; school; science; sense; social; south; students; study; system; taxi; teaching; territory; times; tribes; trowler; university; use; values; views; ways; work; year; york
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- pie-1794
- author: Angelopulo, George
- title: The drivers of student enrolment and retention: A stakeholder perception analysis in higher education
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 8222
- flesch: 43
- summary: In this paper the term refers to the perceived quality of the relationship between Communication students, Unisa and the Department of Communication Science, and the degree to which Unisa’s Communication studies are perceived to offer the department’s students the solution to their academic needs. Unisa’s position as the dominant provider of tertiary distance education in (primarily) South and southern Africa played a large role in attracting Communication students.
- keywords: 2010; academic; access; active; administrative; african; agreement; analysis; aura; best; brand; business; college; communication; communication department; communication study; corporate; culture; customer; department; distance; dominant; drivers; easy; education; enrolment; environment; evident; factor; flexibility; good; grönroos; higher; image; institution; international; inward; item; journal; learning; lecturers; march; marketing; material; meaning; methodology; needs; negative; new; number; online; orientated; orientation; outward; oversight; participants; perceptions; performance; perspectives; poor; position; positive; problems; process; qualifications; quality; range; relationship; reliability; reputation; research; retention; sample; science; service; significant; solution; south; staff; stakeholders; strong; student enrolment; students; studies; study; support; table; teaching; technical; trustworthiness; tuition; unisa; university; variables; volume; way; year
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- pie-1795
- author: de Hart, K. L.; Venter, J. M. P.
- title: Comparison of urban and rural dropout rates of distance students
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 5795
- flesch: 50
- summary: Gender Studies are varied in their results on the effect that gender has on student dropout. When considering dropout, Shure, Jansen & Harskamp (2007) found past performance to be a significant contributor to predicting student dropout in the Netherlands.
- keywords: academic; accounting; africa; afrikaans; analysis; areas; characteristics; coloured; combination; comparison; data; demographic; different; distance; district; dropout; dropout rate; education; effect; employment; factors; finance; gender; group; higher; highest; journal; kember; language; location; magisterial; male; model; nguni; older; performance; population; previous; rate; reason; research; resources; results; retention; rural; rural students; sector; settlements; south; students; studies; study; support; trend; university; urban; urbanisation; variables; year
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- pie-1796
- author: de Clercq, F.; Phiri, R.
- title: The challenges of school-based teacher development initiatives in South Africa and the potential of cluster teaching
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 6123
- flesch: 50
- summary: While not arguing that teacher clusters are the only effective TD form in 21st century South Africa, this article now turns towards research findings on a successful form of teacher clustering, which has not yet been reported in the South African TD literature. 82 Perspectives in Education, Volume 31(1), March 2013 History and context of cluster teaching As with other provincial education departments, school clusters were set up in Mpumalanga as a result of a policy stipulating that circuits/districts had to organise teacher clusters for the moderation of the continuous assessment (CASS) process (Mpumalanga Department of Education [MDE], undated:1).
- keywords: africa; article; attitudes; better; case; challenges; changes; christie; classroom; cluster; cluster teaching; colleagues; commitment; communities; competences; conditions; content; continuous; curriculum; department; development; different; difficult; district; doe; education; effective; experienced; form; framework; impact; initiatives; knowledge; learners; learning; march; mpumalanga; needs; new; pedagogical; performance; perspectives; phiri; planning; policy; post-1994; practices; professional; programmes; quality; research; resources; results; school; service; skills; south; strategies; study; subject; support; system; teacher development; teachers; teaching; time; training; university; volume; work; workshops
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- pie-1797
- author: Coetzee, Susan; Mienie, Cathrine
- title: South African educators’ mutually inclusive mandates to promote human rights and positive discipline
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 5915
- flesch: 51
- summary: Thus it may be argued that the governing body is mandated to adopt a code of conduct that enables educators to educate and discipline learners in a way that promotes respect for human rights. In Western Cape Residents’ Association obo Williams and Another v Parow High Schools 2006 (3) SA 542 (C) (at 545B- C), the court acknowledged that granting a privilege as a reward is an acceptable measure used to teach learners discipline and respect for authority.
- keywords: action; african; approach; article; bodies; charter; children; classroom; coetzee; conduct; corporal; corrective; crc; curriculum; department; dignity; disciplinary; discipline; education; educators; emphasis; fact; february; freedom; guidelines; human; human rights; international; journal; law; learners; learning; mandate; measures; policy; positive; positive discipline; punishment; rapcan; relationships; republic; requirement; respect; rights; rsa; schools; section; self; south; south african; state; study; teaching; way
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- pie-1798
- author: Komlenović, Djurdjica; Manić, Emilija; Malinić, Dusica
- title: The Geographic Information System (GIS) in secondary education in Serbia
- date: 2013-03-29
- words: 4891
- flesch: 50
- summary: GIS in teacher education – Facilitating GIS applications in secondary school geography. 96 The Geographic Information System (GIS) in secondary education in Serbia DJURDJICA KOMLENOVIĆ Institute for Educational Research EMILIJA MANIĆ University of Belgrade DUŠICA MALINIĆ Institute for Educational Research
- keywords: achievement; aid; aids; application; approach; certain; classes; classroom; compulsory; computers; countries; curriculum; data; developed; development; didactic; digital; education; european; february; fields; geographical; geography; gis; icts; implementation; information; johansson; journal; kerski; klonari; knowledge; komlenović; learning; lessons; level; manić; maps; new; perspectives; problem; process; professional; questions; research; schools; secondary; secondary education; secondary schools; serbia; skills; students; system; table; teachers; teaching; technologies; technology; upper; use; vocational; wiegand; work; year
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- pie-1799
- author: Niemann, Rita
- title: Editorial
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 633
- flesch: 33
- summary: i Editorial This edition of Perspectives in Education seeks to add to education discourses by exploring experiences in both school and higher education settings. Similarly, the papers of Alexander and Preece, take the learning into the community and explore how learning and research at higher education could benefit by engaging in collaborative community partnerships.
- keywords: development; edition; education; emotional; higher; justice; learning; papers; school; social; teachers; teaching; transformation
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- pie-18
- author: van der Westhuizen, Carol; Maree, Kobus
- title: Raising the achievement of all pupils within an inclusive setting: practical strategies for developing best practice
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 1788
- flesch: 46
- summary: using challenge to motivate and support children in school and key aspects of best practice distilled from the findings on chal lenge in the case study schools (p. 104). 105Perspectives in Education, Volume 28(1), March 2010 Since the text is geared to U K schools, what is not referred to directly, perhaps, is the crucial aspect of how to best deal with particularly South African issues, for example: how to facilitate best practice in classrooms that cater for millions of learners from (often seriously) disadvantaged contexts where schools are woefully underresourced; the challenge of teaching that takes place in learners’ second (or even third) mother tongue; lack of resources; the twin challenges of inadequately trained teachers and insufficient time spent in classrooms; and dealing with underachievement in the gateway subjects, M athematics and Physical Sciences.
- keywords: able; achievement; allace; authors; best; book; case; chapter; children; development; education; issues; learners; learning; needs; practice; pupils; raising; reflection; schools; section; special; strategies; study; title; underachievement; volume; white
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- pie-1800
- author: Wood, Lesley; de Lange, Naydene; Mkumbo, Kitila
- title: Drawing AIDS: Tanzanian teachers picture the pandemic. Implications for re-curriculation of teacher education programmes
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 5903
- flesch: 59
- summary: Children staying with their grandmother after their parents died from HIV AIDS. The government should ensure education on HIV AIDS is provided in each society so as to educate people on the impact of HIV AIDS in the society.
- keywords: 2003; action; affected; africa; aids; analysis; approaches; baxen; behaviour; change; children; community; critical; cultural; curriculum; data; development; discussion; drawing; education; government; heaids; hiv; human; impact; issues; journal; june; justice; knowledge; learners; life; mkumbo; national; need; new; pandemic; participants; participatory; people; perspectives; picture; poor; poverty; press; prevention; qualitative; research; researchers; rich; rights; role; saharan; schools; sexuality; skills; social; society; south; spread; sub; support; tanzania; teacher education; teachers; theme; understanding; university; visual; volume; vulnerable; ways; women; wood; york
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- pie-1801
- author: Jane, Sethusha Mantsose
- title: A vision of improvement of learning: South African teachers’ conceptions of classroom assessment
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 4992
- flesch: 54
- summary: 14 A vision of improvement of learning: South African teachers’ conceptions of classroom assessment SETHUSHA MANTSOSE JANE University of South Africa This article explored conceptions that teachers hold about classroom assessment and how these conceptions influence their classroom assessment practices.
- keywords: alice; assessment; band; beliefs; brown; classroom; competencies; conceptions; critical; curriculum; department; different; doe; education; experiences; grade; guidelines; important; improvement; language; learners; learning; level; major; national; ncs; needs; opportunity; outcomes; policy; practices; reading; roshnee; school; south; standards; study; teachers; teaching; thinking; time; training; understanding; use; vision; way; work
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- pie-1802
- author: Muthivhi, Azwihangwisi E.
- title: Development of verbal thinking and problem-solving among TshiVenda-speaking primary school children
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 5847
- flesch: 43
- summary: Should the participant maintain his/her chosen classification mode, the classification pattern was determined to be characteristic of his/her chosen mode of object classification. Results Grade 1 The Grade 1 participants emphasised a functional and graphic mode of object classification.
- keywords: abstract; activities; animals; categorical; children; classification; classified; classroom; concepts; concrete; cow; cubero; development; domestic; education; example; formal; forms; functional; giraffe; goat; grade; graphic; hoe; kraal; language; learners; learning; linguistic; lizard; luria; mode; objects; panga; participants; performance; problem; processes; reasons; relations; responses; results; schooling; sociocultural; solving; specific; study; task; thinking; tshivenda; use; verbal; wheat
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- pie-1803
- author: Wootton, Carol Anne; Roets, H. E.
- title: Emotional intelligence in learners with Attention Deficit Disorder
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 4918
- flesch: 49
- summary: Whereas prevailing research shows the expectation that learners with ADD experience lowered emotional intelligence (and 40 Perspectives in Education, Volume 31(2), June 2013 this has been borne out by the perceptions of their mothers and teachers), these learners initially appraised themselves as having higher emotional intelligence than their peers who did not have ADD. Figure 3: Comparison of ADD learners’ results in the pre-tests and post-tests for ADD On the semi-structured interview, the learners with ADD did not show agreement with either their individual teachers or their individual mothers’ perceptions of their emotional states or their symptoms and behaviour at the beginning of the study.
- keywords: ability; able; academic; add; attention; awareness; bar; bauminger; behaviour; child; cognitive; connors; data; deficit; different; difficulties; disorder; dsm; education; emotional; emotional intelligence; emotions; enhancement; experience; exposure; figure; group; hyperactivity; intelligence; intervention; inventory; iyv; journal; language; learners; manner; new; paths; perceptions; perspectives; post; pre; programme; quotient; rating; research; results; sample; scale; self; social; study; symptoms; teachers; test; use
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- pie-1804
- author: Pausigere, Peter
- title: Education and Training Initiatives at the Central Methodist Church Refugee House in Johannesburg
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 6296
- flesch: 53
- summary: Towards the end of this paper, literature on the forms of refugee education illuminates my empirical findings regarding new variations on the categories of emergency education. The CBA to refugee education provides the study with a theoretical lens and a language to describe the CMC’s refugee community’s training and educational initiatives just as was the case amongst the above cited refugee education examples which were initiated and continued to be run predominantly by the refugees themselves.
- keywords: abet; adjusted; adult; adult education; african; albert; approach; article; bishop; cambridge; care; cba; central; centre; children; church; cmc; community; computer; council; country; courses; curriculum; data; day; decision; development; economic; education; emergency; emergency education; form; grade; host; house; initiatives; integration; johannesburg; learners; learning; main; meetings; minutes; paper; pers; perspectives; pre; programme; refugee; refugee centre; refugee community; refugee education; refugee school; repatriation; research; school; school council; sewing; sinclair; skills; south; street; students; studies; study; teaching; training; unhcr; vocational; zhou; zimbabwean; √ √
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- pie-1805
- author: Dreyer, Lorna M.
- title: Exploring the changing role of learning support teachers in the Western Cape, South Africa
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 6259
- flesch: 50
- summary: It is also imperative that the role of learning support teachers be fully understood and supported by school principals, senior staff and school governing bodies (Mittler, 2000). 54 Exploring the changing role of learning support teachers in the Western Cape, South Africa LORNA M DREYER Stellenbosch University The South African education system is continuously changing and adapting to address the challenges to provide access, equal and quality education in a new democratic dispensation.
- keywords: 2005; access; africa; approach; article; barriers; cape; classroom; collaborative; coordinators; countries; data; department; district; dreyer; education; european; focus; forlin; general; grades; groups; ilst; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; international; journal; learners; learning; learning support; level; mainstream; medical; model; needs; new; paper; phase; primary; provision; qualitative; quality; questionnaire; research; respondents; role; schools; south; special; study; support; support teachers; system; systemic; teachers; transformation; way; wced; western; white
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- pie-1806
- author: Msibi, Thabo
- title: Queering transformation in higher education
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 5724
- flesch: 52
- summary: I then present a review of literature on the daily experiences of queer students in higher education institutions internationally and in South Africa specifically. Also in the USA, Walters and Hayes (1998) report that institutional cultures often delegitimise sexual identifications of queer students and staff, thereby limiting their contributions to learning.
- keywords: 2005; academic; addressing; african; agenda; aids; approach; article; campus; college; critical; development; dilley; discrimination; discussion; education; education institutions; experiences; fact; focus; forms; gay; gender; higher; higher education; homophobia; homosexuality; identification; identities; identity; incidents; individuals; instance; institutions; issues; journal; knowledge; lesbian; lgbt; ministerial; nature; need; new; oppression; orientation; people; perceived; power; project; queer; race; racial; report; research; sexual; sexuality; social; south; students; theory; transformation; university; usa; ways
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- pie-1807
- author: Murimo, Adelino Evaristo
- title: The influence of gender, parents and background factors on Grade 7 students’ beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics in Mozambique
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 5106
- flesch: 52
- summary: Hanna (2003) maintained that the fluctuations of gender differences in mathematics achievement indicate that inequalities in mathematics education are more likely to be influenced by socio-cultural contexts than by students’ biological characteristics. Also, the development of positive beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics is a desirable goal of mathematics education in many countries (Mullis et al., 2008).
- keywords: .01; 2010; 2012; achievement; attitudes; background; beliefs; boys; children; computer; countries; data; differences; economic; education; factors; fennema; gender; girls; grade; groups; higher; important; independent; influence; items; jobs; learning; leder; level; mathematics; mathematics education; mean; model; mozambique; number; pallant; pam; parental; parents; pum; reading; research; resources; results; school; scores; siblings; significant; students; studies; study; subject; table; test; usefulness; variables; variance
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- pie-1808
- author: Treptow, Reinhold
- title: The South African PhD: Insights from employer interviews
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 5467
- flesch: 45
- summary: This study investigated why employers specifically sought PhD graduates, what skills and attributes they expected of PhD graduates, what employer satisfaction with the actual performance of PhD graduates was, what employer perceptions of the available pool of PhD graduates were, what employer relations with higher-education and other professional research institutes were like and what intellectual-property issues existed. Methodology Locating the employers of PhD graduates was not unproblematic.
- keywords: academic; african; basic; broader; business; conferences; council; curricular; doctoral; doctoral education; education; employers; experience; exposure; good; government; graduates; greater; guide; heqf; higher; higher education; innovation; international; interviews; knowledge; learning; level; management; modalities; need; people; phd; phd graduates; phds; practice; private; problems; professional; project; related; relevant; research; science; sector; significant; skills; south; specific; students; study; technology; theoretical; training; universities; university; wil; work; workplace; world
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- pie-1809
- author: Mda, Thobeka
- title: Growing researchers from the historically disadvantaged groups through internships
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 6153
- flesch: 42
- summary: From this analysis, models of effective supervision and mentorship of research interns are identified. From this analysis, models of effective supervision and mentorship of research interns are identified.
- keywords: academic; africa; areas; article; assaf; building; capacity; challenges; council; country; data; degree; development; disadvantaged; doctoral; education; enhancement; example; experience; graduates; groups; hsrc; human; increase; indaba; institutions; interns; internship; internship programme; knowledge; learning; limited; master; mentoring; mentors; mentorship; national; need; number; organisation; performance; phd; pool; practical; professional; programme; project; report; research; research council; researchers; sciences; senior; skills; south; specific; students; studies; study; success; supervision; term; time; training; universities; university; work; working
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- pie-1810
- author: Alexander, Gregg; Khabanyane, Mokhethi
- title: Service learning as a response to community/school engagement: Towards a pedagogy of engagement
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 5771
- flesch: 41
- summary: According to Coles (2005) and Engstrom (2003), service learning is a method of teaching in which academic subjects, as well as skills, are taught within the context of citizenship through community service. This idea was propelled by Heiselt and Wolverton’s definition of service learning, which they put forth as “… a teaching and learning method that combines community service with academic instruction and which as such focuses on critical and reflective thinking and civic responsibility” (Hennes, 2001: 9).
- keywords: academic; activities; bringle; che; class; communities; community; community service; content; control; council; course; department; development; education; educators; engagement; experience; experiential; free; grade; higher; higher education; initiatives; institutions; interventions; issues; journals; khabanyane; knowledge; kolb; learners; learning; lecturers; management; mlm; national; needs; opportunities; organising; pedagogy; perspectives; planning; practice; pretoria; process; professional; reflective; regard; research; response; results; school; service; service learning; skills; social; south; state; students; study; tasks; teachers; teaching; team; theory; university
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- pie-1811
- author: Preece, Julia
- title: Towards an Africanisation of community engagement and service learning
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 5347
- flesch: 44
- summary: The article briefly introduces the global interest in universities and engagement, followed by a reflection on the historical context for African universities in this regard. However, a second context for African universities is that they have never been as autonomous as their European or North American counterparts.
- keywords: 2007; academic; african; african universities; africanisation; article; bender; che; communities; community; community engagement; community service; comparative; concerns; conference; context; continent; contribution; countries; curriculum; development; e.g.; economic; education; engagement; erasmus; example; experiences; focus; higher; higher education; indigenous; initiatives; instance; institutions; international; issues; knowledge; kruss; learning; literature; local; mission; mode; national; need; partnerships; perspectives; preece; pretoria; production; project; pure; recent; regional; relation; research; scholarship; seepe; service; service learning; social; south; south african; students; studies; study; sustainable; theoretical; theory; understanding; universities; university; wider
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- pie-1812
- author: Ivala, Eunice; Kioko, Joseph
- title: Student levels of engagement in learning: A case study of Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
- date: 2013-06-28
- words: 6637
- flesch: 51
- summary: As a result of the influence that the level of student engagement has on student success in higher education, there are efforts around the world to gauge student engagement levels in universities and colleges, using, for example, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), first introduced in 2000 in the USA (Kuh, 2000). Student engagement internationally and in South African higher education institutions Research indicates that high levels of student engagement are linked with improved performance; a conclusion which holds true regardless of a student’s socioeconomic background (Mounts & Steinberg, 125Ivala & KIoKo — Student levels of engagement in learning 1995; Voelkl, 1995).
- keywords: 2007; academic; activities; african; background; behaviour; benchmarks; campus; centre; class; college; context; cput; data; design; development; education; engagement; english; environment; experiences; factors; faculties; financial; findings; following; help; higher; higher education; influence; institutional; interaction; involvement; journal; june; kuh; lack; language; learning; lecturers; levels; low; motivation; national; need; nsse; performance; perspectives; pike; point; poor; rates; research; results; school; south; staff; strategies; student engagement; student levels; students; studies; study; success; support; tertiary; time; understanding; universities; university; volume; work
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- pie-1813
- author: Venkat, Hamsa; Bowie, Lynn
- title: Primary mathematics: Addressing the crisis
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 1709
- flesch: 42
- summary: Several articles in this issue focus on primary mathematics teaching and learning. Provincial Departments of Education are supporting a range of projects focused on improving primary mathematics performance – the Gauteng Primary Literacy and Numeracy Strategy being one example.
- keywords: africa; articles; assessment; attention; caps; content; crisis; curriculum; development; education; focus; foundation; issue; knowledge; learner; learning; mathematics; national; performance; perspectives; phase; points; policy; primary; range; research; shifts; south; study; teacher; teaching; ways; work
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- pie-1814
- author: Askew, Mike
- title: Big Ideas in primary mathematics: Issues and directions
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 5957
- flesch: 56
- summary: Learners connecting different mathematical ideas could be said to be engaged in developing networks of Big Ideas. Perspectives in Education 31(3) Perspectives in Education 2013: 31(3) http://www.perspectives-in-education.com ISSN 0258-2236 © 2013 University of the Free State 5 Mike Askew Monash University, Melbourne & University of the Witwatersrand E-mail: mike.askew@monash.edu Telephone: +61 3 9904 4036 Big Ideas in primary mathematics: Issues and directions Mike Askew This article is located within the literature arguing for attention to Big Ideas in teaching and learning mathematics for understanding.
- keywords: addition; answer; askew; attention; big; big ideas; caps; carpenter; charles; collective; curriculum; davis; different; directions; discipline; documents; education; equivalence; example; explicit; foundation; fractions; ideas; important; issues; learners; learning; mathematics; mike; number; packets; perspectives; phase; place; primary; problems; relationship; representations; sense; sentences; subtraction; symbols; teachers; teaching; tens; understanding; value; ways; work
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- pie-1815
- author: Pausigere, Peter; Graven, Mellony
- title: Unveiling the South African official primary mathematics teacher pedagogic identity
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 6549
- flesch: 39
- summary: The recent South African curriculum policy changes to a common curriculum framework (Curriculum and Assessment Policy, CAPS) and universal primary learner tests (Annual National Assessments, ANA) construct and promote a ‘market’ (Bernstein 2000) primary mathematics teacher identity. Keywords: South African primary maths teacher identity, Bernstein, pedagogic identity Introduction In this article, we investigate the type of primary mathematics teacher identity promoted by post-apartheid curriculum reforms and recent changes in South African primary mathematics education, as revealed in curriculum policy documents.
- keywords: african; african primary; ana; apartheid; areas; article; assessment; basic; bernstein; c2005; caps; changes; chisholm; classification; concepts; content; criteria; curriculum; dbe; department; documents; doe; education; frame; framing; grades; graven; identities; identity; key; knowledge; learners; learning; literacy; market; mathematics; mathematics curriculum; mathematics teacher; mellony; national; new; numeracy; official; pacing; pausigere; pedagogic; pedagogic identity; performance; perspectives; peter; policy; position; primary; primary mathematics; project; reforms; social; south; south african; strong; teacher; teacher identity; teaching; tests; therapeutic; tyler; weak; weakly; work
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- pie-1816
- author: Galant, Jaamia
- title: Selecting and sequencing mathematics tasks: Seeking mathematical knowledge for teaching
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 6377
- flesch: 54
- summary: Keywords: subject-matter knowledge, pedagogic content knowledge, curricular knowledge, mathematical tasks, numeracy workbooks 35 Selecting and sequencing mathematics tasks: Seeking mathematical knowledge for teaching Jaamia Galant Introduction In South Africa, the long and winding road of curriculum development has seen policy initiatives first veer away from, and then more recently back to, prescription and specification of contents and coverage. In particular, this small-scale empirical 37 Selecting and sequencing mathematics tasks: Seeking mathematical knowledge for teaching Jaamia Galant study sought to explore first, on what basis do teachers sequence mathematical tasks in the classroom (for example, choose to do a particular task before another) and, secondly, what connections between mathematical topics do teachers make when selecting tasks for teaching multiplication? Description of empirical study The analysis is based on data collected within the context of the broader SPADE research project concerned with schools in poor neighbourhoods performing above demographic expectations.
- keywords: addition; analysis; caps; child; concepts; concrete; connections; content; content knowledge; counting; curriculum; different; education; empirical; equal; grade; grouping; groups; knowledge; learners; learning; legs; mathematical; mathematical knowledge; matter; multiplication; notes; number; numeracy; pedagogic; perspectives; pots; questions; responses; rows; schools; sequencing; subject; sweets; tasks; teachers; teaching; use; workbooks
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- pie-1817
- author: Weitz, Maria; Venkat, Hamsa
- title: Assessing early number learning: How useful is the Annual National Assessment in Numeracy?
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 6523
- flesch: 62
- summary: Number strategies of Grade 2 leaners: Learning from performance on the learning framework in number test and the Grade 1 Annual National Assesments. Maria Weitz and Hamsa Venkat Wright et al. (2006) have used this combined framework to devise a series of diagnostic oral interview-based tests, administered individually, to qualitatively assess the sophistication of learners’ early number strategies.
- keywords: 1–10; able; abstract; addition; advanced; ana; annual; answers; assessment; bnws; child; concrete; counters; counting; data; early; early number; education; fingers; fnws; grade; hamsa; happy; high; items; knowledge; learners; learning; low; maria; mathematics; national; number; numeracy; objects; paper; performance; perspectives; primary; problems; processes; questions; range; responses; school; scores; seal; sequence; stage; strategies; subtraction; task; tests; unit; useful; venkat; weitz; work; working; wright
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- pie-1818
- author: Bleeker, Cheryl; Stols, Gerrit; van Putten, Sonja
- title: The relationship between teachers’ instructional practices and their learners’ level of geometrical thinking
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 5742
- flesch: 62
- summary: This characteristic, as explained by Usiskin (1982), implies that a student cannot be at Van Hiele level n without having gone through level n-1. Van Hiele levels of geometry thinking of Nigerian and South African mathematics learners.
- keywords: activities; activity; appropriate; bleeker; cheryl; crowley; development; different; discussion; education; figure; geometry; grade; group; hiele; hiele level; instructional; knowledge; language; learners; learning; lesson; level; mathematics; model; observed; opportunity; orientation; phase; practices; properties; relationship; research; results; school; shapes; sides; students; study; table; tasks; teacher; teaching; terms; thinking; understanding; use; van; van hiele
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- pie-1819
- author: Stott, Debbie; Graven, Mellony
- title: Research tensions with the use of timed numeracy fluency assessments as a research tool
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 5829
- flesch: 58
- summary: Club learners spoke English as a second or third language, but the language of learning and teaching where the club was based was English. In this paper, we describe how we came to use timed fluency activities, along with personal learner reflections on those activities, in our after-school maths club as a complementary research and developmental tool for assessing the changing levels of learners’ mathematical proficiency over time.
- keywords: accuracy; activities; activity; add; askew; assessments; basic; club; completion; correct; data; debbie; development; different; doubling; education; example; facts; figure; fluency; fluency activities; fluency assessments; grade; graven; july; learners; learning; march; mathematics; maths; mellony; number; numeracy; paper; perspectives; proficiency; progress; reflections; research; results; school; speed; stott; strategies; table; thembisa; time; tool; understanding; use; way; work
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- pie-1820
- author: Bansilal, Sarah
- title: Lizzy’s struggles with attaining fluency in multiplication tables
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 5509
- flesch: 57
- summary: When the encapsulation of individual number bond strings is extended to strings of different number bonds (e.g. 12 or 13), a learner should be able to pick out particular decompositions across different strings, for example, seeing that 7+5=12, while 7+6=13 (together with the associated subtraction relationships). Similarly, de-encapsulation of pairs of strings will allow them to see commonalities in adding and subtracting other numbers, for example, 9. Figure 3: Recognising relationships across number bond strings 12+0 =12 11+1 =12 10+2 =12 9+3 =12 8+4 =12 7+5 =12 6+6 =12 13+0 =13 12+ =13 11+2 =13 10+3 =13 9+4 =13 8+5=13 7+6 =13 99 Lizzy’s struggles with attaining fluency in multiplication tables Sarah Bansilal Further layers Applying number bond strings in other complex calculations will also require a place value understanding, and this will allow them to work towards problems such as 25+8 and 35+8.
- keywords: able; addition; bonds; child; conception; conceptual; concrete; counters; counting; decompositions; different; embodiment; encapsulation; facts; fingers; fluency; learner; lizzy; mathematics; multiplication; number; object; previous; process; single; strings; struggles; study; subtraction; tables; tall; times; understanding; use; work
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- pie-1821
- author: Ally, Noor; Christiansen, Iben Maj
- title: Opportunities to develop mathematical proficiency in Grade 6 mathematics classrooms in KwaZulu-Natal
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 6097
- flesch: 46
- summary: It included general competencies such as crafting and managing learning environments, developing classroom norms, and supporting classroom discourse as part of “teaching for understanding”, and so on. Perspectives in Education 2013: 31(3) 108 They also mentioned that proficient mathematics teachers have both deep and broad knowledge of school mathematics, including representations (cf. Suh, 2007) and conceptual connections (cf. Hattie, 2003). The development of disciplinary relationships: Knowledge, practice and identity in mathematics classrooms.
- keywords: adaptive; africa; ally; analysis; appropriate; article; carnoy; christiansen; classrooms; concepts; conceptual; connections; data; description; development; different; disposition; education; fluency; grade; hattie; iben; ideas; instances; journal; kilpatrick; knowledge; kwazulu; language; learners; learning; lessons; links; low; maj; mathematical proficiency; mathematics; mathematics education; natal; noor; notion; opportunities; opportunity; otdcu; otdmp; perspectives; problem; procedural; productive; proficiency; project; quality; rating; reasoning; representations; research; rubric; sacmeq; schools; situations; solving; south; strands; strategic; students; studies; study; taylor; teachers; teaching; understanding; university; use
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- pie-1822
- author: Muthukrishna, Nithi
- title: Raising the quality of primary level mathematics teaching and learning in schools in American Samoa: A model for South Africa
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 6122
- flesch: 62
- summary: 131 Raising the quality of primary level mathematics teaching and learning in schools in American Samoa: A model for South Africa | Nithi Muthukrishna Table 2: Descriptive statistics *Adequate yearly progress measure n Total school population Mean AYP* Mean total score SD of mean total score Experimental class school 1 22 92 25% 54.36 8.82 Experimental class school 2 26 118 31% 54.85 17.02 Control class school 1 18 92 14% 38.56 9.71 Control class school 2 21 118 13% 40.95 8.68 Control school 3 20 72 14% 37.40 13.88 Control school 4 (2 classes) 44 105 16% 43.36 10.33 Control school 5 (2 classes) 37 101 15% 42.43 10.47 Table 3: Post-hoc analyses of the difference in the means between the combined experimental groups and each of the control groups n AYP Score SD F ratio p value Effect size* Experimental groups 48 28% 54.63 13.74 Control class school 1 18 14% 38.56 9.71 20.65 < .0001 0.75 Control class school 2 21 13% 40.95 8.68 17.65 < .0001 0.76 Control school 3 20 14% 37.40 13.88 22.07 < .0001 Picking up the pace: Variation in the structure and organisation of learning school mathematics.
- keywords: .0001; achievement; africa; american; big; change; children; classes; cmcce; college; comparison; content; control; cronbach; education; effect; eggs; end; english; experimental; family; frank; grade; groups; indigenous; instruction; island; jane; knowledge; learners; learning; lessons; level; lowest; mapping; mathematics; missing; model; muthukrishna; nithi; number; outcomes; performance; perspectives; plans; poor; primary; problem; programme; quality; research; samoa; school; solving; south; south africa; start; strategy; studies; study; subscale; subtract; table; teachers; teaching; test; track; value; word
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- pie-1823
- author: Henning, Elizabeth
- title: Teachers’ understanding of mathematical cognition in childhood: Towards a shift in pedagogical content knowledge?
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 6491
- flesch: 53
- summary: The data sources constitute a descriptive collage of teacher discourse over a period of eight months, captured in five conversations and four individual and one group interview(s). New teacher knowledge and the PCK of elementary school teachers.
- keywords: article; brain; carey; case; change; childhood; children; classroom; cognition; cognitive; concepts; conceptual; constructivism; content; curriculum; data; dehaene; development; different; discourse; education; elizabeth; emergent; epistemological; example; foundation; fritz; group; henning; ideas; interest; knowledge; language; learning; markers; marko; mathematical; mathematical cognition; methods; mind; model; neuroscience; new; number; pck; pedagogical; pedagogy; perspectives; phase; piaget; practice; press; psychology; research; school; shift; sousa; south; specific; system; talk; teachers; teaching; test; thinking; time; training; understanding; university; use; vygotsky; way; work; workshops
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- pie-1824
- author: McAuliffe, Sharon; Lubben, Fred
- title: Perspectives on pre-service teacher knowledge for teaching early algebra
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 5934
- flesch: 52
- summary: Table 1: Comparison of areas of teacher knowledge in the Shulman and the MKfT frameworks Shulman MKfT Subject matter knowledge Common content knowledge Specialised content knowledge Horizon content knowledge Pedagogical content knowledge Knowledge of content and teaching Knowledge of content and students Knowledge of content and curriculum Curricular knowledge 159 Perspectives on pre-service teacher knowledge for teaching early algebra Sharon McAuliffe and Fred Lubben Subject matter knowledge is composed of common content knowledge, the knowledge needed in other mathematically intensive professions, specialised content knowledge, and horizon content knowledge. The results of the analysis show how each perspective emphasises different aspects of teacher content knowledge and, together, provide a more holistic account of what happens in developing knowledge for teaching patterns.
- keywords: algebra; algebraic; blanton; box; content; content knowledge; cuts; dani; dependent; different; early; early algebra; education; episode; focus; foundation; function; help; knowledge; learners; learning; lesson; magic; mathematical knowledge; mathematics; matter; mkft; model; need; number; patterns; pedagogical; perspectives; pieces; pre; quartet; reasoning; relationship; representations; rowland; service; sharon; specialised; string; study; subject; table; teacher; teacher knowledge; teaching; thinking; understanding; use; variables; work
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- pie-1825
- author: Runesson, Ulla
- title: Focusing on the object of learning and what is critical for learning: A case study of teachers’ inquiry into teaching and learning mathematics
- date: 2013-10-31
- words: 6485
- flesch: 58
- summary: Keywords: Lesson Study, Learning Study, teaching algebra, teacher learning, variation theory Professional development and teacher learning:
- keywords: 2012; age; algebraic; analysis; approach; aspects; case; character; classroom; critical; diagnostic; different; difficulties; education; example; expression; focus; incorrect; inquiry; knowledge; learners; learning; learning study; lesson; lesson study; letters; marton; mathematics; matter; object; possible; post; practice; research; runesson; specific; students; study; subject; tasks; teachers; teaching; test; theory; ulla; understanding; variables; variation; way; years
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- pie-1826
- author: Cattell, Karin
- title: ‘Fit for change’: A preliminary exploration of the relationship between academic literacy practitioners and disciplinary specialists as a complex system
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 4248
- flesch: 35
- summary: This article, therefore, aims to provide a reconciliatory approach to the investigation of academic literacy at tertiary institutions, in general, and at SU, in particular, based on the transgression of boundaries between the contexts of academic literacy practitioners and disciplinary specialists, and linked to that, the relation between academic literacies and mainstream disciplines. Growing towards “radical relationality”: Academic literacy and disciplines at Stellenbosch University In the past, the traditional lack of relationality between academic literacy practitioners and disciplinary specialists at SU was reflected in the often disparate and inconsistent inclusion of academic literacy in curricula.
- keywords: academic; academic literacy; agents; approach; boundaries; centre; challenges; change; collaboration; complex; complexity; curriculum; development; disciplinary; disciplinary specialists; disciplines; education; environment; fitness; institutions; jacobs; learning; literacies; literacy; literacy practitioners; new; opportunities; perspectives; practice; practitioners; relationality; relationship; separate; social; specialists; stellenbosch; street; student; success; system; teaching; tertiary; theory; university
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- pie-1827
- author: Diko, Nolutho; Bantwini, Bongani D.
- title: Research politics: Some issues in conducting research for government as a client
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 5327
- flesch: 46
- summary: Keywords: Research, educational research, government research, research politics, South Africa Introduction Historical and political background The strong relationship between government and the national research councils – the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), in particular – is not new (Fleisch, 1995; Chisholm, 2002; Chisholm & Morrow, 2007). Perspectives in Education 2013: 31(4) http://www.perspectives-in-education.com ISSN 0258-2236 © 2013 University of the Free State 15 Research politics: Some issues in conducting research for government as a client Nolutho Diko & Bongani D. Bantwini Researchers are guided by their ideological and ethical viewpoints when conducting research.
- keywords: addition; africa; agenda; apartheid; article; authors; bantwini; changes; chief; chisholm; client; commissioned; commissioning; committee; context; council; critical; department; development; diko; director; discussion; education; findings; government; hsrc; human; information; inquiry; international; interviews; issues; jansen; management; meetings; morrow; national; new; officials; perspectives; policies; policy; policymakers; political; politics; present; priorities; problem; process; project; provincial; questions; relationship; report; research; researchers; review; science; social; south; study; support; unit; work
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- pie-1828
- author: Mckay, Tracey Morton; Simpson, Zachary
- title: The Space Between: Pedagogic Collaboration between a Writing Centre and an Academic Department
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 6430
- flesch: 46
- summary: The article concludes by arguing that further research on using the interstices between disciplines as a resource for developing student academic writing is required. The aim was to initiate an integrated approach to the development of student academic writing.
- keywords: academic; access; african; approach; archer; argument; article; assessment; better; centre; collaboration; community; consultants; correct; data; department; design; development; disciplines; discourse; education; effective; engagement; epistemological; essay; essayist; evidence; feedback; geography; headings; higher; intervention; journal; language; learning; lecturer; lillis; literacy; logical; mckay; mgqwashu; need; order; particular; pedagogic; perspectives; practice; process; references; research; rubric; sessions; simpson; south; space; specific; students; study; teaching; time; university; use; work; writing; writing centre; writing consultants
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- pie-1829
- author: Olivier, Jako
- title: The accommodation of multilingualism through blended learning in two Information Technology classes
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 6533
- flesch: 54
- summary: Blended learning and multilingualism Central to this study is the application of blended learning in a multilingual classroom in order to accommodate multilingualism. By means of a self-developed, semi-structured questionnaire aimed at IT teachers, the researcher wanted to determine the context of language use and application of blended learning in IT classes within the Free State province.
- keywords: access; accommodation; africa; afrikaans; approach; blended; blended learning; class; classrooms; context; control; der; design; different; eds; education; empirical; english; experimental; face; free; group; implementation; information; instruction; internet; intervention; interviews; knowledge; language; learners; learning; literature; means; medium; methods; multilingualism; national; olivier; online; perspectives; phase; plessis; policy; post; pre; pretoria; province; questionnaire; research; respondents; schaik; schools; sesotho; south; state; study; subject; teachers; teaching; technology; terms; test; university; use; van; web; wiki
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- pie-1830
- author: Nyoni, Jabulani
- title: The efficacy of “catch-up programmes” in South African high schools: A legal jinx
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 5137
- flesch: 56
- summary: Five cycles of focus group discourses on the efficacy of the CIS “catch-up programmes” in schools included high school teachers, representatives of high school learners (RCL). In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with public school teachers and principals who were contracted to teach students during the CIS “catch-up programme” episodes, as well as CIS participating learners.
- keywords: act; activities; african; analysis; basic; child; cis; command; commission; constitution; day; dbes; education; educators; efficacy; figure; government; grade; grint; high; hours; jinx; labour; law; leadership; learners; learning; legal; lost; management; national; new; nyoni; order; perspectives; phenomenological; planning; policy; poor; power; pretoria; principals; programmes; public; qualitative; quality; report; republic; research; rights; rule; schools; section; smith; social; south; south african; state; strike; students; study; teachers; teaching; time; university; week; work; working; york
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- pie-1831
- author: Ntshoe, Isaac; de Villiers, Pierre
- title: Funding sources for public higher education in South Africa: Institutional responses
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 5599
- flesch: 48
- summary: The impact of changing funding sources on higher education institutions in South Africa. Higher education funding in South Africa.
- keywords: academic; access; africa; annual; appropriations; bank; black; capital; costs; cultural; data; education; example; families; fees; financial; funding; government; grants; higher; higher education; history; income; industry; institutions; johnstone; loans; marcucci; national; nsfas; ntshoe; participants; partnerships; perspectives; policy; poor; pretoria; private; programmes; public; rates; real; repayment; report; research; responses; scheme; second; sector; senior; social; sources; south; south africa; state; steyn; stream; student; study; technology; throughput; tuition; tuition fees; unisa; university; van; villiers
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- pie-1832
- author: Murris, Karin
- title: Reading the world, reading the word: Why Not now, Bernard is not a case of suicide, but self-killing
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 6271
- flesch: 56
- summary: Prejudices about children as immature or unsophisticated thinkers who so-called lack experience (Murris, 2000) prevent philosophical contributions from being taken seriously by adults working with them, without romanticising, sentimentalising, or “exoticizing”4 the differences between adult and child. The other teachers in the school were shocked when they saw the drawings for at least two reasons: they were surprised that the children had knowledge of what they had previously regarded as part of the adults’ world, and moreover they judged that young children should be protected emotionally from the sad and ‘darker’ side of living a human life.
- keywords: adults; analysis; bernard; case; childhood; children; classrooms; critical; dialogue; drawing; education; epistemic; example; experiences; haynes; ideas; janks; jansen; killing; knowledge; kohan; language; learners; listening; literacy; loud; means; monster; murris; need; new; open; oxford; pedagogy; people; perspectives; philosophical; philosophy; picture; possible; power; questioning; questions; reading; relationship; research; routledge; self; sense; social; space; story; students; suicide; teachers; teaching; texts; thinking; university; way; work; world; wozniak; young
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- pie-1833
- author: Mitchell, Carol; Jonker, David
- title: Benefits and challenges of a teacher cluster in South Africa: The case of Sizabantwana
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 5681
- flesch: 52
- summary: Perspectives in Education 2013: 31(4) http://www.perspectives-in-education.com ISSN 0258-2236 © 2013 University of the Free State 100 Carol Mitchell Department of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal e-mail: Mitchellc@ukzn.ac.za Telephone: 033 260 6054 David Jonker Department of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal e-mail: david.jonker23@gmail.com Telephone: 033 260 6054 Benefits and challenges of a teacher cluster in South Africa: The case of Sizabantwana Carol Mitchell & David Jonker This article explores teacher clusters as possible mechanisms for teacher development in dealing with a number of the difficulties facing education in the South African context. Teacher clusters in South Africa: Opportunities and constraints for teacher development and change.
- keywords: addition; africa; aims; approach; benefits; case; challenges; change; children; cluster; communities; community; context; development; difficulties; education; educators; experiences; group; issues; jita; jonker; lack; learners; learning; lima; meetings; members; mitchell; ndlalane; networks; participants; particular; perspectives; practice; problems; process; professional; psychology; psychosocial; research; resources; schools; sense; sizabantwana; sizabantwana group; skills; south; south africa; study; support; teacher; teacher cluster; teacher development; time; trust; university
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- pie-1834
- author: van Wyk, Barend; Hofman, Wiecher; Louw, Cecilia
- title: Mathematics: A powerful pre- and post-admission variable to predict success in Engineering programmes at a University of Technology
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 5857
- flesch: 45
- summary: Gainsburg (2006) advocates the inclusion of modelling in school syllabi and argues that it would assist engineering students, but realised that many of those in-class activities are not authentic enough to add value. What is the relationship between NSC Academic Potential Score (APS), Physical Science, English and Mathematics scores and academic performance during the first two years of the National Diploma for engineering students ?; and 2.
- keywords: academic; access; achievement; admission; african; average; coefficient; correlation; die; diploma; education; engineering; english; factors; final; higher; higher education; independent; institutions; journal; linear; mathematics; national; need; nsc; nsc mathematics; number; percentage; performance; perspectives; physical; post; powerful; preand; predicate; programmes; regression; results; retention; sample; science; score; semester; sided; significant; south; south african; stepwise; students; study; subjects; success; support; system; table; technology; tut; university; value; van; variable; wyk; years
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- pie-1835
- author: Botsis, Hannah; Dominguez-Whitehead, Yasmine; Liccardo, Sabrina
- title: Conceptualising transformation and interrogating elitism: The Bale scholarship programme
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 5303
- flesch: 43
- summary: Higher education transformation in the US and South Africa. Knowledge production and higher education transformation in South Africa:
- keywords: 2006; academic; access; african; agenda; bale; black; botsis; bourdieu; capital; challenges; change; cloete; cultural; degree; demographic; economic; education; efforts; elite; elitism; equity; example; excellence; faculty; field; gender; group; hbus; higher; higher education; hwus; individuals; institutional; intellectual; journal; nature; perspectives; practices; programme; race; reproduction; scholarship; science; set; social; south; south african; space; staff; state; students; transformation; university; van; wits; witwatersrand; women
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- pie-1836
- author: Sosibo, Lungi
- title: Views from below: Students’ perceptions of teaching practice evaluations and stakeholder roles
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 5584
- flesch: 47
- summary: This study is designed to investigate student teachers’ (hereafter students’) perceptions of TP evaluations administered by means of observations and criteria-based forms from a systems theory approach, to determine how effectively all aspects of stakeholder support, structure and TP evaluation interact and contribute to the development of new teachers. Practically, TP constitutes a complex social system involving a wide range of stakeholders (teacher education policymakers, principals, TP coordinators, mentors, university-based evaluators, learners, and so on) who should communicate and collaborate toward a common vision of developing student teachers (Zeichner, 2010; Valencia, Martin, Place & Grossman, 2009).
- keywords: 2001a; african; approach; aspects; campuses; context; criteria; darling; data; development; different; education; educators; effectiveness; evaluations; expectations; experiences; faculty; feiman; fet; focus; forms; fourth; framework; growth; hammond; journal; knowledge; learning; marks; mentors; nemser; new; perceptions; performance; perspectives; practice; research; resources; results; roles; schools; skills; social; sosibo; south; stakeholders; structure; students; study; support; system; teacher; teacher education; teaching; tep; teps; theory; time; tp evaluations; university; views; year
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- pie-1837
- author: Maritz, Jeannette; Visagie, Retha; Johnson, Bernadette
- title: External group coaching and mentoring: Building a research community of practice at a university of technology
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 5557
- flesch: 46
- summary: According to Harrison (2008), many aspects of graduate student research involved situated learning within a community of research practice in which legitimate peripheral participation occurred. We argue that external group research coaching and mentoring could provide a formative social context which negotiates the tensions of engagement.
- keywords: academic; accountability; activities; africa; building; coaches; coaching; communities; community; cop; development; education; engagement; enterprise; external; generation; group; higher; hub; identity; internal; joint; knowledge; lave; learning; maritz; members; mentoring; mentors; model; mstudent; mutual; new; participants; participation; peripheral; personal; perspectives; position; postgraduate; practice; process; programme; rcop; relationship; repertoire; research; research community; resources; scholars; sense; session; shared; situated; social; south; spokes; students; studies; study; support; technology; tensions; time; university; vaal; visagie; vut; wenger
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- pie-1838
- author: Munro, Nicholas; Quayle, Michael; Simpson, Heather; Barnsley, Shelley
- title: Hunger for knowledge: Food insecurity among students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 5278
- flesch: 45
- summary: Student food insecurity: The skeleton in the university closet. The exploratory study reported on in this article aims to document the scope of vulnerability to FI among UKZN students, the experience of FI in the university student population, and the likely impact of FI on the well-being and academic experiences of students at university.
- keywords: academic; access; african; aid; analysis; backgrounds; campus; concentration; csa; education; end; examinations; example; experience; factor; family; financial; food; food insecurity; heis; higher; household; human; hunger; hungry; impact; individual; insecurity; items; knowledge; kwazulu; levels; likely; mainstream; meal; munro; natal; nutrition; performance; perspectives; population; programmes; questionnaire; relation; research; results; sample; scale; school; semester; south; students; study; ukzn; university; usfiq; vulnerability; vulnerable
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- pie-1839
- author: Botha, Hanlie; Maree, Jacobus; Stols, Gerrit
- title: Mathematical Literacy teachers: Can anyone be one?
- date: 2013-12-13
- words: 6179
- flesch: 55
- summary: In this instance, it appears that experience and mathematics teacher training play a crucial role in the instructional practices of ML teachers. Data were gathered from a very small number of ML teachers and generalisation of the results is impossible.
- keywords: alice; analysis; artzt; ball; board; botha; classroom; compound; content; curriculum; data; denise; discourse; doe; education; elaine; environment; experience; fact; instructional; interest; interview; knowledge; learners; learning; lessons; level; literacy; mathematical literacy; mathematics; mck; monty; new; number; observations; pck; perspectives; positive; practices; pretoria; prior; problems; purpose; questions; research; school; south; study; subject; sufficient; tasks; teachers; teaching; training; understanding; university; use; work; years
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- pie-1840
- author: Lepota, Biki; Murray, Sarah
- title: Standards in education and training: The challenge
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 2676
- flesch: 47
- summary: The perceived challenges referred to in the framing of the conference theme were, firstly, that, in spite of the fact that education standards are a topical issue, there is no common understanding in the South African education community of what is meant by the term ‘standards’. Sosibo and Nomlomo surveyed Foundation Phase teachers’ conceptions of education standards to find out how their understanding of the concept influences their classroom practice.
- keywords: access; africa; articles; assessment; candidates; development; difficult; education; english; examination; grade; high; issue; language; learners; learning; national; nsc; paper; perspectives; quality; questions; school; setting; snow; south; special; standards; students; teachers; teaching; training; umalusi; view; young
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- pie-1841
- author: Snow, Catherine E.
- title: Language, literacy, and the needs of the multilingual child
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 4315
- flesch: 46
- summary: In other words, students could learn academic language skills in a home language and be expected to transfer those skills easily to a second, school language. My colleague, Paola Uccelli, and her collaborators have developed an inventory of academic language skills as a basis for designing an assessment (Uccelli, Barr, Dobbs, Galloway, Meneses & Sanchez, 2013).
- keywords: academic; academic language; africa; background; catherine; ccss; challenge; children; classroom; common; comprehension; content; discussion; domains; education; english; evidence; expectations; focus; high; home; information; instruction; knowledge; language; lawrence; lesaux; listening; literacy; multilingual; national; nclb; needs; new; perspectives; policy; programs; reading; research; school; second; skills; snow; south; speaking; standards; state; structures; students; system; teaching; text; u.s; use; vocabulary; white; words; writing
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- pie-1842
- author: Young, Michael
- title: Standards and standard setting and the post school curriculum
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 6087
- flesch: 50
- summary: The strength of the former is that it recognises that, in any society, there is an implicit, and assumed but always debated view about what high standards are and in terms of which, judgments are made by admission tutors and employers in selecting students and employees. Such an approach stresses maintaining high standards and, as a consequence, it neglects inclusion and widening participation, and is resistant to broadening the definition of a high standard.
- keywords: 1980s; access; africa; approach; assessment; cohort; colleges; concept; consequences; criteria; curriculum; different; education; elite; england; epistemic; equivalence; example; expansion; government; high; high standards; higher; idea; kind; levels; low; majority; michael; model; new; new standards; paper; post; post school; principle; proportion; qualifications; quality; role; school; school education; setting; south; standards; students; system; teachers; terms; traditional; training; young
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- pie-1843
- author: Bansilal, Sarah; Brijlall, Deonarain; Mkhwanazi, Thokozani
- title: An exploration of the common content knowledge of high school mathematics teachers
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 6382
- flesch: 51
- summary: Keywords: Mathematics teachers, pedagogical content knowledge, common content knowledge, APOS theory, algebra, calculus Introduction In South Africa, many studies suggest that mathematics teachers struggle with the content that they teach. Mkhwanazi Many studies point to the problem of poor mathematics content knowledge of mathematics teachers in South Africa.
- keywords: action; africa; average; ball; bansilal; brijlall; calculus; common; common content; concept; content; content knowledge; deonarain; description; development; education; equation; exploration; figure; finding; formula; function; grade; high; hyperbola; inequality; journal; knowledge; learners; level; marks; mathematics; mathematics teachers; mkhwanazi; number; object; parabola; perspectives; poor; process; professional; programme; quadratic; questions; response; results; sarah; school; school mathematics; solving; south; students; studies; study; table; tasks; teachers; teaching; test; theory; thokozani; understanding; university
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- pie-1844
- author: Pretorius, Elizabeth J.
- title: Supporting transition or playing catch-up in Grade 4? Implications for standards in education and training
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 11003
- flesch: 57
- summary: Assessment instruments Using a pre- and post-test quasi-experimental design (cf. Dörnyei, 2007: 117) with the 2009 Grade 4 cohort as a baseline control group, a battery of literacy tests was administered to the 2010 Grade 4 intervention class to monitor literacy performance. The need to develop strong language and literacy skills in the Foundation Phase is critical for supporting the transition to Grade 4, even in homogeneous, well- resourced schooling systems where the LoLT is the home language.
- keywords: 75th; ability; academic; african; assessment; attention; awareness; baseline; basic; books; catch; children; classroom; coach; cohort; comprehension; curriculum; decoding; department; development; dictation; e.g.; early; education; elizabeth; end; english; factors; focus; foundation; gains; grade; high; home; implications; important; inferential; information; instruction; intermediate; intervention; knowledge; language; learners; learning; level; literacy; literacy development; literacy skills; literal; lolt; low; mean; meaning; need; oral; percentile; performance; perspectives; phase; pirls; place; poor; post; poverty; preand; pretorius; print; proficiency; programme; project; questions; reading; reading skills; recognition; research; results; school; schooling; shows; skills; sound; south; standards; start; strong; study; support; table; teachers; teaching; test; text; time; training; transition; words; year; zulu
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- pie-1845
- author: Sosibo, Lungi; Nomlomo, Vyuokazi
- title: Teachers’ conceptions of standards in South African Basic Education and Training: A case study
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 6673
- flesch: 51
- summary: Consequently, there was urgency to raise teacher education standards in order to ensure high-quality graduates and to assure that elementary and secondary students obtained high-quality education from highly-qualified teachers (Anthes, 2002). Some scholars define education standards as benchmarks against which learning outcomes are measured (Nel & Kistner, 2009), while others associate them with quality (Coetzee & Le Roux, 2001; Hunter, 1999).
- keywords: actions; activities; activity; african; artefacts; assessment; basic; cape; caps; case; children; classroom; conceptions; content; contexts; cultural; curriculum; definition; department; different; disadvantaged; education; education standards; good; high; implications; kivilu; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; levels; literacy; low; lungi; modisaotsile; nardi; national; nomlomo; numeracy; objectives; parents; pedagogical; performance; perspectives; policy; poor; practices; pretoria; primary; public; quality; quintile; reading; research; schools; skills; social; socio; sosibo; south; south african; standards; statement; study; teachers; teaching; training; understanding; vuyokazi
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- pie-1846
- author: Scherman, Vanessa; Howie, Sarah J.; Zimmerman, Lisa; Bosker, Roel
- title: Setting standards and primary school teachers’ experiences of the process
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 5257
- flesch: 53
- summary: There is also a desire on the part of Setting standards and primary school teachers’ experiences of the process Vanessa Scherman, Lisa Zimmerman, Sarah J. Howie & Roel Bosker 95 the participants to set high standards and to be viewed as doing a good job (McGinty, 2005). This resulted in what can be described as a collage of teacher participant generated codes on the wall.
- keywords: analysis; assessment; bandaranayake; bookmark; bosker; continuum; cut; data; difficulty; discussions; education; emotions; exercise; experiences; group; howie; ideas; information; iqa; item; learners; level; lisa; measurement; method; monitoring; participants; performance; perspectives; place; possible; primary; procedure; process; qualitative; research; roel; samp; sarah; scherman; school; scores; setting; south; standard; standard setting; study; system; teachers; teaching; themes; thought; understanding; vanessa; workshop; zimmerman
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- pie-1847
- author: Pienaar, Richelle; McKay, Tracey Morton
- title: Mapping socio-economic status, geographical location and matriculation pass rates in Gauteng, South Africa
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 6513
- flesch: 63
- summary: In general, there was no correlation (r=0.14; p=0.3; n=188) between teacher-to-learner ratios and matriculation pass rates for the worst-performing schools (see figure2) Figure 2: Correlation between school fees and teacher-to-learner ratio, top schools Mapping socio-economic status, geographical location and matriculation pass rates in Gauteng, South Africa Richelle Pienaar & Tracey Morton McKay 113 DISTRICT BEST-PERFORMING SCHOOLS WORST-PERFORMING SCHOOLS T : L ratio School fees Pass rate Quintile T : L ratio School fees Pass rate Quintile Ekurhuleni North 24 R7 900 100.00% 5 28 R0 55.83% 3 19 R11350 100.00% 5 Ekurhuleni South 23 R9 700 100.00% 5 27 R0 49.82% 2 Gauteng East 22 R7 080 100.00% 5 26 R0 44.70% 3 Gauteng North 19 R8 200 98.08% 5 31 R0 40.93% 1 Gauteng West 21 R11670 100.00% 5 29 R200 50.00% 4 23 R5 500 100.00% 5 Johannesburg Central 24 R8 500 99.67% 5 17 R150 24.00% 4 Johannesburg East 34 R2 300 100.00% 5 29 R0 46.78% 2 17 R16 800 100.00% 5 Johannesburg North 16 R14 500 100.00% 5 33 R0 49.84% 2 19 R19 950 100.00% 5 18 R22 350 100.00% 5 Johannesburg South 21 R12 584 99.79% 5 33 R0 46.17% 1 Johannesburg West 23 R7 200 99.65% 5 32 R0 52.14% 1 Sedibeng East 18 R6 700 99.53% 5 29 R0 46.13% 2 Sedibeng West 24 R5 800 99.48% 5 20 R0 35.14% 1 Tshwane North 23 R8 350 100.00% 5 16 R0 42.57% 2 Tshwane South 16 R18 865 100.00% 5 27 R200 39.30% 3 21 R12 400 100.00% 5 19 R12 300 100.00% 5 19 R12 000 100.00% 5 19 R8 510 100.00% 5 Tshwane West 26 R5 000 99.56% 5 35 R0 33.14% 3 Average 21.17 R10 646.21 99.82% 5 27.47 R36.67 43.77% 3 Table 2: Best- and worst-performing schools in Gauteng, by district Perspectives in Education 2014: 32(1) 114 Figure 3: School fees, teacher-to-learner ratios, worst-performing schools An in-depth view: The case of Ekurhuleni North Although all education districts were analysed for this study, one, Ekurhuleni North, is showcased here as it illustrates the key findings of the study. It also found a collinear relationship between resourced schools, teacher-to-learner ratios, school fees and matriculation pass rates.
- keywords: access; africa; apartheid; areas; average; bell; better; cape; charge; choice; commute; correlation; district; east; economic; education; ekurhuleni; fees; figure; fleisch; gauteng; geographical; high; higher; house; johannesburg; journal; learner; location; low; matriculation; matriculation pass; mckay; morton; neighbourhood; north; parents; pass; pass rates; perspectives; pienaar; poor; post; public; quality; quintile; rankings; rates; ratios; resourced; review; richelle; school fees; schooling; schools; socio; soudien; south; south africa; status; study; teacher; town; township; tracey; tshwane; university; west; white
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- pie-1848
- author: Taylor, Stephen
- title: Reviewing the language compensation policy in the National Senior Certificate
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 6494
- flesch: 47
- summary: Keywords: Education, language compensation policy, Rasch, instrumental variable, South Africa Introduction The National Senior Certificate (NSC) or “matric” examination is widely regarded by South Africans as the all-important school-leaving examination. A fourth strategy recognises that, even in less language-intensive subjects, such as Mathematics, language proficiency may influence performance.
- keywords: accounting; achievement; african; afrikaans; better; candidates; certificate; children; compensation; compensation candidates; compensation policy; disadvantage; economic; education; english; english fal; examination; fal; figure; geography; intensive; items; language; language compensation; language disadvantage; language intensive; language subjects; learners; learning; levels; mathematics; matric; mean; measure; national; non; nsc; paper; pass; percentile; performance; perspectives; policy; proficiency; regression; results; scores; second; senior; south; stephen; strategy; students; subjects; taylor; technical; test; umalusi; values; variable
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- pie-1849
- author: le Cordeur, Michael
- title: Constantly weighing the pig will not make it grow: do teachers teach assessment tests or the curriculum?
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 6992
- flesch: 61
- summary: Perspectives in Education 2014: 32(1) http://www.perspectives-in-education.com ISSN 0258-2236 © 2014 University of the Free State 142 Michael le Cordeur Department of Education, Stellenbosch University E-mail: mlecorde@sun.ac.za Telephone: 021 808 2265 Constantly weighing the pig1 will not make it grow: do teachers teach assessment tests or the curriculum? Michael le Cordeur For a number of years now, South Africa, like many other countries, has been debating a major paradigm shift in education, a shift from learning and teaching, which focused primarily on content to learning and teaching focused on outcomes. [In time] Constantly weighing the pig will not make it grow: do teachers teach assessment tests or the curriculum? Michael le Cordeur 143 likely need to be great thinkers, excellent university students and valued employees.
- keywords: 2010; 2013; africa; annual; approach; article; assessment; assessment tests; available; basic; brown; buchberger; cape; cordeur; countries; country; curriculum; department; dougherty; education; education system; educators; emphasis; finland; finnish; focus; game; government; grade; harris; high; important; improved; increase; jansen; jordaan; knowledge; learners; learning; literacy; means; michael; national; new; numeracy; order; outcomes; paper; pass; performance; perspectives; pig; problem; quality; question; ramphele; reading; regard; report; research; results; schools; shepard; skills; south; south africa; standardised; standardised tests; standards; state; stellenbosch; students; study; system; tasks; teachers; teaching; testing; tests; time; university; world
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- pie-1850
- author: Long, Caroline; Dunne, Tim; Mokoena, Gabriel
- title: A model for assessment: integrating external monitoring with classroom-based practice
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 8209
- flesch: 49
- summary: It may also be that systemic-type assessments have little meaning for the teachers, and bear little relation to classroom assessments; the perceived lack of relevance resulting in a lack of commitment to the process. Moreover we have argued that a culture of classroom assessment can be constructed and that it will support learning development.
- keywords: accountability; aligned; analysis; andrich; areas; assessment; attention; caroline; classes; classroom; common; component; concepts; context; correct; criteria; critical; current; curriculum; data; design; development; difficult; domain; dunne; easy; education; environment; example; external; formative; function; gabriel; important; individual; information; instruction; instrument; item; knowledge; learners; learning; levels; long; mathematics; measurement; model; mokoena; monitoring; needs; new; note; particular; perspectives; phase; place; potential; practice; process; professional; proficiency; programme; progress; purposes; rasch; requirement; role; scale; schafer; schools; scientific; second; skills; social; society; specific; standards; stiggins; students; study; support; systemic; table; teachers; teaching; test; testing; tim; type; understanding; university; use; vision
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- pie-1851
- author: Ramnarain, Umesh
- title: Questioning the validity of inquiry assessment in a high stakes Physical Sciences examination
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 5061
- flesch: 48
- summary: Questioning the validity of inquiry assessment in a high stakes Physical Sciences examination Umesh Ramnarain 185 Table 1: Classification of inquiry questions according to construct validity Number of inquiry questions Number of inquiry questions violating construct validity Percentage of inquiry questions violating construct validity (%) Contested construct Unclear construct Construct irrelevance November 2010 examination 8 4 1 0 63 November 2011 examination 9 3 2 1 67 November 2012 examination 11 4 2 2 73 Total 28 11 5 3 68 Discussion This study revealed that inquiry questions in national Physical Sciences examinations lack construct validity.
- keywords: activity; analysis; assessment; construct; construct validity; contested; curriculum; department; education; examination; following; high; hypothesis; inferences; information; inquiry; international; investigation; items; knowledge; learners; learning; national; outcome; paper; performance; perspectives; physical; physical sciences; problem; process; question; ramnarain; related; relationship; research; results; science; science education; scientific; skills; stakes; standardised; stobart; study; target; teachers; teaching; test; testing; threats; umesh; unclear; validity; variables
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- pie-1853
- author: Sewry, Joyce; Mokilane, Paul
- title: A Rasch analysis to determine the difficulty of the National Senior Certificate Mathematics examination
- date: 2014-03-31
- words: 5371
- flesch: 55
- summary: The polytomous Rasch model, also known as the partial credit model (PCM), is used for question items with a scale of answers (Wu & Adams, 2007). Rasch analysis is a specific application of IRT.
- keywords: = =; abilities; ability; analysis; average; calculus; candidates; certificate; curve; data; different; difficulty; easy; education; examination; expected; figure; fit; high; item; joyce; latent; level; marks; mathematics; model; mokilane; national; nsc; number; paper; paul; question; rasch; rasch analysis; results; score; senior; sewry; south; trait; trigonometry; values; xxx; | |
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- pie-1854
- author: Pithouse-Morgan, Kathleen; Mitchell, Claudia; Pillay, Daisy
- title: Self-study of educational practice: Re-imagining our pedagogies
- date: 2014-06-30
- words: 3190
- flesch: 47
- summary: Van Laren explains how, through self- study research, she came to realise that, while the metaphor-drawing activity was an effective way of introducing the pre-service teachers to the integration of HIV&AIDS- related issues into the teaching of Mathematics, she still had to find other ways to assist them with putting integration into practice in the classroom. In their article, The director’s ‘I’: Theatre, self, and self-study, Tamar Meskin and Tanya van der Walt make a compelling case for exploring the parallels between engaging in the project of self-study and the structures of performance and drama, modelling as they do throughout the article a type of performed dialogue.
- keywords: action; africa; article; arts; change; context; der; disciplinary; diverse; education; educators; higher; institutional; laren; learning; meskin; meyiwa; mitchell; morgan; new; pedagogies; perspectives; pithouse; potential; practice; project; research; researchers; samaras; self; social; south; students; study; teacher; teaching; tes; trans; university; van; walt; weber; wood; work
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- pie-1855
- author: Weber, Sandra
- title: Arts-based self-study: Documenting the ripple effect
- date: 2014-06-30
- words: 6096
- flesch: 59
- summary: Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1(1): 3-26. Berger J 1972. Studies in Art Education, 52(4): 292-309.
- keywords: action; approaches; article; arts; case; childs; community; critical; digital; eds; education; effect; eisner; experience; forms; handbook; help; high; images; important; inquiry; international; issues; learning; levy; lives; london; media; methodologies; methods; mitchell; new; perspectives; photography; pithouse; potential; powerful; practice; process; project; public; representation; research; results; ripple; ripple effect; sage; sandra; school; self; social; stone; students; studies; study; teacher; teaching; teen; university; video; visual; ways; weber; work; york; young
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- pie-1857
- author: van Laren, Linda
- title: Beyond metaphor drawings to envisage integration of HIV & AIDS education: A self-study in primary Mathematics teacher education
- date: 2014-06-30
- words: 6544
- flesch: 44
- summary: This study thus serves to fill this gap, by investigating following up of an initiative to facilitate social change, using a visual method in Mathematics teacher education. Keywords: HIV & AIDS education integration, primary Mathematics, self-study, metaphor drawings, pre-service teachers Perspectives in Education 2014: 32(2) 22 Introduction It is particularly important to explore HIV & AIDS education integration possibilities in school subjects in primary pre-service teacher education, since these teachers are generalists who are often expected to teach topics across disciplines in schools.
- keywords: able; activities; aids; aids education; change; classroom; disciplines; drawings; eds; education; education integration; educator; experiences; following; generalist; golding; hiv; initiative; integration; interdisciplinary; issues; knowledge; laren; learners; learning; linda; mathematics; mathematics education; means; metaphor; method; mitchell; module; need; order; participants; perspectives; practice; pragmatic; pre; primary; question; research; responses; school; self; service; service teachers; social; south; study; subjects; teacher education; teachers; teaching; test; use; van
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- pie-1859
- author: Wood, Lesley
- title: Values-based self-reflective action research for promoting gender equality: Some unexpected lessons
- date: 2014-06-30
- words: 6473
- flesch: 55
- summary: The participants in this study, teachers and peer educators, were encouraged to identify and operationalise their values, so that they would be able to monitor their thinking and actions against such values when they critically reflected on their actions and beliefs relating to gender relations. Participants might agree on the need to live out ‘good’ values and they would agree on a ‘healthy’ acceptable way to operationalise such values within the research context; but, how would they be able to enact such behaviour in environments that were not very conducive to change?
- keywords: action; action research; aids; behaviour; change; children; community; consequences; contexts; critical; cultural; data; education; equality; example; fact; female; figure; gender; gender relations; girls; good; harm; help; high; hiv; interpretations; knowledge; learners; lesley; lessons; life; living; male; means; need; participants; people; perspectives; practice; process; project; reflective; relations; relationships; research; respect; result; school; self; social; study; teachers; theory; thinking; ubuntu; understanding; unexpected; values; whitehead; wood; work
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- pie-1861
- author: Meskin, Tamar; van der Walt, Tanya
- title: The director’s ‘I’: Theatre, self, and self-study
- date: 2014-06-30
- words: 6801
- flesch: 57
- summary: A useful way to consider these roles as research practices may be to view the Artist as someone who en-acts and embodies creative and critical inquiry; the Researcher acts in relation to the culture of the research community; and the Teacher re-acts in ways that involve others in artistic inquiry and educational outcomes. Leavy (2009: ix) explains that arts-based research practices have emerged out of the natural affinity between research practice and artistic practice, both of which can be viewed as crafts (original emphasis).
- keywords: action; article; arts; challenge; choices; collaborative; creative; critical; der; dialogic; dialogue; different; directing; director; discoveries; drama; eds; education; experience; hermeneutic; ideas; knowledge; learning; making; meskin; methodology; methods; multiple; nature; new; performance; perspectives; play; practice; process; production; project; public; question; rehearsal; relation; research; samaras; self; space; spiral; stage; study; sullivan; tamar; tanya; taylor; teacher; teaching; text; theatre; thinking; understanding; university; van; walt; way; ways; work; writing; york
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- pie-1863
- author: Scott, Lee
- title: “Digging deep”: Self-study as a reflexive approach to improving my practice as an artist, researcher and teacher
- date: 2014-06-30
- words: 6692
- flesch: 62
- summary: I also knew that I could not separate my artist self from my researcher and teacher self and that they were indivisibly integrated, and that my research and new learning would affect all these aspects of self. I also portrayed story cards being thrown away as a negation of their worth, implying the low worth of the small beast with the fierce glint in its eye. Figure 6 (above): ‘Rarity – Heartbroken’ (Author 2009).
- keywords: able; adult; approach; artist; artspace; author; bush; canvas; cards; childhood; course; creative; critical; deep; eds; education; experiences; feet; figure; future; gallery; images; learning; lee; life; living; memories; memory; mitchell; narrative; new; oil; painting; people; perceptions; perspectives; pictographic; pictopics; portrait; practice; professional; reflection; reflexive; research; rhodesia; scott; self; social; society; south; spray; stories; storyteller; students; study; suitcase; super; symbols; teacher; teaching; telling; title; tool; university; use; values; visual; voice; ways; whitehead; work; writing; years; york
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- pie-1864
- author: Knowles, Corinne
- title: Vulnerability: Self-study’s contribution to social justice education
- date: 2014-06-30
- words: 6359
- flesch: 49
- summary: Practising vulnerability through peer and student feedback Soliciting peer feedback for the purpose of self-study is a way to make oneself vulnerable in relation to the other. This involved a process that began with student feedback.
- keywords: article; butler; class; contribution; convergence; corinne; education; epistemology; experience; extended; feedback; feminism; frames; higher; important; justice; justice education; knowledge; knowles; learning; loss; marginality; mourning; new; non; norms; ontology; order; peer; perspectives; power; practice; praxis; process; research; self; social; social justice; students; studies; study; teacher; teaching; theory; things; university; vulnerability; vulnerable; way; ways; work
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- pie-1865
- author: Meyiwa, Thenjiwe; Mokhele, Paul; Sotshangane, Nkosinathi; Makhanya, Sizakele
- title: Complex journeys and methodological responses to engaging in self-study in a rural comprehensive university
- date: 2014-06-30
- words: 6854
- flesch: 46
- summary: The self-study of research practice compels practitioners to be relevant and to align their research with the realities of their environment, thereby being creative, thinking ‘outside the box’. Self-reflexivity and forms of transformation appear in the rural context, prioritising communal activity, Complex journeys and methodological responses to engaging in self-study in a rural comprehensive university Meyiwa et al. 105 shunning the word ‘self’.
- keywords: action; approach; article; authors; change; colleagues; collective; complex; comprehensive; conducting; context; creativity; data; development; eds; education; engaging; experience; field; generativity; graduate; individuals; inquiry; journal; journeys; knowledge; learning; life; living; london; methodological; methodologies; methodology; meyiwa; narrative; new; paul; people; personal; perspectives; practice; process; project; related; research; researchers; responses; rural; samaras; self; social; stories; students; studies; study; study research; supervision; supervisors; teacher; teaching; tes; theory; theresa; transformation; university; use; ways; whitehead; work; writing
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- pie-1866
- author: Samaras, Anastasia P.
- title: A pedagogy changer: Transdisciplinary faculty self-study
- date: 2014-06-30
- words: 7702
- flesch: 52
- summary: Keywords: Self-study of professional practice, transdisciplinary, faculty study groups, pedagogy, critical incidents, transformative learning, perspective-taking, innovation Introduction In 2006, Anne Freese and I wrote about the paradoxical nature of self-study research in our book, Self-study of teaching practices and framed that discussion within Vygotskian tenets of how we learn with, and through our interaction with others (Samaras & Freese, 2006). Embarking on an adventure while drawing the map: Journeys through critical friend work in self-study methodology.
- keywords: 2007; activities; analysis; anastasia; borne; cambridge; changer; collaborative; collective; community; constantine; critical; critical friends; critical incidents; data; development; discipline; diverse; dordrecht; eds; education; exit; experience; faculty; faculty self; friends; group; harmon; incidents; individual; inquiry; international; interviews; karczmarczyk; large; learning; level; loughran; meetings; mendoza; nasser; nature; netherlands; new; parsons; participants; pedagogical; pedagogies; pedagogy; personal; perspectives; practice; press; professional; project; qualitative; research; roman; samaras; self; smith; social; sostc; students; study; study group; study research; suh; support; swanson; teacher; teacher education; teaching; theory; thinking; transdisciplinary; university; vygotsky; ways; woodville; work; writing
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- pie-1868
- author: Deacon, Roger; van Vuuren, Rex; Augustyn, Dave
- title: Research at private higher education institutions in South Africa
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 6570
- flesch: 42
- summary: Placing PHEI research output within the broader context of factors that encourage or discourage research in the sector and in the country as a whole, the survey found that, although PHEI research is negligible in comparison with that of public universities, it is much more substantial than previously estimated. Figure 1: PHEI research output by type of publication, 2008-2010
- keywords: academic; africa; articles; augustyn; books; business; chapters; che; conference; data; dave; deacon; degrees; design; dhet; education; education institutions; fields; health; higher; higher education; information; institutions; journal; knowledge; little; management; members; number; offer; output; papers; perspectives; pheis; private; private higher; proceedings; programmes; public; publications; quality; questions; related; report; research; research output; rex; roger; sciences; sector; social; south; south africa; staff; survey; theology; total; universities; university; van; vuuren
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- pie-1869
- author: Masehela, Boledi; Pillay, Venith
- title: Shrouds of silence: A case study of sexual abuse in schools in the Limpopo Province in South Africa
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 6654
- flesch: 56
- summary: Modernist values regard school sexual abuse as an illegal, immoral act (DoE 2001) which has a negative impact on the psychological, physical and educational development of the victim. The principal, having been informed of this teacher– learner sexual abuse, confronted the learners concerned.
- keywords: abuse; act; africa; amadiume; behaviour; boledi; case; children; communities; community; compensation; concerned; cultural; culture; data; department; education; evidence; exchange; family; form; gender; girl; government; incident; justice; learners; limpopo; male; masehela; matter; modernist; mother; paper; parents; perspectives; pillay; police; poverty; power; practices; pregnant; pretoria; principal; problem; province; regard; republic; research; result; rights; rsa; rural; school; sexual; sexual abuse; sexuality; shrouds; silence; social; socio; south; south africa; study; teacher; traditional; university; values; venitha; victims; ways; women; young
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- pie-1870
- author: Davids, Mogamat Noor
- title: Using Foucauldian ‘discursive practices’ as conceptual framework for the study of teachers’ discourses of HIV and sexuality
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 5957
- flesch: 47
- summary: Teacher education might consider narrowing the gap between policy and practice by recognising the complex nature of teacher sexuality discourses. I offered an explanation for the indeterminate and uncertain nature of teacher discourses (Baxen, 2006), but I argued that they are analysable by placing the “self-in- relation” to its discursive environment.
- keywords: africa; aids; analysis; approach; article; baxen; body; cape; conceptual; condom; context; contradictions; contradictory; cultural; curriculum; davids; different; discourses; discursive; discursive practices; diverse; dominant; education; experiences; foucauldian; foucault; framework; hiv; human; john; knowledge; language; learners; literature; male; meaning; mogamat; nature; need; new; non; noor; notion; pandemic; people; perspectives; policy; possibilities; power; practices; president; relations; research; role; school; self; sexuality; sexuality discourses; sexuality education; social; society; socio; south; studies; study; subjective; teachers; teaching; understanding; university; use; way; words
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- pie-1871
- author: Kapp, Rochelle; Craig, Tracy S.; Prince, Robert; Badenhorst, Elmi; Janse van Rensburg, Viki; Pym, June; Bangeni, Bongi; le Roux, Kate; van Pletzen, Ermien
- title: Successful students’ negotiation of township schooling in contemporary South Africa
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 5401
- flesch: 56
- summary: This article draws on data from a larger longitudinal qualitative case study which is tracking the progress of students over the course of their undergraduate degrees at a South African university. Our data illustrate the ways in which students had to carry the burden of negotiating Rochelle Kapp School of Education, University of Cape Town E-mail: rochelle.kapp@uct.
- keywords: academic; africa; agency; appropriate; article; backgrounds; cape; case; class; classes; contemporary; contexts; data; development; education; environments; grade; higher; home; identity; interviews; learning; luckett; luvuyo; mail; negotiation; neighbourhood; new; outcomes; outside; paper; participants; people; perspectives; place; post; press; programme; research; resources; school; schooling; self; sense; social; south; students; study; successful; teachers; tel; terms; township; university; van; ways; words; working; year
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- pie-1872
- author: Essien, Anthony A.
- title: Examining opportunities for the development of interacting identities within pre-service teacher education mathematics classrooms
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 7008
- flesch: 51
- summary: Throughout the lesson, TEIB-E kept indicating to the pre-service teachers what statisticians do and what they do not do and, more importantly, what they as mathematics pre-service teachers need to do to become enculturated into the teaching of mathematics. Preparing pre-service mathematics teachers for teaching in multilingual classrooms: A community of practice perspective.
- keywords: adler; africa; anthony; attention; blmc; classrooms; concept; content; contexts; development; different; education; education classrooms; education mathematics; educators; english; essien; examples; exemplifying; identities; identity; knowledge; language; learners; learning; line; mathematics; mathematics classrooms; mean; median; multilingual; multilingual classrooms; multilingual mathematics; number; opportunities; perspectives; practices; pre; research; service; service teachers; setati; south; study; teacher; teacher education; teaching; teia; teib; training; universities; university; wenger
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- pie-1873
- author: Nyoni, Jabulani
- title: E-readiness of open and distance learning (ODL) facilitators: Implications for effective mediation
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 5209
- flesch: 41
- summary: Overall, four general conceptual themes characterised participants’ views of the utilisation of the web page for ODL learning mediation, as revealed by examining the prevailing conceptions and discourses that are manifested in the textual data of this article. First, the findings revealed by qualitative deconstructive discourse analysis indicated that the majority of ODL facilitators lack those e-readiness skills that are critical in the effective manipulation of ICT affordances tools in ODL mediation environments.
- keywords: 2001; academic; adaptances; adult; affordances; analysis; appropriate; change; communication; communities; critical; data; deconstructive; development; different; discourse; dissemination; distance; distance learning; education; effective; environment; experiences; facilitators; ict; icts; implications; information; institutions; instructor; jabulani; knowledge; learning; lecturers; london; mediation; methodology; methods; need; new; number; nyoni; odl; online; open; orientation; perspectives; portal; practice; press; principles; process; processes; programmes; qualitative; readiness; ready; research; sage; self; skills; social; students; study; teaching; technologies; technology; time; tools; traditional; training; university; use; views; way; work
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- pie-1874
- author: Sibanda, Jabulani; Baxen, Jean
- title: Towards a reconceptualisation of “word” for high frequency word generation in word knowledge studies
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 5482
- flesch: 55
- summary: The paper advocates further research into children’s psychological processing of English word forms to constitute a taxonomy of word forms which merit treatment as single words at different levels of learners’ competence. The latter does not guarantee that inflections with a lower spread in their use are more difficult than those that have an impact on many word forms in the language.
- keywords: acquisition; affixes; analysis; base; base form; bauer; baxen; burden; class; conceptualisation; construct; corpus; counts; different; education; english; family; form; frequency; frequency word; generation; grade; headword; hfw; high; inflections; jabulani; jean; journal; knowledge; language; learners; learning; lemma; level; meaning; nation; natural; order; paper; perspectives; principle; reading; research; second; separate; sibanda; studies; study; taxonomy; token; type; unit; vocabulary; way; word; word family; word knowledge; write
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- pie-1875
- author: Ohajunwa, Chioma; Hardy, Anneli; Mckenzie, Judith; Lorenzo, Theresa
- title: Inclusion of disability issues in teaching and research in higher education
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 5653
- flesch: 42
- summary: PiE32(3) Book.indb Perspectives in Education 2014: 32(3) http://www.perspectives-in-education.com ISSN 0258-2236 © 2014 University of the Free State 104 Inclusion of disability issues in teaching and research in higher education Chioma Ohajunwa, Judith Mckenzie, Anneli Hardy & Theresa Lorenzo Evidence suggests that the lack of inclusion of disability issues in the curricula of higher education institutions may result in the perpetuation of practices that discriminate against disabled people in the broader society. In light of this claim, this article investigates whether and how disability issues are included in the teaching and research of three faculties at the University of Cape Town (UCT), namely the faculties of Health Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering and the Built Environment.
- keywords: anneli; approach; barriers; cape; chioma; curriculum; data; departments; development; different; disability; disability inclusion; disability issues; disabled; ebe; education; engineering; environment; extent; faculties; faculty; focus; hardy; health; heis; higher; hum; humanities; impairment; inclusion; individual; interview; issues; judith; lorenzo; mckenzie; medical; model; ohajunwa; participant; people; perspectives; policies; policy; practice; research; respondents; rights; sciences; social; south; staff; students; study; teaching; theresa; town; uct; university; use
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- pie-1876
- author: Weiss, Rachel; Archer, Arlene
- title: A social semiotic approach to textbook analysis: The construction of the discourses of Pharmacology
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 5679
- flesch: 47
- summary: In this instance, colour is Figure 2: The cover of Oxford textbook of clinical pharmacology and drug therapy Perspectives in Education 2014: 32(3) 126 also a modality marker in that it may signify a naturalistic interpersonal relationship between doctor and patient. Oxford textbook of clinical pharmacology and drug therapy.
- keywords: 1992; 2002; academic; analysis; approach; archer; arlene; authors; care; certain; choice; clinical; colour; construction; content; cover; curriculum; design; discourses; drug; education; example; fairclough; health; ideological; image; information; integrated; interpersonal; knowledge; kress; learning; leeuwen; london; meaning; medical; new; oxford; particular; patient; perspectives; pharmacology; power; practices; preface; primary; principles; rachel; rang; reader; relationship; routledge; science; scientific; section; semiotic; smith; social; specific; students; subject; textbook; texts; therapy; truth; university; van; view; visual; weiss; world
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- pie-1877
- author: Barozzi, Stefano; Ojeda, Juan Ramón Guijarro
- title: Discussing Sexual identities with pre-service primary school englishlanguage teachers from a spanish context
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 6471
- flesch: 54
- summary: The focus group followed a questionnaire on their knowledge and understanding of sexual identity issues in education. Sexual identity issues are not normally treated in the Spanish national educational system, especially at primary school level and in private Catholic schools.
- keywords: 2007; 2009; article; barozzi; children; context; discussion; education; efl; elementary; english; esl; focus; gay; gender; group; guijarro; heteronormativity; heterosexism; heterosexual; homophobia; identities; identity; important; issues; journal; juan; knowledge; language; lgbti; nelson; new; normal; ojeda; parents; participants; pedagogical; people; perspectives; pre; primary; primary school; pupils; queer; queer issues; questionnaire; ramón; research; school; service; sexual; sexual identities; sexuality; social; spain; spanish; stefano; students; studies; study; teachers; teaching; term; textbooks; theory; training; university; women
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- pie-1878
- author: Masinire, Alfred; Maringe, Felix; Nkambule, Thabisile
- title: Education for rural development: Embedding rural dimensions in initial teacher preparation
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 5346
- flesch: 42
- summary: The context of rural teacher education in South Africa Post-1994 South Africa witnessed a massive restructuring of the majority of teaching and technical colleges into fewer, larger and multidisciplinary tertiary institutions (Gordon, 2009). This article presents some of the tensions that are inherent in the conceptions of rurality, rural education and the possibility of sustainable rural education and development.
- keywords: 2004; 2006; africa; alfred; areas; challenges; communities; community; context; curriculum; deficit; development; dimensions; discourses; doe; education; example; experience; felix; implications; initial; islam; issues; knowledge; learners; learning; low; maringe; masinire; moletsane; need; new; nkambule; notion; opportunity; perspectives; place; policy; poor; preparation; programme; quality; research; resources; rural; rural areas; rural development; rural education; rural schools; rural te; rurality; schools; service; skills; south; space; students; sustainability; teacher; teacher education; teaching; terms; training; university; urban; work
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- pie-1879
- author: America, Carina
- title: Understanding economic and management sciences teachers’ conceptions of sustainable development
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 5541
- flesch: 45
- summary: Keywords: Economic and management sciences education, business education, sustainable development, education for sustainable development, environmental education Introduction Sustainable development forms part of the discursive terrains of several subjects within the South African school context. EMS education provides the ideal platform to integrate sustainability issues into topics of business principles and economic developments, for example, the current global economic crisis and how South Africa, as a global player, responds to national issues that affect sustainable economic development.
- keywords: africa; america; bonnett; business; carina; case; conceptions; context; curriculum; development; different; economic; economy; education; ems; ems education; ems teachers; environmental; esd; example; future; global; government; growth; higher; impact; important; international; issues; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; long; management; national; needs; new; people; perspectives; practice; questions; regard; research; resources; school; sciences; sector; society; south; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; sustainable growth; sustained; teachers; teaching; term; understanding; wced; world
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- pie-1880
- author: van staden, Surette; Howie, Sarah
- title: Reflections on Creemers’ Comprehensive Model of Educational Effectiveness for Reading Literacy: South African evidence from PIRLS 2006
- date: 2014-09-30
- words: 7302
- flesch: 40
- summary: Table 5 indicates that, with most of the statistically significant factors found at learner level, most of the differences at school level in reading achievement scores across five language groupings could not be explained using the conceptual framework for this study. This study offered a theoretical reflection of an empirical study of learner assessment in South African schools in an attempt to uncover factors that affect reading literacy achievement.
- keywords: achievement; activities; african; african pirls; afrikaans; analysis; average; background; classroom; components; comprehensive; comprehensive model; context; contextual; creemers; data; economic; educational; educational effectiveness; effectiveness; effects; english; evidence; factors; framework; grade; groupings; home; howie; instruction; international; kyriakides; language; learners; learning; level; literacy; model; mullis; nguni; opportunities; opportunity; original; overall; parent; performance; perspectives; pirls; points; quality; questionnaire; questions; reading; reflections; research; resources; sarah; school; scores; significant; socio; sotho; south; south african; staden; status; strategies; study; surette; table; teacher; theoretical; time; van; variables
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- pie-1881
- author: Chauraya, Efiritha
- title: Access or inclusion? Conceptualisation and operationalisation of gender equality in Zimbabwean state universities.
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 6710
- flesch: 54
- summary: The findings of the study shed light on the adopted tailoring model of gender equality by the institutions and how the model blinkered the other qualitative gender dimensions of the mainstream, rendering the envisaged goal of gender equality elusive due to the exclusion of the students from the mainstream. Conceptualisation and operationalisation of gender equality in Zimbabwean state universities.
- keywords: 2007; access; action; adopted; affirmative; african; agenda; analysis; approach; chairpersons; change; conceptualisation; data; departments; development; different; disadvantaged; discrimination; discussion; education; equality; face; faculty; female; female students; findings; focus; gender; gender equality; gender initiatives; group; inclusion; inequalities; initiatives; institutions; interviews; issues; lecturers; mainstream; mainstreaming; means; model; need; new; numbers; operationalisation; parity; persistent; perspectives; policy; politics; programmes; qualitative; research; rights; sex; site; social; state; status; students; study; tailoring; universities; university; visions; walby; way; wilson; women; year; zimbabwean
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- pie-1882
- author: Cho, Mee-Ok; Scherman, Vanessa; Gaigher, Estelle
- title: Exploring differential science performance in Korea and South Africa: A multilevel analysis
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 6706
- flesch: 65
- summary: Bloom (1976: 104) reports that 25% of the variance in school achievement could be accounted for by attitudes; research has consistently shown a correlation between attitudes and achievement (Shen & Tam, 2008). The results show that the father’s education, school level expected by the learner, and books at home are significant in contributing to the model.
- keywords: achievement; africa; analysis; attitudes; background; class; classroom; climate; context; countries; creemers; curriculum; data; development; differential; education; effectiveness; effects; estelle; factors; gaigher; high; important; influence; instruction; international; journal; korea; language; learner; learner level; learning; level; martin; mathematics; mee; model; multilevel; opportunity; performance; perspectives; physical; pretoria; professional; quality; relationship; research; resource; results; scheerens; scherman; school; school level; science; science achievement; scores; ses; significant; size; south; south africa; study; table; task; teacher; teaching; test; time; timss; university; use; vanessa; variables; variance
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- pie-1883
- author: Thondhlana, Gladman; Belluigi, Dina Zoe
- title: Group work as ‘terrains of learning’ for students in South African higher education
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 7315
- flesch: 48
- summary: If group work is to be effective and enjoyable for students, certain steps should be taken to help students become aware that such group work might aid them in skills such as those Perspectives in Education 2014: 32(4) 52 to do with communication, and to equip students to deal effectively with problems that often arise in collaborative learning activities. Turning student groups into effective teams.
- keywords: academic; activities; african; african higher; approach; attitudes; backgrounds; black; case; challenges; class; collaborative; context; critical; cultural; curriculum; data; development; different; dina; diverse; diversity; dynamics; education; engagement; environmental; ethnic; ethnicity; experiences; findings; gender; general; gladman; group; group work; higher; higher education; ideas; important; individual; interactions; issues; journal; knight; knowledge; learning; level; majority; mann; means; members; need; people; perceptions; perspectives; quality; race; regard; research; responses; results; science; social; socio; south; students; studies; study; tasks; teaching; terrains; thondhlana; understanding; ways; work; working; year; zoe
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- pie-1884
- author: Wilson-Strydom, Merridy
- title: Confronting contradiction: Diversity experiences at school and university
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 6737
- flesch: 54
- summary: Thereafter, I present the empirical data demonstrating how first-year students and high school learners experience diversity. This paper draws on empirical data collected during 2009 and 2010 when I worked with high school learners (Grades 10, 11 and 12) and first-year students at the University of the Free State (UFS).
- keywords: adaptive; africa; afrikaans; agency; approach; article; black; capabilities; choice; class; conditions; context; contradiction; contradictory; conversion; data; development; differences; different; diverse; diversity; drawing; education; empirical; encounters; english; example; experiences; factors; higher; higher education; human; ideas; instruction; language; learners; level; medium; merridy; nussbaum; paper; people; perspectives; positive; preferences; press; qualitative; race; research; sample; school; sen; social; south; strydom; students; study; terms; township; transformation; type; value; white; wilson; year
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- pie-1885
- author: Maistry, Suriamurthee Moonsamy; Pillay, Preya
- title: Gender representation in contemporary Grade 10 Business Studies textbooks in South Africa
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 7920
- flesch: 53
- summary: By being excluded from the higher echelons in Business textbooks, women are implicitly projected as unworthy or unable to participate equally in the corporate world. Yet, despite the ideological changes made to the curriculum since 1994, and despite policy statements aimed at publishing textbooks that are gender-friendly, the Gender Equity Task Team (GETT) Report identified a number of obstacles to transformation of the South African education system, one of which was transformation as it relates to gender issues in school textbooks (Wolpe, Quinlan & Martinez, 1997: 23; Biraimah, 1998: 44).
- keywords: africa; analysis; authors; boys; business; business studies; butler; case; cda; children; constitution; contemporary; content; critical; cultural; culture; curriculum; data; davis; depiction; discourse; domestic; economic; education; examples; exceptional; fact; female; figure; findings; firstness; focus; gender; gender representation; gendered; girls; government; grade; hartman; important; judd; key; language; leadership; learners; learning; level; likely; low; maistry; male; management; materials; moonsamy; new; occupations; order; perspectives; pillay; policy; portrayal; positions; power; powerful; pretoria; preya; pronoun; reading; representation; research; roles; school; second; sex; social; society; south; south africa; state; status; stereotypes; stereotypical; studies; studies textbooks; study; successful; suriamurthee; teaching; textbooks; texts; university; use; way; women
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- pie-1886
- author: Baxen, Jean; Nsubugu, Yvonne; Botha, Liz
- title: A Capabilities perspective on education quality: Implications for foundation phase teacher education programme design
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 5245
- flesch: 42
- summary: Distinctive features of CA education quality By promoting an integrated approach to education quality and widening the scope of its meaning, the CA helps raise questions that are often ignored or side-lined by more traditional approaches. This article aims to advance discussions on education quality, through critical engagement with discourses on the capabilities approach and its implications for education quality thinking, and offer an example of what implementation of this approach might mean in a South African teacher education context.
- keywords: african; agency; approach; barrett; baxen; botha; capabilities; capability; capital; conversion; countries; critical; design; development; economic; education; education quality; example; factors; foundation; framework; functionings; human; implications; individual; jean; journal; justice; learners; liz; nsubuga; perspective; phase; practice; programme; quality; research; resources; rhodes; rights; robeyns; school; sen; social; south; students; teacher; teacher education; thinking; tikly; university; value; view; walker; wigley; yvonne
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- pie-1887
- author: Naidoo, Devika
- title: Enhancing validity when researching the ‘Other’: Insights from Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Science Research Practice
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 6702
- flesch: 39
- summary: Insights from Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Science Research Practice Devika Naidoo 113 Bourdieu was also concerned about the use of social dichotomies in social research that filter observation and perception of the researcher; thus, hindering or imprisoning thought. Keywords: social science research practice, relational epistemology, methodology, reflexivity, ‘other’ Introduction The epistemic imperative or the search for ‘true’ or truthful knowledge as the goal of scientific inquiry or research (Mouton, 2009) is a challenging goal to meet.
- keywords: 2007; accounts; agents; analysis; approach; bourdieu; collective; concepts; conceptual; conditions; construction; context; data; devika; different; economic; education; epistemic; epistemological; epistemology; example; experience; field; habitus; insights; intellectual; key; knowledge; naidoo; necessary; object; objective; objectivity; order; participants; perceptions; personal; perspectives; pierre; pierre bourdieu; point; position; practice; problem; reality; reflexive; reflexivity; relational; representations; research; research practice; researchers; science; science research; scientific; second; sense; social; social science; sociology; structures; systems; theoretical; theory; thinking; tools; validity; view; wacquant; way; ways; world
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- pie-1888
- author: Dlamini, Eunice Tressa; Adams, Jabulile Dorothy
- title: Patriarchy: A case of Women in Institutions of Higher Education
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 5113
- flesch: 50
- summary: Kiamba (2008), in describing Patriarchy: A case of Women in Institutions of Higher Education Eunice Tressa Dlamini, Jabulile Dorothy Adams 123 barriers to women obtaining leadership positions, states that traditional beliefs and cultural attitudes regarding the role of women in society are still prevalent in the African context and that these act as deterrents to the promotion of females. According to Jones (2006:27), men are a prized commodity, yet there appears to be no clear consensus Patriarchy: A case of Women in Institutions of Higher Education Eunice Tressa Dlamini, Jabulile Dorothy Adams 125 on the type of skills and qualities they exhibit besides being physically different from women.
- keywords: academic; adams; african; black; case; criteria; data; dlamini; dorothy; education; environment; equality; equity; eunice; experiences; female; findings; following; gender; higher; higher education; impact; institutions; issues; jabulile; males; management; manager; means; miroiu; mobility; order; output; participants; patriarchy; perspectives; positions; power; promotion; qualitative; research; researchers; responses; rights; roles; senior; situation; social; south; students; study; theory; transformation; tressa; upward; use; women; work
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- pie-1889
- author: Weir, Carolyn; Ayliff, Diana
- title: Does Deafness Spell Disaster? An Analysis of the Written English Levels of Deaf Children in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, South Africa
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 5453
- flesch: 58
- summary: An Analysis of the Written English Levels of Deaf Children in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, South Africa Carolyn Weir, Diana Ayliff This article presents the findings of an empirical comparative study in the Nelson Mandela Metropole investigating the difference between the written English of deaf children and the written English of hearing children and makes recommendations on how to improve the writing of deaf children. In order for deaf children in South Africa to develop their writing, immediate government assistance is necessary in order to implement newborn screening country wide followed by medical and/or language-based intervention to minimise the impact of deafness on the language and writing abilities of deaf children.
- keywords: academic; accuracy; acquisition; africa; analysis; average; ayliff; carolyn; children; deaf; deaf children; deafness; development; diana; difference; disaster; early; education; emergent; english; error; essay; figure; fluency; free; grade; group; hearing; language; learners; levels; literacy; loss; mandela; mean; mean number; metropole; nelson; number; perspectives; psycholinguistics; reading; research; results; schools; screening; second; significant; south; south africa; study; swanepoel; terms; units; university; weir; words; writing
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- pie-1890
- author: Pithouse-Morgan, Kathleen; Naicker, Inbanathan; Chikoko, Vitallis; Pillay, Daisy; Morojele, Pholoho; Hlao, Teboho
- title: Entering an ambiguous space: Evoking polyvocality in educational research through collective poetic inquiry
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 7502
- flesch: 48
- summary: The poems are interwoven with research discussions in which we take a reflexive stance to make visible how we are coming to know as educational researchers (Badley, Entering an ambiguous space: Evoking polyvocality in educational research through collective poetic inquiry Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Inbanathan Naicker et al 153 2009a; Vasudevan, 2011; Vinz, 1997). However, tensions with respect to polyvocality, voice and voicelessness are also apparent in debates on participatory research, particularly forms of participatory Entering an ambiguous space: Evoking polyvocality in educational research through collective poetic inquiry Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Inbanathan Naicker et al 151 research where “community members, or stakeholders in communities, collaborate with researchers in addressing needs and enhancing resilience and well-being in societies” (Ferreira, 2012: 512).
- keywords: academic; african; ambiguous; analysis; arts; audience; brother; collective; collective poetic; community; conversations; data; different; discussion; diverse; educational; educational research; experience; forum; haiku; inbanathan; inquiry; international; journal; kathleen; knowing; knowledge; kwazulu; learning; literary; making; members; morgan; naicker; narrative; natal; participants; participatory; pedagogic; performance; perspectives; pithouse; poems; poetic; poetic inquiry; poetry; polyvocality; present; process; qualitative; research; researchers; self; setting; sisters; social; south; space; stories; student; teachers; teaching; team; time; traditional; transcript; understanding; university; voices; way; ways; words; writing
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- pie-1891
- author: Mahlomaholo, Sechaba
- title: Education researchers as bricoleurs in the creation of sustainable learning environments
- date: 2014-12-12
- words: 5766
- flesch: 47
- summary: The researcher conducting such research was viewed as an isolated genius who went into foreign territories/other people’s being to understand the “other’s” ways of doing things and to analyse those using the researcher’s tools and frames of reference, just like the colonialist would do (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005). Bricolage as research approach is better poised because it thrives paradoxically on making sense of what seems chaotic and contradictory.
- keywords: analysis; approach; better; bhaskar; bricolage; bricoleurs; cambridge; challenges; communities; complexity; comte; context; creation; cultural; data; denzin; development; different; economic; eds; education; environments; example; experiences; free; human; kinchloe; knowledge; learner; learning; learning environments; lincoln; mahlomaholo; modalities; multi; multiplicity; new; participants; people; performance; perspectives; positivism; power; problems; process; provision; qualitative; quality; reality; research; researchers; respective; schools; sechaba; sense; social; socio; state; strategies; students; studies; sustainable; teams; theoretical; theory; truth; understanding; university; validity; ways
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- pie-1892
- author: Ngcoza, Ken; Southwood, Sue
- title: Professional development networks: From transmission to co-construction
- date: 2015-03-31
- words: 4383
- flesch: 50
- summary: Central to the study was the development of both participatory and emancipatory approaches to teacher professional development, premised on mutual and collaborative support (Southwood, 2000). As Lieberman (2000: 222) points out, through the mobilisation and motivation of teachers to engage in their own learning, such mechanisms have, in both the US and the UK, become a significant force for teacher development.
- keywords: action; africa; approach; change; construction; content; curriculum; data; development; education; experience; information; journal; kemmis; ken; knowledge; learners; learning; network; new; ngcoza; participants; participatory; past; pedagogical; perspectives; practice; praxis; process; professional; professional development; reflexivity; research; responsibility; school; science; southwood; study; subject; sue; support; tcpd; teachers; teaching; transformative; transmission; university; view; ways
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- pie-1893
- author: Walker, Melanie; Mkwananzi, Faith
- title: Theorising multiply disadvantaged young people’s challenges in accessing higher education
- date: 2015-03-31
- words: 6184
- flesch: 46
- summary: Capabilities and disadvantage Of interest then is which theoretical framework can explain the complex lives of young people and capture the dimensions of multiple dis/advantage in intersecting biographies and structural conditions, while also taking into account their voices and aspirations. The three guardians interviewed had been working with young people for over four years.
- keywords: able; access; agency; approach; arrangements; aspirations; capabilities; capability; challenges; conversion; data; development; dimensions; disadvantaged; education; example; factors; faith; farm; form; framework; freedom; functionings; future; higher; human; important; individual; justice; lack; life; lives; melanie; misztal; mkwananzi; multiply; nussbaum; opportunities; oppression; orange; orphanage; people; person; public; resources; sen; social; south; study; theorising; university; vulnerability; walker; way; young; young people
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- pie-1894
- author: Rambiritch, Avasha
- title: Accountability issues in testing academic literacy: The case of the Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students (TALPS)
- date: 2015-03-31
- words: 6659
- flesch: 50
- summary: The paper begins by questioning the role of applied linguists working within this framework before focusing specifically on the concepts of accountability, dual accountability, public accountability and academic accountability with particular reference to their use in language and academic literacy testing. Keywords: applied linguistics, language testing, academic literacy, accountability, academic accountability, intervention, public accountability, theoretical accountability 1.
- keywords: 2007b; abilities; academic; academic accountability; academic literacy; academic writing; accountability; accountable; addition; applied; avasha; butler; case; course; design; designers; development; different; education; field; focus; framework; important; information; intervention; issues; language; learning; lecturer; levels; linguistics; literacy; module; need; postgraduate; postgraduate students; process; public; rambiritch; research; responsibility; responsible; students; talps; task; teaching; technical; test; testing; text; theoretical; university; use; weideman; writing
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- pie-1895
- author: Mudaly, Vimolan; Naidoo, Jayaluxmi
- title: The concrete-representationalabstract sequence of instruction in mathematics classrooms
- date: 2015-03-31
- words: 6971
- flesch: 52
- summary: In South Africa, master teachers are considered expert teachers in their discipline. In South Africa, master teachers are considered expert teachers in their discipline.
- keywords: abstract; activity; africa; approach; classrooms; collection; concepts; concrete; cra; data; diagrams; education; engeström; example; experience; figure; gestures; group; important; instruction; interviews; jayaluxmi; karyn; knowledge; learners; learning; lessons; level; line; master; master teachers; mathematics; mathematics classrooms; mudaly; naidoo; observations; order; perspectives; pilot; questionnaire; representational; research; sam; scaffolding; schools; sequence; south; stage; strategies; study; symbols; system; teachers; teaching; theory; tools; understanding; use; video; vimolan; visuals; witzel
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- pie-1896
- author: Reyneke, Roelf P.
- title: Restoring our children: Why a restorative approach is needed to discipline South African children
- date: 2015-03-31
- words: 6648
- flesch: 58
- summary: The best interests of the child in school discipline in South Africa. Socio-economic problems at home and in the school environment are also contributing to the fact that millions of South African children are performing poorly Perspectives in Education 2015: 33(1) 58 in school, presenting with behavioural problems, and even dropping out of the school system.
- keywords: 2008; abuse; african; approach; available; behaviour; brendtro; broken; caring; children; circle; climate; community; control; courage; culture; development; disciplinary; discipline; education; environment; experience; feelings; hansberry; harm; high; justice; lead; learners; levels; methods; misconduct; needs; negative; order; par; people; person; perspectives; philosophy; positive; practices; problems; punishment; punitive; redekop; relationships; response; restorative; restorative approach; reyneke; roelf; school; self; shame; shaming; social; south; support; teachers; things; thorsborne; troubled; use; van; violence; wachtel; way
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- pie-1897
- author: Nyambe, John; Wilmot, Di
- title: Voices of divergence: resistance, contestation and the shaping of Namibia’s teacher education, 1990- 2010
- date: 2015-03-31
- words: 6219
- flesch: 40
- summary: It argues that, far from being smooth sailing, teacher education reform in post-apartheid Namibia has been characterised by severe turbulence with divergent forces wrestling over the philosophical and epistemological orientations of the new teacher education. Keywords: Teacher education reform, official pedagogic discourse, recontextualisation, resistance, contestation.
- keywords: actet; agencies; agents; apartheid; basic; basic education; bernstein; betd; ccg; certificate; colleges; content; contestation; curriculum; dahlstrom; degree; development; discourse; divergence; education reform; educational; educators; epistemological; field; force; general; ideological; john; knowledge; level; ministry; namibia; new; nied; nyambe; official; orf; paper; pedagogic; pedagogy; perspectives; policy; post-1990; post-1990 teacher; prf; process; professional; programme; project; public; reform; resistance; shaping; significant; state; students; study; teacher education; teachers; teaching; tensions; terp; training; university; voices; wilmot
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- pie-1898
- author: Martin, Melanie; Ngcobo, Jabulani
- title: Social justice as a conduit for broadening curriculum access: Stories from classroom teachers
- date: 2015-03-31
- words: 5974
- flesch: 54
- summary: That is, social justice teachers are obliged to teach in ways that broaden curriculum access for all learners. We believe that social justice education should serve the function of empowering teachers’ pedagogy.
- keywords: 1997; 2012; academic; access; ace; action; african; basic; classroom; conduit; contexts; critical; curriculum; curriculum access; data; education; human; identity; instance; issues; jabulani; justice; justice education; knowledge; kwazulu; learners; learning; martin; means; melanie; natal; national; need; new; ngcobo; paper; participants; particular; perspectives; political; practices; process; quality; reflexive; reports; research; school; self; social; social justice; south; stories; students; study; teachers; teaching; understanding; university; use; ways; work
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- pie-1899
- author: Carrim, Nazir; Taruvinga, Mandi
- title: Using ICTs (educationally) for development in an African context: Possibilities and limitations
- date: 2015-03-31
- words: 7893
- flesch: 46
- summary: We also draw on some USA-, UK- and Australia-based research on the use of ICTs in educational institutions, as well as on work done by South Africans on the extent of ICTs use in South African educational institutions. From an Australian context, Singh (2001) observed Samoan students’ use of ICTs, and pointed out that, while ICTs use by Samoan students increased their feelings of belonging, solidarity and friendship in that using ICTs to communicate with other Samoan students reduced their feelings of alienation and isolation in Australian universities, there was little evidence to suggest that ICTs use did improve the Samoan students’ understanding of the content of the subjects for which they were registered.
- keywords: able; access; acquisition; african; african agenda; african context; african countries; agenda; article; better; cape; carrim; communications; context; continent; countries; current; czerniewicz; development; dhet; economic; economy; education; educational institutions; global; government; higher; human; icts; importance; information; infrastructure; institutions; integration; internet; learners; learning; levels; limitations; mandi; nazir; new; pan; participation; pedagogy; people; perspectives; phase; phones; point; possibilities; report; research; right; sadc; schools; significant; skills; social; south; south african; students; taruvinga; teachers; teaching; technology; universities; university; use
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- pie-19
- author: Editor, The
- title: Erratum: Perspectives in Education , Volume 27, Number 4, December 2009
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 58
- flesch: 59
- summary: he surname of the Author in the article “Racial desegregation and the institutionalisation of ‘race’ in university governance: the case of the University of Cape Town” and in the Contents on the back cover was inadvertently misspelt. LUESCH ER
- keywords: luesch; university
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- pie-1900
- author: Ntinda, Kayi; Ntinda, Magdalene Nakalowa; Mpofu, Elias
- title: Teacher-reported quality of schooling indicators in Botswana primary schools: an exploratory study
- date: 2015-03-31
- words: 5389
- flesch: 46
- summary: This study investigated both objective and subjective quality of education indicators that Botswana school teachers identified to characterize their schools. A purposively selected sample of primary school teachers in the city of Gaborone, Botswana (N = 72, females = 56; males = 16; mean age = 39 years, SD = 7.17 years; mean years of service = 15.6; SD= 8 years; public schools = 65%; private schools = 35%), completed a survey on their perceptions of quality of education indicators relevant to their school setting.
- keywords: appraisal; approaches; attainment; availability; botswana; classroom; community; curriculum; data; delivery; design; development; education; elias; exploratory; extent; facilities; gaborone; higher; homework; important; indicators; infrastructure; international; journal; kayi; learners; learning; magdalene; management; mean; ministry; mpofu; nakalowa; needs; ntinda; perceptions; performance; perspectives; primary; private; private schools; professional; public; public schools; qualifications; qualitative; quality; research; resources; schooling; schooling indicators; schools; self; services; students; study; subjective; support; table; teachers; teaching; type; use; views; work; years
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- pie-1901
- author: Gravett, Sarah; Ramsaroop, Sarita
- title: Bridging theory and practice in teacher education: teaching schools – a bridge too far?
- date: 2015-03-31
- words: 6724
- flesch: 52
- summary: Teaching school teachers not only guide and mentor student-teachers (Kansanen, 2014), they also conduct research in collaboration with the university to contribute to the development of teacher education (Sahlberg, 2012). The inquiry was guided by this research question: ‘What are the views of school teachers, school management teams and the teacher education sector on the proposed establishment of teaching schools at South African teacher education institutions?’
- keywords: 2011; 2012; 2014; africa; bridge; bridging; cochran; conceptual; curriculum; data; development; different; eds; education; educators; experience; framework; gap; gravett; higher; inquiry; institutions; integrated; jones; knowledge; korthagen; learning; lytle; mcnamara; model; murray; notion; participants; perspectives; practical; practice; preparation; professional; qualitative; ramsaroop; relevant; research; role; sarah; sarita; schools; service; sites; smith; south; student; teacher; teacher education; teaching; teaching school; theoretical; theory; thinking; training; understanding; universities; university; views
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- pie-1902
- author: Shefer, Tamara; Macleod, Catriona
- title: Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa: Gendered norms, justice and transformation
- date: 2015-06-30
- words: 4390
- flesch: 42
- summary: In considering the kinds of lessons currently being ‘prescribed’ or at least ‘heard’ by young people, more reflexivity and critical analysis may assist in reshaping Perspectives in Education 2015: 33(2) 8 the dominance of the negative construction of young sexualities (through the ‘danger, disease, damage’ discourse and the negation of young sexuality) as well as destabilizing the reproduction of normative gender discourses and rationalization of gender inequality. The current studies reiterate larger concerns, both local and international, that sexuality education is primarily framed in a negative construction of young sexualities, with emphasis on a regulatory, disciplinary and punitive response to young people’s sexual desires and practices.
- keywords: 33(2; africa; bhana; cape; catriona; challenges; critical; desires; discourses; education; experiences; focus; francis; gender; gendered; group; hiv; issue; journal; justice; key; lessons; life; macleod; orientation; papers; people; perspectives; practices; pregnancy; programmes; qualitative; research; school; sexualities; sexuality; sexuality education; shefer; social; south; special; studies; tamara; teachers; teaching; transformation; vincent; ways; women; work; young; young people
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- pie-1903
- author: Jearey-Graham, Nicola; Mcleod, Catriona
- title: A discourse of disconnect: young people from the Eastern Cape talk about the failure of adult communications to provide habitable sexual subject positions
- date: 2015-06-30
- words: 7908
- flesch: 52
- summary: Key words: sexuality education; parent communication; sexuality; youth; discourse analysis; subject positions Jearey-Graham, Nicola Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction research programme, Rhodes University E-mail: Nicola.Graham@ru.ac.za Macleod, Catriona Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction research programme, Rhodes University E-mail: c.macleod@ru.ac.za Tel: +27 (46) 603 7328 Perspectives in Education 2015: 33(2) 12 Introduction School-based sexuality education, provided as part of the compulsory Life Orientation (LO) learning area, is the most widely implemented sexuality intervention in South Africa. Officially, LO should be offered for two hours per week, with the ‘Development of the self in society’ module that incorporates sexuality education taking up 8 to 11 hours over the year, depending on the grade (Department of Basic Education, 2011).
- keywords: 33(2; adult; africa; aids; behaviour; boyfriend; cape; catriona; children; classes; college; communication; cultural; culture; department; discomfort; disconnect; discourse; discursive; discussions; eastern; education; failure; fet; focus; graham; group; habitable; high; hiv; inadequate; interpretative; jearey; journal; learners; lessons; life; macleod; messages; mm/; mom; mother; nicola; paper; parental; parents; participants; peer; people; personal; perspectives; positions; pregnancy; pressure; programmes; questions; research; resources; responsibility; responsible; risk; school; sexual subject; sexualities; sexuality; sexuality education; social; south; subject; talk; teachers; university; woman; young
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- author: Kruger, Lou-Marie; Shefer, Tamara; Oakes, Antoinette
- title: ‘I could have done everything and why not?’: Young women’s complex constructions of sexual agency in the context of sexualities education in Life Orientation in South African schools
- date: 2015-06-30
- words: 8628
- flesch: 64
- summary: Perspectives in Education 2015: 33(2) 42 Conclusions In this article, we explored how one group of young South African women speak of sexual agency in the context of their talk on LO sexuality education programmes. We found young women constructed their agency as simultaneously enabled and constrained in complex ways: on the one hand, the explicit communication was that they should have agency and take responsibility for themselves sexually, whereas the implicit communication seemed to convey that what they really thought and felt about sex and sexuality was not important.
- keywords: 33(2; activities; adolescent; african; agency; aids; antoinette; bhana; boy; cape; community; complex; constructions; context; contradictory; decisions; desire; discourses; education; female; gender; girls; health; hiv; interviewer; jewkes; journal; kruger; lesch; life; lou; male; man; marie; messages; morrell; oakes; orientation; participants; people; perspectives; power; practices; pregnancy; programmes; relationship; reproductive; research; responsibility; schools; sex; sex education; sexual; sexual agency; sexualities; sexuality; sexuality education; shefer; social; south; south african; study; talk; tamara; teachers; teenage; tessa; time; university; way; women; young; young women
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- pie-1905
- author: Mthatyana, Andisiwe; Vincent, Louise
- title: Multiple femininities in a ‘single sex’ school: Re-orienting Life Orientation to learner lifeworlds
- date: 2015-06-30
- words: 7001
- flesch: 55
- summary: Moreover, school cultures are shown not to be isolated from home environments which are constantly interacting with how students construct their school identities. Mary Jane Kehily (2005: 1) defines ‘student sexual cultures’ as the ‘informal groups of school students who actively ascribe meanings to events within specific social contexts’.
- keywords: 33(2; andisiwe; black; bratz; choice; class; classroom; communities; construction; consumption; context; cultures; curriculum; day; different; display; diverse; diversity; dolls; education; experience; femininities; fever; focus; gender; girls; green; group; hostel; identities; identity; informal; interview; learners; lesbian; life; lifeworlds; lives; louise; making; middle; mthatyana; multiple; need; new; official; orientation; orienting; participants; particular; people; perspectives; place; point; practice; school; sexuality; sexuality education; single; site; social; south; starting; student; study; subject; talk; time; vincent; ways; white; young
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- author: Shefer, Tamara; Ngabaza, Sisa
- title: ‘And I have been told that there is nothing fun about having sex while you are still in high school’: Dominant discourses on women’s sexual practices and desires in Life Orientation programmes at school
- date: 2015-06-30
- words: 6799
- flesch: 58
- summary: A growing body of work in the context of HIV and gender-based violence illustrates how young women find it challenging to negotiate safe and equitable sexual relationships with men, and are often the victims of coercive sex, unwanted early pregnancies and HIV. A body of work on young women who parent at school has shown that a key component of the moralistic response to women’s sexuality hinges on the way in which childhood, adolescence and adulthood are popularly understood, together with dominant notions of masculinity and femininity within heteronormative and middle-class notions of family.
- keywords: 33(2; african; agency; aids; bhana; boys; cape; class; consequences; danger; desires; discourses; dominant; education; experiences; female; focus; fun; gender; girls; group; high; high school; hiv; int; learners; life; literature; messages; morrell; ngabaza; orientation; participants; particular; people; perspectives; positive; practices; pregnancy; pregnant; programmes; research; school; sexuality; sexuality education; shefer; social; south; talk; teachers; teaching; teenage; things; university; violence; way; women; work; young; young women
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- pie-1907
- author: Bhana, Deevia
- title: Gendering the foundation: Teaching sexuality amid sexual danger and gender inequalities
- date: 2015-06-30
- words: 6313
- flesch: 55
- summary: A focus on the teaching of Life Skills sexuality education is to understand the potential of teachers to address gender power inequalities and confront harmful cultural norms. As such, it provides warrant for supporting teachers in the Foundation Phase to build on disruptive potentials in Life Skills sexuality education which is gender-focused, interrogative of the personal, locally relevant and disruptive of cultural norms.
- keywords: 2014; 33(2; africa; attention; bhana; boys; broader; childhood; children; classroom; context; cultural; danger; deevia; early; education; experience; father; foundation; foundation phase; gender; gender relations; gendered; gendering; girls; grade; inequalities; innocence; issues; learners; life; male; mother; mrs; norms; paper; phase; poverty; power; primary; recognition; relations; report; research; respect; school; schooling; sexuality; sexuality education; skills; social; south; study; teacher; teaching; violence; women; young
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- pie-1908
- author: Macleod, Catriona; Moodley, Dale; Young, Lisa Saville
- title: Sexual socialisation in Life Orientation manuals versus popular music: Responsibilisation versus pleasure, tension and complexity
- date: 2015-06-30
- words: 7548
- flesch: 51
- summary: The aspect of sexual socialisation on which we concentrate in this paper is the textual construction of sexual subject positions that young people might occupy. Drawing on discursive psychology, we understand sexual subject positions as recognisable identity spaces that are constructed, maintained and negotiated in a range of interactive spaces (Davies & Harré, 1990).
- keywords: 33(2; abuse; africa; analysis; attwell; attwell et; available; catriona; climax; coercive; communication; complexity; consequences; cultural; dale; desire; development; discursive; doubell; education; et al; extract; forms; frith; grade; health; key; learners; life; lo manuals; lyrics; macleod; manuals; moodley; music; new; nicki; orientation; particular; people; perspectives; pleasure; popular; popular music; positions; rape; research; responsibilisation; responsible; responsible sexual; rights; sanctioned; saville; schools; sexual; sexual socialisation; sexual subject; sexualised; sexuality; sexuality education; socialisation; songs; south; subject; subject positions; tension; texts; university; use; victim; video; violent; ways; women; young
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- pie-1909
- author: Feltham-King, Tracey
- title: Books or and Babies: Pregnancy and young parents in schools by Robert Morrell, Deevia Bhana & Tamara Shefer
- date: 2015-06-30
- words: 1655
- flesch: 41
- summary: The results show that often the presence of young pregnant women or parenting learners is at odds with some principals’ and teachers’ notions of authority, power, developmental norms and responsibility for care. The authors intend to show how these moralising discourses are utilised to exclude young women and deny them their right to education.
- keywords: 33(2; african; authors; book; constructions; discriminatory; education; educators; gendered; learners; management; parenting; parents; perspectives; power; pregnancy; pregnant; relations; research; rights; schools; section; south; south african; topic; women; young
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- pie-1910
- author: Pinto, Pedro
- title: The Politics of Pleasure in Sexuality Education: Pleasure Bound by Louisa Allen, Mary Lou Rasmussen & Mary Quinlivan (Eds)
- date: 2015-06-30
- words: 2266
- flesch: 30
- summary: Drawing from her own teaching experience in the UK, Julia Hirst offers practical ideas to effectively engage students in open discussions on sexual pleasure, and to strategically use a health and human rights agenda to support this in educational settings surrounded by anxieties with sexual initiation and risk-taking behaviour. Considering that, “when perceived as sinful or aberrant, sexual pleasure could be experienced with guilt and turmoil” (2014: 109), what might then be the role of religious texts in promoting queer pleasures and visibility in, and outside the classroom?
- keywords: 33(2; allen; chapter; classroom; comprehensive; critical; crossroads; desire; discourse; education; educators; feminist; inclusion; islamic; mary; new; pedro; people; perspectives; pleasure; politics; porn; question; quinlivan; rasmussen; religious; sanjakdar; school; sexuality; sexuality education; students; work; young
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- pie-1911
- author: Beylefeld, Adri; le Roux, Adré
- title: Guided group reflections of first-year pre-service teachers: Moving beyond the rhetoric of “go and reflect”
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 7569
- flesch: 43
- summary: Keywords: teacher education; pre-service teachers; lifelong-learning; critical reflections; social justice Adré le Roux (corresponding author) School of Education Studies University of the Free State E-mail: lerouxad@ufs.ac.za Tel: +27 51 401 2292 Adri Beylefeld University of the Free State E-mail: beylefeldaa@ufs.ac.za Tel: +27 51 401 3125 Perspectives in Education 2015: 33(3) 2 Introduction As one of the most unequal countries in the world, South Africa’s current struggle towards democratic transformation includes an on-going battle for a more equitable education system (Tikly, 2011; SAHRC, 2012). The context of a society in which the majority of South Africans remain disadvantaged not only foregrounds the role of higher education in transforming systems of inequity, but necessitates the imperative of teacher education to enable pre-service teachers to reduce injustices and increase the well-being of all learners in their future classrooms.
- keywords: 2003; action; adri; adré; african; analysis; assumptions; awareness; beylefeld; brookfield; categories; causal; challenge; change; circumstances; community; context; critical; cultural; data; development; different; discussions; dissonance; economic; education; experience; feedback; framework; free; government; group; group discussions; higher; historical; individual; inequalities; issues; learners; learning; level; lifelong; lifelong learning; need; new; opportunity; order; paradigmatic; perspectives; poverty; pre; process; project; purpose; realities; reflection; research; rhetoric; roux; school; schooling; service; service teachers; small; social; society; socio; south; south african; students; study; support; table; teacher education; teachers; teaching; transformative; ufs; understanding; university; use; visit; work; year
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- author: Uys, Daniël Wilhelm; Alant, Edward John Thomas
- title: Estimation of promotion, repetition and dropout rates for learners in South African schools
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 7325
- flesch: 63
- summary: Table 5: Estimated dropout rates (in %) for the different age groups Age group Grades 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 norm - 1 18 4 3 2 4 5 0 5 2 6 12 25 norm 6 4 2 4 3 0 0 3 0 2 13 23 norm + 1 0 1 0 1 3 3 0 13 12 16 25 22 One should recall that the method mentioned earlier uses the actual and simulated flow-through rates to determine dropout rates (as proportions of the repetition rates). Keywords: South African schools, promotion rates, repetition rates, dropout rates, birth-year cohorts Introduction The quality of basic education is of great importance to the general and economic wellbeing of any nation.
- keywords: african; age; age groups; alant; average; birth; calculated; cohort; daniël; data; dbe; different; different age; dropout; dropout rates; education; edward; emis; estimation; figure; flow; g norm; grade; groups; higher; john; learners; norm; number; paper; perspectives; procedure; promotion; promotion rates; proportions; province; rates; repetition; repetition rates; results; schooling; schools; south; south african; table; thomas; uys; values; wilhelm; year
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- author: Ontong, Krystle; le Grange, Lesley
- title: The need for place-based education in South African schools: The case of Greenfields Primary
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 7012
- flesch: 56
- summary: Gruenewald (2003b: 464) neatly captures the point: “The question is worth asking: Without focused attention to places, what will become of them – and us?” Endnotes The terms ‘place-based education’ and ‘a pedagogy of place’ are used interchangeably. Place matters: The significance of place attachments for children’s well-being.
- keywords: accountability; africa; apartheid; article; aware; black; case; challenges; community; concept; context; critical; curriculum; dbe; deleuze; department; development; discourses; eco; ecological; economic; education; emphasis; environment; experiences; farm; flight; geography; grades; grange; greenfields; greenfields primary; gruenewald; guattari; history; inhabit; interviews; krystle; land; learners; learning; lesley; lines; lived; national; need; notion; ontong; order; pbe; pedagogy; people; perspectives; place; points; political; primary; research; school; sense; smooth; social; south; south africa; space; stellenbosch; striated; studies; study; teachers; technical; understanding; university; village; work
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- pie-1915
- author: Matope, Jasmine; Badroodien, Azeem
- title: Youth perspectives of achievement: Is money everything?
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 6100
- flesch: 54
- summary: It observes that current debates and comparisons on academic achievement generally neglect to recognize achievement as individual choice, and that different learners have different views and approaches towards achievement. To triangulate the student interviews five staff members of the school were interviewed on how they constructed ideas of achievement into the school’s daily undertakings, what they generally expected from a variety of students in the school, and how they worked with often conflicting and inconsistent interpretations of student achievement.
- keywords: abdullah; academic; access; achievement; appadurai; article; aspirations; attitudes; azeem; background; badroodien; bourdieu; capacity; capitals; class; cultural; current; different; dispositions; economic; education; everyday; experiences; future; goals; habitus; high; important; individual; international; jasmine; key; kinds; learners; life; literature; lives; material; matope; money; need; notions; numazulu; parents; particular; patina; people; perspectives; peter; research; school; schooling; sections; social; society; student; study; thought; understanding; views; ways; work; worlds; youth
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- pie-1916
- author: Ndebele, Misheck
- title: Socio-economic factors affecting parents’ involvement in homework: Practices and perceptions from eight Johannesburg public primary schools
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 6311
- flesch: 55
- summary: Linking socioeconomic status to the academic achievement of Mexican American youth through parent involvement in education. Parent involvement: Implications for limited-English-proficient students.
- keywords: adequate; african; children; city; count; department; development; different; economic; education; environments; factors; families; family; foundation; help; homework; income; influence; inner; involvement; johannesburg; journal; learners; learning; literacy; low; majority; misheck; ndebele; parental; parents; percentages; perceptions; peri; perspectives; phase; practices; primary; public; reading; research; resources; results; schools; settings; socio; south; status; study; table; theory; times; total; township; upmarket; urban; week
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- pie-1917
- author: van der Merwe, Mathilde
- title: Doctoral writing for publication at a leading African university: Publication patterns and pedagogies
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 5703
- flesch: 48
- summary: Limited data of doctoral student publication from African universities is available in terms of publication patterns and pedagogies. Supervisors and graduates from the sample were interviewed to uncover educational strategies employed to support doctoral student publication.
- keywords: academic; african; age; aitchison; collaboration; culture; data; department; der; dissertation; doctoral; education; female; figure; graduates; graduation; groups; higher; information; institution; interviews; journal; kamler; knowledge; learning; lee; male; mathilde; merwe; number; papers; patterns; pedagogies; pedagogy; peer; period; perspectives; phd; postgraduate; practice; productivity; prolific; publication; publishers; publishing; research; review; sample; science; skills; south; students; studies; study; supervisor; sv3; timing; university; van; work; write; writing; years
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- pie-1918
- author: Nikolaros, John
- title: The external contingencies and development processes of students with emotional disabilities
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 5265
- flesch: 41
- summary: In self-contained classrooms, students with ED are grouped together with other students with social aptitude problems; this tends to have more adverse implications for teachers and students (Hibel & Jasper, 2012). The teachers are challenged when students inappropriately express their feelings in the presence of other students.
- keywords: 2013; ability; achievement; adolescent; aptitude; behaviours; brain; characteristics; child; childhood; children; classroom; clinical; conditions; context; contingencies; control; decision; development; disabilities; disorders; dynamics; early; edd; eds; education; effective; emotional; emotions; environments; experiences; external; factors; family; health; high; home; impact; individuals; influence; intelligence; interactions; intervention; john; journal; lack; learners; learning; level; multifinality; negative; nikolaros; normal; outcomes; peers; perspectives; placement; positive; problems; processes; psychological; psychology; psychopathology; range; reality; regulation; relationships; result; review; school; self; services; skills; social; special; students; support; teachers; time; treatment; understanding
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- author: Smit, Suegnet; Wood, Lesley; Neethling, Marinda
- title: Helping learners think more hopefully about life after school: The usefulness of participatory visual strategies to make career education more contextually relevant
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 7172
- flesch: 53
- summary: However, in the subject Life Orientation, life skills education can help learners become more resilient in the face of adverse socio-economic contexts. A different career guidance approach is needed to supplement general information and to serve as a strategy to incite critical thinking and hope for the future, because “hope, purpose, and a meaningful life” enhance well-being, positive goal orientation and good life choices (Duke et al., 2011: 87).
- keywords: 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; african; agency; approach; assets; barriers; career; choices; context; coping; data; development; discussion; ebersöhn; education; face; factors; figure; findings; future; health; hope; important; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; lesley; life; lives; marinda; mind; narratives; orientation; participants; participatory; personal; perspectives; photo; photographs; positive; poverty; protective; purpose; qualitative; relationships; relevant; research; resilience; resources; risk; school; self; sense; smit; social; strategies; suegnet; teachers; understanding; ungar; university; use; usefulness; visual; voice; wang; wood; youth
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- author: Alant, Erna; Geyer, Stephan; Verde, Michael
- title: Developing empathetic skills among teachers and learners in high schools in Tshwane: An inter-generational approach involving people with dementia
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 8075
- flesch: 54
- summary: Learners’ descriptions of their training experiences Learners were asked to share how they would describe this experience to learners who have not participated in this experience. Developing empathetic skills among teachers and learners in high schools in Tshwane: An inter-generational approach involving people with dementia Erna Alant, Stephan Geyer & Michael Verde 147 Research methods and procedure As a qualitative study, the collective case study design was used whereby a group of learners and teachers were exposed to focus-group discussions before and after exposure to the MBI in order to explore and describe the outcomes of the MBI with South African learners and teachers (Creswell, 2013; Fouché & Schurink, 2011).
- keywords: ability; african; alant; alzheimer; approach; awareness; benefits; bridge; buddies; buddy; circle; communication; dementia; development; disease; education; emotional; empathetic; empathetic skills; empathy; erna; example; experience; exposure; f=1; findings; focus; generational; geyer; group; half; high; impact; implementation; important; inter; interpersonal; irreversible; land; learners; learning; mbi; memory; michael; negative; neutral; new; old person; older; outcomes; participants; patience; peer; people; perceptions; person; perspectives; positive; programme; qualitative; relationships; research; researchers; responses; safe; schools; self; skills; social; south; stephan; study; teachers; term; theme; training; tshwane; understanding; university; verde; way
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- pie-1922
- author: Edwards, Nazeem
- title: Multimodality in science education as productive pedagogy in a PGCE programme
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 5739
- flesch: 40
- summary: At the core was a concern about classroom practices that make a difference to student learning, particularly those from marginalised backgrounds. It is important for teachers to use multiple and multimodal representations to enhance student learning.
- keywords: 2011; africa; assessment; classroom; concepts; conceptual; content; current; curriculum; depth; different; dimension; disciplinary; education; edwards; environment; example; experimental; figure; framework; higher; integration; journal; knowledge; learning; light; linder; lingard; modes; multimodality; multiple; nazeem; order; parallel; pedagogical; pedagogies; pedagogy; perspectives; pgce; physics; policy; potential; practices; prain; productive; productive pedagogy; programme; quality; representations; research; review; science; science education; scientific; series; south; students; study; subject; teacher; teacher education; teaching; thinking; understanding; use
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- pie-1923
- author: Williams, Clarence
- title: Problematising the Standardisation of Leadership and Management Development in South African Schools
- date: 2015-09-30
- words: 5801
- flesch: 46
- summary: The main purpose of this programme is “[T]o provide structured learning opportunities that, while recognising the diverse contexts in which schools operate, promote quality education in South African schools through the development of a corps of education leaders who apply critical understanding, values, knowledge, and skills to school leadership in line with the vision of democratic transformation” (DoE, 2008: 3). Perspectives in Education 2015: 33(3) 178 A Background to the Utilisation of Standards-based Education as the Basis for Leadership and Management Development During the mid 1990s the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA) of the United States of America, which consisted of various stakeholder groups in educational leadership, established the Interstate School Leadership Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) with the express purpose of creating a set of professional standards for school leadership.
- keywords: ace; african schools; analysis; assessment; available; basis; bush; christie; clarence; context; core; criteria; curriculum; department; development; education; empirical; evaluation; fact; focus; form; implementation; isllc; journal; june; lack; leadership; learning; main; management; management development; managers; module; national; perspectives; policy; principals; principalship; professional; programme; purpose; research; role; school; school leadership; school management; school principals; sgb; sml; south; south african; standardisation; standards; states; system; teaching; transformational; unit; unit standards; united; university; use; van; williams
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- pie-1924
- author: de Lange, Naydene; Mitchell, Claudia; Moletsane, Relebohile
- title: Critical perspectives on digital spaces in educational research
- date: 2015-12-18
- words: 2145
- flesch: 38
- summary: The articles in this Special Issue together point to the potential of digital tools and digital spaces to not only uncover, explore, interrogate or consider various issues addressed in educational research reported in the articles, but also to advance critical perspectives in the analyses of this work. PiE 33(4) Book.indb Perspectives in Education 2015: 33(4) http://www.perspectives-in-education.com ISSN 0258-2236 © 2015 University of the Free State 1 Editorial: Critical perspectives on digital spaces in educational research Naydene de Lange Claudia Mitchell Relebohile Moletsane Globally, the digital is encroaching, reformulating, and recreating spaces in contemporary society (Kalantzis-Cope & Gherab-Martin, 2010).
- keywords: address; africa; article; challenge; change; claudia; communities; community; critical; digital; digital spaces; documentary; education; film; issue; media; mitchell; new; participatory; perspectives; potential; research; school; service; social; south; spaces; teachers; technology; university; use; video; visual; work; young
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- author: Burkholder, Casey; Makramalla, Mona; Abdou, Ehaab; Khoja, Nazeeha; Khan, Fatima
- title: Why study power in digital spaces anyway? Considering power and participatory visual methods
- date: 2015-12-18
- words: 6843
- flesch: 49
- summary: Only through full disclosure of power relations about the process of research, and a radically different interaction between researcher and participants, can participatory visual research achieve its emancipatory objectives. In particular, we address power from the perspectives of Foucault, Freire, Giroux, and hooks in a consideration of the power structures operating in and around participatory visual research.
- keywords: 2012; abdou; action; burkholder; casey; cellphilms; critical; different; digital; discussion; dissemination; drawing; dynamics; education; ehaab; experiences; fatima; foucault; freire; giroux; group; hooks; ideas; khan; khoja; knowledge; lange; makramalla; marginalised; methodologies; methods; mitchell; mona; nazeeha; need; new; participants; participatory; participatory visual; people; perspectives; photovoice; power; practice; process; products; prompt; relation; research; researchers; role; social; spaces; study; theorists; unequal; university; use; visual; visual methods; visual research; ways; workshop; york
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- author: Mudaly, Ronicka; Pithouse-Morgan, Kathleen; van Laren, Linda; Singh, Shakila; Mitchell, Claudia
- title: Connecting with pre-service teachers’ perspectives on the use of digital technologies and social media to teach socially relevant science
- date: 2015-12-18
- words: 7141
- flesch: 42
- summary: For the research reported on here we extended the opportunity for response to the same digital animation to a group of pre-service science teachers and sought to answer the following question: What are pre-service science teachers’ perspectives on the use of digital technologies and social media to teach socially relevant science? Furthermore, if the use of digital technologies is considered by pre-service science teachers themselves to be time-efficient, then fact-finding processes for learning about social issues may be adopted more readily in science education.
- keywords: activity; africa; aids; animation; august; cell; change; claudia; codrington; concept; convenient; creative; development; digital; digital animation; digital technologies; education; generational; group; higher; hiv; information; issues; journal; kathleen; knowledge; laren; learners; learning; linda; mapping; means; media; medium; millennials; mitchell; morgan; mudaly; new; participants; particular; people; perspectives; phones; pithouse; pre; reflections; relevant; relevant science; research; responses; ronicka; science; science education; science teachers; service; service science; service teachers; shakila; singh; social; social media; south; students; teachers; teaching; technologies; technology; theory; university; use; xers
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- author: MacEntee, Katie; Mandrona, April
- title: From discomfort to collaboration: Teachers screening cellphilms in a rural South African school
- date: 2015-12-18
- words: 6813
- flesch: 54
- summary: Rural teachers, more specifically, may feel isolated and, furthermore, have a difficult time connecting with sparse resources and community support (MacEntee, 2011). Cellphilms and public screenings to inform HIV education The Digital Voices project to which we refer here aims to identify the ways in which the voices of rural teachers can become more central to meaning-making when it comes to identifying and addressing critical issues of youth sexuality in the age of AIDS.
- keywords: 2010; 2012; africa; age; aids; april; audience; boler; cellphilms; challenges; collaboration; community; condoms; cultural; curriculum; digital; discomfort; discussion; education; events; experiences; female; girls; group; health; hiv; interview; katie; knowledge; lange; learners; macentee; mandrona; media; members; mitchell; national; ntombi; participant; participatory; people; perspectives; policy; post; potential; prevention; process; project; public; questions; relation; research; rights; rural; school; screening; secondary; sexual; sexuality; small; social; south; teachers; teaching; texts; unaids; videos; visual; young
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- author: Chetty, Carmel
- title: The SenseCam as a research tool for exploring learner experiences in an urban classroom space
- date: 2015-12-18
- words: 6653
- flesch: 59
- summary: In his view those positionings led to learners’ The SenseCam as a research tool for exploring learner experiences in an urban classroom space Carmel Chetty 71 failure in the educational arena of the school. PiE 33(4) Book.indb Perspectives in Education 2015: 33(4) http://www.perspectives-in-education.com ISSN 0258-2236 © 2015 University of the Free State 57 The SenseCam as a research tool for exploring learner experiences in an urban classroom space Carmel Chetty In this article1 I describe an ethnographic exploration into the daily school life of Grade 6 learners at an urban school that serves impoverished areas in Durban.
- keywords: activities; article; behaviour; boys; camera; carmel; chetty; children; classroom; classroom space; complex; context; crime; daily; data; depth; different; education; environment; ethnography; everyday; evidence; experiences; grade; historical; images; impact; interviewer; journal; july; learners; learning; lefebvre; life; lives; london; new; notes; number; observations; participants; particular; penny; people; perspectives; photographs; physical; places; positioning; power; practices; process; questionnaire; relationships; research; responses; safe; school; school life; sensecam; social; space; street; study; taking; teacher; teaching; technology; theoretical; time; tool; understanding; university; urban; use; views; visual; way
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- pie-1931
- author: Theron, Linda C.; Jefferis, Tamlynn C.
- title: Community-based participatory video: Exploring and advocating for girls’ resilience
- date: 2015-12-18
- words: 6654
- flesch: 50
- summary: Keywords: black girls, participatory research, positive adjustment, school-going Introduction The successful completion of high school by many South African young people is under threat because they are made vulnerable by various adversities including economic disadvantage; underperforming schools; high HIV prevalence; poor service delivery; and lived experiences of trauma and abuse (Du Preez, 2011; Ramphele, 2012). Community facilitation of resilience requires a contextually-sensitive understanding of resilience, and how processes of resilience manifest in specific youth, such as, for example, black girls.
- keywords: 2009; 2014; adversity; african; awareness; black; cbpv; change; children; communities; community; context; critical; dissemination; eds; education; experiences; explanations; facilitated; girls; group; handbook; jefferis; journal; knowledge; lange; liebenberg; life; linda; method; milne; mitchell; p2rp; participants; participatory; participatory video; perspectives; potential; press; processes; psychology; research; resilience; resources; risk; school; second; sessions; social; south; specific; study; support; supportive; tamlynn; teachers; team; theron; ungar; video; visual; workers; world
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- author: Mnisi, Thoko
- title: Digital storytelling: Creating participatory space, addressing stigma, and enabling agency
- date: 2015-12-18
- words: 6503
- flesch: 57
- summary: The learners produced digital stories and written reflections, and also engaged in focus group discussions. These extracts from participants’ reflective writing after they had viewed the digital stories confirm that creating digital stories enabled their acquisition of different kinds of literacy.
- keywords: 2007; 2009; 2013; action; africa; agency; aids; change; community; digital; digital stories; digital storytelling; disclosure; discussion; education; focus; group; health; hiv; hivand; hivand aids; information; interactionism; issue; lange; language; learners; meaning; media; mitchell; mnisi; natal; new; participants; participatory; people; perspectives; process; related; research; rural; school; secondary; snail; social; south; space; stigma; stigmatisation; stories; storytelling; symbolic; technology; thoko; thought; time; use; way; work; young
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- author: Wiebesiek, Lisa
- title: Young people being literate in a digital space: What can textspeak tell us?
- date: 2015-12-18
- words: 6593
- flesch: 58
- summary: The understanding of agency that user comments seem to reveal puts undue responsibility on Pearl, the individual with less power, for failing to exercise the agency that she is assumed to have, rather than on Mr Phaladi for abusing his power. Second, the story generated a large number of user comments on the FunDza Mxit discussion board, suggesting that the content was popular and interesting to users, and that it stimulated them to engage with the material.
- keywords: 2012; access; activities; agency; article; behaviour; boards; chapter; comments; content; critical; crystal; digital; discussion; education; english; example; fundza; gender; girls; good; interactive; kagiso; language; level; linguistic; lisa; literacy; literate; male; money; mr phaladi; mxit; non; number; particular; pearl; people; perspectives; phaladi; platform; power; question; relationship; response; risk; school; sexuality; short; social; south; space; spelling; standard; story; teacher; textspeak; user; user comments; virgin; vulnerability; wiebesiek; women; young
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- author: Doubt, Jenny Suzanne
- title: Digitising and archiving HIV and AIDS in South Africa: The Museum of AIDS in Africa as an archival intervention
- date: 2015-12-18
- words: 6614
- flesch: 48
- summary: PiE 33(4) Book.indb Perspectives in Education 2015: 33(4) http://www.perspectives-in-education.com ISSN 0258-2236 © 2015 University of the Free State 121 Digitising and archiving HIV and AIDS in South Africa: The Museum of AIDS in Africa as an archival intervention Jenny Suzanne Doubt The AIDS epidemic in South Africa has demanded interventions from a number of different forums.
- keywords: 2003; 2013; 2015; ability; accessible; affected; africa; aids; aids archive; aids epidemic; apartheid; archival; archive; archiving; article; audiences; case; content; digital; digitising; diverse; doubt; education; epidemic; example; exhibition; experience; government; harris; health; history; hiv; intervention; introduction; jenny; knowledge; maa; marginalised; mcewan; memory; mobile; mourning; museological; museum; online; operation; particular; people; personal; perspectives; physical; plans; political; postcolonial; postcolonial aids; potential; practices; public; reid; related; research; silence; site; social; south africa; spaces; suzanne; technology; thomas; treatment; users; virtual; vulnerable
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- pie-1937
- author: Hart, Laurel; Mitchell, Claudia
- title: From spaces of sexual violence to sites of networked resistance: Re-imagining mobile and social media technologies
- date: 2015-12-18
- words: 7076
- flesch: 44
- summary: Social media technologies might constitute a key site in which users could warn each other about potential predators and dangerous places, explore personal and collective experiences of violence, and discuss possible actions and solutions. (Mugo & Antonites, 2014: 30) Speaking of the ways in which social media can create a space for women to connect with each other and express their sexuality, Mugo and Antonites highlight the use of Laurel Hart Concordia University, Canada Department of Art Education laurel.hart@gmail.com Claudia Mitchell McGill University, Canada claudia.mitchell@mcgill.ca 514 398 4527 ext. 09990 Perspectives in Education 2015: 33(4) 136 weblogs such as HollaAfrica and African Women’s Bedrooms that serve as community spaces for the co-creation of knowledge, particularly in the context of homophobia.
- keywords: 2010; 2011; 2012; access; africa; applications; apps; areas; case; cellphones; change; claudia; collective; communication; communities; community; content; contexts; data; devices; digital; education; example; facebook; features; forms; gender; girls; global; harassment; hart; health; imagining; information; initiatives; international; internet; intimate; issue; journal; knowledge; laurel; location; media; media technologies; mitchell; mobile; networked; networks; new; non; online; order; organisations; partner; people; personal; perspectives; phone; place; platform; presence; public; relation; resistance; risk; rural; safety; settings; sexual; sexual violence; sharing; sites; sms; social; social media; south; south africa; spaces; support; technologies; technology; time; twitter; university; use; user; uses; violence; ways; women; young
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- pie-1939
- author: Rusznyak, Lee; Balfour, Robert; van Vollenhoven, Willie; Sosibo, Lungi
- title: Why academic depth and rigour in university-based coursework matters for prospective teachers
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 4372
- flesch: 43
- summary: In so doing, they create potentially powerful opportunities for prospective teachers to think deeply and critically about teaching and learning in their subjects, about exclusionary and inclusionary practices in schools and about opening up opportunities for student teachers to think meta-cognitively about their development as teachers. The first national policy governing the provision of teacher education, the Norms and Standards for Educators (Department of Education, 2000) posed additional challenges to the newly merged sector: it stipulated that ITE programmes should prepare prospective teachers for 7 different ‘roles of the educator’.
- keywords: 2005; able; academic; academic depth; african; approach; assessment; conceptual; content; coursework; depth; development; different; education; educators; higher; initial; issue; ite; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; mathematics; need; opportunities; paper; pedagogical; personal; perspectives; practice; pre; professional; programmes; prospective; review; rigour; rusznyak; service; sosibo; south; special; students; subject; tasks; taxonomy; teachers; teaching; training; transformation; understanding; university; use; van
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- pie-1940
- author: Taylor, Nick
- title: Thinking, language and learning in initial teacher education
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 5185
- flesch: 1
- summary: The Teacher Prep Review (2014), anevaluationofITEprogrammesintheUSconductedbytheNationalCouncilonTeacher Quality,wasequallycritical.Thelatterreportwasparticularlyscathingaboutthepreparation of primary school teachers in teaching literacy: We are disheartened that the teacher education field continues to disregard scientifically based methods of reading1 instruction: coursework in just 17 percent of programs equips their elementary and special education teachers to use all five fundamental components of reading instruction, helping to explain why such a large proportion of American school children (30 percent) never learn to read beyond a basic level (National Council on Teacher Quality, 2014: 3). Schools tend not to recruit and deploy primary school teachers according to subject specialisation Theassumptionamongmostprincipalsisthataqualifiedprimaryschoolteachercanteach anysubject.Asaresult,mostteachersatprimarylevelwillberequiredtoteachmostsubjects, including maths and English, at some or other stage during their careers.
- keywords: abilities; able; african; analysis; and; children; cognition; cognitive; comprehension; concepts; conditions; content; council; curriculum; demands; design; development; discussion; eds; education; efal; english; example; expertise; extent; for; government; grade; higher; higher education; information; initial; initial teacher; instruction; international; in; is; ite; kinds; knowledge; language; learners; learning; level; literacy; london; low; ministerial; muller; national; nature; new; of; paper; perspectives; poor; practice; present; primary; professional; professional knowledge; programmes; quality; question; reading; reasoning; report; research; review; rural; school; schooling; sector; skills; source; south; south african; standards; state; students; subject; system; task; taylor; teacher; teacher education; teaching; texts; their; theory; the; thinking; to; training; understanding; universities; winch; words; work; young
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- author: Steyn, H. J.; van der Walt, J. L.; Wolhuter, C. C.
- title: Ensuring academic depth and rigour in teacher education through benchmarking, with special attention to context
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 6909
- flesch: 47
- summary: 27 Ensuring academic depth and rigour in teacher education through benchmarking, with special attention to context Abstract Benchmarking is one way of ensuring academic depth and rigour in teacher education. After making a case for setting benchmarks in teacher education based on the widely recognised intra-education system contextual factors, the importance of also taking into account the external (e.g. the national-social) context in which teacher education occurs is highlighted.
- keywords: 2007; academic; african; base; bates; benchmarking; best; competences; conditions; context; contextual; department; depth; der; development; different; eds; education; education programmes; education system; educators; elements; external; factors; formal; future; goods; higher; internal; knowledge; language; learners; learning; levels; morrow; national; nature; needs; particular; perspectives; policy; practice; problem; process; profession; programmes; project; prospective; quality; rigour; second; shulman; situation; social; south; south african; states; step; steyn; students; study; system; teacher; teacher education; teaching; theory; townsend; training; university; van; walt; wolhuter
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- pie-1942
- author: Geduld, Deidre; Sathorar, Heloise
- title: Humanising pedagogy: An alternative approach to curriculum design that enhances rigour in a B.Ed. programme
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 6066
- flesch: 47
- summary: One of the purposes of teacher education is to assist in improving the quality of teaching in schools and thus, student teachers need to learn more than the technicalities of teaching as well as something beyond classroom management techniques. Teacher educators need to prepare student teachers for life after the classroom but also to help them to be able to change the world (De Leon & Ross, 2010).
- keywords: academic; action; african; alternative; approach; assessment; b.ed; change; classroom; context; critical; cultural; current; curriculum; curriculum framework; dialogue; dimensions; disciplinary; economic; education; educators; experience; faculty; framework; fundamental; geduld; giroux; hechinger; higher; humanising; inquiry; institutions; journal; journey; knowledge; learning; life; modules; moll; needs; new; notion; order; pedagogies; pedagogy; perspectives; philosophy; place; political; practice; process; programme; purpose; renewal; report; responsiveness; rigorous; rigour; sathorar; sbl; schools; self; social; society; south; students; teacher; teacher education; teaching; theories; theory; understanding; university; ways; year; york
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- pie-1943
- author: Steinberg, Carola; Waspe, Tom
- title: The struggle for academic rigour in assessment education
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 8137
- flesch: 52
- summary: As a module within the education theory major, all students are required to attend, which means the assessment course caters for student teachers from all phases and subject specialisations. “Holding high expectations for student learning is at the heart of academic rigour” (ibid: 8).
- keywords: 2014; academic; alignment; analysis; appropriate; assessment; assessment education; breadth; concepts; content; course; criteria; critical; culture; curriculum; deep; deluca; depth; design; draeger; education; effort; et al; evaluation; examples; expectations; focus; formative; grades; high; higher; ibid; instruction; key; knowledge; learning; lecturers; mahler; making; marks; means; need; pedagogy; perspectives; phase; practical; practice; principles; professional; purposes; quality; question; reading; rigorous; rigour; school; skills; specialisation; steinberg; struggle; students; subject; summative; tasks; teacher; teaching; theory; thinking; tutorial; understanding; work; year
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- author: Rembach, Lauren; Dison, Laura
- title: Transforming taxonomies into rubrics: Using SOLO in social science and inclusive education
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 8276
- flesch: 47
- summary: As the context for this intervention took place within the School of Education, these methods for integrating assessment criteria have the potential to be adapted by education students as future teachers of different subject areas. As assessment plays a fundamental role in shaping student learning in a course (Biggs, 2011), we need to understand how it can contribute meaningfully to promoting higher order thinking outcomes in education courses.
- keywords: abstract; academic; analyse; answer; approach; assessment; assessment tasks; authors; biggs; context; course; criteria; critical; development; different; discussion; dison; education; engagement; essay; evidence; examples; extended; feedback; film; higher; higher education; human; ideas; inclusive; inclusive education; integrated; issues; key; knowledge; learning; level; literature; methodology; new; order; outcomes; paper; perspectives; practices; presenter; press; principles; question; relational; rembach; requirements; response; role; rubrics; school; science; social; solo; solo taxonomy; sources; south; structure; students; task; taxonomies; taxonomy; teaching; thinking; tool; understanding; university; use; values; view; war; writing
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- pie-1945
- author: Walton, Elizabeth; Rusznyak, Lee
- title: Approaches to assessing preservice teachers’ learning in authentic and rigorous ways: The case of an inclusive education module
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 9142
- flesch: 43
- summary: Keywords: Pre-service teacher education, assessment, inclusive education, teacher knowledge, teacher practices 1. Knowledge and practice: Approaches to teacher learning in pre-service teacher education Since ITE was relocated to higher education in 2000, the sector has grappled with apparent tensions arising from the conceptual rigour demanded by a university-based qualification and an expectation that beginner teachers are competently skilled practitioners from the very start of their careers (Council on Higher Education, 2010).
- keywords: 1999; 2014; academic; africa; approaches; assessment; authentic; classroom; cochran; common; concepts; conceptual; context; courses; coursework; data; disability; education; findings; forlin; higher; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; informed; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; literature; london; lytle; needs; new; object; opportunities; order; perspectives; practical; practice; practitioners; pre; professional; programmes; project; prospective; research; review; routledge; rusznyak; schools; second; service; service teachers; shalem; smith; south; special; students; study; support; task; teacher education; teachers; teaching; theoretical; theory; tradition; understanding; university; use; walton; ways; work
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- pie-1946
- author: Bowie, Lynn; Reed, Yvonne
- title: How much of what? An analysis of the espoused and enacted mathematics and English curricula for intermediate phase student teachers at five South African universities
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 8143
- flesch: 49
- summary: Across the five universities, the total number of contact periods allocated to mathematics- related courses during the four-year B.Ed. degree varied from 366 to 499 contact periods.1 At each university, except B, considerably more time was allocated to mathematics courses than to methodology courses. It is likely at the end of the two years the mathematics education student teachers will have sufficient procedural knowledge but not conceptual knowledge to teach beyond grade 4 or 5. What is offered in mathematics courses across the five universities can be summarised as follows: (i) For mathematics specialists, there are either courses dealing with mathematical content at or just above the level of mathematics that the students will teach, in which the content is dealt with in depth and in a specialised form for teachers.
- keywords: academic; additional; african; analysis; b.ed; bowie; cck; cognitive; contact; content; courses; curriculum; data; degree; demand; different; education; english; english courses; example; focus; grades; higher; initial; institutions; intermediate; knowledge; language; learners; learning; level; likely; literacies; literacy; literature; mathematics; mathematics courses; maths; method; nature; need; new; non; number; offer; pedagogic; periods; perspectives; phase; project; question; range; reading; reed; research; review; school; sck; semesters; south; specialists; student; student teachers; study; subject; table; tasks; teachers; teaching; texts; time; universities; university; use; work; year
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- pie-1947
- author: Mendelowitz, Belinda; Dixon, Kerryn
- title: Risky writing: Working with a heteroglossic pedagogy to deepen pre-service teachers’ learning
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 7530
- flesch: 50
- summary: The operation of centripetal and centrifugal forces within communicative acts is important for student language teachers. This manifests in the third idea, which focuses on student writing where linguistic diversity comes to the fore.
- keywords: academic; academic writing; access; african; analysis; appropriation; article; assessment; assignment; boyfriend; context; course; creative; critical; data; depth; dialogue; different; disciplinary; discourses; distantiation; diversity; dixon; education; engagement; english; example; experiences; ferreira; forces; genres; girlfriend; girls; heteroglossic; high; ideas; important; issues; knowledge; language; learning; linguistic; mendelowitz; pedagogy; performance; perspectives; play; power; practices; pre; principles; productive; resource; rigour; risk; role; section; service; shalem; slonimsky; social; sociolinguistics; space; standard; students; taking; teachers; teaching; thandiwe; thesen; use; varieties; voices; ways; week; work; writer; writing; year; youth
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- pie-1948
- author: Pournara, -
- title: Deepening pre-service secondary teachers’ mathematical content knowledge through engaging with peers’ mathematical contributions
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 6667
- flesch: 52
- summary: Finally, I reflect on how suitable opportunities for engaging with peers’ mathematical contributions might be included in a pre-service programme for secondary school mathematics teachers. Advanced mathematical knowledge in teaching practice: Perceptions of secondary mathematics teachers.
- keywords: advanced; case; compound; content; course; day; depth; different; doubling; education; end; example; experiences; exponential; financial; following; formula; functions; growth; hailey; help; increase; interest; knowledge; learning; level; like; mathematics; mathematics teachers; model; modelling; number; opportunities; particular; percentage; perspectives; pournara; practices; pre; problem; quadratic; rigour; sakhile; school; school mathematics; secondary; secondary school; service; structure; students; teachers; teaching; understanding; university; use; value; wage; work; year
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- pie-1949
- author: van Jaarsveld, Pieter
- title: Making a case for exact language as an aspect of rigour in initial teacher education mathematics programmes
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 8212
- flesch: 44
- summary: Mercer and Sams (2006) who investigated the impact of the correct use of mathematical language on collaborative problem solving amongst primary school children found that if teachers provide children with an explicit, practical introduction to the use of language for collective reasoning, then children learn better ways of thinking collectively and better ways of thinking alone. Mathematical language in and of itself is difficult, but if English is the most prevalent language of instruction in South Africa then using mathematical language correctly is of greater value than teaching mathematics with a poor mathematical vocabulary and with meaningless ‘metaphors’.
- keywords: ability; able; action; aspect; ball; case; certificate; classrooms; communicative; concepts; conceptual; consciousness; content; correct; critical; dbe; description; development; diagnostic; different; education; english; equal; equation; exact; exact language; exact mathematical; example; explanation; expression; freire; function; hand; incorrect; initial; jaarsveld; knowledge; language; language repertoires; learners; learning; mathematical; mathematical language; mathematics education; national; need; negative; object; paper; perspective; poor; positive; practice; procedural; programmes; reason; repertoires; reports; research; response; rigour; school; secondary; senior; sense; south; student; subject; teacher education; teachers; teaching; thinking; thought; understanding; use; values; van; vocabulary; vygotsky; words; x-1; year
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- pie-1950
- author: Giorza, -
- title: Thinking together through pictures: The community of philosophical enquiry and visual analysis as a transformative pedagogy
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 6557
- flesch: 58
- summary: I set about documenting one of the art methodology courses I taught to undergraduate education students in which an enquiry-based methodology was employed. I argue that the big questions of art and justice and their expression in material form are appropriate subjects for a responding to art course for education students.
- keywords: 2002; 2003; 2012; academic; african; analysis; approach; art; artworks; better; blue; children; classroom; collection; community; concepts; constitutional; contemporary; course; court; culture; curriculum; democratic; dress; education; enquiry; equality; experience; focus; giorza; group; history; human; humanity; ideas; journal; justice; kennedy; knowledge; language; learners; learning; life; london; making; meaning; need; new; pedagogy; personal; perspectives; philosophical; philosophy; pictures; practice; primary; process; questions; range; reading; research; rights; routledge; schools; self; semiotic; sharp; social; south; students; studies; study; teacher; teaching; thinking; undergraduate; university; value; visual; way; work; writing; york
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- pie-1951
- author: Westraadt, Georina
- title: Deepening visual literacy through the use of metacognitive reading instruction strategies
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 6732
- flesch: 50
- summary: Cowan and Albers (2006: 125), discuss the potential of visual arts to develop complex literacy practices. Visual art poses the potential to develop complex literacy practices in which thinking through multiple sign systems is necessary to read and produce a complex semiotic system or text (Cowan & Albers, 2006: 130).
- keywords: ability; able; african; analysis; appreciation; art; art education; artist; arts; artwork; assignment; bachelor; comprehension; contemporary; data; education; elements; experience; experimental; forms; group; imagery; images; implementation; improvement; information; instruction; introduction; knowledge; language; learning; levels; literature; marks; meaning; metacognitive; metacognitive reading; metacognitive strategies; new; penny; perspectives; pressley; reading; reading strategies; research; scaffolding; set; siopis; skills; social; south; strategies; strategy; students; study; symbols; systems; text; thinking; use; visual; visual images; visual literacy; westraadt; work; year
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- pie-1952
- author: Nomlomo, Vuyokazi; Sosibo, Zilungile
- title: From theory to practice: Beginner teachers’ experiences of the rigour of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 8556
- flesch: 50
- summary: Contrary to these notions, student teachers need to understand that learning to teach is incredibly complex and demanding and includes a wide variety of teacher knowledge for them to master before they graduate (Lawrence & Butler, 2010; Hammerness et al., 2005; Cochran-Smith, 2001; Feiman-Nemser, 2001a, b; Shulman, 1987; Morrow, 2007). According to her, the different types of teacher knowledge that student teachers have to integrate and enact include (i) analysing preconceived notions of teaching and learning, (ii) developing subject matter and pedagogical knowledge, and (iii) developing an understanding of learners’ developmental stages and socio-cultural contexts.
- keywords: 2001a; 2005; 2010; academic; africa; analysis; beginner; beginner teachers; bransford; classroom; colvin; conceptions; content; contexts; curriculum; darling; depth; design; development; dhet; different; domains; education; experiences; experts; fagan; feiman; framework; hammerness; hammond; higher; institution; ite; jacobs; knowledge; learning; morrow; mrteq; need; nemser; new; nomlomo; participants; pedagogical; perspectives; pgce; pgce programme; policy; practical; practice; principles; process; programme; qualifications; research; reyes; rigour; schools; shalem; shulman; skills; slonimsky; sosibo; south; students; study; subject; teacher education; teacher knowledge; teachers; teaching; theoretical; theory; time; understanding; university
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- pie-1953
- author: Pennefather, Jane
- title: Towards a theoretical framework for understanding PGCE student teacher learning in the Wild Coast Rural Schools’ Partnership project
- date: 2016-03-31
- words: 6352
- flesch: 45
- summary: The article aims to go beyond the “story” of the project and a description of student teacher experiences, to focus on a theoretical framework for understanding student teacher learning. The article explains the construction of a theoretical model, which addresses situational and contextual elements needed to understand student teacher learning.
- keywords: 2008; 2011; activity; african; article; case; challenges; coast; communities; community; conditions; contexts; cultural; data; development; dhet; different; education; elements; experiences; figure; focus; framework; hsrc; immersion; journal; knowledge; learning; living; local; model; national; needs; new; opportunities; order; participation; partnership; pennefather; perspectives; pgce; place; policy; practice; press; professional; professional learning; project; range; research; resources; rural; rural contexts; rural schools; rurality; schools; situated; social; south; spaces; student; student teacher; study; system; teacher; teacher education; teacher learning; teaching; theoretical; theory; understanding; university; voices; wild; york
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- pie-1954
- author: Barker, Rachel; Ong, Derek
- title: A measurement scale for students’ usage of online networks
- date: 2016-06-30
- words: 6655
- flesch: 49
- summary: Online social networks: Why do students use Facebook?. 1 A measurement scale for students’ usage of online networks Abstract Studies suggest that students are increasingly turning to information and communication technologies as learning tools in which they can present multiple identities quite explicitly tied to context, knowledge and understanding within online networks.
- keywords: analysis; ave; barker; chin; cognitive; communication; concepts; constructs; convergent; data; education; ellison; equation; esteem; experience; facebook; factor; figure; formation; framework; higher; http://dx.doi; identity; identity formation; intensity; interactivity; internet; journal; knowledge; latent; learning; learning experience; level; literature; loadings; management; measurement; model; networks; new; ong; online; online networks; order; people; perspectives; presence; profile; purposes; reliability; research; results; review; sample; scale; self; sharing; social; squared; structural; students; study; table; theoretical; university; usage; use; validity; variables; variance; virtual
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- pie-1955
- author: Mohlaloka, Sello Martin Blase; Jacobs, Lynette; de Wet, Nita Corene
- title: Insights from traditional initiation teachers (Basuwe) on the influence of male traditional initiation (lebollo) on the behaviour of schoolboys
- date: 2016-06-30
- words: 7246
- flesch: 54
- summary: Mohlaloka, Jacobs and De Wet (2016) found that while teachers in formal schools struggle with “generic discipline problems”, they face additional challenges with the deviant behaviour of male learners who return from traditional initiation schools. org/10.18820/2519593X/pie. v34i2.2 ISSN 0258-2236 e-ISSN 2519-593X Perspectives in Education 2016 34(2): 19-32 © UV/UFS 20 Perspectives in Education 2016: 34(2) Traditional initiation schools are conducted over a period of time, away from settlements, in secluded areas.
- keywords: 2007; africa; age; author; basotho; basuwe; behaviour; boys; children; circumcision; community; comparative; cultural; culture; data; deviant; discipline; education; formal; free; important; influence; initiates; initiation; initiation schools; initiation teachers; insights; interviews; jacobs; journal; learners; lebollo; life; literature; local; maharaswa; male; men; mohlaloka; months; mountain; ntombana; old; parents; participants; perspectives; place; practice; reasons; research; respect; rooyen; schooling; schools; self; social; society; south; state; study; teachers; time; traditional; traditional initiation; uninitiated; university; values; van; venter; wet; years; young
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- pie-1956
- author: Cloete, Nicola; Duncan, Catherine
- title: Shifting from disorientation to orientation: Reading student discourses of success
- date: 2016-06-30
- words: 5671
- flesch: 44
- summary: Given how critical the idea of orientation is from a student’s perspective, we will argue that finding orientation is in many ways analogous with success and we find this productive for understanding student success in ways more broadly imagined than from the institutional point of reference. We must caution however, that as consistent and plausible as we have found the links between orientation and success to be in student discourse, this initial study was conducted with a small sample group from a narrowly scoped cohort of performing arts students.
- keywords: 1996; able; academic; analysis; counts; criteria; different; discourses; disorientation; education; end; experience; finding; group; hall; higher; ideas; identity; institutional; interviews; knowledge; language; legitimation; lot; markers; marks; need; new; number; orientation; parallel; participants; particular; perspectives; practices; programme; resources; sense; set; statements; students; study; success; successful; support; terms; university; use; ways; writing; year
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- pie-1957
- author: Nel, Norma
- title: Teaching and learning of Mandarin as a foreign language in South African schools
- date: 2016-06-30
- words: 6596
- flesch: 63
- summary: Explicit teaching of radicals helps Chinese foreign learners (CFL) to learn characters (Tong & Yip, 2015: 173–177). Chinese language teaching in the UK:
- keywords: 2007; ability; able; activities; african; case; categories; characters; children; china; chinese; chinese teacher; chomsky; classes; classroom; cultural; culture; data; different; education; english; environment; example; experiences; fg3; focus; foreign; foreign language; good; group; high; important; innate; interviews; knowledge; language; language learning; learners; learning; lessons; mandarin; motivation; nel; notes; opportunities; parents; perspectives; pinyin; place; primary; principal; pronunciation; questions; research; school; second; social; south; study; teacher; teaching; technology; themes; tone; way; write
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- pie-1958
- author: Calitz, Talita M. L.; Walker, Melanie; Wilson-Strydom, Merridy
- title: Theorising a capability approach to equal participation for undergraduate students at a South African university
- date: 2016-06-30
- words: 6694
- flesch: 39
- summary: Given the systemic inequalities in educational provision, the process aspect of freedom is important in evaluating how individuals negotiate 64 Perspectives in Education 2016: 34(2) pedagogical and institutional arrangements that diminish student freedom (Hart, 2013). Student access and success: Issues and interventions in South African universities.
- keywords: 2010; 2012; academic; access; african; agency; analysis; approach; arrangements; article; available; capabilities; capability; capability approach; case; class; conditions; condorrera; critical; development; dimensions; economic; education; engagement; english; equal; equal participation; experiences; fraser; freedom; functionings; generation; higher; higher education; individual; institutional; justice; knowledge; language; learning; nussbaum; opportunities; outcomes; participants; participation; pedagogical; people; practical; process; reason; recognition; research; resources; response; sen; social; south; structural; strydom; students; study; success; support; unequal; university; vulnerable; walker; working
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- pie-1959
- author: Singh-Pillay, Asheena; Ohemeng-Appiah, Frank
- title: Interconnectedness of technology teachers’ perceptions of the design process to learner creativity
- date: 2016-06-30
- words: 6813
- flesch: 49
- summary: In agreement, Pool, Reitsma and Mentz (2013) argue that technology teachers in South Africa lack the appropriate subject specific pedagogical content knowledge (PCK; Shulman, 1986) to teach technology and the DP, which happens to be the backbone of technology education. The questionnaire was piloted with 20 grade 9 teachers of technology from ward 134 in the Pinetown District, as they closely resemble the target population of technology teachers in terms of the grade they teach and the type of professional development they received for the implementation of the CAPS curriculum.
- keywords: appiah; assessment; caps; content; creative; creativity; critical; critical thinking; curriculum; data; design; design process; education; enactment; excerpts; findings; goals; grade; ideas; interconnectedness; journal; knowledge; learner; learner creativity; learning; model; nature; need; ohemeng; opportunities; pck; pedagogical; perceptions; problem; problem solving; process; product; questionnaire; reported; research; skills; solutions; solving; south; step; strategies; structured; study; subject; teachers; teaching; technology; technology education; technology teachers; thinking; understanding
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- pie-1960
- author: Sampson, Colleen; Condy, Janet
- title: One teacher’s experiences of teaching reading in an urban multi-grade foundation phase class
- date: 2016-06-30
- words: 6670
- flesch: 64
- summary: The literature review highlights the physical setting of urban multi-grade classrooms, debates the limitations and benefits of urban multi-grade teaching and finally briefly outlines the old and the new South African curriculum policies with regard to reading. Introduction The phenomenon of urban multi-grade teaching is not as common as in rural areas (Bouysee, 2002).
- keywords: 2004; 2006; 2010; ability; able; africa; areas; available; books; cape; children; class; classes; classroom; communities; community; comprehension; condy; curriculum; data; development; different; early; education; experiences; foundation; grade; grade teaching; groups; home; http://dx.doi; instruction; knowledge; language; lave; learners; learning; lessons; literacy; mrs; mrs t; multi; national; needs; order; parental; parents; peer; perspectives; phase; practice; reading; research; rural; sampson; school; skills; social; sounds; south; story; study; support; teacher; teaching; time; tutoring; understanding; university; urban; urban multi; van; vocabulary; wenger; words; work
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- pie-1962
- author: Larangeira, Rhoda; van der Merwe, Clinton David
- title: Map literacy and spatial cognition challenges for student geography teachers in South Africa
- date: 2016-06-30
- words: 7169
- flesch: 46
- summary: Spatial cognition, prior learning of map skills and map interpretation at secondary school-level are highlighted as being important in furthering map literacy, which is required by geography student teachers. The only exposure they have to develop map skills in the academic component of the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), a 4-year professional degree.
- keywords: ability; african; analysis; area; average; bednarz; bonnet; calculations; challenges; cognition; cognitive; concepts; cross; curriculum; data; degree; development; different; difficult; difficulties; distance; education; environmental; examination; figure; focus; geographers; geographical; geography; group; important; information; intelligence; interpretation; journal; knowledge; larangeira; learning; level; literacy; map; map literacy; map skills; maps; mapwork; merwe; methodology; paper; participants; perspectives; prior; profile; question; research; responses; scale; school; secondary; sections; sketch; skills; sound; south; spatial; spatial cognition; students; study; table; teachers; teaching; thinking; time; unable; understanding; university; van; wilmot; year
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- pie-1964
- author: du Preez, Petro; Becker, Anne
- title: Ontologies and possibilities of human rights: Exploring dissensus to facilitate reconciliation in post-conflict education contexts
- date: 2016-09-30
- words: 7276
- flesch: 56
- summary: Human rights and HRE can be renewed within political, social and educational spaces by continually formulating, claiming, rejecting, amending and recognising human rights anew (Azoulay, 2014). Human rights and HRE can be renewed by continually formulating, claiming, rejecting, amending and recognising human rights anew (Azoulay, 2014).
- keywords: 2004; 2007; 2009; 2013; abstract; action; africa; approach; becker; conflict; consensus; constitution; contexts; critical; critique; data; deliberative; dembour; discourse; dissensus; donnelly; education; focus; given; government; hre; human; human rights; intersecting; journal; justice; keet; knowledge; law; london; natural; nature; ontological; ontologies; paradox; people; perspectives; political; possession; possibilities; possible; post; preez; principles; project; ranciere; reconciliation; research; rights; roux; s5y1m1; scholars; school; social; south; spaces; structuring; struggle; student; survey; teachers; universal; world
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- pie-1965
- author: Jita, Thuthukile
- title: Pre-service teachers’ competence to teach science through information and communication technologies in South Africa
- date: 2016-09-30
- words: 6909
- flesch: 50
- summary: This paper presents findings on the self-perceptions of competence by pre-service teachers to use ICTs for teaching science content. Results show that pre-service teachers seem to be more competent in the non-technology related skills compared to the technology related knowledge fields and that there are significant variations in their ICT competences.
- keywords: africa; communication; competence; content; content knowledge; data; development; different; domains; education; educators; findings; focus; framework; group; higher; icts; important; information; integration; knowledge; learning; lecturers; mean; mentor; opportunities; order; paper; participants; pedagogical; perspectives; practice; pre; preparation; programmes; related; research; results; schools; science; science teachers; service teachers; skills; south; specific; students; studies; study; subject; support; survey; teacher education; teachers; teaching; teaching practice; technological; technology; tools; tpack; training; university; use
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- pie-1966
- author: Hlalele, Dipane; Tsotetsi, Cias T.
- title: Promoting student teachers’ adaptive capabilities through community engagement
- date: 2016-09-30
- words: 6766
- flesch: 55
- summary: The gap between student teachers and their ability to adapt to the school situation remains a challenge. The study provides insights into the adaptability of students in schools and recommends further empowerment spaces for student teachers and the school community.
- keywords: able; adaptive; adaptive leadership; capabilities; challenge; civic; communities; community; community engagement; concepts; development; different; education; engagement; expertise; findings; focus; grade; group; growth; heifetz; hlalele; information; intervention; interview; issues; knowledge; leadership; learners; learning; lessons; natural; need; new; opportunity; participants; participation; people; perspectives; place; practice; problems; professional; project; research; rural; school; sciences; sense; situation; social; solution; student; student teachers; study; teachers; teaching; textbooks; theory; time; tsotetsi; type; understanding; university; van; work; working
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- pie-1967
- author: Shih, Chih-Min
- title: Why do they want to become English teachers: A case study of Taiwanese EFL teachers
- date: 2016-09-30
- words: 6626
- flesch: 61
- summary: 43 Why do they want to become English teachers: A case study of Taiwanese EFL teachers Abstract Although it has been argued that knowledge on initial motivation for choosing teaching as a career is necessary for improving teacher education programmes and teacher education policies, there is a lack of research investigating this issue in the fields of English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL). 45 Shih Why do they want to become English teachers Another core component of the framework deals with several values imbedded in the teaching profession.
- keywords: aboriginal; addition; career; chinese; choice; cram; critical; education; efl; efl teachers; english; english teachers; esl; example; experiences; factors; family; fit; framework; gao; good; hayes; hettiarachchi; high; initial; interested; interviews; intrinsic; job; language; learning; local; motivation; parents; participants; people; perspectives; primary; public; research; richardson; salary; school; security; service; shih; social; students; studies; study; taiwan; taiwanese; teachers; teaching; time; trent; university; utility; value; watt; working; zhao
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- pie-1968
- author: Makhathini, Thobeka Pearl
- title: Work integrated learning competencies: Industrial supervisors’ perspectives
- date: 2016-09-30
- words: 6495
- flesch: 45
- summary: This study attempts to provide a South African perspective on competency deficiencies of engineering students. These results further imply that workplace supervisors require higher levels of knowledge and skills application from engineering students.
- keywords: 1998; 2006; africa; assessment; attitude; attributes; available; behavioural; chemical; communication; competencies; competency; deficiencies; development; education; employability; employers; employment; engineering; engineering education; engineers; environment; expectations; expected; feedback; figure; findings; graduates; hard; higher; important; improvement; industry; integrated; job; journal; knowledge; learning; makhathini; management; meet; need; new; performance; perspectives; poor; problem; proceedings; professional; report; research; results; shows; skills; social; soft; soft skills; south; students; study; supervisors; teamwork; technical; technology; test; themes; university; wil; work; workplace
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- pie-1969
- author: Jita, Loyiso
- title: Editorial
- date: 2016-09-30
- words: 1378
- flesch: 30
- summary: Taking the position that universities are critical to the development of knowledgeable, competent and well-disposed graduate professionals, the studies raise important concerns that challenge the entire higher education community to reflect more deeply on the relevance, designs and outcomes of the current programmes on offer, especially the professional programmes in teacher education and chemical engineering, in particular. In her article entitled “Why do they want to become English teachers: A case study of Taiwanese EFL teachers”, Chih-Min Shih provides some research guidance to teacher educators and policymakers on the design of appropriate teacher education programmes for English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL).
- keywords: africa; competence; education; engineering; english; focus; human; language; learners; learning; paper; professional; programmes; quality; quality education; rights; schools; south; students; teacher education; teachers; teaching; tools; university; use
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- pie-1970
- author: Mavhunga, Francis Z.; Kibirige, Israel; Chigonga, Benard; Ramaboka, Manthiba
- title: Smartphones in public secondary schools: Views of matric graduates
- date: 2016-09-30
- words: 6178
- flesch: 60
- summary: Cell phone living and learning styles among secondary school learners in Gauteng. Since teachers ban smartphone technology, it may imply that they do not fully understand its role in teaching yet learners understand it as a necessary tool in learning.
- keywords: 2003; 2006; 2015; 2016; academic; access; africa; applications; available; ban; banning; cell; chigonga; class; communication; computers; content; design; digital; distractions; divide; education; ict; information; internet; items; journal; kibirige; knowledge; koehler; learners; learning; life; likert; m.j; making; mavhunga; means; mishra; mobile; necessary; need; new; open; pedagogical; perspectives; processing; public; questionnaire; ramaboka; research; results; rules; schools; science; searching; secondary; smartphones; social; south; stakeholders; statistics; study; table; teachers; teaching; technological; technology; tpack; university; use; views; world
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- pie-1971
- author: Mgijima, Vukile Desmond; Makalela, Leketi
- title: The effects of translanguaging on the bi-literate inferencing strategies of fourth grade learners
- date: 2016-09-30
- words: 6061
- flesch: 55
- summary: It allows a space for multilingual language learners to apply different dimensions of their experiences and linguistic knowledge into one coordinated and meaningful performance. On the one hand, current research questions the validity of language boundaries in literacy and applied language studies (Baker, Jones & Lewis, 2012) while the orthodox practices on the other, are still virtually linear and monolingual in orientation.
- keywords: 2007; ability; africa; answers; approach; background; baker; classroom; cognitive; comprehension; data; dbe; development; different; drawing; education; effects; english; gains; grade; inferences; inferencing; intervention; isixhosa; knowledge; language; learners; learning; linguistic; makalela; mean; multilingual; national; order; participants; passage; performance; post; process; questions; reading; relevant; research; results; school; skills; south; strategies; study; teacher; teaching; techniques; test; text; translanguaging; words
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- pie-1972
- author: Fataar, Aslam; Feldman, Jennifer
- title: Dialogical habitus engagement: The twists and turns of teachers’ pedagogical learning within a professional learning community
- date: 2016-09-30
- words: 6936
- flesch: 46
- summary: The PLC was set up involving a university lecturer, a tutor and practising teachers who had completed the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) The PLC-based data is supported by individual interviews that we (the authors) conducted with the teachers, which explored their educational biographies and professional socialisation as teachers.
- keywords: adaptation; approach; article; change; class; classes; classroom; contexts; control; conversations; curriculum; department; dialogical; dialogue; discipline; discussions; doxa; education; engagement; engaging; fataar; feldman; field; focus; form; habitus; issues; justice; knowledge; language; learning; ongoing; open; participants; pedagogical; pedagogical habitus; pedagogies; pedagogy; perspectives; plc; plc conversations; plc teachers; practices; professional; reflexive; school; shift; social; socialisation; students; talk; teachers; teaching; teaching practices; things; time; tool; transfer; ways; work
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- pie-1974
- author: Lepota, Biki; Taylor, Stephen
- title: Editorial
- date: 2016-12-16
- words: 1872
- flesch: 49
- summary: The articles consider the matter of aligning assessment standards with curriculum standards from different perspectives. Drawing on data from the Annual National Assessments administered to grades 3 and 6 in English First Additional Language and mathematics, Kanjee and Moloi explore how subject matter experts can generate learner performance standards to provide information in terms of what learning gaps exist and how to address them.
- keywords: argument; article; assessment; assurance; council; curriculum; data; education; examination; high; instrument; key; learners; learning; marks; matric; method; pass; performance; quality; rates; reliability; sba; standards; study; taylor; teachers; teaching; training; use
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- pie-1975
- author: Prinsloo, C. H.; Harvey, J. C.
- title: The viability of individual oral assessments for learners: Insights gained from two intervention evaluations
- date: 2016-12-16
- words: 6709
- flesch: 52
- summary: Learner assessments were also well recorded, by means of crossing out incorrect responses and scoring on individual learner assessment packs each assigned a unique learner code. Each intervention conceptualised its own theory of change to improve learner language and literacy development.
- keywords: 2013; achievement; addition; africa; anxiety; assessment; available; basic; classroom; comprehension; context; curriculum; davidson; decoding; development; different; early; education; egra; english; evaluation; fluency; gove; grade; harvey; hobbs; home; hsrc; human; impact; important; individual; instruction; instruments; international; intervention; journal; knowledge; language; learners; learning; letter; level; literacy; method; necessary; oral; perspectives; phonics; pretoria; pretorius; prinsloo; quality; reading; reliability; research; schools; scores; skills; south; study; subtests; teacher; teaching; test; theory; time; tool; training; use; validity; viability; wagner; webb; wetterberg; word
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- pie-1976
- author: Abrams, Lisa; Varier, Divya; Jackson, Lisa
- title: Unpacking instructional alignment: The influence of teachers’ use of assessment data on instruction
- date: 2016-12-16
- words: 6713
- flesch: 47
- summary: 15 Unpacking instructional alignment: The influence of teachers’ use of assessment data on instruction Abstract The use of assessment data to inform instruction is an important component of a comprehensive standards-based assessment programme. Assessment data are intended to inform instruction and broader school improvement efforts and guide administrative and instructional decisions in an effort to raise student achievement.
- keywords: 2016; abrams; accountability; aligned; alignment; analysis; annual; assessment; assessment data; benchmark; bennett; christman; classroom; content; culture; curriculum; data; data use; decisions; development; district; education; elementary; evidence; example; focus; formative; group; influence; information; instruction; interim; jackson; learning; level; literature; main; making; middle; performance; perspectives; policies; practice; process; programmes; progress; qualitative; related; research; resources; results; school; skills; sources; standards; state; student; studies; study; sub; summative; support; system; teachers; teaching; test; theme; time; understanding; use; varier
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- pie-1977
- author: Kanjee, Anil; Moloi, Qetelo
- title: A standards-based approach for reporting assessment results in South Africa
- date: 2016-12-16
- words: 9001
- flesch: 52
- summary: The purpose of setting performance standards is to provide a frame of reference in which policymakers, educators and the public can understand test results and provide more interpretive information regarding the meaning of learner scores (Hambleton, 2001). During this phase, views of panel members were solicited pertaining to the reporting of learner scores.
- keywords: 2012; 2014; achievement; addition; africa; anas; angoff; approach; area; assessment; assessment results; cizek; criteria; curriculum; cut; data; dbe; definitions; department; doe; education; english; fal; figure; grade; grade level; group; hambleton; implications; information; items; kanjee; key; knowledge; large; learners; learning; level; literacy; lower; mathematics; measurement; members; method; moloi; national; needs; number; numeracy; panellists; percentage; performance; performance level; performance standards; perspectives; phase; plds; policy; pretoria; process; rating; relevant; reporting; reports; required; research; results; schools; scores; setting; skills; south; specific; standards; subject; table; teachers; test; use
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- pie-1978
- author: Opposs, Dennis
- title: Whatever happened to school-based assessment in England’s GCSEs and A levels?
- date: 2016-12-16
- words: 4846
- flesch: 55
- summary: Controlled assessment is a form of SBA that aims to encourage a more integrated approach to teaching, learning and assessment as well as to enable teachers to confirm that students have carried out the work themselves. The rules for controlled assessment (QCA, 2008) required each GCSE subject to have: • one of the three specified weightings for controlled assessment: 0 per cent, 25 per cent or 60 per cent; and • predetermined levels of control or supervision in controlled assessment (limited, medium and high) applied at three stages in the assessment: task setting, task taking and task marking.
- keywords: accountability; arrangements; assessment; available; boards; certificate; concerns; coursework; current; curriculum; design; different; education; england; english; exam; examinations; example; gcses; grade; learning; levels; london; marking; marks; nea; new; ofqual; practical; qca; qualifications; results; review; sba; school; set; skills; students; subjects; task; teachers; teaching; time; use; weighting; years
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- pie-1979
- author: Combrinck, Celeste; Scherman, Vanessa; Maree, David
- title: The use of Rasch competency bands for reporting criterion-referenced feedback and curriculum-standards attainment
- date: 2016-12-16
- words: 6876
- flesch: 55
- summary: Table 2: Range of Rasch item fit statistics for instruments from grade 8-11 English Language Mathematics Natural Science In-fit MNSQ Outfit MNSQ In-fit MNSQ Outfit MNSQ In-fit MNSQ Outfit MNSQ Mean 1.01 - 1.00 1.01 - 0.99 1.00 - 1.01 0.98 - 1.04 1.00 - 1.01 1.00 - 1.01 Standard Deviation 0.08 - 0.22 0.13 - 0.15 0.09 - 0.14 0.23 - 0.35 0.06 - 0.09 0.18 - 0.22 Maximum 1.16 - 1.27 1.25 - 1.67 1.26 - 1.47 1.69 -2.76 1.15 - 1.46 1.53 - 1.92 Minimum 0.80 - 0.86 0.59 - 0.73 0.77 - 0.84 0.45 - 0.68 0.53 - 0.72 0.04 - 0.64 Item separation index (reliability) 6.08 (.97) - 7.49 (.98) 7.19 (.98) -8.04 (.98) 5.36 (.97) - 8.01 (.98) Thereafter, the assessments were captured on item level and data cleaning, processing and analysis was conducted.
- keywords: adequate; advanced; areas; article; assessments; available; bands; combrinck; competency; content; criterion; curriculum; cut; data; descriptions; difficult; education; english; feedback; figure; fit; grade; intermediate; items; knowledge; language; learners; learning; levels; linacre; map; maree; mathematics; mean; measurement; method; mnsq; model; monitoring; norm; parents; performance; person; perspectives; proficiency; rasch; reporting; reports; research; results; scale; scherman; schools; science; scores; sections; set; setting; specialists; standards; statistics; studies; study; subject; table; teachers; teaching; tests; thresholds; use; values
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- pie-1980
- author: Ojerinde, Dibu; Popoola, Omokunmi; Onyeneho, Patrick; Egberongbe, Aminat
- title: A comparative analysis of pre-equating and post-equating in a large-scale assessment, high stakes examination
- date: 2016-12-16
- words: 9462
- flesch: 55
- summary: Equating test scores (without IRT). 79 A comparative analysis of pre- equating and post-equating in a large-scale assessment, high stakes examination Abstract Statistical procedure used in adjusting test score difficulties on test forms is known as “equating”.
- keywords: ability; ability tcc; administration; assessment; candidates; classification; cut; data; different; different forms; equating; equating method; equating models; equating results; error; estimates; examination; examinees; figure; forms c1; irt; irt post; irt pre; item; item parameter; linear; mean; methods; operational; parameter; pass; plot; post; postequating; pre; preequating; ra w; raw; relationship; results; s ability; s co; scatter; scores; scoring; students; study; table; tcc; test forms; testing; total; uoe; utme
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- pie-1981
- author: Moothedath, Shana; Chaporkar, Prasanna; Belur, Madhu N.
- title: A maximum likelihood based offline estimation of student capabilities and question difficulties with guessing
- date: 2016-12-16
- words: 6041
- flesch: 55
- summary: Student capabilities were estimated and maximum likelihood estimated capability based rank list (MLC rank list) is compared with the raw marks based rank list (RM rank list). Conclusion We proposed a maximum likelihood based alternating maximisation algorithm for estimating student capabilities and question difficulties, discrimination and guessing of an offline exam.
- keywords: candidates; capabilities; capability; cat; comparison; cutoff; different; difficulty; discrimination; estimation; exams; falsepositives; figure; function; guessing; item; likelihood; list; marks; maximum; maximum likelihood; method; ml rank; ml rm; ml scheme; model; number; offline; parameters; pool; probability; qualified; question; rank; rank list; response; rm rank; rm scheme; scheme; score; session; students; table; test
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- pie-20
- author: Francis, Dennis
- title: Editorial
- date: 2010-06-30
- words: 584
- flesch: 42
- summary: Their findings show that satellite class intervention is effective and significant, but that additional predictors such as population group and type of matriculation certificate obtained are more critical interacting co-predictors of student performance than satellite class intervention on its own. Still within Higher Education, Müller, Swanepoel and de Beer explore the drive to improve the academic performance of students at an open and distance learning (ODL) institution.
- keywords: academic; african; education; english; higher; journal; level; performance; predictors; professor; school; south
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- pie-21
- author: Ayliff, Diana
- title: “Why can’t Johnny write? He sounds okay!” Attending to form in English second language teaching
- date: 2010-06-30
- words: 4779
- flesch: 56
- summary: Ellis, Loewen and Basturkmen (2003:151), for instance, comment that meaning-focused instruction “is not successful in enabling learners to achieve high levels of linguistic and sociolinguistic accuracy” while Laufer (2005:223) writes that the “realization by applied linguists that second language learners cannot achieve high levels of grammatical competence from entirely meaning centred instruction has led them to propose that learners need to focus on form”. This method involves language teachers having to direct their learners to the meaning of the discourse in the belief that the form, including the grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation will be acquired almost unconsciously.
- keywords: academic; accuracy; acquisition; additional; african; applied; approach; attention; ayliff; challenges; classroom; communicative; competence; content; curriculum; department; discourse; doe; education; english; fal; focus; form; grades; higher; instruction; johnny; language; learners; learning; lesson; levels; linguistic; long; meaning; national; ncs; obe; okay; perspectives; poor; practice; problems; research; schmidt; schools; second; skills; south; standard; students; studies; teachers; teaching; understanding; university; use; way; write
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- pie-22
- author: Schöer, Volker; Ntuli, Miracle; Rankin, Neil; Sebastiao, Claire; Hunt, Karin
- title: A blurred signal? The usefulness of National Senior Certificate (NSC) Mathematics marks as predictors of academic performance at university level
- date: 2010-06-30
- words: 4843
- flesch: 46
- summary: The usefulness of NSC Mathematics marks as predictors of academic performance 11 admissions tests (Du Preez, Steyn & Owen, 2008). Schöer, et al. — The usefulness of NSC Mathematics marks as predictors of academic performance 13 The test results indicated the opposite situation.
- keywords: abilities; ability; academic; actual; admission; african; average; certificate; cohort; commerce; computational; computational mathematics; courses; economics; education; examinations; grade; grade mathematics; higher; higher grade; individual; level; marks; mathematics; mathematics marks; matric; national; new; nsc; nsc mathematics; number; paper; performance; perspectives; predictors; range; reliable; results; school; school marks; senior; signal; similar; south; students; study; system; test; universities; university; wits; year
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- pie-23
- author: Naidoo, Devika
- title: A discursive formation that undermined integration at a historically advantaged school in South Africa
- date: 2010-06-30
- words: 6723
- flesch: 56
- summary: It is concluded, on the basis of the levels of integration observed and teacher discourses analysed, that the dominant discursive formation in the school are racist and not in the interest of its majority Black learners nor in the interest of the formation of a democratic society. keywords: integration, code, boundaries, discourse, discursive formation, regularities introduction While South Africa’s national approach to integration explicitly aims to use education to unify society, studies of the process of integration have overwhelmingly shown that school practices converge to subvert the goal of integration.
- keywords: academic; administrative; african; analysis; berg; bernstein; black; books; boundaries; cambridge; children; classification; code; culture; curriculum; deficit; desegregation; different; discourse; discursive; discursive formation; dominant; education; english; fire; formation; forms; foucault; grade; history; institutional; instrumental; integration; interviews; jansen; knowledge; language; learners; level; majority; management; maths; naidoo; need; non; parents; perspectives; power; practices; press; principal; race; racial; regularities; relationships; school; science; short; social; south; staff; staffing; strong; students; study; subjects; teachers; teaching; terms; thinking; time; truth; university; weaker; white; zulu
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- pie-24
- author: Ezati, Betty Akullu; Ocheng, Mary K.; Ssentamu, Proscovia N.; Sikoyo, Leah
- title: Enhancing quality of student teachers’ practices through reflective journal writing during school practice
- date: 2010-06-30
- words: 5957
- flesch: 53
- summary: Student teachers learn from journal writing when they collect information, think about it, make sense of it and incorporate it into what they learned in theory. It made me think that supervisors if possible could hide somewhere and see how interesting our lessons are when they are not seated at the back of the class (Student Teacher 2, Journal Entry, 2008).
- keywords: action; addition; areas; assessment; challenges; class; classroom; collier; content; data; development; education; entries; entry; experiences; extent; extracts; ezati; findings; following; growth; handling; indiscipline; journal; journal writing; knowledge; larrivee; learning; lesson; london; management; nature; observation; perspectives; practice; problem; process; professional; quality; questionnaires; reflection; role; school; school practice; sic; skills; student; student teachers; study; supervisors; teachers; teaching; theory; time; uganda; writing; year
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- pie-25
- author: Fengliang, Li; Yandong, Zhao; Yongpo, Tian
- title: Job search and over-education: Evidence from China’s labour market for postgraduates
- date: 2010-06-30
- words: 5327
- flesch: 55
- summary: In another similar survey of higher education graduates implemented by Peking University in 2007, the rate for post-graduate level is about 81% (PKU GSE, 2007). Employment status survey of higher education graduates in 2007.
- keywords: asymmetry; channel; china; chinese; data; economics; education; empirical; employment; expansion; graduates; higher; higher education; impact; incidence; informational; institutions; intensity; job; job search; jobs; labour; level; lower; market; means; model; number; overeducation; perspectives; place; postgraduates; probability; quality; results; review; sample; search; seekers; significant; smaller; students; studies; study; survey; theory; universities; university; use; variable; working
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- pie-26
- author: Hacifazlioglu, Özge
- title: Balance in academic leadership: Voices of women from Turkey and the United States of America (US)
- date: 2010-06-30
- words: 7108
- flesch: 54
- summary: Women academic leaders in a Latin American university: Reconciling the paradoxes of professional lives. Balance in academic leadership: voices of women from turkey and the united states of america (us)1 özGE HAciFAzliOĞlU Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bahcesehir University ohacifazlioglu@bahcesehir.edu.tr This comparative study examines the experiences of women leaders in Turkey and the US.
- keywords: academic; academic leadership; administrative; american; analysis; article; balance; balancing; bilge; career; challenges; children; college; compensational; conflictual; context; cultures; dean; different; education; example; experiences; faculty; family; gender; gina; hacifazlioğlu; higher; higher education; institutional; instrumental; instrumental balance; interview; journal; june; leadership; life; like; lives; lot; management; mother; müge; new; participants; personal; perspectives; positions; posts; presidents; private; process; professional; qualitative; relationship; research; respondents; responsibilities; review; roles; sciences; social; south; stories; studies; study; success; support; teaching; time; turkey; turkish; universities; university; victoria; voices; volume; washington; women; women leaders; work; young
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- pie-27
- author: Müller, Hélène; Swanepoel, Elana; de Beer, Andreas
- title: Success profiling: A methodological perspective on the interactive nature of success predictors on student performance at an open and distance learning institution
- date: 2010-06-30
- words: 6478
- flesch: 43
- summary: An honest desire to fathom the success profile structure of first year Business Management and Management students so as to enhance student learning in an ODL context, should remain the driving force of research in this regard, in the hope that measures might evolve to contribute to improved student throughput and more effective blended learning interventions. Monitoring this intervention to justify implementation costs (Mathur & Oliver, 2007:3) and effectiveness in relation to student performance is essential.
- keywords: academic; african; analysis; approach; attendance; biographical; blended; business; business management; categories; category; certificate; chaid; chi; class; classes; coloured; data; decision; dependent; distance; education; effect; fail; group; initial; institution; interactive; intervention; language; learning; level; management; matriculation; methodology; model; müller; nature; odl; open; partitioning; pass; performance; perspectives; population; predictors; profile; profiling; rate; ratio; research; results; risk; satellite; satellite class; significant; south; step; strategy; students; study; subsets; success; successful; swanepoel; technique; tree; type; unisa; variable; white; year
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- pie-28
- author: Onwu, Gilbert O. M.; Agu, Augustine
- title: Examining some aspects of alternative basic education programmes in Ethiopia
- date: 2010-06-30
- words: 5774
- flesch: 50
- summary: Decentralization has introduced a system of intermediary bodies namely, the woredas (district level) and kebeles (zonal), but this middle layer is weak in the sense that it lacks discretionary powers and the resources to deliver quality ABE. Strengthening ABE related database and information systems at various levels is crucial as a preliminary step to developing a plan for improving quality ABE.
- keywords: ababa; abe; abe centres; abe programme; abecs; addis; afar; africa; agu; alternative; alternative basic; areas; aspects; basic; basic education; capacity; centres; challenges; children; community; country; curriculum; cycle; data; delivery; development; different; education; enrolment; ethiopia; facilitators; formal; government; grade; implementation; issues; key; learning; level; low; management; ministry; moe; monitoring; national; non; outcomes; parents; paris; perspectives; planning; primary; primary education; process; programme; provision; quality; regional; regions; report; saharan; school; schubert; sector; somali; stakeholders; state; student; study; sub; system; teachers; teaching; training; unesco; woreda; world
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- pie-29
- author: Pillay, Venitha
- title: Towards gender equality: South African schools during the HIV and AIDS epidemic
- date: 2010-06-30
- words: 1152
- flesch: 62
- summary: For example, in Chapter 6, ‘Struggling with gender and sexuality in primary schools’, the author shows that despite a context that offers strongly essentialised understandings of gender identities, Mr Xaba sought other identities for himself and his pupils even though he avoided the intimacy of gender relations, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. Book Review towards gender equality: south african schools during the hiv and aids epidemic R MORREll, D EPStEiN, E UNtERHAltER, D BHANA AND R MOlEtSANE REViEWED
- keywords: aids; authors; book; education; equality; gender; mother; people; project; research; schools; south; stories; teachers; way; writing
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- pie-3388
- author: Mahlomaholo, Sechaba; Payi, Mzolisi
- title: Education for sustainable development in the era of decolonisation and transformation
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 2431
- flesch: 32
- summary: The last category moves a step further in terms of higher education transformation and decolonisation by lifting out examples of what all these mean in the practice of the curriculum. The paper recommends that transformation in higher education should go beyond the shelves where they are stored as policy, to the classroom and university environment for practice where universities need to revise their understandings of transformation under the guidance of the Department of Higher Education and Training.
- keywords: academic; african; article; auditing; case; category; context; curriculum; decolonisation; descriptive; development; education; feedback; fifth; higher; higher education; knowledge; learners; learning; line; need; paper; performance; perspectives; physical; quality; school; sciences; south; sustainable; sustainable development; teachers; teaching; transformation
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- pie-3389
- author: Alex, J. K.; Juan, A.
- title: Quality education for sustainable development: Are we on the right track? Evidence from the TIMSS 2015 study in South Africa
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6676
- flesch: 55
- summary: However, it also reports that even after 23 years into democracy, South Africa still remains a highly unequal society where too many people live in poverty, too few work and the quality of school education for most black learners is poor (National Planning Commission, 2012). Factors associated with high school learners’ poor performance: A spotlight on mathematics and physical science.
- keywords: 2016b; access; achievement; africa; alex; analysis; available; average; better; cape; commission; data; development; eastern; education; et al; factors; fee; flush; gauteng; grade; higher; home; independent; international; juan; language; learners; learning; levels; mathematics; mathematics achievement; national; paying; people; performance; perspectives; planning; progress; provinces; public; quality; quality education; reddy; reddy et; report; research; schooling; schools; science; score; south; south africa; students; studies; sustainable; system; table; teachers; teaching; test; thomson; timss; toilets; water
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- pie-3390
- author: Malebese, M. L.
- title: A socially inclusive teaching strategy for transforming the teaching of English first additional language
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 7140
- flesch: 49
- summary: Learners who are fluent in L2 stand a better chance of understanding other subjects that are taught in L2, such as mathematics, science, life orientation, geography, history and technology than learners who are less fluent and who are encountering L2 for the first time, as in this case in the Grade 4 class. Learners being involved in the system of change and treatment plans, guiding social development towards effective practices for promoting learners’ learning enhanced the project (Gosin, et al., 2003:364).
- keywords: 2012; 2013; action; activities; activity; additional; african; aim; analysis; banks; case; cer; classroom; community; content; critical; cultural; data; development; diverse; education; efal; english; environment; focus; freire; games; grade; inclusive; inclusive teaching; indigenous; indigenous knowledge; information; involved; issues; journal; justice; knowledge; language; learners; learning; lesson; lincoln; malebese; method; modlin; new; pancake; paper; par; perspectives; phase; plan; practices; press; principles; prior; problem; process; quality; research; resources; routledge; rural; school; settings; sits; skills; social; stakeholders; strategies; strategy; systems; teacher; teaching; teaching strategy; team; theory; transformation; university; use; way; work; york
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- pie-3391
- author: Qhosola, Makeresemese Rosy
- title: Enhancing the teaching and learning of auditing: The case for descriptive feedback
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6301
- flesch: 55
- summary: : The case for descriptive feedback Abstract This paper demonstrates how the use of adequate descriptive feedback on assessment enhances the teaching, learning and academic performance of learners of auditing. Focus was on a selected school in the Free State where one grade 10 class, which used conventional feedback, was compared to another grade 10 class where descriptive feedback was used in the teaching of accounting.
- keywords: 2017; accounting; activities; answers; approach; assessment; auditing; business; change; classroom; clear; conventional; critical; data; decolonisation; descriptive; descriptive feedback; dialogue; education; feedback; figure; formative; functions; gaps; grade; knowledge; learners; learning; lesson; meaning; misconceptions; mpuse; new; ongoing; opportunity; oral; order; paper; particular; performance; perspectives; power; process; qhosola; question; research; saki; scenario; school; skills; student; study; subsequent; teacher; teaching; team; transformation; use; way; wrong
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- pie-3392
- author: Salami, I. A.; Okeke, C. I. O.
- title: Transformation and decolonisation of mathematics education for sustainable development: A case study of its learning trend in Nigeria
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6478
- flesch: 54
- summary: If the educational level where pupils experience decline in mathematics performance is known, this will not only call for curriculum review but also reveal what part of the content, resources used to teach and the strategies adopted that seems foreign and which if decolonised will demystify the problem of poor performance. to determine the trend of pupils’ performance in mathematics from preschool class to primary VI 2. to determine the class where pupils’ performance in mathematics starts declining 3. to determine if the demographic characteristics of the pupils contribute to the decline in mathematics performance, other than unfamiliar and complexity of the content and teaching.
- keywords: 2015; academic; achievement; africa; age; average; basic; children; class; classes; content; countries; curriculum; data; decline; decolonisation; decrease; descriptive; development; education; experience; factors; female; finding; grade; higher; iii; increase; instruction; journal; kenya; language; learners; learning; level; male; mathematics; mathematics performance; mean; national; nigeria; okeke; performance; perspectives; point; poor; preschool; primary; primary school; problems; pupils; research; resources; salami; schools; science; score; skills; south; state; students; study; subject; table; teachers; teaching; trend; years
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- pie-3393
- author: Ojo, O. A.; Adu, E. O.
- title: Transformation of teaching quality in secondary school education: Teachers’ conception
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 5924
- flesch: 51
- summary: Moreover, secondary school teachers are usually accused of giving limited attention to teaching conceptual knowledge instead of procedural; this indicates that most students engage in memorisation rather than understanding the formation or concept (Wedgwood, 2007). Recommendations The aim of the study is to investigate conceptions of secondary schools teachers on understanding and improving the teaching quality.
- keywords: 2002; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; adu; africa; analysis; assessment; change; conception; data; design; development; education; effective; good; government; growth; higher; honours; infrastructure; interviews; journal; knowledge; leadership; learning; lomas; means; new; ojo; opinion; perspectives; press; process; qualitative; quality; quality education; questions; research; researchers; respondents; roles; sampling; school; school education; secondary; secondary education; secondary school; skills; south; south africa; students; study; system; tanzania; teachers; teaching; teaching quality; thematic; time; training; transformation; understanding; university; use; way; working
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- pie-3394
- author: Cishe, E. N.
- title: Teachers’ perspectives on transforming teacher education curriculum for relevance to basic education for sustainable development
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6240
- flesch: 53
- summary: Based on this expectation, I argue that there seems to be an assumption that changes in the school curriculum find their way to the universities and influence the content of teacher education curriculum whereas this may not be the case. Curriculum transformation in the context of this paper refers to interweaving multiple perspectives and integrates different 75 Cishe Teachers’ perspectives on transforming teacher education curriculum ... (student, teachers and lecturers’) voices and knowledge into the learning process.
- keywords: africa; approach; basic; basic education; case; changes; content; curriculum; democratic; department; development; different; education; education curriculum; faculties; findings; higher; higher education; institutions; interviewee; knowledge; learners; learning; lecturers; methodology; methods; new; order; outcomes; participants; perspectives; relevance; relevant; research; sbe; school curriculum; schools; south; students; studies; study; sustainable; teacher; teacher education; teacher trainees; teaching; trainees; training; transformation; universities; university; university curriculum; use
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- pie-3395
- author: Tlali, Moeketsi Freddie
- title: Creating sustainable physical sciences learning environments: A case for decolonised and transformative learning
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 7054
- flesch: 41
- summary: The major finding suggests that using service learning projects to create sustainable (physical sciences) learning environments, contributes substantially to decolonising and transforming teaching and learning. The use of service learning projects in this manner has the potential of being sustainable in that it does not depend on one person.
- keywords: academic; action; africa; analysis; attitude; berry; bricolage; capacity; case; challenges; community; complexity; consideration; creation; critical; data; dbe; decolonisation; development; discourse; diverse; economic; education; empowering; environments; epistemological; experiences; foster; higher; implementation; inclusive; instance; issues; kincheloe; knowledge; leak; learners; learning; learning environments; management; meaningful; multiple; need; outcomes; paper; participants; perspectives; physical; physical sciences; plug; possible; potential; principles; problem; process; project; question; reflection; research; school; sciences; sciences learning; sense; service; service learning; socio; south; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable physical; teaching; team; tlali; transformation; university; use; water
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- pie-3396
- author: Buka, Andrea Mqondiso; Matiwane-Mcengwa, Nomzi Florida; Molepo, Maisha
- title: Sustaining good management practices in public schools: Decolonising principals’ minds for effective schools
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6741
- flesch: 50
- summary: Methodology One of the authors whose nature of her job relates to visiting schools and interacting with school principals, observed that management and leadership practices by school managers in public schools has been affected by school attendance, time management, nepotism and corruption. This is also in line with a study conducted by Sang (2005), which revealed that there were difficulties faced by head teachers in school management, which they attribute to the Board of Governors (BOG).
- keywords: 2005; 2006; 2013; absenteeism; african; article; aspects; authors; available; basic; batho; buka; bush; challenges; community; concepts; context; corruption; crisis; culture; data; delivery; democracy; democratic; department; development; discipline; education; effective; epistemological; eurocentric; factors; good; good management; governance; government; heystek; institutions; involvement; journal; lack; leadership; learner; learning; management; management practices; managers; matiwane; mbembe; mcengwa; mind; molepo; nepotism; new; parents; participative; pele; performance; perspectives; poor; practices; principals; process; public; public schools; punctuality; quality; research; resources; role; school managers; schools; sgb; skills; social; south; state; students; study; support; system; teachers; teaching; theory; time; values; violence; work; york
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- pie-3397
- author: Duku, N.; Salami, I. A.
- title: The relevance of the school governance body to the effective decolonisation of education in South Africa
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6944
- flesch: 46
- summary: When we place the school in its global context, we quickly realise that there is nothing inherently new about school governance; it has been a hallmark of school systems in other parts of the world for many years (Lemmer & Badenhorst, 1997). Objectives of the study The main objective of this paper is to determine the potentiality of SGBs as a major way by which decolonisation of school systems could be achieved which could bring about relevant and functional education that will ensure sustainable development in Africa.
- keywords: 2009; 2016; african; approach; appropriate; authority; available; beliefs; bodies; body; cape; children; communities; community; composition; context; cultural; culture; data; decolonisation; decolonised; development; discipline; duku; eastern; education; effective; environment; experiences; governance; indigenous; indigenous knowledge; individual; influence; instance; june; knowledge; leadership; learners; learning; life; macrosystem; meetings; members; paper; parents; participation; perspectives; practices; process; relevance; relevant; research; rural; salami; school; school governance; school system; sgb; sgbs; social; society; source; south; south africa; status; study; sustainable; system; theory; traditional; university; values; village; western; women; world
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- pie-3398
- author: Mampane, M. R.
- title: Resilience of the socio-educational afterschool and community intervention drop-in centre
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6860
- flesch: 43
- summary: Social support programmes serve to intervene on existing risk and adversity, and build resilience in the community. Ozbay et al. (2007: 37) contend that social support programmes have to develop resources and enable access for individuals, groups and larger communities.
- keywords: 2006; 2007; 2010; 2017a; academic; africa; afterschool; age; analysis; apartheid; assistance; august; available; caregivers; centre; children; community; core; cultural; data; department; development; drop; dsd; education; emotional; families; family; female; focus; food; formal; government; grade; grandchildren; grants; group; health; home; homework; hope; households; income; indigenous; individual; intervention; job; journal; life; living; mampane; married; matimba; months; participants; people; personal; perspectives; policies; policy; population; poverty; pretoria; programmes; provision; psychology; qualitative; report; republic; research; resilience; sample; school; september; services; sinqobile; skills; social; social support; socio; south; south africa; statistics; stats; study; support; visits; vulnerable; workers; years
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- pie-3399
- author: Mutekwe, Edmore
- title: Unmasking the ramifications of the fees-must-fall-conundrum in higher education institutions in South Africa: A critical perspective
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6716
- flesch: 50
- summary: The message was then seriously taken heed of by rioting university students given that buildings and vehicles at several universities were burnt in the wave of protests that kicked off in the middle of September 2016. The participants alleged they could even be some unspoken risk-taking between the various universities because it was taking long for university students to join forces in confronting the government that had since thrown the curved ball at the universities while watching developments at a distance.
- keywords: 2014; 2016; 2017; academics; africa; althusser; analysis; approach; black; campuses; clear; context; conundrum; country; critical; curriculum; data; decolonisation; decolonised; decolonised education; demands; development; discussion; disruptions; duncan; education; education system; fall; fees; fgdis; findings; florez; focus; following; force; free; government; grange; group; higher; higher education; institutions; knowledge; learning; members; mutekwe; need; new; non; officers; participants; people; perspectives; pinar; police; political; porta; pretoria; process; protests; questions; ramifications; repressive; research; social; somo; south; south africa; state; student protests; students; studies; study; system; terms; theory; time; transformation; universities; university; view; violence; violent; white; world
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- pie-3400
- author: Moodly, Adéle; Toni, Noluthando M.
- title: Re-imagining higher education leadership – in conversation with South African female deputy vice-chancellors
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6979
- flesch: 43
- summary: Muzvidziwa (2015: 368) quotes Bass (1985) in identifying four components of “transformational leadership theory”, namely, “idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and 157 Moodly & Toni Re-imagining higher education leadership individualized consideration”. Statement of the problem The introduction outlines that literature continuously reflects that psychological and cultural barriers at the micro and macro levels (amongst others) affect women and that these influence their lack of aspiring towards higher education leadership.
- keywords: 2015; 2017; academic; advancement; african; barriers; career; caring; choices; construct; context; cultural; decisions; decolonisation; education; education leadership; equity; experiences; factors; family; framework; gender; gendered; higher; higher education; imagining; influence; journeys; leadership; level; literature; management; meso; micro; middle; models; muzvidziwa; nguyen; non; paper; participant; pathing; personal; positions; process; psychological; research; role; senior; social; society; south; studies; support; teaching; time; toni; transformation; university; view; ways; women; work
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- pie-3401
- author: Fomunyam, Kehdinga George
- title: Decolonising the future in the untransformed present in South African higher education
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6710
- flesch: 43
- summary: Ramrathan (2016) argues that higher education transformation in South Africa has primarily focused on the domain of counting numbers and this stems from the transformation agenda for higher education, which set several goals that were mostly numerical changes. Beyond counting the numbers: Shifting higher education transformation into curriculum spaces.
- keywords: 2015; 2016; academic; access; african; african higher; african universities; apartheid; architecture; building; change; cloete; context; culture; curriculum; decolonisation; democracy; democratising; department; different; doe; durban; education; education institutions; education system; environment; experiences; fomunyam; future; hegemony; higher education; individuals; institutions; key; knowledge; kwazulu; lack; little; makeover; mamdani; natal; nation; need; numbers; paper; people; perspectives; political; present; process; resistance; rest; social; society; south; south african; staff; state; structures; students; system; technology; theory; transformation; ukzn; understanding; universities; university; university hegemony; untransformed; vision; vital; world
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- pie-3402
- author: Maseko, P. B. N.
- title: Codification, meritocracy and performativity: Debilitating factors for black pre-service teachers
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6285
- flesch: 48
- summary: Criteria for participants Student participants Below are the criteria that informed the choice of student participants: • Black African B.Ed. Y2s3: …in some other classes we would be code switching… Y3s3: We didn’t really get the chance to learn English because during class English was not used from the start of the lesson to the end…We were not really exposed to English in a way that would help us to understand it the way we’re supposed to.
- keywords: 2000; 2003; academic; african; agenda; analysis; associated; b.ed; black; category; class; codification; cohort; combination; communication; context; creswell; critical; data; discourse; discussion; education; effects; emancipatory; english; exposure; factors; foundation; home; identity; implications; intention; interview; language; lecturers; maseko; meritocracy; negative; new; paper; participants; participation; performance; performativity; perspectives; phase; pre; prior; qualitative; regard; relation; research; sage; service; social; students; study; system; teacher; teaching; theme; transformative; university; use; view
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- pie-3403
- author: Fomunyam, Kehdinga George
- title: Curriculum responsiveness within the context of decolonisation in South African higher education
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 6570
- flesch: 42
- summary: Higher education curriculum needs to be student-, learning- and context-centred Curricula charges such as responsibilities, consciousness, commitments, responsiveness and projects therefore determine what happens in higher education curriculum discourses.
- keywords: 2004; ability; african; african higher; case; challenges; charges; classroom; context; cultural; curriculum; curriculum responsiveness; decolonisation; different; disciplinary; discipline; discussions; diverse; dynamics; economic; education; education curriculum; encounters; experiences; fomunyam; hegemonic; higher; higher education; institutional; issues; knowledge; learning; lecturers; local; morrison; nature; needs; new; paper; people; perspectives; plurality; political; power; process; qualitative; research; responsiveness; social; society; south; south african; spaces; students; study; theories; theory; universities; university; vital; voices; way
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- pie-3404
- author: Chaka, Chaka; Lephalala, Mirriam; Ngesi, Nandipha
- title: English studies: Decolonisation, deparochialising knowledge and the null curriculum
- date: 2018-04-05
- words: 9978
- flesch: 43
- summary: (b) All four modules are English literature modules; (c) decolonisation is a module thematic or topical component and is used for critical analytical purposes in the identified modules in varying degrees. All these modules are English literature modules.
- keywords: 2010; 2012; 2013; 2016; 2017; academic; african; african higher; african literature; africanisation; analysis; available; black; british; calls; case; categories; certain; chaka; change; content; criteria; critical; culture; current; curriculum; data; decoloniality; decolonisation; decolonising; departments; desktop; different; disciplines; documents; education; english; english departments; english language; english literature; english n; english studies; epistemic; european; fanon; following; heis; higher; higher education; india; indigenous; institutional; jansen; journal; knowledge; language; lephalala; linguistics; literary; literature; mbembe; mind; module; module offerings; movement; nairobi; needs; new; ngesi; ngesi english; november; offerings; online_chips; p n; paper; perspectives; postgraduate; postgraduate module; presence; purpose; reference; related; research; review; scholars; set; south; south african; students; studies; studies n; study; systematic; systems; table; term; thiong’o; transformation; undergraduate; universities; university; writers
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- pie-3445
- author: Jita, L. C.; Mokhele-Makgalwa, M. L.
- title: Editorial
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 1374
- flesch: 27
- summary: The final two articles bring us full circle and return to secondary schooling level research and perspectives. To conclude this section on Higher Education-based research and perspectives, we include the article, Internet use among university students: A reason for concern?
- keywords: academic; article; authors; child; discipline; education; final; higher; importance; internet; issue; knowledge; learning; level; means; perspectives; psychology; research; school; secondary; south; students; teachers; understanding; university; use
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- pie-3446
- author: Wilmot, M.; Naidoo, D.
- title: Entrenching heterosexuality through language in South African Life Orientation (LO) textbooks
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 6960
- flesch: 47
- summary: It is imperative that textbook authors not only exercise sensitivity in their language but also represent the diverse forms of sexualities accurately. From bias in the text to teacher talk around the text: An exploration of teacher discourse and gendered foreign textbook texts.
- keywords: 2012; african; agency; analysis; assumptions; attraction; authors; boy; content; coverage; daniel; discourse; discussion; education; example; experiential; expressive; fairclough; following; form; gay; gender; grade; group; heterosexual; homosexual; homosexuality; human; identities; identity; ideological; imperative; jennings; language; learners; lgbt; life; marriage; meanings; modal; mode; mother; naidoo; negative; normal; notion; opposite; orientation; people; perspectives; phrase; position; power; pronoun; reader; relational; relationships; school; sense; sentence; sex; sexualities; sexuality; social; south; students; studies; subject; teachers; teaching; temple; textbook; texts; use; value; verb; wilmot; words
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- pie-3447
- author: Phatudi, N. C.
- title: “You should give a child love and take them warm-heartedly from their parent”: Preschool teachers’ practice and understanding of care
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 6607
- flesch: 59
- summary: The role of local knowledge and culture in child care in Africa: A sociological study of several groups in Kenya and Uganda. The cultural construction of child development: Creating institutional and cultural intersubjectivity.
- keywords: 2002; 2003; 2010; africa; areas; care; caring; centre; childhood; children; class; community; context; cultural; culture; development; early; early childhood; ecd; education; environment; ethics; fleer; gender; harkness; home; important; interactions; johanna; journal; learning; love; mary; moral; mothering; new; noddings; paper; parent; participants; perspectives; phatudi; photovoice; pictures; policy; positive; practices; preschools; quality; research; role; social; south; study; super; teachers; teaching; township; understanding; university; values; vogt; warm; women
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- pie-3448
- author: Jama, M. P.
- title: Applying a humanistic pedagogy to advance and integrate humane values in a medical school environment
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 5869
- flesch: 50
- summary: However, research shows that this phenomenon is more common in medical schools, pointing to increased levels of stress and inci dences of attempted suicide among medical students. Other studies (Derby, Thomas & Shanafeld, 2006; Hojat et al., 2009; Gaufberg et al., 2010; Veerapen & McAleer, 2010) refer to cynism, decay in humanitarian attitudes, decline and erosion of empathy that “fades away like an endangered species”, leading to stress among medical students (Hojat et al., 2009).
- keywords: 2011; 2013; academic; addition; background; care; caring; clandinin; development; education; empathy; environment; experience; family; free; freire; higher; higher education; hope; humane; humane values; humanistic; humanistic pedagogy; institutions; irsj; jama; journal; learning; life; lives; love; medical; medical education; medical students; medicine; moral; narrative; noddings; pedagogy; people; perspectives; practice; project; relatedly; relationship; research; role; salazar; school; social; south; state; stories; stress; students; studies; study; support; teachers; teaching; theory; time; ufs; university; values; way; work
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- pie-3449
- author: Hendricks, F.; Wood, L.
- title: An alternative approach to a complex issue: Youth-designed strategies for the prevention of teenage pregnancy in schools
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 6630
- flesch: 60
- summary: While recognising the intersectionality of teenage pregnancy, we believe that school-based prevention measures can play an important role in helping youth to make healthy decisions about their sexual behaviour. This approach benefitted not only the participating youth in terms of the development of specific life skills, but also influenced how they, their peers and teachers began to think differently about the issue of teenage pregnancy.
- keywords: 2015; 2016; action; africa; alternative; analysis; approach; behaviour; change; choice; complex; consequences; cycle; data; discussion; education; educators; effective; evidence; factors; figure; findings; future; girls; health; help; hendricks; impact; issue; journal; kirby; learners; life; like; messages; need; new; participants; participatory; peer; people; perspectives; photo; photographs; pregnancy; prevention; programmes; project; relevant; research; school; sex; sexuality; social; strategies; teachers; teenage; teenage pregnancy; use; video; voice; way; wood; young; youth
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- pie-3450
- author: Naudé, L.; Botha, A.
- title: It’s a Virtual Child!: Postgraduate students’ experiences in a developmental psychology class
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 6332
- flesch: 47
- summary: Making connections: Evaluating the effectiveness of journal writing in enhancing student learning. Participants saw how other students assumed different roles and styles, whilst some were there for advice or provided a reflective/thoughtful perspective.
- keywords: authorship; baxter; better; botha; challenges; child; cognitive; complexity; constructivist; data; decisions; development; different; education; end; experiences; focus; group; higher; ideas; importance; information; integration; interactive; internal; journal; knowing; knowledge; learning; m.b; magolda; making; module; naudé; new; opportunity; order; parenting; parents; participants; personal; perspectives; piaget; postgraduate; practice; process; processes; programme; psychology; real; reflective; research; self; social; students; study; styles; teaching; textbook; theme; theory; time; use; virtual; virtual child; ways; work
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- pie-3451
- author: Geyer, L. S. (Stephen); Hall, H. (Herna); le Roux, M. P. (Liana); Crafford, G. (Gretel)
- title: Internet use among university students: A reason for concern?
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 6441
- flesch: 47
- summary: Keywords: Internet use; problematic internet use; internet addiction; student; young adult; tertiary institution, student support services 1. This article reports on a study on the nature and impact of internet use among students at a tertiary institution.
- keywords: 2014; academic; access; activities; addiction; africa; association; behavior; chou; constructs; control; crafford; depression; development; devices; education; effects; email; escape; et al; females; gender; general; geyer; group; hall; higher; human; impact; internet; internet addiction; internet platforms; internet use; interventions; journal; life; loss; low; males; management; medical; nature; negative; obsession; online; perspectives; piu; platforms; pretoria; prevalence; problematic; problematic internet; problems; psychology; questionnaire; reasons; relationship; research; respondents; results; risk; romantic; roux; services; social; south; statistics; students; study; support; table; tertiary; time; treatment; university; use; users; van; work; young
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- pie-3452
- author: Tsakeni, Maria
- title: The promotion of sustainable environmental education by the Zimbabwe Ordinary level science syllabi
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 7348
- flesch: 41
- summary: Of significance is the promotion of sustainable development through environmental chemistry education (Eilks, 2015; Warner & Elsier, 2015). What are the teachers’ perceptions of place-based pedagogies for the integration of ESD and green chemistry in environmental chemistry education?
- keywords: 2009; 2011; 2012; 2015; achievement; activities; activity; awareness; biology; burmeister; case; chemicals; chemistry; chemistry education; content; control; data; degradation; development; education; eilks; elsier; environmental; environmental awareness; environmental chemistry; environmental education; environmental issues; esd; experimental; fuels; global; green; green chemistry; group; instructional; integrated; integration; issues; journal; karpudewan; land; learners; learning; level; negative; ordinary; pedagogy; performance; perspectives; physical; place; positive; post; practices; problem; promotion; questionnaire; research; resources; results; rural; school; science; science education; soil; solving; strategies; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; sustainable environmental; syllabus; teachers; teaching; test; tsakeni; use; warner; water; zimbabwe; zimsec
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- pie-3453
- author: van den Berg, M.; Jacobs, I. F.; Weideman, S.
- title: Factors contributing to the negation of therapeutic services by emerging adults at a South African university
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 7186
- flesch: 50
- summary: 98 Factors contributing to the negation of therapeutic services by emerging adults at a South African university Abstract From a practice point of view it seems as if there are certain factors that might contribute to the fact that emerging adults tend to negate therapeutic help and services. It also seems to be specifically true with regard to emerging adults at university.
- keywords: adolescent; adulthood; adults; african; age; analysis; arnett; aspects; available; behaviour; beliefs; berg; campus; case; centre; change; child; collection; data; depression; developmental; distress; education; factors; family; fear; focus; fouché; group; health; help; help negation; intervention; jacobs; journal; life; literature; mental; need; negation; order; participants; person; perspectives; phase; population; problems; process; qualitative; regard; research; resources; rickwood; sadock; seeking; services; social; south; specific; stigmatisation; strydom; students; study; subtheme; support; therapeutic; therapeutic services; therapist; therapy; time; university; van; weideman; young
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- pie-3454
- author: Reyneke, J. M.; Pretorius, J. L.
- title: Aligning school discipline with the best interests of the child: Some deficits in the legislative framework
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 9118
- flesch: 50
- summary: Yet, there are no regulations with regard to the appointment, qualifications, experience, duties or training of intermediaries in the context of school disciplinary proceedings. In this article, the provisions of section 8 of the Schools Act are scrutinised and it is concluded that these provisions are supporting an adversarial and punitive approach to school discipline.
- keywords: 2011; act; adversarial; africa; aims; approach; available; best interests; child; children; code; conduct; constitutional; context; counselling; court; criminal; decisions; development; die; dignity; disciplinary; disciplinary proceedings; discipline; education; focus; framework; human; importance; intermediary; jol; journal; justice; lack; law; learners; legislative; measures; misconduct; nature; needs; particular; parties; perspectives; position; prescriptions; pretorius; proceedings; process; provisions; public; punishment; punitive; research; respect; responsible; restorative; retributive; reyneke; rights; role; rules; school; school discipline; schools act; section; services; sgb; social; society; south; standard; state; structures; support; support measures; system; terms; transformative; transgressor; van; victim; wrongdoing
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- pie-3455
- author: Muthama, Evelyn; Mckenna, Sioux
- title: The contradictory conceptions of research in Historically Black Universities
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 6936
- flesch: 50
- summary: Some institutions had various structures for disseminating research knowledge to communities beyond academia, such as collaborations with local and government departments, community partnership agreements and so on. This discourse suggests that engaged research is significant to the research identities of those working in HBUs and furthermore that such research has the potential to have a major impact on social development in the country.
- keywords: academic; africa; analysis; apartheid; areas; black; boughey; cape; central; conceptions; construction; contradictory; country; data; department; development; discourse; discursive; dominant; driver; economic; economy; education; effects; example; funding; government; hbus; higher; higher education; hor; identities; identity; impact; incentives; institutions; instrumentalist; integral; justice; kind; knowledge; mckenna; muthama; national; new; output; participants; people; perspectives; policy; population; pretoria; production; research; researchers; role; science; social; south; students; study; teaching; technology; training; understanding; universities; university; ways; work; world
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- pie-3456
- author: Geduld, Bernadette
- title: Teachers’ perceptions of how they develop self-regulated learning
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 7282
- flesch: 52
- summary: In literature, many empirical studies report on how SRL development enhances academic achievement of learners Zimmerman, 2002; Pintrich, 2002; Moos & Ringdal, 2012). The findings underline the importance of developing teachers’ knowledge and the use of SRL teaching strategies to foster SRL learning and, hence, academic success.
- keywords: academic; achievement; analysis; answers; approach; behaviour; beliefs; class; classes; constructivist; content; data; demonstration; development; different; direct; education; efforts; example; geduld; grade; group; help; higher; interest; interviews; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; lesson; management; model; motivation; observations; participants; perceptions; performance; perspectives; phase; pintrich; planning; processes; progress; questions; regulation; research; roles; schools; science; secondary; self; skills; social; srl; srl strategies; strategies; study; subject; success; task; teachers; teaching; time; township; understanding; use; value; van; work; zimmerman
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- pie-3457
- author: Yu, Ke; Shandu, Balungile
- title: Overcoming language barriers: lessons learnt from migrant children
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 6689
- flesch: 43
- summary: Keywords: Aspirations, language barriers, non-conventional factors for school achievement, motivation, parent involvement, school success of migrant children 1. Research trying to determine/compare the level of parental school involvement among different groups (e.g. racial groups) of parents are in abundance, but their results are not conclusive.
- keywords: 2008; 2009; 2015; ability; academic; achievement; africa; allen; aspirations; available; barriers; better; bilingual; case; children; conventional; countries; country; different; e.g.; early; education; effectiveness; english; expectations; factors; families; family; focus; generation; greater; hagelskamp; haskins; high; home; https://doi; immigrant; importance; international; interventions; involvement; johannesburg; journal; june; kao; koblinsky; language; learners; learning; literature; low; migrant children; migrants; migration; new; non; outcomes; paper; paradox; parental; parental involvement; parents; performance; perspectives; policy; programmes; research; resources; results; review; school; schooling; ses; shandu; social; south; students; studies; study; success; teachers; tienda; u.s; university; use; work
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- pie-3458
- author: Bhagwan, Raisuyah
- title: Towards a conceptual understanding of community engagement in higher education in South Africa
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 6665
- flesch: 39
- summary: Community engagement enables the pursuit of social justice through its interaction and concern with societal issues, social justice and empowerment, and students should be taught what social justice and social responsibility are (Pelton, 2001). 179 Bhagwan Towards a conceptual understanding of community engagement in higher education ... 9. Slamat (2010) acknowledged that there was a diverse array of definitions at different institutions locally and asserted the need for an inquiry into the changing role and meaning underpinning community engagement in the practice of scholarship, as opposed to defining community engagement from scratch.
- keywords: 2000; 2005; 2009; 2010; academic; activities; africa; analysis; beneficial; bernardo; bhagwan; campus; challenges; civic; civic engagement; committee; communities; community; community engagement; conceptual; conceptualise; context; core; critical; data; definitions; democratic; development; different; diverse; economic; education; engaged; engagement; external; faculty; forms; higher; higher education; inquiry; institutions; issues; journal; justice; knowledge; learning; literature; local; multiple; new; paper; participants; partnerships; perspectives; practice; pretoria; process; production; public; quality; reciprocity; related; relationship; research; scholarship; service; social; south; state; students; study; teaching; terms; themes; understanding; universities; university; way; work
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- pie-3459
- author: Fynn, Angelo; Janse van Vuuren, Herman
- title: Investigating the role of non-academic support systems of students completing a Master’s Degree in Open, Distance and e-Learning
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 7206
- flesch: 46
- summary: Of these, 15 respondents were MA students (N = 15, M = 4.27, SD = 1.49) and ten respondents were MARC students (N = 10, M = 3.8, SD = 1.03). The approach in this study, therefore, take the stance that a postgraduate supervision model that is premised on the principles of student support in ODeL would provide greater scope for supporting distance postgraduate research students.
- keywords: 2007; academic; access; african; barriers; bitzer; completion; connectivism; context; critical; distance; education; emotional; framework; higher; institution; journal; knowledge; learning; m =; ma respondents; marc; marc students; master; n =; needs; network; non; number; odel; open; outside; perspectives; postgraduate; practice; process; programme; qualifications; relationship; research; resources; respondents; results; role; scott; south; student support; students; studies; study; success; supervision; supervisors; support; support systems; survey; systems; tait; time; total; training; unisa; use; van
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- pie-3460
- author: Laher, Sumaya; Boshoff, Emma
- title: Understanding learner attitudes towards the use of tablets in a blended learning classroom
- date: 2018-06-19
- words: 6357
- flesch: 58
- summary: org/10.18820/2519593X/pie. v35i1.15 ISSN 0258-2236 e-ISSN 2519-593X Perspectives in Education 2017 35(1): 200-213 © UV/UFS mailto:sumaya.laher@wits.ac.za http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v35i1.15 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v35i1.15 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v35i1.15 201 Laher & Boshoff Understanding learner attitudes towards the use of tablets ... how it has been and should be implemented (Aesaert & van Braak, 2014; Bovée, Voogt, & Meelissen, 2007). Learner attitudes towards ET have not been adequately explored in the South African context.
- keywords: 2008; 2010; 2014; acceptance; access; adoption; african; attitudes; behavior; boshoff; chen; class; computer; courtois; ease; education; enjoyment; et attitudes; face; freq; grade; groups; home; human; ict; implementation; individual; information; innovation; ipad; laher; learners; learning; mean; measure; overall; perspectives; positive; questionnaire; research; respondent; responses; results; sample; scale; school; social; south; students; study; sub; table; tablets; teachers; technology; teo; themes; understanding; use; usefulness
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- pie-3577
- author: Swanepoel, Eben
- title: Editorial
- date: 2018-10-15
- words: 1741
- flesch: 27
- summary: The authors established that pre-service teachers found supervising teachers to focus on teaching as primarily rooted in administration and management duties. The article bridges the gap in literature (from South African perspectives) through the lens of meaningful learning in technology education and has the author enter the discussion as to how the subject and its proper conceptualisation will be beneficial not only to the field and discipline itself, but to teachers and learners as well.
- keywords: academic; article; authors; classroom; collaboration; contexts; curriculum; disciplines; discussion; education; higher; icts; issue; learners; learning; level; methods; pre; research; school; service; space; support; teachers; teaching; use; ways
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- pie-3580
- author: Moosa, Moeniera; Rembach, Lauren
- title: Voices from the classroom: Pre-service teachers’ interactions with supervising teachers
- date: 2018-10-16
- words: 6466
- flesch: 50
- summary: Another issue was that pre-service teachers wish to feel welcomed and supported at schools, but most experienced a lack of mentorship from their supervising teachers. Keywords: teaching practice, pre-service teachers, voices, professional practice, mentorship, supervising teachers 1.
- keywords: acting; administrative; african; batchelor; categories; classroom; data; development; education; epistemological; experiences; feedback; focus; following; hagger; higher; https://doi; information; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; management; mcintyre; mentoring; mentorship; methods; models; moosa; need; new; ontological; participants; perceptions; perspectives; practical; practice; pre; profession; qualitative; question; regard; rembach; research; role; school; service; service teachers; south; students; supervising; supervising teachers; tasks; teachers; teaching; teaching practice; university; views; voices; work
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- pie-3581
- author: Cupido, Xena Michelle; Norodien-Fataar, Najwa
- title: Teaching Assistants – a hit or a miss: The development of a teaching assistant programme to support academic staff at a university
- date: 2018-10-16
- words: 7302
- flesch: 41
- summary: Universities are encouraged to strengthen academic staff development through initiatives that support lecturers in creating spaces for closer student staff engagement, enhancing teaching and learning in the process. These challenges include addressing institutional cultures that have remained relatively unchanged and dealing with academic staff development needs through the provision of academic support (Department of Higher Education and Training, 2015).
- keywords: 2007; able; academic; academic staff; academic support; access; analysis; approach; assistants; bronfenbrenner; brown; café; central; challenges; collaborative; context; conversations; cupido; data; department; development; discipline; ecological; education; engagement; environment; equity; experiences; faculties; focus; form; higher; higher education; hit; human; impact; institutional; interactions; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; learning; mentoring; miss; need; new; norodienfataar; paper; participants; participatory; person; personal; perspectives; practices; process; programme; qualitative; question; relationships; research; role; social; south; space; specific; staff; structures; students; success; support; systems; ta programme; tas; teaching; tensions; theory; time; traditional; training; tutorial; university; work; world
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- pie-3582
- author: Behari-Leak, Kasturi; le Roux, Natalie
- title: Between a rock and a hard place, third space practitioners exercise agency
- date: 2018-10-16
- words: 7039
- flesch: 43
- summary: Third space professional development therefore must pay attention to carefully supporting new academics to ensure some level of loyalty to the institution. This paper critically reflects on the experiences and insights of academics in a specific professional development course for new academics.
- keywords: 2004; 2012; academics; activities; agency; analysis; behari; bhabha; boundaries; building; challenges; concept; concerns; contexts; critical; cultural; culture; currency; current; customised; data; department; development; development practitioners; different; discourse; education; experiences; fairclough; hard; higher; higher education; hybrid; identities; identity; induction; insights; institutional; issues; job; journal; leak; learning; management; napp; need; new; new academics; newcomers; paper; people; personal; perspectives; place; practices; practitioners; present; process; professional; professional development; programme; projects; reflective; relationships; research; rock; roles; roux; self; sense; social; space; staff; study; support; teaching; theory; traditional; understanding; university; ways; whitchurch; work; writing
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- pie-3583
- author: none
- title: Research methods for undergraduate delivery: Evaluation of problem-based learning
- date: 2018-10-16
- words: 7487
- flesch: 47
- summary: There are various methods employed by universities to transfer research method skills to students but there is no obvious ‘one size fits all’ strategy. Problem-based learning may be used as a successful strategy for skills development in research methods courses.
- keywords: 36(1; able; analysis; approach; articles; assessment; challenging; class; competence; concepts; course; data; delivery; development; difficulty; education; evaluation; examples; excel; experience; final; focus; group; health; higher; information; instructor; journal; knowledge; learning; literature; methodology; methods; participants; pbl; perspectives; practical; problem; process; proposal; question; questionnaire; reddy; reference; related; relevant; research; research methods; review; section; session; skills; south; statistics; strategies; students; study; teaching; time; topic; undergraduate; understanding; use; useful; work; writing
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- pie-3584
- author: Swarts, P.; Rens, J. A.; de Sousa, L. O.
- title: (Re)connect social and environmental responsibility to learners’ living environments: Curriculum challenges and possible solutions for teaching-learning in Life Orientation
- date: 2018-10-16
- words: 7955
- flesch: 52
- summary: Although the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) makes reference to active, critical and creative learning (DBE, 2011: 4), LO teachers appear to struggle to adapt their teaching-learning to reflect the diverse realities of South African life. 1.1 LO in the National Curriculum Statement CAPS (DBE, 2011), which was implemented from 2012, requires LO teachers to integrate relevant environmental and sustainability concerns into the South African school curriculum.
- keywords: 2007; 2012; 2015; 2016; action; active; african; aids; approach; assessment; cape; caps; change; classroom; creative; critical; curriculum; data; dbe; development; eds; education; emphasis; environmental; environmental education; environmental issues; environmental responsibility; focus; framework; grange; hiv; important; introduction; issues; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; lesson; life; life orientation; live; living; local; national; nel; new; observations; orientation; participants; pbe; perspectives; place; policy; potchefstroom; poverty; press; pretoria; qualitative; real; realities; relevance; rens; requirements; research; responsibility; responsible; rooth; schaik; schools; skills; social; socio; sousa; south; southern; statement; strategy; study; sustainable; swarts; teachers; teaching; textbook; topics; town; university; values; van; √ √
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- pie-3585
- author: Munje, Paul Nwati; Mncube, Vusi
- title: The lack of parent involvement as hindrance in selected public primary schools in South Africa: The voices of educators
- date: 2018-10-16
- words: 6888
- flesch: 45
- summary: 80 The lack of parent involvement as hindrance in selected public primary schools in South Africa: The voices of educators Abstract Although parent involvement is fundamental for school functioning, the nature and extent of such involvement is debatable and contested amongst stakeholders.
- keywords: 2003; 2012; 2014; 2015; academic; achievement; africa; available; cape; case; challenges; children; class; communities; community; context; data; disadvantaged; education; educators; epstein; extended; family; focus; group; hindrance; home; homework; http://doi; impact; implications; individual; international; interviews; involvement; issues; journal; lack; learners; learning; level; low; mncube; msila; munje; need; non; parental; parental involvement; parents; participants; participation; partnerships; perceptions; performance; perspectives; policy; poor; poverty; primary; principal; public; qualitative; relationships; research; role; sage; school; schooling; social; south; study; success; sustainable; teacher; town; university
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- pie-3586
- author: Dempster, Edith R.; Kirby, Nicola F.
- title: Inter-rater agreement in assigning cognitive demand to Life Sciences examination questions
- date: 2018-10-16
- words: 7010
- flesch: 48
- summary: 94 Inter-rater agreement in assigning cognitive demand to Life Sciences examination questions Abstract Taxonomies of cognitive demand are frequently used to ensure that assessment tasks include questions ranging from low to high cognitive demand. Evaluators found it difficult to assign cognitive demand to examination items, and constantly referred to the descriptors.
- keywords: 2012; aec; african; agreement; analysis; assessment; biology; bloom; cambridge; categories; category; cognitive; cognitive demand; curriculum; dbe; demand; dempster; descriptors; different; education; essay; evaluation; evaluators; examination; examination papers; expert; high; ieb; information; inter; items; kirby; knowledge; learning; level; life; marks; moderators; national; nsc; order; papers; percentage; perspectives; pollitt; practice; qualifications; questions; rater; rater agreement; reliability; report; research; results; school; sciences; senior; south; standards; students; study; subjects; table; taxonomy; team; training; umalusi; years
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- pie-3587
- author: Lisene, Lucia Nthooa; Jita, Thuthukile
- title: Exploring the integration of modern technologies in the teaching of physical science in Lesotho
- date: 2018-10-16
- words: 7029
- flesch: 52
- summary: Integrating technology into instructional practices focusing on teacher knowledge. Technological pedagogical content knowledge: A framework for teacher knowledge.
- keywords: 2009; 2015; acceptable; activities; communication; computers; constructivism; content; content knowledge; curriculum; data; development; domains; education; figure; government; groups; high; ict integration; icts; information; integration; international; jita; journal; knowledge; koehler; koohang; lack; learners; learning; lesotho; level; lisene; mean; mishra; model; modern; new; non; paper; pck; pedagogical; perspectives; phones; physical; physical science; population; pre; research; results; sample; sas; schools; science; scores; secondary; service; social; study; subject; table; tck; teachers; teaching; technological; technologies; technology; tpack; training; types; university; use; values
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- pie-3588
- author: Gumbo, Mishack T.
- title: Addressing the factors responsible for the misunderstanding of Technology Education with other subject fields
- date: 2018-10-16
- words: 7788
- flesch: 34
- summary: This is unfortunate, as naming Educational Technology teachers Technology Education teachers, has the potential to add to the confusion about what Technology Education is. Addressing this question will also assist in clarifying the specialisation of Technology Education teachers and scholars, as they are often mistaken for Educational Technology specialists, or even Science Education specialists.
- keywords: 2012; addition; africa; approach; article; association; authors; caps; claim; communication; concepts; context; curriculum; daugherty; department; design; development; different; dugger; education framework; education teachers; educational; engineering; engineering education; factors; figure; forms; framework; gumbo; important; indigenous; indigenous technology; industrial; information; international; journal; kellam; kelly; knowledge; learners; learning; literacy; literature; materials; meaningful; misunderstanding; needs; new; perceptions; perspectives; practice; pragmatic; problem; processes; research; responsible; science; science education; skills; social; society; solving; south; standards; study; subjects; systems; teachers; teaching; technical; technological; technology; technology education; technology teachers; thinking; traditional; training; unesco; use; view; vocational; vocational education; williams
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- pie-36
- author: Francis, Dennis
- title: Editorial
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 1198
- flesch: 38
- summary: They identify the key themes within the publications as these: the re-conceptualisation of teachers as facilitators, the problems and possibilities of cooperative learning or group work, the use of educational support materials and resources, the idea of ‘teaching for learning’, the importance of context, the nature of continuous assessment, and debates on teacher evaluation. The authors argue for ways of developing greater connections between schools and families, and for addressing the organisational climate so as to enable a culture that is positive for peaceful engagement in school.
- keywords: challenges; community; competences; development; diversity; education; engagement; greater; higher; learning; paper; paradigm; research; schools; south; specific; students; study; teacher; transformation; use; violence; ways
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- pie-3605
- author: Ngwenya, Jabulisile Chamane
- title: Assets teachers identify for the teaching of Accounting Education in a rural secondary school in KwaZulu-Natal
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 7592
- flesch: 50
- summary: In addition, rural Accounting teachers shared the responsibility of providing feedback with learners to offer both individual and communal feedback. Thematic analysis revealed that Accounting teachers used capacities, skills and resources from the school, neighbouring schools and wider community outside the school to improve their teaching practices.
- keywords: 2015; access; accounting; accounting education; accounting teachers; african; approach; assessment; assets; assets teachers; bona; capacities; challenges; changes; class; classroom; colleagues; commerce; communities; community; context; curriculum; department; development; different; education; experiences; expertise; feedback; findings; higher; hlalele; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.6; interaction; journal; knowledge; kretzmann; kwazulu; learners; learning; lizwi; meetings; myende; natal; new; ngwenya; opportunity; perspectives; plessis; practices; pretoria; problems; professional; research; resources; review; rural; school; shared; skills; south; strategies; study; subject; support; teachers; teaching; theory; topics; use; workshops; zodwa
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- pie-37
- author: Deacon, Roger; Osman, Ruksana; Buchler, Michelle
- title: Scholarship in teacher education in South Africa, 1995-2006
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 7095
- flesch: 47
- summary: Teacher education research consists overwhelmingly of small-scale studies, and most of it (69%) is located at the classroom level. Findings: Primary themes in teacher education research
- keywords: academic; adler; african; african journal; analysis; apartheid; area; assessment; better; bitzer; brodie; buchler; case; classroom; context; continuous; cooperative; craig; critical; curriculum; database; davis; deacon; debates; der; development; disciplinary; eds; education; education policy; education research; engelbrecht; evaluation; findings; group; higher; higher education; importance; international; issues; journal; knowledge; language; large; learners; learning; lecompte; level; literature; materials; mathematics; muller; nature; need; new; non; osman; particular; perspectives; policy; practice; pretoria; primary; quality; reed; research; researchers; resources; scale; scholarship; school; science; sector; september; small; south; south africa; studies; study; support; taylor; teacher; teacher education; teaching; terms; texts; themes; training; university; use; van; volume; work
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- pie-3794
- author: Msibi, Thabo; Hemson, Crispin; Singh, Shakila
- title: Education for the "African child": Distant illusion?
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 2708
- flesch: 41
- summary: Conclusion Reading this special issue from the concluding article backwards, and taking into consideration the accounts in which various authors have sought to highlight the colonial “wound” present in the daily experiences of African children, and of South African children in particular, it is important for a moment to ponder on the net effect of these wounds on the range of social crises that characterise our present day experiences. For a school to be fully inclusive of African children – to make Ubuntu real – requires attending to and addressing the multiple forms in which regulation and policing are still informed by damaging and oppressive beliefs and structures.
- keywords: account; african; african child; apartheid; article; bantu; case; child; children; context; cultural; curriculum; debates; development; education; epistemic; experiences; gender; history; identity; issue; knowledge; language; learners; learning; particular; perspective; policy; practice; racial; school; schooling; self; soudien; south; south african; study; system; thinking; ubuntu; understanding; ways; young
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- pie-3795
- author: Guzula, Xolisa
- title: Moving beyond artificial linguistic binaries in the education of African Language speaking children: A case for simultaneous biliteracy development
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 7101
- flesch: 50
- summary: While English and Afrikaans speaking children were constructed by the Union of South Africa government at this time as equals, with compulsory schooling, and their languages unquestioned as mediums of instruction in a dual medium education system, African language speaking children were seen as not needing to be educated or taught in their own language. Through Bantu education, African language speaking children were to experience inferior education, and positioned as only able to serve their own communities, with no place in the European community except as a future poorly paid and exploited labour force (Maake, 1991).
- keywords: african; african language; afrikaans; alexander; apartheid; artificial; bilingual; bilingual education; bilingualism; binaries; black; case; children; club; competent; critical; curriculum; debates; deficient; deficit; different; dual; education; english; facilitators; fact; framework; game; garcia; good; grade; group; guzula; heugh; home; ideologies; inequality; instruction; language; language policy; learners; learning; linguistic; literacy; london; making; malherbe; materials; mckinney; meaning; means; medium; medium education; monolinguals; mother; multilingual; multiliteracies; new; nhe; noni; paper; perspectives; policies; policy; power; practices; repertoire; resources; schools; single; south; spaces; speaking; standard; stlc; study; tongue; use; varieties; xoli
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- pie-3796
- author: Maseko, Patricia BN
- title: A transformative exploration of epistemic individual(istic) identity formation within a synergistic decolonial student support system
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 6654
- flesch: 44
- summary: The upshot of this orientation is the creation of a synergistic communal ethos that makes provision for individual identity formation. The theoretical orientation of Ubuntu is foregrounded as an appropriate philosophy for facilitating the ideal of epistemic individual identity formation within the context of a synergistic student support system.
- keywords: 2013; 2015; academic; african; alienation; appropriate; associated; attention; band; black; bourdieu; child; class; collective; communal; community; complexities; context; cultural; decolonial; development; disadvantage; discussion; education; english; epistemic; example; experiences; exploration; familiar; fataar; focus; formation; good; hand; higher; identity; identity formation; implications; individual; individual(istic; interviews; language; learning; maseko; misrecognition; need; new; orientation; paper; participants; participation; performance; perspectives; press; professional; racism; reference; regard; relation; research; second; sense; social; south; spaces; specific; student; study; support; synergistic; system; teacher; transformative; transitioning; tutor; ubuntu; university; view
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- pie-3797
- author: Lewis, Andrew
- title: Pseudo-scientific intellectual theories of the African child during the 20th century
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 8374
- flesch: 47
- summary: Documents in South African education. The introduction of segregated “Native Education” for African pupils after Union witnessed a racialised system implemented in African education in contrast to education provision for white children based on the former’s perceived intellectual differences.
- keywords: 2018; 20th; african; african child; african education; apartheid; assessment; bantu; cape; century; child; children; cockcroft; commission; culture; development; differences; different; documents; dubow; economic; education; eiselen; europeans; fick; foxcroft; good; government; historical; history; hope; inferior; inferiority; intellectual; intelligence; introduction; johannesburg; journal; laher; lewis; london; mathematics; means; mental; nationalist; native; native education; nature; needs; outlook; paper; party; past; people; perspectives; place; policy; political; practices; present; press; pretoria; prevalent; pseudo; psychological; qualitative; race; racial; racism; report; research; roodt; school; science; scientific; segregation; separate; social; society; south; south african; superiority; system; teachers; testing; theories; theorising; thinking; times; town; type; union; university; use; van; way; white; years
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- pie-3798
- author: Adzahlie-Mensah, Vincent; Dunne, Máiréad
- title: Continuing in the shadows of colonialism: The educational experiences of the African Child in Ghana
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 8666
- flesch: 52
- summary: The promotion of education as a catalyst for economic development and modernity is reflected in school curriculum and its valorisation of particular knowledges. Bullying and school attendance: A case study of senior high school students in Ghana.
- keywords: 2007; adzahlie; african; analysis; authority; case; child; children; classroom; colonial; colonialism; context; control; critical; cultural; culture; curriculum; daily; dei; discipline; discursive; dunne; education; english; ethnographic; european; experiences; fante; female; formal; foucault; gender; gendered; ghana; ghanaian; girls; good; hierarchical; hierarchy; identities; identity; important; indigenous; institutional; instruction; interests; journal; knowledge; language; learning; life; local; london; lugones; mensah; national; new; order; paper; pedagogy; people; perspectives; point; policy; post; power; practices; prefects; press; primary; processes; production; questions; relations; research; rules; school; schooling; section; shadows; sir; smith; social; space; structures; students; studies; study; subjectivities; subjects; sustained; system; talk; teachers; teaching; texts; time; university; use; ways; women; work; york
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- pie-3799
- author: Hemson, Crispin
- title: Agency, resilience and innovation in overcoming educational failure
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 7198
- flesch: 58
- summary: What’s wrong with South African schools? The teachers had promoted the ideas of study groups and some learners had contested this.
- keywords: 2012; african; agency; analysis; area; basic; boys; capital; case; class; communities; contexts; cultural; data; department; durban; education; examination; example; failure; families; focus; grade; group; hemson; high; individual; innovation; key; knowledge; leadership; learners; learning; matriculation; nkosinathi; participants; pass; patonville; people; perspectives; potential; problem; process; research; resilience; resources; results; school; schooling; sense; sifiso; siyabonga; sizwe; society; south; strategies; students; study; success; system; teachers; thabani; themes; theron; time; township; ungar; university; use; van; ways; work; year; young
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- pie-38
- author: Pillay, V.; McLellan, C. E.
- title: Diverging on diversity and difference: The mask of inclusion
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 6872
- flesch: 55
- summary: Princess, a black student leader seeking to encourage other black students in her residence, ... usually say to the black students in the residences, the main thing that gives you problems is that you are so … allergic to Afrikaans to an extent that even the things that involves you, when you see it’s in Afrikaans you are not willing to read it. The one organisation consisted of white students and the other was mainly black.
- keywords: activities; african; afrikaans; ambivalence; apartheid; black; black students; campus; change; christian; cultural; culture; data; day; dean; difference; education; english; group; higher; inclusion; institution; integration; language; leader; level; management; mclellan; member; need; new; paper; people; person; point; policy; practices; princess; race; racial; research; residence; respect; room; social; sonneblom; south; src; structures; students; study; things; transformation; university; use; way; ways; weiler; white; white students
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- pie-3800
- author: Pillay, Daisy; Ngubane, Sithembiso
- title: A child inmate’s stories of schooling and the possibilities for self-change and self-care
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 7012
- flesch: 56
- summary: This paper rejects the use of African child that serves to reproduce racist apartheid logic. We read the lines between the pleats for the textures and nuances of an actual living life, whilst acknowledging the ongoing negotiation with the social, economic, and political miseries and vulnerabilities that African children, in particular, continue to experience.
- keywords: 2013; 2017; african; african child; agenda; apartheid; article; available; bakhona; behaviour; benvenuti; bhana; black; capacity; care; child; child inmate; children; choice; complex; creative; crime; danger; different; durban; education; ethical; experiences; family; foucault; gender; high; home; identity; inequalities; inmate; juvenile; knowledge; learner; learning; life; lives; london; mathews; moral; narrative; new; ngubane; particular; people; perspectives; pillay; potent; poverty; practice; press; prison; race; research; rural; school; schooling; self; sense; single; sithembiso; social; sociological; south; spaces; stories; story; studies; system; transformation; understanding; unemployment; vignettes; violence; ways; work; world; writing; young
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- pie-3801
- author: Reygan, Finn
- title: Sexual and gender diversity in schools: Belonging, in/exclusion and the African child
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 6612
- flesch: 49
- summary: This has included a greater focus on gender diversity, in terms of gender non-conforming young people and the realisation that communities, including school communities, name and make verbal reference to sexual and gender diversity in multiple ways and through multiple historical and contemporary lenses. This raises a number of important questions such as: What does it mean to be a learner who embodies sexual and gender diversity in South African schools?
- keywords: 2004; 2012; african; approach; belonging; bullying; change; child; class; context; critical; dbe; depalma; difference; discrimination; diversity; education; educators; essentialising; exclusion; experiences; focus; francis; gay; gender; gender diversity; hemson; homophobic; human; identity; inclusion; inclusive; issues; journal; justice; learners; lesbian; lgbti; msibi; new; oppression; orientation; paper; people; perspectives; policy; power; privilege; processes; queer; race; recent; relation; research; reygan; rights; schooling; schools; sexual; sexual diversity; sexuality; social; south; south african; spaces; support; system; teachers; teaching; terms; textbooks; transphobic; violence; ways; young
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- pie-3802
- author: Nxumalo, Sabelo Abednego; Mncube, Dumisani Wilfred
- title: Using indigenous games and knowledge to decolonise the school curriculum: Ubuntu perspectives
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 7908
- flesch: 56
- summary: South African indigenous games in perspective Indigenous games have received sporadic ad hoc attention in research and came to the fore with the launch of the 2000/2001 Indigenous Games Project, initiated by the then Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg), in which indigenous games of isiZulu, English and Afrikaans speaking individuals, as well as those of Indian descent, were documented (Burnett & Hollander, 2004). 103 Using indigenous games and knowledge to decolonise the school curriculum: Ubuntu perspectives Abstract This paper foregrounds the value of the inclusion of Ubuntu philosophy in the school curriculum using indigenous games.
- keywords: 2002; 2003; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2011; 2015; african; african indigenous; area; ball; boys; childhood; children; coetzee; collective; communities; community; compassion; cultural; culture; curriculum; development; dignity; early; education; engelbrecht; fielding; fighting; fingers; games; human; humanity; identity; igemu; indigenous; indigenous education; indigenous games; indigenous knowledge; indishi; isizulu; journal; justice; knowledge; learners; learning; life; mbigi; members; mncube; number; nxumalo; paper; pedagogies; pedagogy; people; person; perspectives; philosophy; players; playing; points; poovan; research; respect; rights; roux; rules; school; school curriculum; self; skills; social; society; south; south african; spirit; stick; study; systems; teaching; team; tins; traditional; ubuntu; ubuntu philosophy; ubuntu values; ukungcweka; umngcwabo; university; ushumpu; values; work
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- pie-3803
- author: Pillay, Preya; Swanepoel, Eben
- title: An exploration of higher education teachers’ experience of decolonising the Bachelor of Education honours curriculum at a South African university
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 6711
- flesch: 44
- summary: Rather, it 121 Pillay & Swanepoel An exploration of higher education teachers is a call to make higher education (HE) “relevant to the material, historical and social realities of the communities in which universities operate” (Letsekha, 2013: 14). Yet the extent of the preparedness of higher education teachers to respond 122 Perspectives in Education 2019: 36(2) to this call remains unknown.
- keywords: 2013; academics; african; case; classroom; colonial; content; critical; curriculum; decolonisation; decolonised; decolonising; different; discourse; discussion; education; education teachers; epistemic; eurocentric; experiences; exploration; faculty; foucault; grassroots; heleta; higher; higher education; honours; indigenous; induction; institutions; journal; knowledge; lecturers; level; meaning; means; narrative; need; new; participant; people; perspectives; pillay; power; practice; process; qualitative; regimes; research; researchers; results; social; south; south african; specific; stakeholders; students; studies; study; swanepoel; systems; teachers; teaching; theoretical; transformation; truth; understanding; universities; university; western; world; writing
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- pie-3804
- author: de Wet, Nicole; Osman, Ruksana
- title: Ecological approach to childhood in South Africa: An analysis of the contextual determinants
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 5693
- flesch: 56
- summary: Finally, programmes in the country that are addressing child education and those addressing community poverty should work together. 132 Ecological approach to childhood in South Africa: An analysis of the contextual determinants Abstract In South Africa, the educational attainment of African children has been a focal point of policy and research since the end of apartheid in 1994.
- keywords: 2014; africa; approach; asian; average; black; characteristics; childhood; children; coloured; communities; community; country; data; development; distribution; ecological; education; environments; female; food; grade; grade repetition; head; high; household; indian; individual; journal; level; medium; model; odds; osman; outcomes; perspectives; poor; population; poverty; race; racial; relationship; repeat; repetition; research; school; schooling; south; south africa; statistics; status; study; survey; table; value<0.05; wealth; wet; white; years
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- pie-3805
- author: Soudien, Crain
- title: Making a new South African learner: An analysis of the South African schools act
- date: 2019-04-16
- words: 7206
- flesch: 53
- summary: The specific interest of the paper is not to look so much at the mediation of identity in its practical forms, as in actual interchanges between subjects in the classroom, but to develop an understanding of the symbols and signifiers that are privileged in the formal and legal prescripts that surround the process of mediation. The specific interest of the paper is not to look so much at the mediation of identity in its practical forms, as in actual interchanges between subjects in the classroom, but to develop an understanding of the symbols and signifiers that are privileged in the formal and legal prescripts that surround the process of mediation.
- keywords: act; african learner; african schools; analysis; apartheid; central; child; citizenship; code; cultural; derrida; discourse; education; form; gasché; government; history; identities; identity; important; knowledge; language; learner; learning; learning subject; making; modern; modernity; new; new south; order; paper; parents; past; people; perspectives; peters; place; policy; post; power; presence; privileged; process; reason; relation; republic; responsibility; rights; rsa; sasa; school; schools act; self; sense; sign; singular; social; society; soudien; south; south african; space; state; subject; system; terms; text; tutelage; understanding; universal; ways; work; young
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- pie-3850
- author: Kern, Anwynne Celeste
- title: South African parents’ understanding of inclusion and exclusion in education in primary schools
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 7613
- flesch: 44
- summary: The 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report on Inclusion (GEMR, 2018:4) however notes that inclusive education is a “statement of political aspiration, an essential ingredient to the creation of inclusive societies”, while Ainscow, Booth and Dyson’s (2006) principled approach to inclusion foregrounds the guiding principles of “equity, participation, community and respect for diversity” (Messiou, 2017:147). http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v38.i2.17 2672020 38(2): 267-271 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v38.i2.17 Kern South African parents’ understanding of inclusion and exclusion Not only did inclusion have a positive impact on the children emotionally but parents also felt that it had other benefits: Inclusion in education gives one the opportunity to excel in their studies and to be more involved (Participant AA1:47).
- keywords: access; african; analysis; attitudes; barriers; boer; characteristics; children; classroom; criteria; data; different; disabilities; disability; doe; economic; education; effects; epistemological; exclusion; focus; formal; gemr; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.17; impact; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; individual; international; interpersonal; interview; journal; kern; learners; learning; levels; literature; means; needs; outcomes; paper; parental; parents; participant; participation; perceptions; perspectives; physical; positive; questionnaire; questions; research; responses; results; role; school; social; society; south; spaces; special; status; study; system; terms; themes; understanding; white
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- pie-3896
- author: Van Wyk, Arrie
- title: Leading curriculum changes in schools: The role of school principals as perceived by teachers
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 6341
- flesch: 49
- summary: THE ROLE OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AS PERCEIVED BY TEACHERS ABSTRACT The purpose of this article was to determine the views of teachers regarding the leading role of principals during curriculum changes in schools. The qualitative section serves to inform the reader explicitly on leadership issues that are important during curriculum changes.
- keywords: 2014; african; anson; aspects; available; category; change; communication; curriculum; curriculum changes; data; education; experience; framework; friesen; goldberg; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.10; human; implementation; instance; journal; kotter; lack; leadership; leading; learners; lewin; management; meetings; mento; new; open; organisations; organizational; perceptions; perspectives; post; practical; principals; process; qualitative; questionnaire; readiness; research; resistance; role; schooling; schools; science; section; significance; skills; south; successful; sufficient; support; system; teachers; teaching; team; van; view; vision; webster; westhuizen; wyk
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- pie-39
- author: Geschier, Sofie M. M. A.
- title: Vulnerability and belonging in the history classroom: A teacher’s positioning in “volatile conversations” on racism and xenophobia
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 7018
- flesch: 61
- summary: The article indeed does not have as aim to be representative of the overall practice of the teacher involved, nor of other teachers in South Africa or elsewhere. In comparison with other teachers participating in the project, there were fewer language issues and more commonalities between her and the researcher and it seemed easier to establish a relationship of trust.
- keywords: africa; analysis; apartheid; article; attempt; black; bridgeton; cape; classroom; conversation; country; day; different; discussion; education; electric; fences; geschier; history; holocaust; identity; interaction; jansen; jewish; learners; man; narratives; need; new; observed; past; pause; pedagogical; people; personal; perspectives; point; position; positioning; practice; present; press; primary; question; racism; richard; role; safe; school; self; sense; september; society; south; teacher; teaching; thinking; time; town; university; use; vulnerability; vulnerable; ways; white; xenophobia; york
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- pie-3923
- author: Van der Vyver, Cornelius Petrus; Kok, T; Conley, L. N.
- title: The relationship between teachers’ professional wellbeing and principals’ leadership styles
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 7140
- flesch: 40
- summary: Teacher wellbeing has been receiving attention since the 1930s (Orsila, Luukkaala, Manka & Nygård, 2011). r=0.5 (large) 7.3.1 Correlation between transformational leadership dimension of the FRLT and professional wellbeing According to Table 6, a medium negative correlation (r = -0.354; p < 0.01) was found between the transformational dimension and anxiety, which could indicate that teachers who perceive their principal as predominantly displaying the transformational dimension of leadership, experience lower levels of anxiety.
- keywords: 2016; activation; affect; affective; alpha; anxiety; behaviour; comfort; conley; correlation; cronbach; depression; dimension; education; enthusiasm; experience; factors; faire; frlt; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.06; idealised; indicator; influence; item; iwp; job; journal; kok; laissez; leadership; leadership behaviour; leadership dimension; levels; lower; management; mean; medium; model; multi; negative; passive; perspectives; population; positive; possible; principals; professional; professional wellbeing; psychology; relationship; research; results; school; south; study; styles; table; teachers; time; transactional; transformational; transformational dimension; transformational leadership; van; vyver; warr; wellbeing; work
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- pie-3927
- author: Chimbunde, Pfuurai; Kgari-Masondo, Maserole
- title: Representation of the Zimbabwean 2015-2022 Social Studies curriculum: Teachers perspectives about ‘Ubuntulising’ curriculum change and implementation
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 7485
- flesch: 53
- summary: 2. establish Ubuntu strategies that policy makers can adopt to lessen challenges faced in the implementation of the new 2015–2022 Social Studies curriculum in Zimbabwe. But as for Social Studies curriculum, we need to be educated because the content added is new and while we were at school or college we did not learn this subject to such a depth.
- keywords: 2018; african; approach; case; challenges; change; chimbunde; collective; community; consultation; content; curriculum; curriculum change; curriculum implementation; data; development; education; effective; ethics; experiences; face; fgd; findings; government; group; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.19; implementation; interviews; kgari; knowledge; lack; learning; makers; masondo; nature; need; new; new curriculum; new social; order; participants; participation; people; perspectives; philosophy; policy; primary; principals; process; qualitative; reforms; relations; representation; research; resources; respect; school; social; social studies; strategies; studies; studies curriculum; study; support; system; teachers; terms; training; ubuntu; ubuntu philosophy; ubuntu values; use; values; village; way; zimbabwe; zimbabwean curriculum
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- pie-3934
- author: Swanepoel, Gideon Petrus; Bruwer, Armand
- title: Educating the always-on generation in an Instant(gram) #blendedlearning
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 6946
- flesch: 47
- summary: Findings on Facebook in higher education: A comparison of college faculty and student uses and perceptions of social networking sites. The questionnaire comprised open- and closed-ended questions and the questions were developed from previous studies in the field of accounting on student perceptions by Steenkamp, Baard and Frick (2009).
- keywords: academic; accounting; administrative; analysis; approach; available; blended; blended learning; connected; difficult; education; facebook; following; force; funrek188 instagram; generation; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1; images; implementation; information; instagram; instagram account; instant(gram; journal; july; latent; learning; lecturers; mean; module; outside; overall; participation; perception; perspectives; positive; questionnaire; questions; research; results; sample; snss; social; statements; students; study; table; teaching; tertiary; tertiary education; test; tool; topics; twitter; use; value; variable; visual; year
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- pie-4009
- author: Bayat, Abdullah; Fataar, Aslam
- title: Exploring agency in marginalised occupations: school administrative clerks’ deployment of ‘participatory capital’ in establishing practice-based agency
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 7156
- flesch: 47
- summary: 255 2020 38(1): 255-268 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v38i1.18 Exploring agEncy in marginalisEd occupations: school administrativE clErks’ dEploymEnt of “participatory capital” in Establishing practicE- basEd agEncy abstract Popular conceptions of school administrative clerks and school secretaries imply that they have little agency because they are deemed as subordinate support staff. The article suggests that it is through their involvement and interaction in the socio-cultural context of the school that school administrative clerks are able to expand the range of their agency and thereby reposition themselves at school.
- keywords: 1991; 2010; able; administrative; administrative clerks; african; agency; article; bayat; body; capital; clerks; contextual; department; deployment; deputy; district; education; edwards; example; fataar; governance; governors; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.18; identity; information; interviews; issues; journal; knowledge; local; management; marginalised; meetings; members; naicker; occupational; office; parent; participation; participatory; participatory capital; perspectives; positions; practices; principal; professional; public; relational; relationships; resources; role; school; school administrative; secretaries; secretary; section; sgb; smt; social; sociocultural; south; staff; status; students; subordinate; teachers; understanding; university; work
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- pie-4025
- author: van Appel, Vaughan; Durandt, Rina
- title: Investigating possibilities of predictive mathematical models to identify at-risk students in the South African higher education context
- date: 2019-11-27
- words: 6765
- flesch: 40
- summary: Five different groups exist into which all public ordinary schools and their learners are placed – from the poorest in quintile 1 to the least poor in quintile 5. 3 van Appel & Durandt Investigating possibilities of predictive mathematical models... assess student’s understanding of statistics. We followed the traditional steps in a modelling cycle; to identify the problem in the real world (e.g. low throughput rates in mathematical related courses), to make assumptions and identify variables by selecting relevant information and finding relations (e.g. using 5 van Appel & Durandt Investigating possibilities of predictive mathematical models... continuous and formal assessment marks), to formulate a mathematical model and perform procedures to find results (e.g. multiple regression, or linear regression, or decision trees), to analyse and assess the solution by questioning the results and consequences (e.g. by checking the model’s accuracy), and to iterate the modelling process to refine and extend the model (e.g. to use different data sets) (compare Blum and Leiβ, 2007; COMAP-SIAM, 2016).
- keywords: academic; accuracy; addition; africa; appel; base; building; business; classification; component; context; course; covariates; data; decision; different; durandt; early; education; educators; evaluation; example; fail; false; good; information; knowledge; large; learning; level; literacy; logistic; mark; mathematical; model; modelling; multiple; number; pass; perspectives; possibilities; possible; predictive; predictive model; quintile; rates; reasoning; regression; relationship; research; results; risk; risk students; school; semester; south; statistics; statistics course; students; study; success; suitable; table; teaching; tertiary; test; training; tree; university; van; variables
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- pie-4026
- author: Kotze, H; Spangenberg, E D
- title: Engineering students' actions in a mathematical modelling task: Mediating mathematical understanding in a computer algebra system
- date: 2019-11-27
- words: 8120
- flesch: 43
- summary: We investigated how a mathematical modelling task could mediate varied levels of mathematical understanding. The purpose of this paper was to ascertain South African engineering students’ actions that can mediate broader levels of mathematical understanding in a CAS by utilising the Pirie- Kieren model of growth in mathematical understanding.
- keywords: actions; activities; algebra; analytical; approach; blum; cas; computer; computerised; concept; condition; density; different; education; engineering; engineering students; environment; experiences; experiential; figure; galbraith; graph; group; https://doi.org/10.1007/978; images; initial; inner; interpret; kieren; knowledge; kotze; learning; level; mark; mathematical; mathematical modelling; mathematical understanding; mathematising; means; modelling; modelling task; new; numerical; order; output; paper; pen; perspectives; pirie; primitive; problem; processes; real; real world; reflective; report; research; results; rk4; sinusoidal; solution; spangenberg; springer; stillman; students; subtask; symbolic; table; tall; task; teaching; technology; thoughts; tollgate; traditional; traffic; understanding; vehicles; way; world
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- pie-4027
- author: none
- title: Reading skills can predict the programming performance of novices: an eye-tracking study
- date: 2019-11-27
- words: 8215
- flesch: 51
- summary: The main contributions of this article to this discipline are: • an explanation of why lack of reading skills may have an effect on students’ capacity to learn to program • empirical evidence confirming a relationship between reading proficiency and learning to program • a demonstration of how eye tracking can be used to expose poor reading skills so as to identify students at risk of failing. Since the ability to read program code has been identified as a fundamental building block in learning to program (Lister et al., 2009; Venables et al., 2009), some work has been done on assisting students in developing code reading skills (Sudol, Stehlik & Carver, 2012; Busjahn & Schulte, 2013; Cunningham, Blanchard, Ericson & Guzdial, 2017).
- keywords: 2016; ability; academic; acm; analysis; auditory; bulletin; code; cognitive; comprehension; computer; computing; conference; course; cycle; data; decoding; difficulties; difficulty; dvdt; education; english; evaluation; examination; experience; explanations; eye; eye tracking; fixations; gaze; good; higher; https://doi; information; international; introductory; journal; language; learning; level; load; long; memory; mental; model; movements; new; novices; participants; patterns; performance; perspectives; poor; problems; proceedings; processes; program code; programmers; programming; psychology; rayner; readers; reading; reading skills; relationship; research; results; review; saccades; schoeman; science; second; sigcse; skilled; skills; spatial; students; study; success; test; text; time; tracking; tutorial; understanding; usability; use; videos; working
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- pie-4028
- author: Ntuli, C H S; Gumbo, Mishack T
- title: Tutors' views on the integrated tutor model in open distance learning
- date: 2019-11-27
- words: 7352
- flesch: 50
- summary: 4. Tutors’ evaluation of models of tutoring Tutors enhance student learning (Hassan, 2017) and their roles and responsibilities are complex and varied (Abbot & Graf, 2018). This study contributes knowledge about tutors’ views as they relate to the use of tutor models to support student learning.
- keywords: 2017; academic; access; activities; africa; analysis; challenges; communication; content; course; data; development; distance; distance education; distance learning; education; environment; f2f; face; facilitation; findings; framework; gap; guide; gumbo; higher; information; integrated; interaction; interviews; itm; journal; knowledge; learning; material; model; moore; need; new; ntuli; odl; online; open; participants; participation; perspectives; research; role; salmon; skills; social; south; stage; students; studies; study; success; support; teaching; technology; time; training; tutor model; tutor support; tutorage; tutorial; tutoring; tutors; unisa; use; views
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- pie-4029
- author: de Beer, Josef
- title: The affordances of project-based learning and classroom action research in the teaching and learning of Natural Sciences
- date: 2019-11-27
- words: 6379
- flesch: 53
- summary: 74 Perspectives in Education 2019: 37(2) Theme 2: Classroom action research assists science teachers to become more critical reflective practitioners During previous cycles in this design-based research (e.g., in Limpopo, North-West Province and Gauteng), on which authors such as De Villiers et al. (2016); De Beer and Petersen (2016); and White and De Beer (2017) have reported, teachers provided very superficial reflections in their portfolios. One example of best practice is the Ohio schools project (Mackenzie, 2011) where science teachers were invited to participate in research conducted in laboratories, with scientists, in an attempt to make teachers more aware of the nature of science.
- keywords: 2015; 2016; 2017; 2019; action; action research; affective; affordances; african; beer; cape; car; classroom; classroom action; conference; curriculum; data; de beer; design; development; education; engagement; ethnobotanical; example; focus; goals; indigenous; inquiry; intervention; johannesburg; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; life; making; mathematics; natural; nature; northern; outcomes; paper; perspectives; plants; portfolios; practice; proceedings; professional; project; question; region; research; researchers; science; self; slp; soap; surveys; teachers; teaching; technology; themes; university; van; water; west
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- pie-4030
- author: Penn, Mafor; Ramnarain, Umesh
- title: A comparative analysis of virtual and traditional laboratory chemistry learning
- date: 2019-11-27
- words: 7194
- flesch: 45
- summary: These researchers reported that virtual laboratory learning had a positive impact on learners’ understandings of scientific concepts (as revealed by achievement) and stimulated interest in science subjects. Virtual science laboratories are software-based tools created to mimic scientific processes as would be enabled in a traditional science laboratory (Chiu et al., 2015).
- keywords: 2015; absorbance; abstract; achievement; acid; analysis; base; chemical; chemistry; chemistry content; comparative; concepts; content; content test; control; difference; education; effect; experimental; experimentation; findings; group; hands; higher; hsu; inquiry; interventions; journal; knowledge; laboratories; laboratory; laboratory chemistry; laboratory learning; learners; learning; marks; mayer; mean; paired; participants; pedagogical; penn; perspectives; physical; post; pre; provide; ramnarain; reality; research; researchers; resources; results; sample; school; science; scientific; scores; service; significant; size; solution; std; students; study; table; teachers; teaching; technology; test; test scores; theories; traditional; traditional laboratory; understandings; university; use; values; virtual; virtual laboratory; virtual learning
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- pie-4031
- author: Tsakeni, Maria; Jita, Loyiso
- title: School leadership practices for science and mathematics in high-stakes testing environments: An integrated school leadership approach
- date: 2019-11-27
- words: 6184
- flesch: 49
- summary: Educational leadership encompasses various forms of school leadership, such as principal leadership, head of department leadership and teacher leadership, among others. The functions are closely linked to the typologies of school leadership outlined by Bush and Glover (2014).
- keywords: achievement; activities; addition; africa; bush; class; content; culture; data; demonstration; department; development; district; education; environments; extract; facilitated; functions; glover; high; improvement; instructional; integrated; interview; jita; leadership; leadership practices; learners; learning; management; managerial; mathematics; model; performance; physical; practices; principal; professional; professional development; resources; scheduling; school; school leadership; science; south; stakes; study; support; systems; teacher leadership; teachers; teaching; testing; time; transformational; tsakeni; union; use; work
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- pie-4032
- author: Botha, Hanlie; van Putten, Sonja; Kundema, Imani
- title: Enhancing visual literacy in the mathematics classroom: the case of Dar es Salaam
- date: 2019-11-27
- words: 7069
- flesch: 49
- summary: 3. Visual media and their integration with instruction Raiyn (2016) makes it very clear that analytical thinking skills can be increased by using visual media as a teaching strategy. Te ac he r To pi c S til l m ed ia In te ra ct iv e dy na m ic m ed ia N on - in te ra ct iv e dy na m ic m ed ia Te ch no lo gy A Similarity Drawings Models of similar triangles None O nl y th e ch al kb oa rd w as u se d in a ll th e le ss on s ob se rv ed Statistics Symbols, Chart: pictogram, Bar graphs, Frequency distribution table None None B Sets Venn diagrams None None Angles of elevation & depression Chart: drawing Drawings Mathematical tables None None C Statistics Frequency distribution tables Drawings Chart: pie graph None None Trigonometry Drawings None None Table 1: Visual media used by teachers The teachers preferred to explain a new concept in words initially, then used visual media to demonstrate the concept and further explain it, finally writing a summary of the theory on the board.
- keywords: 2012; activities; botha; calculators; classroom; computers; concepts; conceptual; decode; development; different; dynamic; education; explanations; graphs; information; instruction; journal; knowledge; kundema; lack; learners; learning; lessons; literacy; manipulatives; mathematics; mathematics classroom; mathematics teaching; media; moevt; multimedia; murphy; new; opportunities; perspectives; physical; problem; process; putten; reddy; resources; role; school; secondary; skills; statistics; strategies; study; styles; syllabus; teachers; teaching; technology; terms; text; thinking; time; training; understanding; university; use; van; verbal; visual; visual literacy; visual media; work; world; years
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- pie-4033
- author: Chikiwa, Clemence; Schäfer, Marc
- title: Teachers' use of verbal language to evoke visualizations in multilingual mathematics classes
- date: 2019-11-27
- words: 7573
- flesch: 44
- summary: During teaching, the use of such words and phrases occur within given social contexts and as explained by Moschkovich (2002: 195), “… much of the meaning of an utterance [teacher language] is derived from the situation.” Thus, in considering teacher language in this study, we considered how resources from the teachers’ different contextual situations were used to evoke visual thinking and promote meaning making. 130 Perspectives in Education 2019: 37(2) Fourthly, a situated-sociocultural perspective helped in opening the way to see language practice as a competence.
- keywords: chikiwa; classes; code; concepts; conceptual; conceptual understanding; connections; context; different; education; environment; everyday; experiences; familiar; fumana; help; home; ideas; illustrations; images; interviews; isixhosa; knowledge; language; learners; learning; lesson; life; lines; making; mathematics; meaning; moschkovich; multilingual; multiple; perspectives; phrases; practices; prior; real; representations; research; resources; school; schäfer; second; situated; situations; sociocultural; south; study; switching; table; teachers; teaching; terms; theory; thinking; understanding; university; use; verbal; verbal language; visual; visualizations; words
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- pie-4034
- author: Seo, Byung-In
- title: An investigation of how 7th grade and 8th grade students manipulate mathematical writing elements
- date: 2019-11-27
- words: 8158
- flesch: 54
- summary: Out of the 708 writing samples from 7th grade students, 119 writing samples had images, and these images were only used as an organization tool when solving geometric problems. In another study, 7th grade students have stated that when they write mathematically for their mathematics teachers, they do not need to explain the mathematical processes in detail because as one student stated, “The math teacher already knows this stuff” (Seo, 2011).
- keywords: 2015; 2018; 7th; 7th grade; 8th; activities; activity; analysis; audience; case; class; classes; communication; concepts; condensation; context; data; different; discourse; education; elements; equations; example; figure; focus; form; geometric; grade; grade students; images; investigation; kinds; knowledge; language; learning; level; line; mathematical; mathematical writing; meaning; need; nominalizations; numbers; order; perspectives; problem; research; samples; school; scripted; second; seo; similar; specific; students; study; symbols; teachers; term; understanding; use; uses; way; words; writing; writing elements; year
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- pie-41
- author: Fataar, Aslam
- title: Youth self-formation and the ‘capacity to aspire’: The itinerant ‘schooled’ career of Fuzile Ali across post-apartheid space
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 8753
- flesch: 53
- summary: Nonetheless, this is not a case of Fuzile Ali being “trapped by place” as Bourdieu (in Dillabough et al, 2008:333) suggests, with his horizons being closed by the sporadic and halting commitments of his community to school going. Lack of affordability and the overriding survivalist and subsistence orientations of his family led to his grandfather simply withdrawing Fuzile Ali from school, interrupting his school going at the age of eight years in the middle of grade 3.
- keywords: ability; access; african; agency; ali; apartheid; appadurai; article; aspirant; aspirations; basis; black; bodily; boy; capacity; cape; career; childhood; children; church; circumstances; city; class; commitment; context; crucial; cultural; decisive; different; dillabough; discipline; domestic; educational; emotional; environment; family; fataar; formation; friends; fuzile; fuzile ali; grade; grandfather; high; home; impoverished; interaction; interviews; key; langa; language; life; light; living; material; middle; mother; muslim; navigations; networks; new; opportunity; people; person; philippi; place; post; practices; psychic; reay; relations; religious; role; rural; school; schooled; schooling; self; social; space; spatial; specific; story; teachers; terrains; time; township; understanding; urban; village; years; young; youth
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- pie-42
- author: Maistry, Suriamurthee
- title: Using cultural capital as a resource for negotiating participation in a teacher community of practice: a case study
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 5765
- flesch: 51
- summary: These findings confirm the value of teacher learning communities as sites for teacher learning. It becomes evident that teacher learning communities have much potential as vehicles for teacher learning.
- keywords: ability; able; africa; analysis; apartheid; approach; area; article; ben; bourdieu; capital; case; communities; community; contexts; cpd; cultural; data; days; development; economic; education; experience; forms; group; individual; interview; knowledge; learning; little; lot; maistry; market; new; participants; participation; period; perspectives; policy; post; practice; press; principal; professional; programme; project; regular; research; resource; sachs; school; set; skills; social; south; study; teacher; teacher learning; teaching; tems; theory; time; university; way; wenger; work; years; yosso
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- pie-4216
- author: Matheka, Hyrine Mueni; Jansen, Ellen P. W. A.; Hofman, W. H. Adriaan
- title: Kenyan doctoral students’ success: Roles of motivation and self-efficacy
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 6652
- flesch: 49
- summary: Thus, PhD students who feel confident about their abilities are likely to be more enthusiastic and motivated to expend the required effort. For example, PhD students who must work while studying have difficulty finalising their PhD projects (Bair & Haworth, 2004; Ho, Wong & Wong, 2010; Khozaei, Khozaei & Salleh, 2015; Wao & Onwuegbuzie, 2011).
- keywords: .05; 2014; 2015; age; applied; background; characteristics; cluster; completion; degree; differences; doctoral; eccles; education; efficacy; extrinsic; factors; financial; gender; graduate; guay; higher; hofman; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.9; humanities; influence; international; intrinsic; jansen; journal; kenya; learning; level; life; litalien; matheka; medical; model; motivation; onwuegbuzie; pace; persistence; perspectives; phd; phd students; physical; predictor; programme; progress; questionnaire; research; scale; sciences; self; significant; social; students; studies; study; success; support; table; task; time; track; universities; value; variable; wao; wigfield; work; years; zhou
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- pie-4250
- author: Jita, L C; Mokhele-Makgalwa, ML
- title: Editorial
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 739
- flesch: 40
- summary: In the final article, Ramlall, Singaram and Sommerville also raise quality issue with respect to doctoral examinations. The first article by Rajah draws on the national debates on Africanisation in higher education within the South Africa context to problematise what is sometimes viewed as the third arm of the academic enterprise, viz.
- keywords: africa; article; authors; chief; curriculum; debates; editor; education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v37i1.editorial; issue; national; perspectives; policy; prof; schools; south
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- pie-4251
- author: Rajah, Surversperi Suryakumari
- title: Conceptualising community engagement through the lens of African indigenous education
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 7229
- flesch: 31
- summary: Community engagement, as envisioned within the transformation agenda for Higher Education is, however, reminiscent of indigenous pedagogical methods and hence community engagement could be explored as a means to re-connect the fragmented epistemological and axiological foundations of AIE. 1 Conceptualising Community Engagement through the lens of African Indigenous Education Abstract The conceptualisation of “community engagement” at Higher Education in South Africa remains a topic for debate in the transformation agenda.
- keywords: 2011; 21st; 37(1; african; african education; african indigenous; african philosophy; agenda; aie; apartheid; approach; article; assessment; available; axiology; century; children; colonial; common; communities; community; community engagement; conceptualisation; contemporary; context; critical; cultural; culture; development; discourse; discussion; ecological; education; education system; engagement; epistemic; foundations; framework; global; good; hegemonic; higher; higher education; human; identity; indigenous; indigenous education; indigenous knowledge; individual; institutional; international; journal; key; knowledge; learning; lens; life; new; paradigm; pedagogies; pedagogy; people; perspectives; philosophical; philosophy; practices; process; rajah; research; resilience; role; skills; social; south; south african; spirit; students; sustainable; systems; teaching; theory; traditional; transformation; ubuntu; unesco.org; universities; university; values; vocational; wide; world
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- pie-4252
- author: Mathebula, Thokozani
- title: African philosophy (of education) and post-apartheid South African schools: a critical analysis of the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 6658
- flesch: 50
- summary: In light of this integration, the study on which this article is based, argued that: • classical Western philosophy and indigenous African philosophy – and by implication of African philosophy of education – are part of a universal (united) knowledge system; • as a unity of a single discipline, a universal knowledge system is feasible, desirable and relevant in settling differences between the “Western epistemology” and “knowledge of Africa”; • although, the national Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) promotes (scantily so) both academic knowledge and a universal knowledge system, the scale is tipped in favour of indigenous knowledge systems in South African schools; and • only a universal knowledge system is able to address global challenges and deal with domestic philosophical-educational issues in post-apartheid South Africa. It is quite clear, then that unless we justify African collective beliefs there is no ground to make claims for African knowledge but acquaintance and practice of indigenous knowledge systems.
- keywords: 2012; 2016; 37(1; academic; african; african knowledge; african philosophy; african schools; age; analysis; apartheid; article; author; bantu; beliefs; black; caps; collective; concepts; conceptual; critical; culture; curriculum; discipline; eds; education; global; grades; higher; history; horsthemke; hountondji; human; indigenous; indigenous knowledge; journal; knowledge; knowledge systems; learners; life; london; mathebula; narrow; national; need; oral; oxford; people; perspectives; philosophical; philosophy; policy; possible; post; press; professional; protagoras; schools; single; south; south african; statement; systems; terms; theoretical; thought; tradition; unity; universal; universal knowledge; university; use; way; western; western philosophy; wisdom; world; worldview; years
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- pie-4253
- author: Ohajunwa, Chioma; Ned, Lieketseng; Luger, Rosemary; Geiger, Martha
- title: Teaching policy literacy: a case study from the field of disability and rehabilitation studies
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 6856
- flesch: 43
- summary: The presentation of contextualised learning in teaching policy literacy, as structured in this course, facilitates a balance between reflexivity with policy theory thus allowing for comprehensive engagement with policy processes. Furthermore, policy literacy within disability and rehabilitation for instance, should not merely be a case of orientating students to policies relevant to disability and rehabilitation, but calls for addressing policy processes in terms of interpretation of policy and factors that influence analysis, implementation and monitoring (Hess-April, 2013).
- keywords: 37(1; activities; africa; analysis; application; approach; authentic; bianco; bloom; brief; centre; challenges; community; context; course; critical; department; different; disability; discourse; discussion; education; engagement; experiences; factors; feedback; field; formation; framework; geiger; health; implementation; influence; informed; issues; knowledge; language; learning; levels; literacy; luger; methods; models; module; ned; ohajunwa; paper; people; personal; perspectives; policies; policy; policy analysis; policy implementation; policy literacy; power; practice; process; processes; rehabilitation; relevant; research; sage; social; south; stellenbosch; students; studies; taxonomy; teaching; understanding; university; web; work
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- pie-4254
- author: Palane, Nelladee McLeod; Howie, Sarah
- title: A comparison of higher-order reading comprehension performance for different language of instruction models in South African primary schools
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 6522
- flesch: 54
- summary: Concrete and nuanced factors affect and mediate the efficacy of mother tongue instruction for African language learners in South Africa. It is argued in this paper that learners whose LoLT is English, but who do not speak English as a home language and tend to be part of the most disadvantaged sector of the population, perform better on the higher-level reading comprehension processes when compared with African language mother tongue instruction across the same grades and socio-economic status.
- keywords: achievement; african; african language; afrikaans; benchmarks; better; bilingual; comparison; comprehension; context; cummins; development; economic; education; english; english l2; grade; group; higher; home; home language; howie; immersion; instruction; international; items; language; learners; learning; level; literacy; lolt; low; mean; mother; mother tongue; order; order reading; palane; performance; perspectives; phase; points; prepirls; pretoria; quality; reading; reading comprehension; regression; research; results; school; schooling; score; ses; socio; south; south african; study; subscale; table; teaching; test; tongue; university; value
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- pie-4255
- author: Ngcobo, Sandiso; Makumane, Makhulu
- title: Pre-service teachers' attitudes toward the teaching of Mandarin in South Africa
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 6877
- flesch: 46
- summary: Language attitudes The article is on teachers’ attitudes towards the teaching of Mandarin in South African schools. Language attitudes in Hawick: An empirical study.
- keywords: 2012; 37(1; african; article; attitudes; available; basic; cent; china; chinese; chiu; critical; culture; curriculum; data; dbe; development; dörnyei; education; english; foreign; foreign language; gardner; government; hong; implementation; indigenous; integrativeness; introduction; issue; journal; kong; language; learners; learning; light; makumane; mandarin; manner; motivation; need; negative; nel; ngcobo; participants; perspectives; policy; positive; pre; project; qualified; reports; research; respondents; results; schools; second; service; situation; social; south; south african; stakeholders; students; study; support; sure; table; teachers; teaching; teagle; training; understanding; university; valid
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- pie-4256
- author: Aderibigbe, Olugbenga Adeniyi Olumuyiwa; Mosia, Moeketsi Simon
- title: Understanding the nature of learning and opportunities to learn created by work-integrated learning: a perspective in vocational education
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 7402
- flesch: 43
- summary: OTL, according to Martinez, Bailey, Kerr, Huang and Beauregard (2009:2), may be conceptualised to include all those factors that may influence student learning such as “curriculum, resources, teacher quality, instructional practices, and remediation efforts”. Issues concerning instructional practices and student learning, specifically, have gained prominence as the move towards greater accountability has gained momentum within the educational system (Leithwood & Earl, 2000).
- keywords: 2014; 2015; 2016; 37(1; activities; aderibigbe; african; analysis; application; available; business; college; competencies; curriculum; data; deep; development; discussion; education; empirical; evaluation; evidence; experience; experiential; experiential learning; findings; focus; form; framework; group; higher; institutions; instructional; integrated; international; journal; knowledge; learning; literature; mathematics; model; mosia; nature; opportunities; opportunity; otl; outcomes; paper; participants; pedagogical; perceptions; perspectives; policy; practical; practice; process; quality; research; review; school; skills; social; south; student learning; students; studies; study; supervisors; tasks; theoretical; theory; training; tvet; university; vocational; vocational education; way; wil; work; workplace; workplace learning; world
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- pie-4257
- author: Moosa, Raazia
- title: Critical attributes of effective classrooms: insights from classroom engagement
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 7161
- flesch: 48
- summary: The contribution this study makes is that it will show that critical reflections by lecturers on student engagement surveys are able to highlight ways of improving student engagement and that student reflections can improve learning and provide lecturers with the feedback required to improve teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to ascertain what classroom surveys could reveal about student engagement.
- keywords: 2010; academic; activities; analysis; assessment; attributes; boisen; bryson; classroom; classroom engagement; classroom surveys; context; course; critical; curriculum; data; education; effective; effective classrooms; engaged; engagement; engaging; expectations; feedback; findings; hand; hen; higher; important; insights; institutional; learning; lecturers; level; need; pedagogies; peer; perceptions; perspectives; practice; reflections; research; south; strydom; student engagement; students; study; success; support; surveys; teaching; university; year; zepke
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- pie-4258
- author: George, Gavin; Tucker, Leigh Adams; Panday, Saadhna; Khumalo, Faith
- title: Delivering sexuality education: a review of teaching pedagogies within South African schools
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 6390
- flesch: 46
- summary: Our findings suggest that LO educators would benefit from further professional and personal development to ensure the realisation of the sexuality education objectives. Frequent changes in the LO curricula over the past two decades, as well as limited detail or departmental guidance for teaching practice and pedagogy, have left LO educators feeling overwhelmed by the complex nature of the subject (Diale, 2016; Francis, 2010; Goldman, 2010).
- keywords: 37(1; activities; african; aids; analysis; approach; area; bandura; basic; basic education; behavioural; classes; classroom; cognitive; content; data; delivery; department; development; district; education; educators; efficacy; environmental; experience; factors; francis; george; grade; health; hiv; individual; information; interviews; journal; khumalo; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; lessons; life; lo educators; material; national; need; number; observations; orientation; panday; pedagogies; people; personal; perspectives; pretoria; programmes; questions; research; schools; secondary; self; sexuality; sexuality education; shefer; skills; social; south; study; subject; teaching; time; total; training; tucker; umgungundlovu; understanding; use; years
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- pie-4259
- author: van Wyk, Patricia S.; Teise, Kevin L.; le Roux, Adré
- title: Threats to the quality of marking of the national senior certificate examinations in the Northern Cape
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 7800
- flesch: 48
- summary: The problem with the appointment of markers seems to be persistent in the Northern Cape, despite clear guidelines provided for marker selection and appointment (cf. DBE, 2016b). More than one participant observed how the markers were “too [much] in a rush to get finished and miss out on the importance to do [sic] a proper job” (senior marker) and how they “get more relaxed as the marking progress [sic] and then loiter around on the stoep and to [sic] the cafeteria” (centre manager).
- keywords: 2011; 2016; 37(1; africa; appointment; assessment; basic; cape; certificate; chief; competency; concerns; confidence; content; criteria; data; dbe; department; doe; education; examination; experience; factors; good; government; high; higher; implication; knowledge; lack; language; learners; markers; marking; marking process; member; moderation; national; northern; nsc; nsc examination; nsc marking; participants; perspectives; pretoria; printers; process; qualifications; quality; quality education; quality marking; regard; regulations; reliability; research; results; roux; school; scripts; selection; senior; south; standard; subject; system; teachers; teaching; teise; threats; umalusi; union; van
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- pie-4260
- author: Ramlall, Suvira; Singaram, VS; Sommerville, TE
- title: Doctorates by thesis and publication in clinical medicine: an analysis of examiners' reports
- date: 2020-03-03
- words: 8440
- flesch: 39
- summary: This study evaluates examiner reports of doctorates by thesis and publication in clinical medicine to ascertain the criteria that examiners used to define a successful doctoral thesis. 3. Methodology and Context This study adopted a hermeneutic content analysis framework (Vieira and de Queiroz, 2017) to analyse the ratings and comments contained in examiner reports to establish the characteristics of successful and problematic theses respectively. 134 Perspectives in Education 2019: 37(1) Anonymised reports of a convenience sample of PhD candidates from the School of Clinical Medicine examined during 2013-2015 were obtained.
- keywords: 2008; 37(1; academic; africa; analysis; argument; assessment; bourke; candidates; categories; category; clinical; coherence; college; comments; conceptual; content; contribution; critical; critique; data; doctoral; doctoral thesis; doctorateness; doctorates; education; errors; examination; examiner reports; examiners; experience; feedback; findings; formative; guidelines; health; higher; holbrook; institutional; international; journal; knowledge; kwazulu; lack; level; literature; med; medicine; natal; need; papers; perspectives; phd; phd rsa; phds; presentation; process; publication; quality; ramlall; ratings; reports; research; review; role; rsa; school; significance; singaram; sommerville; south; student; study; supervisors; table; themes; thesis; thought; ukzn; university; usa; words; work
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- pie-43
- author: Bender, C. J. Gerda; Emslie, Annemarie
- title: An analysis of family-school collaboration in preventing adolescent violence in urban secondary schools
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 9532
- flesch: 50
- summary: The main goal of the current study was two-fold: firstly to explore and describe how school staff members, learners and parents collaborate to prevent violence in urban secondary schools and secondly, to provide these stakeholders with a better understanding of the multi-faceted problem of addressing school violence, which should guide them in adopting appropriate strategies for preventing violence. Handbook of school violence.
- keywords: adolescent; aggressive; analysis; anti; approach; behaviour; bender; bronfenbrenner; caring; case; children; climate; code; collaboration; communication; community; conduct; connectedness; context; culture; current; data; development; different; dimensions; discipline; diverse; ecological; education; effective; efforts; emslie; environment; evidence; extent; factors; families; family; findings; framework; good; grade; guide; health; home; human; illegal; important; interview; involvement; journal; learner behaviour; learner violence; learners; main; measures; members; need; new; parents; participants; people; perspectives; physical; policy; positive; prevention; process; psychology; qualitative; relationships; research; result; review; role; safe; safety; school; school climate; school collaboration; school staff; school violence; secondary; security; september; sites; social; staff; staff members; strategies; study; support; supportive; systems; teachers; theme; tolerance; trust; university; urban; violence; violence prevention; violent; volume; young; youth
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- pie-4300
- author: none
- title: The views and experiences of Grade 10 Life Sciences teachers on the compulsory practical examination
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 6432
- flesch: 46
- summary: The findings of this study highlight the intrinsically intertwined relationship between the four constructs of the capacity to innovate (physical resources, learner factors, school ethos and management, and teacher factors) the kinds of practical work teachers engage in and their experiences of the practical examination. 246 Perspectives in Education 2020: 38(1) 2020 38(1): 246-254 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v38i1.17 Table 1: Profile of implementation for science practical work Level Types of science practical work 1 • Teachers use a classroom demonstration to help develop concepts.
- keywords: african; capacity; caps; case; constructs; curriculum; curriculum implementation; data; demonstrations; education; english; equipment; exams; excerpts; experiences; factors; grade; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.17; implementation; instruction; interview; journal; kinds; lack; language; learners; learning; level; life; management; mandatory; physical; policy; practical; practical examination; practical work; process; profile; questionnaire; research; resources; rogan; school; science; sciences teachers; skills; south; study; support; teachers; teaching; training; types; views
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- pie-4302
- author: Madosi, Tendai; Spangenberg, Erica Dorethea; Ramdhany, Viren
- title: The values learners consider as important in the learning of mathematics
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 7850
- flesch: 45
- summary: A possible reason for poor performance could be that teachers are ignorant about what values learners consider as important in the learning of mathematics. One limitation of the study reported in this paper was that the researcher only used ten semantic questions to determine what values learners consider as important in mathematics.
- keywords: 1999; 2015; ability; achievement; africa; answer; approach; australia; available; better; bishop; concepts; context; countries; curriculum; data; dede; development; different; discussion; education; effort; examples; facts; finding; formulae; gauteng; good; grade; half; hard; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.13; ideas; important; international; items; japan; learners; learning; life; madosi; malaysia; mathematics; mathematics concepts; mathematics education; mathematics learning; nyroos; paper; participants; peng; performance; perspectives; phrase; poor; primary; problem; questionnaire; questions; ramdhany; real; research; results; rules; school; seah; similar; south; spangenberg; studies; study; table; teachers; teaching; thinking; turkey; ueda; understanding; use; values; values learners; valuing; view; w.t; work
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- pie-4305
- author: Moosa, Moeniera
- title: Why teaching? Perspectives from first-year South African pre-service teachers
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 7983
- flesch: 58
- summary: 1 The Department of Education in South Africa has a bursary programme for pre-service teachers that require funding. The challenge with extrinsic career motives is that they may undermine a long-term commitment to teaching (Yong, 1995) when pre-service teachers realise the realities of the demands of the profession.
- keywords: 2006; 2012; 2015; african; altruistic; belief; better; brookhart; career; categories; category; children; choice; cohort; commitment; creswell; data; degree; development; difference; eccles; education; employment; essays; experiences; extrinsic; factors; findings; freeman; good; group; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.10; individuals; initial; intrinsic; job; journal; learners; lives; methods; mixed; moosa; moran; motivated; motivation; motives; narrative; needs; opportunities; overall; paper; participants; personal; perspectives; pre; profession; programmes; pugach; qualitative; questionnaires; reasons; research; review; school; service; service teachers; social; south; students; study; teacher education; teachers; teaching; teaching profession; theories; theory; understanding; university; value; views; wigfield; year
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- pie-4308
- author: Ajibade, Benedicta A; Bertram, Carol
- title: How district teacher development centres support teachers’ learning: Case studies in KwaZulu-Natal
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 7482
- flesch: 51
- summary: Studies on teacher development centres in other contexts The concept of teacher development centre is termed differently in various contexts. The main objective of all these case studies was to highlight the underlying idea that teacher centres would encourage and support professional development interactions.
- keywords: access; activities; activity; africa; ajibade; area; assessment; bertram; case; centres; computer; content; curriculum; data; dbe; department; development; development activities; development centres; dhet; different; district; district teacher; dtdcs; education; harland; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.07; information; internet; journal; kinder; knowledge; kwazulu; laboratory; learners; learning; library; manager; meetings; moderation; natal; new; office; order; outcomes; participants; personnel; perspectives; plan; policies; policy; practice; professional; professional development; professional learning; research; resources; role; room; rural; school; science; skills; south; studies; study; subject; support; teacher development; teacher education; teacher learning; teacher professional; teachers; teaching; understanding; university; use; venue; workshops; years
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- pie-4311
- author: Mutekwe, Edmore
- title: The importance of shepherd leadership in easing the text book burden for South African university students
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 8094
- flesch: 47
- summary: In his view, his e-textbook project for higher education students is expected to make a fulfilling impact by avoiding selfish ways of selling student textbooks at exorbitant prices. In order to embellish this viewpoint, relevant data were collected through focus group interview discussion sessions (FGIDs) with a sample of 40 purposefully sampled participants from a target population of university students, lecturers and local textbooks sales personnel.
- keywords: 2012; able; access; african; book chapters; books; case; chapters; cheaper; cost; courage; data; discussion; education; education students; example; exorbitant; exorbitant textbook; fgdis; findings; flock; focus; following; good; group; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.8; important; innovative; jesus; john; leadership; libraries; life; llumin; material; monama; mutekwe; need; new; paradigm; participants; paying; personnel; perspectives; photocopying; platform; practices; prices; publishers; publishing; reading; resanne; research; role; sales; semester; sheep; shepherd; shepherd leaders; south; specific; students; study; textbook; textbook burden; textbook prices; textbook publishers; textbook sales; time; university lecturers; university students; view; ways
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- pie-4312
- author: none
- title: Investigating the use of podcasts in an open, distance and e-learning environment
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 6260
- flesch: 50
- summary: Therefore, universities offering distance education adopted the use of podcasts because the benefits outweigh the disadvantages mentioned in the literature of podcast use. Through purposive sampling, 200 willing lecturers provided podcast scripts to the researcher for one year during staff development.
- keywords: 2002; 2011; africa; analysis; areas; assessment; audio; benefits; challenges; college; computers; data; departments; development; different; distance; education; effective; environment; example; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.3; important; information; institution; instructional; issues; journal; knowledge; learning; lecturers; literature; madiope; makina; management; modules; need; new; number; odel; online; open; perspectives; podcasting; podcasts; purpose; quality; research; results; scripts; staff; students; studies; study; subject; support; table; teaching; technical; technologies; technology; total; types; unisa; units; universities; university; use; uses; years
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- pie-4314
- author: Geduld, Bernadette Winefrede; Sikwanga, Humphrey Sikabongo
- title: Juxtaposing South African and Namibian teachers' perceptions and teaching practices to develop self-regulated learning: Do they practise what they preach?
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 8434
- flesch: 44
- summary: Learners should be taught how to set specific goals for their academic work, highlighting important aspects, establishing clear assessment criteria before learners’ start with the task, explaining how summative assessment will occur and facilitating self- and peer assessment. Nkosi (2016) reported that approximately 90% of South African learners in Grades 3, 6 and 9 achieve less than 50% in the second annual national assessments in literacy, mathematics and science.
- keywords: 2013; 2014; 2016; academic; activities; african; african participants; analysis; assessment; b.j; behaviour; classrooms; content; countries; data; development; education; example; geduld; goals; group; help; homework; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.09; interviews; knowledge; learners; learning; lesson; metacognitive; modelling; monitoring; motivation; moylan; namibian; namibian participants; namibian teachers; national; new; observation; opportunities; paris; participants; perceptions; performance; perspectives; phase; plan; practices; processes; progress; qualitative; quality; questioning; questions; reflection; regulation; research; responsibility; rural; schools; schunk; seeking; self; sikwanga; similar; skills; social; south; south african; srl; srl skills; strategies; study; subject; task; teachers; teaching; time; township; understanding; use; zimmerman
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- pie-4320
- author: Skhephe, Melikhaya; Caga, Ntombekhaya Princess; Boadzo, Robert Mawuli Kwasi
- title: Accounting teachers’ readiness for e-learning in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A case of high schools in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 7502
- flesch: 49
- summary: This view supports the argument made by Fosu (2017) that e-learning classrooms have changed how learners learn and think. Kiilu and Muema (2012) confirmed that in e-learning classrooms, talent may be developed that will allow learners to access the global economy and improve their lives.
- keywords: 2013; 2014; 21st; 4ir; accounting; accounting classrooms; accounting teachers; africa; approach; authors; available; benefits; boadzo; caga; cape; case; century; classrooms; computers; data; district; eastern; education; electricity; finding; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.4; implementation; information; internet; interviews; journal; knowledge; laptops; learners; learning; means; method; needs; new; online; order; participants; perspectives; place; platforms; point; question; readiness; research; responsibility; roles; schools; siemens; skhephe; south; study; sub; support; teachers; teaching; technologies; technology; themes; theory; understanding; university; use; way; web; world
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- pie-4325
- author: America, Carina; Mallon, Philip
- title: Connectedness in Business Studies pedagogy: Is a transition year alluring?
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 7675
- flesch: 44
- summary: The acquisition of appropriate exit-level knowledge, skills and competencies also holds true for young school learners and early school leavers. Application of the attitude toward enterprise (ATE) Test on secondary school learners in South Africa.
- keywords: 2013; 2015; active; african; america; approach; business; business education; business studies; certificate; classroom; clerkin; colleges; competencies; connectedness; context; curriculum; dbe; der; development; economic; education; enterprise; enterprise education; entrepreneurial; entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship education; environment; example; experience; experiential; focus; hayes; high; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.05; international; iredale; ireland; irish; jeffers; job; jones; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; level; life; lingard; mallon; management; mills; moynihan; pedagogies; pedagogy; people; personal; perspectives; ppf; practical; practice; problems; productive; programme; real; research; school; schooling; secondary; self; skills; social; south; south african; specific; studies; subject; system; teacher; teaching; theory; time; training; transition; tvet; van; work; working; workplace; world; year; young; zyngier
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- pie-4338
- author: van Staden, Surette; Graham, Marien; Harvey, Jaqueline
- title: An analysis of TIMSS 2015 science reading demands
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 8697
- flesch: 48
- summary: Not only did the SACMEQ findings point out concerns regarding reading comprehension of South African learners over the last few years, but it also emphasised problems with mathematics comprehension. All three these international studies (PIRLS, SACMEQ and TIMSS) “speak to each other” in the sense that it shows similar trends and highlights major concerns in literacy, mathematics and science comprehension and knowledge by South African learners.
- keywords: achievement; african; african learners; analysis; available; basic; categories; categorisations; category; children; cognitive; comprehension; content; current; curriculum; cycle; data; demand; development; differences; different; domain; early; education; english; example; factors; foy; grade; harvey; high; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.19; i.v.s; impact; international; items; juan; knowing; language; learners; learning; level; literacy; low; m.o; martin; mathematics; mean; medium; mullis; non; number; percentage; performance; perspectives; pirls; poor; readability; reading; reasoning; reddy; research; results; sacmeq; science; science items; significant; skills; south; south african; specific; staden; study; subject; table; terms; test; timss; use; van; words
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- pie-4339
- author: Khanyi, Jabulani Goodwill; Naidoo, Parvathy
- title: Principals' role in capacity development of post level one teachers for school leadership: -
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 7590
- flesch: 42
- summary: According to the DBE and the DHET technical report (2011:13), teacher leadership development in South Africa was identified as being “poorly coordinated, burdensome and in some cases non-existent”. The DBE and DHET (2011) declared the importance of the Declaration of Teacher Development Summit and emphasised that in order to promote teacher leadership capacity, schools should become centres of leadership development.
- keywords: 2008; acting; authors; available; building; capacity; capacity building; capacity development; case; collective; committees; creswell; data; dbe; department; design; development; diamond; distributive; education; grade; heads; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.11; integrated; iqms; journal; khanyi; leadership; leadership capacity; leadership development; leadership positions; learning; level; management; members; mentoring; naidoo; new; opportunities; participants; performance; perspectives; pl1; pl1 teachers; policy; positions; post; practice; press; principals; professional; programmes; public; qualitative; quality; research; researchers; ritchie; role; sage; school; school leadership; smt; social; south; spencer; spillane; staff; study; support; system; teachers; teaching; team; training; vacant; workshops; year
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- pie-4343
- author: Venketsamy, Roy; Sing, N; Smart, Lyndsey
- title: Teachers’ perceptions in creating an invitational learning environment in culturally diverse Foundation Phase classrooms
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 9328
- flesch: 47
- summary: Classroom environments are diversified; thus, cultural factors have an impact on the classroom climate. These four elements of classroom environments find similarities and ties in with Purkey’s (1992)
- keywords: 1984; 2015; able; areas; behaviour; care; children; classroom; classroom environment; cooperative; creation; cultural; culture; democratic; development; discipline; disinviting; education; effective; elements; encouraged; environment; essential; group; haigh; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.08; human; important; individual; intentionality; invitational; invitational learning; invitational theory; invite; inviting; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; learning environment; learning theory; lessons; level; management; marais; meier; novak; optimism; people; perceptions; personal; perspectives; places; policies; positive; potential; powerful; practice; processes; programmes; purkey; relationships; research; respect; rules; safe; school; sense; sing; smart; social; stanley; steyn; students; study; success; teachers; teaching; theory; time; trust; understanding; use; valuable; venketsamy; w.w; work
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- pie-4348
- author: Ramnund-Mansingh, Aradhana
- title: Understanding the career trajectories of Black female academics in South Africa: A case study of UKZN
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 6967
- flesch: 48
- summary: In an endeavour to postulate a sociological interpretation of the career trajectories of Black women academics, this study has underscored the significant hindrances to the advancement and progression of Black women in the academy. The historical data will be presented first, followed by an analysis of the experiences of Black women academics based on gender and race.
- keywords: 2004; 41–49; academia; academics; academy; advancement; african; associate; bailey; bee; black; black female; black women; boys; career; cent; challenges; changes; children; colleagues; data; decision; department; different; education; experiences; faculties; female; female academics; gender; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.04; impact; indian; institutions; interviews; job; khan; kwazulu; leadership; lecturer; level; management; mansingh; medical; mouton; natal; network; new; number; old; participant; personal; perspectives; phd; physical; place; policy; positions; power; professor; progress; queen; race; ramnund; research; role; science; seedat; senior; significant; social; south; staff; statistics; stress; structures; study; support; time; trajectories; ukzn; university; values; women
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- pie-4355
- author: Venketsamy, Roy; Sibanda, Sophie
- title: Exploring strategies teachers use to develop literacy skills among English First Additional Language learners in the Foundation Phase
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 6891
- flesch: 51
- summary: 6.3 Theme 3: Strategies for literacy skills teaching Teachers believed that literacy skills teaching is meant to teach learners to listen, speak, read and write (DBE, 2011). Biggs (2011) states that teachers are expected to add value to literacy skills development through the knowledge and expertise gained from higher learning institutions.
- keywords: 2015; ability; activities; additional; approach; assessment; available; balanced; basic; caps; children; class; classroom; comprehension; curriculum; dbe; department; development; different; early; education; efal; english; evidence; foundation; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.18; importance; journal; knowledge; language; learners; learning; listening; literacy; literacy development; literacy skills; literate; methods; national; need; participants; pbl; perspectives; phase; play; policy; pretoria; pretorius; problem; reading; research; role; schools; skills; social; south; stories; story; strategies; study; support; teachers; teaching; text; understanding; use; writing
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- pie-4360
- author: Hassan, Salochana Lorraine
- title: Problem-based learning training and implementation: An analysis using semantics in Legitimation Code Theory
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 7455
- flesch: 49
- summary: Hung et al. (2008: 497) lament that research pertaining to PBL problem design is wanting, especially when it comes to problems across disciplines. It was found that the adoption of the medical model for PBL training might have been overly contextualised within the medical field.
- keywords: able; abstract; academics; analysis; application; article; case; challenging; code; condensed; context; design; development; disciplinary; disciplines; education; environment; everyday; experiences; face; facilitation; faculty; field; figure; findings; gravity; group; hand; hassan; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.12; implementation; interviews; journal; knowledge; learning; learning training; life; maton; meaning; medical; methods; model; new; patient; pbl; pbl training; perspectives; principles; problem; programme; related; research; respondents; scale; semantic; staff; strengthening; students; studies; study; tdp; teaching; terms; training; university; waves; weakening
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- pie-4363
- author: Reyneke, Roelf
- title: Increasing resilience, lowering risk: Teachers' use of the Circle of Courage in the classroom
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 8619
- flesch: 54
- summary: 5. recommendaTIons All teachers, but especially younger teachers, need to be made aware of the importance of improving learner resilience. Competition could, in fact, stimulate unruly behaviour, as the learner attempts to draw away the attention of the teacher and other learners from his/her incompetence.
- keywords: 2016; activities; africa; alpha; available; basic; behaviour; brendtro; brokenleg; cape; caring; challenging; children; circle; classroom; community; courage; cronbach; culture; department; development; discipline; dropout; education; emotional; environment; experience; feelings; free; generosity; good; high; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.11; important; independence; journal; justice; learners; making; mastery; model; need; opportunities; participants; people; perspectives; phase; positive; practices; pretoria; prevention; principles; problems; questionnaire; relationships; research; resilience; respect; respondents; responsible; restorative; results; reyneke; risk; role; school; scores; self; sense; social; south; state; strategies; study; table; teachers; teaching; understanding; use; values; van
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- pie-4364
- author: Armstrong, Meredith; Boughey, Chrissie
- title: Learning to learn: Children's language and literacy development in a marginalised community in Port Elizabeth
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 6218
- flesch: 58
- summary: Children attending school generally travelled together so that older children could care for their younger siblings. Research (see, for example, Gee 2015) shows that many children arrive in school having been exposed to literacies that do not match those that are valued in formal educational settings.
- keywords: 1983; access; adults; africa; available; boughey; cambridge; caregivers; childhood; children; city; cognitive; community; context; cummins; development; early; education; engagement; english; ethnographic; example; family; formal; home; households; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.13; kinds; language; learners; learning; literacies; literacy; long; majority; meaning; means; members; model; national; occasion; order; parents; perspectives; poverty; practices; reading; related; result; schooling; schools; social; socio; south; studies; study; support; text; use; way; ways; work; writing; young
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- pie-4365
- author: Bipath, Keshni; Theron, Hantie
- title: Contesting schoolification through snapshots of pedagogy-in-participation in early childhood development centres in South Africa
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 7010
- flesch: 53
- summary: Educational research confirms that early childhood education can positively influence the lives, well-being, safety, growth, development and academic performance of young children in the birth to 4 years age group. Investing in young children is one of the smartest investments that countries can make (Sayre, Devercelli, Neuman & Wodon, 2015).
- keywords: 2016; africa; approach; article; babies; bipath; birth; care; centres; childhood; children; codes; construction; cultural; dahlberg; data; democratic; development; dewey; different; early; early childhood; early years; ebrahim; ecce; ecd; education; emotional; epidemic; experience; focus; formosinho; freire; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.15; knowledge; language; learning; level; life; linguistic; listening; little; meaning; moss; needs; open; participation; pedagogical; pedagogy; perspectives; practices; practitioners; process; provinces; puppet; qualifications; qualitative; ready; research; resourced; responsiveness; role; schoolification; schools; skills; snapshots; social; songs; south; study; teacher; teaching; theron; toys; use; way; years; young; young children
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- pie-4366
- author: Nthontho, Maitumeleng Albertina
- title: Transformative conflict mediation in multi-faith schools in South Africa
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 7915
- flesch: 49
- summary: Despite the practical challenges that school principals encountered in the implementation of the religion policy, they demonstrated confidence, openness and generosity in developing the identity of their schools as transformative conflict mediators. Conflict mediation across cultures: Pathways and patterns.
- keywords: 2011; act; africa; approach; article; assembly; bush; change; conflict; conflict mediation; constitution; data; department; destructive; dhiaulhaq; different; diverse; education; educators; experiences; faith; findings; folger; forest; groupings; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.20; implementation; important; instance; journal; leadership; learners; level; management; mediation; members; mosque; multi; narratives; negotiation; new; nthontho; observances; parent; participants; parties; people; perspectives; point; policies; policy; position; potential; principals; problem; process; provincial; qualitative; religion; religion policy; religious; research; resolution; role; sample; schools; sgb; skills; social; south; staff; stakeholder; study; terms; transformative; transformative conflict; transformative mediation; understanding; way
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- pie-4370
- author: Ntshoe, Isaac; Malebo, Ntsoaki Joyce
- title: Knowledge and specialism in curricula of professional and sectoral fields of practices in South Africa: A case of universities of technology
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 7114
- flesch: 32
- summary: Young and Muller (2016) on the other hand argue that because professional practice is always in a context with a purpose outside itself, professional knowledge practice always relates to specific occupational sectors such as radiography, engineering technology, retail and human resources and therefore dissimilar to the knowledge of traditional disciplines. Inherent in the dual-facing nature of professional knowledge is that it is both theoretical and practical, purposive and contextual (Bernstein, 2000).
- keywords: 2009; 2010; africa; bernstein; bodies; business; coherence; conceptual; content; council; curricula; department; design; differentiation; disciplinary; disciplines; division; domains; education; engineering; fields; hand; higher; higher education; hospitality; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.10; institutional; knowledge; laboratory; labour; medical; muller; nature; new; ntshoe; occupations; particular; perspectives; policy; practice; pretoria; process; professional; programmes; qualifications; radiography; regions; requirements; research; retail; roles; science; sectoral; sectoral fields; skills; social; sociology; south; specialisation; specialist; specific; students; studies; technology; terms; theoretical; tourism; traditional; training; types; universities; university; uots; young
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- pie-4371
- author: Msutwana, Nomawonga Veronica
- title: Meaningful teaching of sexuality education framed by culture: Xhosa secondary school teachers’ views
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 6906
- flesch: 49
- summary: Keywords: Adolescent learners; HIV and AIDS; participatory visual methods; sexuality education; sexuality education teachers; Xhosa culture. Moreover, sexuality education in the curriculum in South Africa is generally neglected or brushed over by sexuality education teachers (DePalma & Francis, 2014; Francis, 2011; Macleod, 2016;
- keywords: 2019; activity; adolescent; african; aids; analysis; aspects; boys; chat; community; context; critical; cultural; culture; curriculum; delius; education; education teachers; female; figure; francis; gender; generation; glaser; health; historical; hiv; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.23; journal; learners; learning; lfsc; life; male; meaningful; meaningful teaching; moletsane; msutwana; need; norms; orientation; participants; participatory; perspectives; positionality; posters; practices; qualitative; research; roots; schools; sciences; sexuality; sexuality education; social; south; study; subgroup; subject; system; teachers; teaching; theory; today; understanding; values; visual; women; women teachers; xhosa; xhosa culture; xhosa women
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- pie-4376
- author: Bereng, Makuena; Mutekwe, Edmore
- title: Examining the manifestations and ramifications of the patriarchal ideology in female-led schools in the North West Province of South Africa
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 7939
- flesch: 46
- summary: Patriarchal ideologies and practices are therefore conveyed in the social institutions as part and parcel of the hidden curriculum or tacit learning (Mutekwe, 2013). The cultural feminist theory aims at liberating women from patriarchal ideologies hence it is considered “a moral and countercultural movement” (Willis, 1984:91).
- keywords: 2015; africa; analysis; approach; authority; bereng; cent; challenges; consequences; counterparts; creswell; culture; curriculum; data; descriptive; discrimination; education; effects; equality; equity; example; family; female; female principals; findings; gender; girls; hegemonic; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.14; ideologies; ideology; institutions; journal; lack; leadership; manifestations; mixed; mutekwe; north; north west; parents; participants; patriarchal; patriarchal hegemonic; patriarchal ideology; perspectives; phase; place; policies; positions; practices; principals; province; qualitative; questionnaire; questions; ramifications; research; respect; respondents; result; roles; schools; secondary; secondary schools; section; social; society; south; south africa; studies; study; teachers; themes; understanding; university; unpublished; unstructured; ways; west; west province; women
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- pie-4379
- author: Mihai, Maryke Anneke
- title: The use of interactive whiteboards in urban Gauteng classrooms
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 8829
- flesch: 57
- summary: 6.4 Teachers’ and learners’ attitudes towards the IWB 6.4.1 Teachers’ attitudes Forty-two per cent of secondary school teachers and 65% of primary school teachers indicate that they are very positive. It was determined that more primary school teachers use the IWBs than secondary school teachers and they also use it more effectively.
- keywords: 2005; acceptance; advantages; attitudes; available; benefits; better; case; classes; classrooms; computer; creative; data; davis; ease; easy; education; effective; factors; findings; gauteng; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.21; impact; information; interactive; interactive whiteboards; interesting; internet; iwb; iwbs; journal; lack; learners; learning; lessons; lot; main; management; mihai; miller; mind; model; needs; new; opinion; participants; perspectives; positive; pretoria; primary; primary school; problems; qualitative; questions; research; results; review; school; school teachers; secondary; secondary school; software; study; support; teachers; teaching; technical; technology; time; training; urban; use; usefulness; videos; visual; way; whiteboards; work
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- pie-4383
- author: Msimango, Nontsikelelo; Fonseca, Kathleen; Petersen, Nadine
- title: Mentoring and preparing primary school mathematics teachers
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 6726
- flesch: 45
- summary: Student teachers http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v38.i2.18 2742020 38(2): 274-284 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v38.i2.18 Perspectives in Education 2020: 38(2) may therefore not receive “equitable mentoring or mathematics-specific mentoring” (Hudson, 2006:13) and, as Lin and Acosta-Tello (2017) found, the lesson planning discussion between mentors and student teachers will focus on the structural aspects of lessons, with a lack of emphasis on the development of MPCK. Keywords: Mentoring practices, student teachers, mentor teachers, mathematics teaching, mathematical pedagogical content knowledge.
- keywords: 2008; aspects; classroom; cognitive; concepts; conceptual; content; content knowledge; curriculum; development; discussion; division; education; findings; foundation; grade; guidance; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.18; hudson; international; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; lesson; mathematics; mathematics teachers; mck; mentor teachers; mentoring; mentors; methods; mpck; number; particular; pedagogical; perspectives; phase; planning; practices; practicum; primary; process; research; resources; responses; school; south; specific; strategies; student; student teachers; study; teachers; teaching; theoretical; theory; thinking; training; understanding; university; use; views; year
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- pie-4384
- author: Bhagwan, Raisuyah
- title: Towards the institutionalisation of community engagement in higher education in South Africa
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 9088
- flesch: 39
- summary: This paper presents findings from a national study that explored how community engagement could be institutionalised at higher education institutions locally. A qualitative research approach was used to guide the study and semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with members of executive management, members from the directorate and office of community engagement and academics from six universities nationally.
- keywords: 2008; 2010; 2015; 2018; academics; activities; africa; analysis; application; awards; beere; bhagwan; boston; building; campus; carnegie; change; civic; classification; committee; communities; community; community engagement; community service; context; criteria; culture; data; deep; development; economic; eds; education; elective; engaged; engagement; faculty; furco; good; greater; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.03; important; initiatives; institutional; institutionalisation; involved; involvement; johnson; journal; knowledge; leadership; learning; local; mission; need; new; office; outreach; paper; participants; partnerships; perspectives; policies; practices; process; public; qualitative; related; research; responsibility; saltmarsh; sandmann; scholarship; service; social; society; south; students; study; successful; support; teaching; time; transformation; universities; university; vision; way; work
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- pie-4388
- author: Myburgh, Liezl; Condy, Janet; Barnard, Elna
- title: Pedagogical approaches to develop social skills of learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perceptions of three Foundation Phase teachers
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 6855
- flesch: 49
- summary: In this example, T1 knew that direct teaching and using Vygotsky’s (Gindis, 2007) scaffolding skills is useful for teaching learners with ASD specific social skills (Laushey & Heflin, 2000). Keywords: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), qualitative, pedagogical approaches, social skills.
- keywords: 2012; acceptable; activities; africa; approaches; asd; autism; autism spectrum; badiah; barnard; behavioural; challenges; children; class; classroom; communication; condy; data; deficits; development; disorder; education; environment; esteem; etiquette; experience; friends; group; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.16; importance; independence; interactions; intervention; interview; journal; knowledge; language; learners; learning; limited; manner; myburgh; needs; parents; pedagogical; peers; people; perspectives; phase; play; qualitative; relations; research; role; school; self; sharing; skills; social; social skills; south; spectrum; structured; studies; study; support; teachers; teaching; understanding; university; van; vignette; vygotsky; zpd
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- pie-4393
- author: Kolobe, Lineo; Mihai, Maryke Anneke
- title: The integration of technology in supporting progressed learners in English First Additional Language comprehension
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 8938
- flesch: 50
- summary: THE INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPORTING PROGRESSED LEARNERS IN ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION ABSTRACT This study aims at finding the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) as an intervention tool for progressed learners in teaching and learning of English first additional language (FAL) comprehension in the intermediate phase. There is limited research in South Africa on the impact of ICT for progressed learners or a progression policy, as this policy is a relatively new phenomenon.
- keywords: 2015; 2018; ability; additional; african; assessment; available; benefits; boards; books; challenge; classroom; common; communication; comprehension; content; curriculum; data; dbe; development; education; educators; english; fal; findings; grade; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.21; ict; information; integration; internet; introduction; journal; knowledge; koehler; kolobe; language; learners; learning; lesson; level; methods; mihai; mishra; national; new; number; participants; pedagogy; perspectives; phase; plans; policy; practice; pretoria; programme; progressed; progressed learners; progression; qualitative; questions; reading; requirements; research; researchers; resources; responses; sampling; schools; similar; skills; smart; south; statement; studies; study; support; system; tablets; teachers; teaching; technological; technology; test; tools; tpack; traditional; understanding; university; use; van; video; view; ways; years
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- pie-4394
- author: Mosimege, Mogege; Winnaar, Lolita
- title: Teachers’ instructional strategies and their impact on learner performance in Grade 9 mathematics: Findings from TIMSS 2015 in South Africa
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 6709
- flesch: 48
- summary: The aim of each of the regression models is to ascertain associations between the five components of teacher instructional strategies and student performance in each of the four content domains. Since the sample of teachers is not representative of the population of teachers in South Africa, the teacher data were merged with the student data and the analyses were interpreted in relation to the students taught by mathematics teachers.
- keywords: academic; achievement; analysis; association; classroom; component; content; cumulative; data; different; direct; direct teacher; domain; education; explanation; following; ganyaupfu; geometry; grade; guidance; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.22; impact; instructional; instructional practices; instructional strategies; interaction; international; journal; learners; learning; mathematics; model; mosimege; performance; perspectives; practices; problem; questions; relationship; research; results; sample; science; score; significant; solving; south; strategies; students; studies; study; table; teacher guidance; teachers; teaching; timss; total; understanding; use; variables; variance; winnaar; work
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- pie-4396
- author: Steyn, Raita
- title: The element of surprise: An innovative approach in art education
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 5027
- flesch: 43
- summary: This time, art education students had http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v38.i2.22 3442020 38(2): 344-346 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v38.i2.22 Perspectives in Education 2020: 38(2) different opinions about artistic aesthetics, while relative stereotypes and prejudices were tested and productively challenged. In case study 3, which was done in collaboration with my colleague, Ms Delene Human, art education students received teaching morals, ethics and censorship in Visual Arts.
- keywords: 21st; appiah; approach; art; artistic; arts; artworks; case; communication; context; creative; creativity; critical; crucial; cultural; decision; design; design process; development; different; education; element; factor; framework; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.22; human; ideas; importance; infinity; innovation; interaction; journal; learning; making; new; ohemeng; opfer; outcomes; perspectives; planning; point; problem; process; product; relevant; research; rogers; saavedra; skills; social; soft; south; stage; steyn; students; study; surprise; teaching; technology; terms; thinking; time; understanding; view; visual
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- pie-4399
- author: Mbutho, Nozuko Princess; Hutchings, Catherine
- title: The complex concept of plagiarism: Undergraduate and postgraduate student perspectives
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 7653
- flesch: 41
- summary: THE COMPLEX CONCEPT OF PLAGIARISM: UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ABSTRACT The prevalence of plagiarism in university students’ academic writing is well documented. This is not yet happening, as the norm persists for educators to assume that university students already possess the skills for avoiding plagiarism.
- keywords: 2007; 2012; academic; argument; articles; ashworth; assignments; citation; complex; concepts; conventions; cultural; development; difficult; education; educators; example; explicit; forde; gullifer; hamilton; heckler; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.6; hutchings; information; intertextuality; issue; journal; knowledge; lack; language; lecturers; level; literacy; literature; need; neville; new; perspectives; plagiarising; plagiarism; poor; postgraduate; practices; process; proper; reasons; referencing; related; research; scholars; skills; staff; students; studies; study; support; teaching; time; training; tyson; undergraduate; understanding; unintentional; university; use; views; voice; work; writers; writing
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- pie-44
- author: Gallifa, Josep; Garriga, Jordi
- title: Generic competences in Higher Education: Studying their development in undergraduate social science studies by means of a specific methodology
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 7824
- flesch: 45
- summary: e-mail: jordi.garriga@e-motiva.com Research into the acquisition of generic competences was carried out with the undergraduate social science programmes offered by the Ramon Llull University, Barcelona (Spain). Its focus is, amongst others, on developing generic competences.
- keywords: abilities; ability; acquisition; analysis; basic; capacities; capacity; cognitive; competences; context; course; critical; cross; development; different; education; environment; european; experience; factor; final; gallifa; garriga; general; generic; generic competences; gonzález; graduates; higher; higher education; importance; job; knowledge; labour; learning; list; llull; management; market; mathematical; mcclelland; methodology; mora; new; organisational; perception; perspectives; practice; present; process; professional; project; questionnaire; ramon; regular; related; relevant; research; results; self; seminar; september; skills; social; spencer; students; studies; study; team; technical; total; training; transversal; tuning; undergraduate; understanding; university; volume; wagenaar; work; world; year
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- pie-4402
- author: Mamabolo, Joel Moketla; Sepadi, Medwin Dikwanyane; Mabasa-Manganyi, Rachel Basani; Kgopa, Faith; Ndlovu, Simon Mfula; Themane, Mahlapahlapana
- title: What are teachers' beliefs, values and attitudes towards the inclusion of learners who experience barriers to learning in South African primary schools?
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 6144
- flesch: 44
- summary: Future directions for inclusive teacher education: An international perspective. 3. TEACHER EDUCATION FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION To gain a full perspective of teachers’ attitudes towards the inclusion of learners who experience barriers to their learning there is a need to understand the role of teacher education in preparing teachers for inclusive education.
- keywords: 2014; 2019; africa; attitudes; barriers; belief; capacity; classrooms; data; department; descriptive; disabilities; diverse; education; factors; findings; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.17; implementation; important; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; inferential; information; innovation; international; item; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; limpopo; mabasa; mainstream; mamabolo; matrix; methods; perspectives; positive; readiness; research; resources; results; rusznyak; schools; service; skills; social; south; special; statements; statistics; studies; study; table; teachers; teaching; themane; training; use; value; walton
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- pie-4409
- author: Madiope, Maria "Marinkie"
- title: Fault lines: A primer on race, science, and society
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 1605
- flesch: 54
- summary: 3. cOnclusIOn Jansen and walters make compelling arguments that race is not real, but a social construct that helped to further political ideologies, and that intellectual knowledge (both directly and indirectly) has been used to create, propagate, maintain and reinforce the ideas of the existence of different human races. For example, the authors cite revelation by Juliana Claassens, a theologian, that the Hebrew term for incest was loosely translated to mean “a child born to parents from different races”, providing theological justification for political construction of “coloured” people, who were treated as outcasts (just like the children born from incest).
- keywords: authors; book; coloured; different; example; fault; historical; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.21; idea; ideologies; jansen; people; political; poor; prejudice; press; race; racial; review; science; social; society; time; walters; white; women
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- pie-4410
- author: Nieuwenhuis, Jan
- title: Turning a new page
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 1364
- flesch: 46
- summary: In addition, we have moved online to offer our authors and reviewers a much better system of tracking the progress of articles and an ease of communication with the editorial team. The next group of articles takes the discourse further by looking at an array of subject offerings.
- keywords: accounting; articles; attention; authors; blended; book; development; edition; editor; editorial; education; higher; issue; learners; learning; look; new; perspectives; pie; school; students; study; teachers; teaching; use; values
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- pie-4411
- author: Ndlovu, Ayanda; Gerwel Proches, Cecile N.; Naidoo, Rowena
- title: Promoting quality education by addressing ethical challenges in high school football at circuit level in Durban, South Africa
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 9187
- flesch: 48
- summary: Ethical school sport leaders personify intrinsic qualities that direct them to making ethical decisions for the benefit of the wider school sports programme; especially since, as Kalinowski (1985) noted, a sport leader’s influence should extend beyond athletic performance to the holistic development of learners. In particular, school sport has a valuable contribution to make to the development and transformation of sport; it has the ability to maximise the sport potential of pupils and to become the foundation for the development of sport in a country.
- keywords: 2005; 2015; administrators; africa; age; basic; behaviour; challenges; change; cheating; circuit; coaches; context; critical; culture; daft; data; department; development; durban; education; educators; environment; ethical; ethical leadership; ethics; experiences; factors; findings; followers; football; future; gerwel; good; high; high school; holistic; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.12; human; individuals; influence; informed; interviews; journal; leadership; leading; learners; learning; level; life; management; means; model; moral; naidoo; ndlovu; need; order; organisational; particular; people; personal; perspectives; physical; players; practices; process; proches; professional; programme; qualitative; quality; quality education; research; respondents; role; school; school football; school sport; social; socialisation; south; sport; sport leaders; studies; study; subsystem; system; teams; thinking; tournaments; understanding; unethical; unethical behaviour; use; values; win
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- pie-4412
- author: Durandt, Rina; Lautenbach, Geoffrey
- title: Strategic support to students' competency development in the mathematical modelling process: A qualitative study
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 5480
- flesch: 32
- summary: In this inquiry, considering the limited experience of participants in mathematical modelling and the pragmatic lens of the research, a simplified scheme seemed appropriate to support student teachers to solve mathematical modelling tasks e.g., the “solution plan” in Blum and Borromeo Ferri, (2009). The rationale for the group selection of high, moderate and low achievers was due to the complexity of real- world contexts, the high cognitive demand of mathematical modelling tasks (although in this inquiry participants were exposed to a mathematical application task and not yet open-ended modelling task), and student teachers’ lack of experience in mathematical modelling.
- keywords: 2007; activity; analysis; application; assumptions; blum; category; competencies; competency; content; cycle; data; development; different; durandt; education; elements; experience; figure; groups; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.15; inquiry; knowledge; learning; mathematical; mathematical modelling; modelling; modelling cycle; modelling process; output; participants; particular; perspectives; possible; problem; process; real; relevant; research; scaffolding; solution; solving; stages; steps; strategic; students; sub; support; table; tasks; teachers; use; values; world
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- pie-4413
- author: Kazeni, Monde; Maleka, Morongwa
- title: Strategies used by Grade Four educators to decode science terminology: A case study
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 6721
- flesch: 49
- summary: Even though different educators are likely to perceive the difficulty of science terms differently – depending on various factors such as duration of exposure to the terms; availability of appropriate resources; and educators’ comprehension of the terms – there seems to be some consensus among science educators and researchers that Grade 4 learners could be facing difficulty in understanding some science terms. Such strategies would enable science educators to meet the educational needs of learners who struggle with challenges of learning new science terminology in an unfamiliar language.
- keywords: activities; african; approaches; brown; classrooms; community; concepts; content; data; dbe; decode; development; difficult; education; educators; effective; english; fradd; framework; grade; hpl; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.14; information; inquiry; instructional; interview; journal; knowledge; language; learners; learning; limited; literacy; methods; national; need; new; order; participants; perspectives; primary; question; reading; researchers; school; science; science educators; science learning; science terminology; science terms; scientific; second; south; strategies; study; teacher; teaching; teaching strategies; terminology; terms; texts; theme; time; understanding; use; vocabulary
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- pie-4414
- author: Jackson, Cherine; de Beer, Josef; White, Lounell
- title: The affective affordances of frugal science using foldscopes during a Life Sciences water quality practical
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 7933
- flesch: 50
- summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v38i1.16 226 Perspectives in Education 2020: 38(1) 2020 38(1): 226-241 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v38i1.16 Many researchers find ways for Life Sciences teachers to improve on the teaching of science in context. Many schools or Life Sciences teachers do not have these resources, which is part of the enormous challenge South African education is facing.
- keywords: 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; action; activities; activity; affective; affective learning; affordances; african; approaches; assessment; beer; car; chat; classroom; cognitive; content; cooperative; curriculum; data; design; development; difficult; domain; education; engeström; experiences; figure; folding; foldscope; frugal; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.16; indigenous; instructions; intervention; jackson; journal; knowledge; krathwohl; lack; learners; learning; life; life sciences; mathematics; methods; microscope; national; nature; outcomes; paper; pedagogical; perspectives; petersen; practical; problem; professional; qualitative; quality; reflections; research; school; science; scientific; self; skills; social; south; system; taxonomy; teachers; teaching; technology; theory; time; understanding; university; use; water; white; work
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- pie-4415
- author: Batchelor, Jacqueline
- title: Designing for vibrant and robust communities of practice in blended learning environments
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 7267
- flesch: 38
- summary: In this way, student learning becomes meaningful and will have relevance and influence in the shaping of a better future for the communities they serve. Therefore, the explicit articulation of appropriate learning design principles to underpin the establishment of vibrant CoPs programme delivered in a blended mode is essential to ensure the relevance and longevity of such CoPs.
- keywords: 2015; 2016; activities; approaches; appropriate; authentic; batchelor; behaviour; blended; blended learning; change; communities; community; connections; cop; cops; course; decisions; delivery; design; designing; development; digital; districts; domain; education; engagement; environment; face; form; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.1; ict; impact; instances; interactions; journal; knowledge; learning; levels; management; managers; members; mode; new; officials; online; opportunities; outcomes; participants; pedagogical; perspectives; phase; practice; principles; process; professional; programme; research; robust; self; sense; skills; slp; social; specific; strong; students; support; teacher; teaching; technologies; technology; theoretical; time; tools; trayner; use; value; vibrant; wenger; work
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- pie-4416
- author: Gumbo, MT
- title: Professional development of technology teachers: Does their training meet their needs?
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 6757
- flesch: 49
- summary: This study can be regarded as breaking new ground, since no research has yet been conducted into the MSTA’s initiatives regarding professional teacher development in that context. Professional teacher development is crucial for the effective implementation of any curriculum, and for boosting learners’ interest and performance in a subject (here, Technology in particular).
- keywords: 1999; activities; africa; areas; aspects; certain; content; data; day; dbe; design; development; diploma; education; electronic; experiences; facilitator; findings; framework; gumbo; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.5; interview; journal; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; manual; mathematics; mini; model; mpumalanga; msta; needs; new; participants; pat; pck; pedagogical; perspectives; place; practical; process; professional; professional development; qualifications; questions; related; research; resources; schools; science; shulman; skills; south; specific; study; subject; support; systems; teacher development; teachers; teaching; technological; technology; technology teachers; time; training; workshops
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- pie-4417
- author: Schmidt, Pralene; Condy, Janet; Tiba, Chantyclaire
- title: Teaching higher-order comprehension strategies to a Grade 2 learner who struggled to read for meaning: A case study
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 7728
- flesch: 50
- summary: A considerable number of studies suggest that learners develop higher-order thinking skills when they are explicitly taught reading comprehension strategies (Beck & Condy, 2017; Cekiso, 2012; Rupley, Blair & Nichols, 2009) and apply these to reading texts in a meaningful way. The teacher used constructivist learner-centred approaches such as problem-centred learning and collaboration, when explicitly teaching reading comprehension strategies.
- keywords: 2009; 2012; 2014; africa; available; cape; classroom; cohen; comprehension; comprehension skills; comprehension strategies; condy; constructivist; curriculum; data; department; education; environment; explicit; findings; focus; following; grade; guide; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.19; inference; information; interviews; journal; knowledge; language; learner; learner l; learning; literacy; making; meaning; mko; national; order; order comprehension; parent; pass; perspectives; post; preand; primary; process; questions; reading; reading comprehension; researcher; results; safe; school; skills; social; south; strategies; study; table; teacher; teaching; tests; text; theory; thinking; turn; understanding; use; week; western; world
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- pie-4437
- author: Maistry, Suriamurthee Moonsamy
- title: Transactional ethics and ‘damage-centred’ research: Of banality and oblivion
- date: 2020-06-11
- words: 6594
- flesch: 47
- summary: In the context of social research, what might be the implications of researcher oblivion, and how did it play itself out in the now infamous research project and subsequent publication of the findings? How, then, might we analyse and make sense of this occurrence, given that institutional ethical review committees are a common feature in the South African context, and tasked to apply and oversee adherence to the basic, generally accepted principles of research ethics?
- keywords: 2018; academic; african; analysis; approach; arendt; article; assemblage; attention; banality; beauchamp; beings; childress; code; communities; concept; contemporary; context; conversations; damage; data; economic; education; effect; ethical; ethics; european; fact; field; functioning; genesis; grange; grosfoguel; higher; history; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38i1.7; human; indigenous; individual; instance; institutional; issues; journal; justice; key; kind; knowledge; level; maistry; need; new; non; note; oblivion; participants; particular; paternalism; people; perspectives; potential; power; practice; principles; project; public; question; race; racial; racism; research; researchers; scholarship; self; social; south; state; studies; study; subjects; time; transactional; tuck; university; women; work; world
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- pie-4442
- author: Abraham, Reina
- title: The need of the hour: Adapting the delivery of clinical skills teaching remotely
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 6785
- flesch: 46
- summary: Clinical tutors: Using the existing clinicians was important as they are experienced with delivering clinical skills teaching and are aware of the expectations of the students. The resulting closure of medical schools necessitated the provision of clinical skills teaching on remote platforms.
- keywords: abraham; adapted; approach; asynchronous; audio; available; better; cardiovascular; challenges; class; clinical; clinical skills; clips; commentary; covid-19; current; delivery; demonstration; discussion; education; effective; examination; face; feedback; george; group; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.7; instruction; interactive; issues; learning; lecture; material; medical; meetings; method; moodle; multiple; need; online; online learning; online teaching; patient; perspectives; platform; powerpoint; practical; practise; presentations; process; questions; remote; self; session; simulated; skills; small; stage; step; students; study; teaching; techniques; technology; time; traditional; training; tutors; university; use; video; voiceover; zoom
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- pie-4489
- author: Sefotho, Maximus Monaheng; Onyishi, Charity N.
- title: In-school transition challenges among primary school learners with autism spectrum disorders in South Africa: Parents and teachers' perspectives
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 9419
- flesch: 45
- summary: Keywords: Autism spectrum disorders; school transition; academic success, primary school, teachers, parents 1. School transition is an ongoing, process involving beginning early childhood education, starting school, changing year grade levels within a school, transferring from one school to another, shifting from primary school to secondary school and moving from secondary school to further education, training and employment (Evans, Borriello & Field, 2018).
- keywords: 2012; 2019; academic; achievement; activities; activity; adulthood; africa; anxiety; asd; associated; autism; autism spectrum; behaviours; challenges; challenging; change; children; classroom; cognitive; communication; community; contexts; data; development; different; difficulties; difficulty; disorders; disparity; economic; education; employment; et al; exclusion; experiences; externalising; families; family; focus; grade; group; help; high; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.20; https://doi; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; levels; life; limit; major; marsh; need; negative; new; onyishi; outcomes; parents; participants; personal; perspectives; poor; present; primary; primary school; problems; progress; qualitative; research; researchers; schlossberg; school; school learners; school transition; secondary; secondary school; sefotho; self; services; skills; social; socio; south; spectrum; strategies; stress; students; studies; study; success; successful; support; teachers; testing; themes; time; transition; transition challenges; transitioning; work
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- pie-45
- author: Ebersöhn, Liesel; Carvalho-Malekane, Wendy M.
- title: Informing educational psychology training with students' community engagement experiences
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 6654
- flesch: 43
- summary: Email: liesel.ebersohn@up.ac.za Perspectives in Education, Volume 28(3), September 201088 In this article, we contemplate the way in which one group of educational psychology students experienced community engagement in their training as a means of providing relevant learning opportunities. One approach to training that is relevant to educational psychology students is community engagement.
- keywords: ability; activities; addition; africa; analysis; approach; assessment; asset; bender; communities; community; community engagement; context; curricular; data; department; different; ebersöhn; eds; educational; educational psychology; engagement; experience; experiential; focus; future; group; higher; intervention; journals; knowledge; kolb; language; learners; learning; methods; need; opportunity; order; participants; people; pillay; positive; practice; practicum; pretoria; process; psychologists; psychology; reflective; relevant; research; school; service; skills; south; students; study; terms; theories; theory; training; university; work
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- pie-4516
- author: none
- title: Curriculum transformation: An ODeL Case in South Africa
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 9392
- flesch: 39
- summary: The challenges of curriculum transformation are global (West, 2014) but the educational crisis in balancing teaching and learning content and its transformation have received limited attention (Mendy, 2018b; Spaull, 2013). Curriculum transformation, referred to as curriculum reform or renewal, includes changes made to teaching and learning content (Esakov, 2009; Clark, 2002; Shay, 2015).
- keywords: 2015; 2016; actions; activities; african; africanisation; analysis; approach; aspects; assessment; case; challenges; change; cognitive; colleges; communities; content; country; cultural; curriculum; curriculum transformation; data; development; economic; eds; education; epistemologies; erikson; et al; evans; figure; framework; global; gumbo; higgs; higher; hogg; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.01; human; identities; identity; implementation; inclusivity; individual; issues; journal; knowledge; learning; life; literature; local; madiope; management; mendy; moral; msila; nakabugo; need; new; order; paper; pedagogy; people; perspectives; political; practical; practice; previous; process; programmes; psychosocial; reform; renewal; reports; research; review; sense; siebörger; social; socio; south; south africa; stage; structural; student; studies; study; support; teaching; technology; themes; theoretical; theories; theory; transformation; type; university; way; west; wider
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- pie-4519
- author: Jackson, Oron; Witenstein, Matthew A
- title: Creating research spaces for underserved communities: Expanding and extending intersectionality in contemporary educational contexts
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 6690
- flesch: 42
- summary: According to Núñez (2014), scholars and practitioners in the educational community have borrowed, engaged in dialogue with and applied Kimberle Crenshaw’s (1989) intersectionality framework to a variety of educational issues. The cases of DeGraffenreid vs. General Motors, Moore vs. Hughes Helicopter Inc. and Payne vs. Travenol Laboratories Inc. provided case law revealing a national disregard for the welfare of marginalised black women (Crenshaw, 2018).
- keywords: 2015; academic; achievement; african; american; billings; black; black women; children; class; classroom; colour; communities; community; consistent; contexts; crenshaw; discipline; education; educators; empirical; european; expansion; experiences; extended; feminist; framework; gender; girls; going; groups; https://doi; identities; identity; important; international; intersectionality; involvement; jackson; journal; ladson; law; legal; lens; lgbtq; management; marginalisation; marginalised; meaningful; needs; new; opportunities; original; parent; people; perspectives; policy; politics; poor; population; poverty; practices; practitioners; press; psychology; public; questions; race; relevant; research; researchers; review; rights; school; secondary; social; south; spaces; states; students; support; supported; teachers; theory; underserved; united; urban; voices; ways; white; witenstein; women
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- pie-4521
- author: Barnett, Rachel
- title: Leading with meaning: Why diversity, equity, and inclusion matters in U. S. higher education
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 8415
- flesch: 37
- summary: Evidence seems to exist that SL programmes can lead to the attainment of student diversity outcomes (Holsapple, 2012), but those effects may be tied to the inclusion of best practices such as academic challenge, integrative learning, diversity experiences, and positive interactions with diverse peers in those experiential learning opportunities (Kilgo, 2015). Furthermore, it is one thing to teach SL to a group of students who are already community action-oriented and another to design classroom experiences that improve student outcomes when the students come into the classroom with different orientations.
- keywords: .05; academic; activism; administrators; anxiety; barnett; best; campus; classroom; collective; college; colour; community; contexts; courses; critical; curricular; data; democratic; development; diverse; diversity; education; effectiveness; effects; engagement; equity; experiences; faculty; findings; good; governance; greater; group; hendrickson; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.02; identity; igd; inclusion; institutional; interactions; intercultural; intervention; issues; journal; justice; leaders; learning; matters; meaning; measures; microaggressions; mission; model; moral; multicultural; need; negative; new; non; outcomes; participation; peers; perceptions; perspectives; political; practices; processes; psychological; race; racial; reasoning; research; researchers; responses; results; self; service; shared; significant; skills; social; students; studies; study; support; thinking; universities; values; white; work
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- pie-4522
- author: Price, Christine; Archer, Arlene
- title: Risk as productive in landscape architecture pedagogy
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 7474
- flesch: 51
- summary: Keywords: Student resources; risk; landscape architecture; diversity; access; multimodal pedagogies; design education. Mbulelo does not http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i2.11 1482021 39(2): 148-156 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i2.11 Perspectives in Education 2021: 39(2) draw as heavily on conventional landscape architectural resources as in the previous three models but, as we will show, he expresses his narrative and experiences through novel forms and spaces.
- keywords: 2016; access; africa; approach; archer; architectural; black; cebisa; choices; classroom; contexts; design; discourse; diverse; diversity; dominant; drawing; eds; education; engagement; environment; experiences; final; forms; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.11; knowledge; ladder; landscape; landscape architectural; learning; london; making; materials; mbulelo; meaning; model; multimodal; narrative; new; newfield; notion; order; pedagogies; pedagogy; perspectives; plane; practices; presentation; price; productive; project; recognition; research; resources; risk; routledge; second; semiotic; social; south; space; spatial; students; study; success; teachers; terms; unconventional; users; ways; zone
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- pie-4525
- author: Brink, Sophia; Rossouw, Mareli
- title: An investigation into the success rates of third-year Accounting conversion students en route to becoming a Chartered Accountant (South Africa)
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 8387
- flesch: 40
- summary: Under the assumption that B. Accounting conversion students mainly opt for the conversion year with the aim of obtaining a B. Accounting Honours degree, the results from primary research questions 3 and 4 should be considered when recommending possible sub-minimum marks to be included in the conversion year admission requirements. Based on the population of 134 students it was found that only 26 (19%) B. Accounting conversion students obtained a B. Accounting Honours degree in the minimum amount of time.
- keywords: 2020; accounting conversion; accounting degree; accounting education; accounting honours; accounting students; admission; admission requirements; attempt; auditing; average; b. accounting; b. commerce; brink; conversion; conversion students; conversion year; degree; education; financial; financial accounting; honours admission; honours degree; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.12; journal; knowledge; level; main; management; management accounting; mark; minimum; order; performance; primary; prior; rates; requirements; research; results; rossouw; school; secondary; students; study; subjects; success; table; time; university; year accounting; year admission; year b.; years
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- pie-4566
- author: Khetoa, Soyiso; Motsei, Sara
- title: An evaluation of the opinions of students enrolled in Sesotho modules at the University of the Free State
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 6891
- flesch: 50
- summary: The demise of Sesotho language in the democratic South Africa and its impact on the socio-cultural development of the speakers. Ntshangase (2011) further argues that negative attitudes towards indigenous African languages are fuelled by misconceptions about these languages.
- keywords: academic; african; african languages; afrikaans; attitudes; benefits; cent; classes; collection; concepts; data; departments; development; domains; education; english; evaluation; figure; findings; free; government; group; high; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.13; indigenous; indigenous languages; information; instruction; interviews; khetoa; knowledge; languages; learning; level; linguistic; methodological; methods; modules; mother; motsei; official; opinions; people; perceptions; perspectives; policy; practice; pretoria; primary; questionnaires; reasons; research; researchers; respondents; responses; sample; school; sesotho; sesotho language; social; south; south africa; speakers; state; status; students; study; teaching; tongue; triangulation; university; use; year
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- pie-4569
- author: Wolhuter, Charste
- title: Can COVID-19 bring about 20/20 acuity in education scholarship in South Africa?
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 5878
- flesch: 41
- summary: The deficiencies regarding education scholarship, globally as well as in South Africa, relate to the lack of theory, autochthonous and a unified, coherent theory, the small scale and fragmented nature of many research projects, the lack of practical impact, education scholars eschewing subscription to and building a normative superstructure in their research and the concrete problems of the education faculty regarding heavy teaching loads and difficulty in attracting funding for education research. Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; education; education research; education theory; South Africa.
- keywords: 2016; academic; acuity; africa; article; available; c.c; challenges; chicago; community; comparative; context; countries; covid-19; critical; current; der; development; dimension; discourse; education; education research; education scholarship; enrolment; example; factors; faculty; field; foundation; funding; global; gross; herman; high; history; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.1; impact; international; issue; knowledge; kuhn; lack; learning; model; national; need; new; november; opportunity; outbreak; pandemic; perspectives; position; present; problem; quality; quantitative; research; researchers; scholarly; scholarship; schools; science; scientific; social; societal; society; south; south africa; state; study; survey; system; teaching; theoretical; theory; unesco; university; van; walt; wolhuter; world
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- pie-4582
- author: Langa, Mauricio; Wassermann, Johan; Maposa, Marshall
- title: Black African parents' narratives on apartheid schooling and school history
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 7898
- flesch: 55
- summary: Such a positive view of school history is contrary to the participants’ experience of school history as learners under apartheid but were underpinned by a sense of triumph over apartheid school history and what it stood for. While school history in the post-apartheid context was lauded and appreciated, the prevailing sentiment was that their children should steer clear of it.
- keywords: act; african; african parents; afrikaner; analysis; apartheid; bantu; black; black african; children; class; contemporary; context; counter; critical; crt; curriculum; data; difficult; dominant; economic; education; experiences; hiraldo; history; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.2; identity; inferior; inquiry; langa; learners; lives; maposa; mathematics; middle; narratives; new; opportunities; paper; parental; parents; participants; past; personal; perspectives; political; post; power; qualitative; race; racial; racism; related; research; school; school history; schooling; science; sense; social; society; south; south africa; status; storytelling; studies; study; subject; system; teaching; thabo; themba; theory; thompson; van; view; wassermann; way; white; world
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- pie-4583
- author: Mpu, Yolanda; Adu, Emmanuel O.
- title: The challenges of inclusive education and its implementation in schools: The South African perspective
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 6262
- flesch: 45
- summary: Developing inclusive education policies and practices in Turkey: Equality, quality and quantity: challenges in inclusive education policy and service provision in India.
- keywords: 2010; 2013; 2014; adu; africa; analysis; approach; attitudes; case; challenges; children; classroom; countries; curriculum; data; department; development; disabilities; disability; district; education; educators; engelbrecht; exclusion; findings; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.16; https://doi; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; individuals; international; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; mainstream; mpu; needs; new; paper; paradigm; participants; perspectives; physical; policies; policy; practices; problem; professional; qualitative; quality; research; resources; schools; service; skills; social; society; south; special; special education; strategies; students; study; support; system; teachers; teaching; teams; theory; time; training; transport; white
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- pie-4594
- author: none
- title: Home-schooling in South Africa: Adapting to the new normal of providing education
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 8251
- flesch: 55
- summary: For those children with learning difficulties and special needs, home education can be a wonderful option as there are few special needs schools (Participant 5). The government actively discourages home education (Participant 5).
- keywords: academic; activities; africa; alternative; apartheid; approach; available; basic; challenges; children; concerned; covid-19; day; department; development; dlamini; dunn; education; educators; environment; experience; family; findings; form; government; home; home education; homeschooling; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.7; individual; information; journal; kwazulu; lack; learners; learning; love; maharaj; mainstream; mills; moore; natal; nations; needs; new; option; pandemic; parents; participant; perspectives; potential; public; quality; reading; republic; research; responsibility; ritalin; sample; schooling; schools; sector; social; south; south africa; special; students; study; support; system; teacher; teaching; time; unicef; united; use; van; way; work
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- pie-46
- author: Ruto-Korir, Rose; Lubbe, Carien
- title: Locating the doctoral study in the ‘paradigm skirmishes’: Challenges and prospects for adopting a paradigm cradle
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 6452
- flesch: 49
- summary: Keywords: doctoral research, postgraduate supervision, research supervision, guided autonomy, paradigm, paradigm contestations introduction: ‘Paradigm identity’ and doctoral study During the course of their study, doctoral students engage in and espouse, even if temporarily, what we call in this paper, a ‘paradigm identity’, as a lens to successfully conceptualise and complete their study. The professor gave us an article by Morse, Barrett, Mayan, Olson and Spiers (2002), entitled: “Verification strategies for establishing reliability and validity in qualitative research”, which explores Ruto-KoRiR & Lubbe — Locating the doctoral study in the ‘paradigm skirmishes’ 101 the progressive debate on the qualitative paradigm, especially how to verify qualitative data vis à vis quantitative data.
- keywords: academic; approach; bryman; creativity; creswell; critical; data; denzin; development; different; discourse; doctoral; doctoral students; edn; eds; education; experience; feedback; flick; guba; handbook; identity; intellectual; introduction; issues; journal; journey; kiguwa; knowledge; langa; level; lincoln; literature; lubbe; mcadams; methods; new; oaks; originality; paradigm; paradigmatic; perspectives; practice; process; qualitative; qualitative research; questions; research; researchers; rose; rubin; sage; scholarly; self; skirmishes; smith; student; studies; study; supervision; supervisors; tensions; thinking; thought; use; voice; work; writing
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- pie-4606
- author: Mncube, Vusi; Mutongoza, Bonginkosi Hardy; Olawale, Emmanuel
- title: Managing higher education institutions in the context of COVID-19 stringency: Experiences of stakeholders at a rural South African university
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 9352
- flesch: 41
- summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted education institutions around the world and South African higher education institutions have not been spared (Dube, 2020; Mhlanga & Moloi, 2020). Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on life of higher education students: A global perspective.
- keywords: academic; access; africa; approach; assessment; available; bertalanffy; challenges; collaborations; communication; context; countries; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; data; development; different; digital; education; education institutions; et al; examinations; experiences; face; findings; government; health; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.24; impact; information; infrastructure; institutions; international; internet; journal; learning; lecturer; major; management; manager; measures; methods; mhlanga; mixed; mncube; moloi; mutongoza; need; new; november; olawale; online; operations; organisation; pandemic; participants; perspectives; place; processes; qualitative; rashid; remote; research; resources; rural; rural institutions; safety; sahu; school; shift; social; south; staff; stakeholders; strategies; stringency; students; study; support; systems; teaching; theory; time; unesco; universities; university; use; von; world; yadav
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- pie-4613
- author: Abe, Ethel; Chikoko, Vitallis; Lubinga, Stella N
- title: The link between career outcomes expectancy and career decision-making self-efficacy of STEM students in a South African university
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 7197
- flesch: 50
- summary: Career studies in search of theory: The rise and rise of concepts. Career decision refers to the act of selecting an option for a learning programme, profession, employment or academic institution (Doğan, 2014).
- keywords: 2015; 2016; abe; africa; age; analysis; anova; assessment; behavior; betz; career; career decision; career development; career growth; cdse; chikoko; choice; coe; cognitive; convictions; counseling; data; decision; demographic; dependent; development; education; effect; efficacy; environment; expectancy; expectations; factors; findings; funding; gender; goals; group; growth; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.5; individual; influence; international; journal; learning; lee; lent; link; lubinga; making; model; need; outcome; participants; perspectives; present; race; regression; research; results; scale; scct; self; significant; social; south; stem; stem students; students; studies; study; table; taylor; test; theory; university; upbringing; urban; variables; variance; vocational
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- pie-4615
- author: Muhuro, Patricia; Kangethe, Simon Murote; Muhuro, Patricia
- title: Prospects and pitfalls associated with implementing blended learning in rural-based higher education institutions in Southern Africa
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 7157
- flesch: 37
- summary: This is a discourse-based paper aiming to discuss the prospects and pitfalls of implementing blended learning in rural based institutions of higher learning in Southern Africa. FINDINGS 8.1 Blended learning brings solutions Universally, blended learning can be a solution in surmounting educational challenges such as managing diversity and providing access to resources (Bonk & Graham, 2012), all of which are glaring gaps in institutions of higher learning.
- keywords: 2016; 2018; 2019; 2020; access; adoption; africa; available; blended; blended learning; challenges; communication; competencies; context; countries; current; curriculum; data; deficits; development; different; digital; diversity; education; effectiveness; et al; evidence; face; flexible; fourth; framework; global; goals; graham; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.26; ict; implementation; industrial; information; institutions; international; journal; kang’ethe; knowledge; leadership; learning; lecturers; machumu; model; motivation; muhuro; need; new; online; outcomes; paper; pedagogical; performance; perspectives; pitfalls; plan; problems; professional; prospects; quality; requisite; research; resources; revolution; rural; skills; social; solution; southern; staff; stage; strategy; structure; students; support; teachers; teaching; technologies; technology; tools; traditional; universities; use; world
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- pie-4630
- author: Abe, Isaac; Mugobo, Virimai
- title: Low research productivity: Transformation, institutional and leadership concern at a South African university
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 6840
- flesch: 40
- summary: Observers of research policies have not been silent on research conditions in UoTs. To this end, funders are always on the neck of research institutions with new and engaging policies.
- keywords: 2019; abe; academics; africa; analysis; application; approach; archetype; available; career; challenges; data; department; development; dhet; education; employees; enrolment; experiences; factors; focus; government; group; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.9; https://doi; human; incentives; information; institutional; interviews; investigation; journal; july; knowledge; learning; leave; low; low research; management; massification; meeting; mugobo; national; need; new; non; output; paper; participants; performance; perspectives; poaching; policies; policy; problem; productivity; publications; qualitative; qualitative research; quality; question; reasons; research; research output; respondents; responses; result; sabbatical; social; south; staff; student; study; systems; teaching; themes; theory; time; training; transformation; understanding; universities; university; uot; uots; work; workload; years
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- pie-4635
- author: Kgari-Masondo, Maserole Christina; Chimbunde, Pfuurai
- title: Progress of an African student during COVID-19 and beyond in higher education: Re-colonisation of decolonisation?
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 9305
- flesch: 42
- summary: So the introduction of the Google class was not aligned with the contextual realities in HE, as well as the background and material conditions faced by the majority of African students. Reconfiguring pedagogies which are sensitive to African students from rural ecological settings remains locked in human intellect and has to be unpacked for the betterment of society.
- keywords: 2015a; 2019; 2020; access; african; african student; akalahlwa; akalahlwa pedagogy; areas; article; auto; challenges; chimbunde; chris; colonial; coloniality; connectivity; context; countries; covid-19; curriculum; data; decolonisation; decolonising; development; economic; education; experiences; face; fourth; gatsheni; global; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.20; https://doi; impact; industrial; internet; issues; journal; kgari; knowledge; learning; lecturers; marginalised; masondo; means; mobile; narratives; ndlovu; need; network; observations; online; online learning; online t&l; online teaching; pandemic; paper; pedagogies; pedagogy; people; period; personal; perspectives; poor; poverty; power; practice; progress; project; research; rural; self; social; south; strategies; students; studies; study; t&l; teaching; umuntu; umuntu akalahlwa; understanding; universities; university; use; way; world; zimbabwe
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- pie-4642
- author: Jaca, Nosipho Immaculate
- title: The challenges of transitioning from teacher to departmental head in seven primary schools
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 7514
- flesch: 57
- summary: The current study therefore focused specifically on the transitioning of primary school teachers to the DH role. The professional development of primary school teachers with leadership responsibilities in a New Zealand context.
- keywords: 2006; 2008; 2010; african; attitudes; beginning; bridges; challenges; change; colleagues; constraints; creswell; data; departmental; development; dh role; dhs; difficult; dissertation; duties; education; ending; experience; findings; heads; heavy; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.18; interview; jaca; journal; knowledge; lack; leadership; management; managers; master; middle; negative; neutral; new; participants; people; performance; perspectives; position; pretoria; primary; principals; professional; qualitative; research; researchers; responsibilities; role; schools; secondary; skills; south; stage; studies; study; subject; support; teachers; teaching; theory; time; training; transition; transitioning; university; unpublished; workload; zealand; zone
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- pie-4658
- author: Naidoo, Devika
- title: Post-school youths' schooling experiences and aspirations
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 7367
- flesch: 54
- summary: The issue of post school youth requires not only alternative post school programmes but also attention to schooling practices within formal secondary school education. The “no fees” school provided an opportunity for Linda to access high school education, but the non-discretionary application of the rule of provision of equipment for orphans only, excluded her from getting the free equipment the school was providing only for orphans.
- keywords: academic; access; activities; appadurai; aspirations; basic; better; capacity; case; centre; class; classes; community; computer; culture; curriculum; development; dialogue; education; employment; experiences; formal; future; good; grade; high; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.3; iydo; jobs; knowledge; lack; lads; learners; learning; lessons; life; lives; managerial; moore; naidoo; need; opportunities; participants; pedagogy; perold; perspectives; poor; post; practices; professional; programmes; psy; public; quality; robinson; school; school education; school youth; schooling; sense; skills; smyth; social; students; study; subjects; support; system; teachers; teaching; time; township; training; tsepo; use; white; willis; working; youth; youth centre
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- pie-4684
- author: Assaf, Nirit; Gan, Dafna
- title: Environmental education using distance learning during the COVID-19 lockdown in Israel
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 10544
- flesch: 41
- summary: Environmental education as part of a social-ecological system is dependent on the adaptability and the scope of the change with which the system responds to crisis. The aim of this study, therefore, was to examine environmental educators’ perspective on and teaching methods for implementing environmental education under distance learning conditions.
- keywords: 2010; 2020; active; analysis; approach; assaf; autonomy; change; context; covid-19; crisis; data; degree; direct; distance; distance learning; diverse; ecological; ecology; education; education system; educators; elementary; environmental; environmental education; example; experience; feedback; field; findings; future; gan; global; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.16; important; international; interviews; israel; journal; krasny; learning; level; local; lockdown; loop; loop learning; master; materials; methods; ministry; national; natural; nature; need; normalcy; online; opportunities; outdoor; pandemic; parents; participants; perspectives; phenomena; policy; preschool; process; processes; quote; research; resilience; response; school; science; sense; single; situation; social; society; students; study; system; teacher; teaching; teaching methods; technology; tidball; times; triple; use; world
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- pie-47
- author: Nkomo, Mokubung
- title: The brave 'new' world of education: Creating a unique professionalism
- date: 2010-09-30
- words: 1308
- flesch: 50
- summary: And, as stated earlier, that is one of the greatest challenges of post-apartheid South Africa. “What”, one may ask, “is so ‘brave’ and ‘new’ about the world of education in the contemporary world, most especially in South Africa?”
- keywords: africa; apartheid; book; brave; bravery; century; contemporary; countries; critical; current; education; entrapment; example; global; knowledge; learning; modern; new; old; particular; reading; south; teacher; title; training; understanding; world; york
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- pie-4700
- author: Slabbert, Róan; du Plessis, Jeanette
- title: Quality assurance of peer-assisted learning by measuring academic performance of health sciences extended curriculum students
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 6026
- flesch: 43
- summary: Perceptions of student peer tutors in a problem-based learning programme. Undergraduate technical skills training guided by student tutors – analysis of tutors’ attitudes, tutees’ acceptance and learning progress in an innovative teaching model.
- keywords: 2001; 2007; 2008; academic; activities; activity; africa; analysis; assessment; assisted; assurance; average; better; clinical; cognitive; curriculum; decrease; development; difference; ecp; education; et al; experienced; extended; fhes; figure; foundation; group; health; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.8; increase; intervention; intervention results; journal; knowledge; learning; level; medical; module; outcomes; pal; pal group; pal intervention; peer; performance; perspectives; population; post; preand; preand post; problem; programmes; provision; quality; research; results; sciences; sessions; significant; skills; slabbert; south; structured; students; studies; study; teacher; teaching; tutees; tutors; university; year
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- pie-4703
- author: Ivenicki, Ana
- title: COVID-19 and multicultural education in Brazil
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 6042
- flesch: 29
- summary: In this horizon, which emphasises multiculturalised knowledge, Boaler and Sengupta- Irving (2012) bring such a dimension of multicultural curricular experiences to the context 2332021 39(1): 233-241 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i1.14 Ivenicki COVID-19 and multicultural education in Brazil of mathematics teaching, a discipline normally associated with “universalist” perspectives and devoid of gender. Such an exam 2352021 39(1): 235-241 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i1.14 Ivenicki COVID-19 and multicultural education in Brazil was due to take place in November 2020, however due to the inequality of access to online classes from most of the population, it was postponed to January 2021.
- keywords: access; activities; areas; article; brazil; brazilian; challenges; classes; classroom; cne; context; countries; courses; covid-19; critical; curriculum; decolonial; digital; distant; diversity; document; education; educational policies; effects; fact; gender; guardians; hand; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.14; identities; inequality; institutions; intersectional; ivenicki; knowledge; learning; means; ministry; multicultural; multicultural education; national; need; non; online; onset; pandemic; paper; parents; pedagogical; perspectives; policies; population; possibilities; post; practices; present; public; referred; relevant; research; schools; social; stein; students; study; system; teacher; teaching; time; training; use; views; way; ways
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- pie-4706
- author: none
- title: The impact of COVID-19 on the holistic development of young South African at-risk children in three early childhood care and education centres in a rural area
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 9477
- flesch: 46
- summary: This article draws from a research project in three Bafenyi ECCE centres in the rural area of Ikageng (Potchefstroom) in the North-West province of South Africa and focuses on how COVID-19 influences the holistic development of young children at risk. Within a critical and transformative paradigm teacher- participants were encouraged to think critically about the holistic development of young children and to consider how collaboration could lead to social change.
- keywords: 2015; 2016; 2020; action; activities; african; als; approach; available; bafenyi; bottles; caregivers; centres; challenges; change; childhood; childhood development; children; cognitive; collaborative; communities; concerned; covid-19; data; department; development; discussion; early; early childhood; early years; ecce; ecce centres; education; emotional; factors; findings; health; holistic; holistic development; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.9; idea; impact; influence; interaction; journal; koen; lack; learning; lockdown; making; masweneng; materials; needs; october; opportunities; palar; pandemic; parents; participants; perspectives; philosophy; physical; process; project; quality; question; recycled; relevant; research; researchers; respect; risk; risk children; safety; school; singakwenza; social; social development; south; south african; study; support; teachers; toys; ubuntu; unesco; warwick; white; work; years; young children; young south
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- pie-4707
- author: none
- title: The teaching mix matters: Rethinking veterinary education at a South African university
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 8894
- flesch: 45
- summary: o o o Existing course analysis (4) o o o o The Planning Template (5) o o o o Indicate your level of satisfaction regarding the presentation of the topics below: Very satisfied (1) Satisfied (2) Dissatisfied (3) Very dissatisfied (4) Learning Pathway (1) o o o o IBL and the hybrid teaching and learning approach (2) o o o o Latest Learning Theory (3) o Hybrid teaching and learning in context).
- keywords: academic; activities; analysis; applicability; approach; aspects; assessment; available; blended; block; change; classroom; context; course; covid-19; data; day; delivery; department; development; dissatisfied; education; environment; evaluation; face; faculty; feedback; figure; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.27; hybrid; hybrid teaching; ibl; innovation; knowledge; learning; lecturers; level; lms; matters; methodologies; mix; mode; mostert; new; oer; online; pandemic; participants; perspectives; pienaar; planning; presentation; questionnaires; research; researchers; resources; satisfaction; satisfied; science; sessions; skills; staff; students; teaching; technology; time; topics; university; use; veterinary; workshop
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- pie-4714
- author: Cuéllar, Carolina; Guzmán, Angélica; Lizama, Camila; Faúndez, María Paz
- title: Educational continuity during the pandemic: Challenges to pedagogical management in segregated Chilean schools
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 7384
- flesch: 32
- summary: Research links this trend to unequal learning opportunities, as private school students have higher levels of educational achievement than those enrolled in the public system. Thus, publicly funded schools face greater challenges in practically all four PM domains as compared to private schools.
- keywords: 2017; access; actions; actors; administrative; aspects; assessment; availability; available; challenges; challenging; chile; chilean; chilean schools; connectivity; context; continuity; covid-19; curriculum; cuéllar; de la; development; differences; different; domain; economic; educación; educational; establishments; face; fact; families; faúndez; feedback; figure; financial; findings; focus; formative; governance; guzmán; hardware; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.4; instrumental; knowledge; learning; levels; lizama; los; management; materials; methodological; mo=; modality; municipal; municipal schools; network; new; nussbaum; online; pandemic; para; participants; pedagogical; pedagogical management; percentage; perspectives; prioritisation; private; private schools; processes; public; quality; reimers; related; remote; remote learning; resources; revista; scenario; schleicher; schools; segregated; skills; social; socio; specific; strategies; students; study; subsidised; subsidised schools; system; teachers; technological; types; work
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- pie-4716
- author: Nel, Carisma; Marais, Elma
- title: Addressing the wicked problem of feedback during the teaching practicum
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 7066
- flesch: 45
- summary: However, student dissatisfaction with feedback during the teaching practicum presents a “wicked” problem that requires a strategic partnership approach between the university and partnership schools as well as between the triad partners of teacher educator, mentor teacher and student teacher. The results indicated that student teachers, teacher educators as well as mentor teachers were actively engaged “on the same page” with constructive dialogic feedback that assisted student teachers to make crucial adjustments to the core practice of explaining/modelling content.
- keywords: 2019; africa; analysis; assessment; available; boud; case; comments; content; core; criteria; cycle; education; educators; explaining; feedback; figure; foundation; good; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.25; initial; learners; learning; lesson; marais; mentor; mentor teacher; modelling; nel; october; online; order; participants; partners; partnership; peers; perspectives; perusall; platform; powerpoint; practice; practicum; problem; professional; quality; questions; reading; research; school; social; south; stage; standards; student; student teachers; study; teacher; teacher educators; teaching; teaching practicum; triad; university; use; video; wenger; wicked; work; year
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- pie-4738
- author: de Klerk, Edwin Darrell; Palmer, June Monica
- title: Resetting education priorities during COVID-19: Towards equitable learning opportunities through inclusion and equity
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 7616
- flesch: 40
- summary: Certain complex issues continue to complicate the work of rural school principals to promote inclusive learning (Nilholm, 2020) including an understanding of how to build an inclusive learning environment through differentiated instruction. The paper recommends that school principals and teachers will have to refocus teaching practices towards flexible, inclusively delivered teaching through working collaboratively across disciplines so that they build their personal resilience and advance their technological skills to meet the demands of remote and online learning during a pandemic and beyond. Keywords: COVID-19; flexible learning theory; inclusion and equity; inclusive learning cultures; Sustainable Development Goals (SDG); virtual learning approaches.
- keywords: 2017; 2020; access; activities; africa; analysis; approach; available; case; challenges; commitment; covid-19; cultures; data; design; development; digital; education; education priorities; email; equitable; equitable learning; equity; experiences; flexible; flexible learning; focus; goals; help; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.2; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; inclusive learning; inclusivity; individuals; inequalities; instructional; international; interviews; january; journal; klerk; knowledge; leadership; learners; learning; learning opportunities; methods; multiple; nations; needs; new; online; opportunities; palmer; pandemic; paper; parents; participants; perspectives; policy; post; potential; practices; principals; priorities; qualitative; quality; questions; remote; research; resetting; resources; rural; sage; school; school principals; skills; social; south; special; studies; study; support; sustainable; tablets; teachers; teaching; technology; time; unesco; use; way; world
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- pie-4744
- author: Niemczyk, Ewelina Kinga ; de Beer , Louw ; Steyn, Hennie
- title: The challenges posed by COVID-19 to the BRICS education systems: Lessons to be learnt
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 7773
- flesch: 38
- summary: School education was supported by the MHRD with the following initiatives (MHRD, 2020): • Diksha made more than 80 000 e-Books available for grades 1 to 12. The channels cover school education (grades 9 to 12) and higher education (undergraduate, postgraduate, Engineering out-of-school children, vocational courses and teacher training) in Arts, Science, Commerce, Performing Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities subjects, Engineering, Technology, Law, Medicine and Agriculture.
- keywords: 2020b; access; african; alert; approaches; article; august; available; bank; beer; brazil; brazilian; brics; cases; challenges; children; china; contextual; coronavirus; countries; country; covid-19; distance; economic; education; education system; emergency; end; external; face; following; government; grades; health; higher; higher education; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.11; impact; important; india; infection; institutions; international; learning; lessons; level; lockdown; march; measures; ministry; national; national education; nations; new; number; october; online; pandemic; parents; people; perspectives; platforms; population; practices; provisioning; quality; resources; response; rsa; school; sector; september; situation; social; south; state; steyn; strategies; students; support; system; teachers; teaching; times; total; unesco; universities; world; year
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- pie-4747
- author: Yorke, Louise; Rose, Pauline ; Woldehanna, Tassew; Hagos, Belay
- title: Primary school-level responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: Evidence from phone surveys of school principals and teachers
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 7627
- flesch: 45
- summary: School principals in urban locations were almost three times more likely to report receiving support than those in rural areas, while the gender of school principals did not affect the likelihood as to whether they received support from the government. According to our findings, school principals in rural areas receive less support from local government than their urban counterparts, thus highlighting the need for greater efforts to ensure that rural school principals are supported in responding to the pandemic.
- keywords: access; available; bank; capacity; caregivers; chi2; closures; communication; contact; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; covid-19 school; data; disadvantaged; distance; education; ethiopia; face; families; female; findings; gender; government; harris; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.12; important; information; january; learning; level; likely; local; location; low; making; needs; p<0.05; p<0.1; pandemic; parents; perspectives; phone; primary; principals; research; responses; rural; school; school closures; school principals; sig; significance; students; support; system; table; teachers; urban; woldehanna; woreda; world; yorke
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- pie-4756
- author: Lokshyna, Olena; Topuzov, Oleg
- title: COVID-19 and education in Ukraine: Responses from the authorities and opinions of educators
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 9993
- flesch: 35
- summary: Comparative and international education gets an opportunity to prove its value to the world of praxis (that is praxis at the levels of education in education institutions and at the level of planning and reform of education at education system level). Percentage distribution of responses of parents to the question “What distance learning/communication tools are used in your child’s school?” School principals confirmed the opinions of parents regarding the priority of messengers for distance education (Figure 4) (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2020a:234).
- keywords: 2020a; academic; access; adaptive; additional; authorities; available; cabinet; challenges; conditions; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; digital; distance; distance education; distance learning; distribution; documents; education; education institutions; education quality; education system; educational process; educators; epidemic; face; figure; format; functioning; governmental; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.13; http://www.sqe.gov.ua/images/materials/%25d0%2586%25d0%25bd%25d1%2581%25d1%2582%25d0%25b8%25d1%2582%25d1%2583%25d1%0a%2586%25d1%2596%25d0%25b9%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b8%25d0%25b9%2520%25d0%25b0%25d1%2583%25d0%0a%25b4%25d0%25b8%25d1%2582/28.05.2020_%25d0%2590%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bb%25d1%25%2096%25d1%2582%25d0%25b8%25d1%2587%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b0_%25d0%25b4%25d0%25be%25d0%25b2%25%20d1%2596%25d0%25b4%25d0%25ba%25d0%25b0%2b%25d0%25a0%25d0%25b5%25d0%25ba%25d0%25be%0a%25d0%25bc%25d0%25b5%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b4%25d0%25b0%25d1%2586%25d1%2596%25d1%2597%20_%25d0%25be%25d0%25bf%25d0%25b8%25d1%2582%25d1%2583%25d0%25b2%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bd%25d0%25bd%25%20%20d1%258f_%25d0%2594%25d0%2598%25d0%25a1%20%25d0%25a2%25d0%2590%25d0%259d%25d0%25a6%25d0%2586%25d0%2599%25d0%259d%25d0%2595-%25d1%2588%25d0%25ba%25d0%25be%25d0%25bb%25%20d0%25b0.pdf; implementation; institutions; instruction; international; internet; isced; key; learning; letter; levels; lockdown; lokshyna; march; measures; mes; ministers; ministry; model; mon; national; nationwide; new; november; october; online; order; organisation; pandemic; parents; percentage; period; perspectives; policy; principals; process; quarantine; question; recommendations; research; resolution; responses; review; school; science; secondary education; service; situation; state; students; study; survey; synergetics; teachers; time; tools; topuzov; transformation; ukraine; ukrainian; ukrainian education; world; year
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- pie-4757
- author: none
- title: COVID-19: Education policy, autonomy and alternative teacher education in Israel
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 8958
- flesch: 47
- summary: As noted by Musset (2010: 11) countries can “customize” teacher education programmes according to their specific needs and traditions, and alternative teacher education programmes should not be seen as competing, but rather as complementary. Teacher education programmes in Israel are run in universities but mostly in colleges of education and operate under direct supervision of the Council for Higher Education (CHE) or the MoE. Accordingly, the budgeting bodies are the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the CHE or the MoE. Yet, regardless of the body in charge, all teacher education programmes must abide by a framework set in 2006 by a joint CHE and MoE committee that determined the standards and guidelines for all the training of teachers in higher education institutions (Dror, 2013).
- keywords: 2019; academic; alternative; alternative programme; alternative teacher; analysis; autonomy; average; candidates; career; cent; certification; colleges; commitment; content; countries; covid-19; crisis; current; degree; different; donitsa; e.g.; education; education policy; education programme; effectiveness; end; extrinsic; factor; findings; general; guidelines; high; higher; higher education; hours; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.23; importance; induction; initial; institutions; international; intrinsic; israel; items; job; journal; knowledge; learning; level; low; moe; motivations; national; new; oecd; ones; online; participants; pedagogical; percentages; perspectives; policy; preparedness; profession; programme; programs; quality; questionnaire; ramot; research; results; review; satisfaction; schmidt; schmidt education; school; screening; second; self; sense; shortage; similar; student teachers; students; studies; study; system; table; talis; teacher; teacher education; teaching; traditional; training; unemployment; working; year
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- pie-4758
- author: Boothby, Neil; Hart, Anna; Chandler, Hannah; Dupuy, Dominique
- title: Leveraging community-based innovations during COVID-19 to strengthen the Haitian school system
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 7013
- flesch: 39
- summary: Eighty-five per cent of Haitian schools are run by non-governmental actors, and ultimately, it was a subset of these actors that initiated the more promising responses to COVID-19 school closures that addressed not just academic needs but learning adjacent needs as well. Given the large number of Haitian school children who rely on school meals for daily nutrition, school closures leave many children vulnerable to hunger and their parents wondering from where their children’s next meal will come.
- keywords: 2019; 2020; access; actors; adjacent; available; bank; boothby; children; civil; closures; community; comprehensive; countries; country; covid-19; data; days; development; digital; distance; divide; economic; education; education system; example; existing; families; financial; findings; food; gaps; government; haiti; haitian; haitian education; health; high; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.17; impact; income; innovations; internet; interviews; june; key; learners; learning; libre; limited; low; moe; month; mothers; needs; network; ngo; november; nutrition; official; online; pandemic; parents; perspectives; population; private; programme; psychosocial; quality; radio; reach; readiness; realities; research; responses; rural; school; secondary; september; society; state; students; study; support; system; teachers; tuition; world; year
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- pie-4764
- author: none
- title: COVID-19 and the exacerbation of educational inequalities in New Zealand
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 7819
- flesch: 48
- summary: Learning from lockdown: What the experience of teachers, students and parents can tell us about what happened and where to next for New Zealand school system. Sometimes families had separation anxieties post-lockdown or worries about their children mixing with other students because of the impact it might have on the vulnerable members of their extended family (Education Review Office, 2020b).
- keywords: 2020; access; affected; andersen; april; auckland; available; bubble; christchurch; community; contact; couch; country; covid-19; day; devices; different; digital; disadvantaged; divide; economic; education; education review; exacerbation; experiences; families; family; findings; government; greater; hard; health; high; home; hood; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.15; impact; inequalities; internet; lack; learning; leeson; level; lockdown; low; march; materials; minister; ministry; moore; mutch; māori; network; new; new zealand; notes; november; office; online; pandemic; parents; pasifika; people; perspectives; prime; principals; regular; response; review; review office; riwai; schools; schoolwork; social; students; studies; study; support; system; table; teachers; teaching; time; virus; weeks; work; zealand
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- pie-4787
- author: Cheong, Stella Mi-Cheong; Palacios, Rowena; Beye, Kamille; Lang, Adam; Saud, Nar Saud; Tong, Yaobin
- title: Collective autobiographical reflexivity on active and compassionate citizenship in the COVID-19 crisis
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 9326
- flesch: 48
- summary: In the vignettes that follow, we demonstrate the possibility of collective autobiographical reflexivity in citizenship education research, based on six settings: China, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, the USA, Nepal and England. The scholars’ range of autobiographical expressions resulted in insights for developing a type of citizenship education, namely, education for active and compassionate citizenship.
- keywords: 2001; 2012; 2016; 2019; 2020; actions; active; american; anti; approach; article; autobiographical; autobiography; available; cambridge; cheong; china; chinese; citizenship; citizenship education; civic; civic identities; collective; colonial; communities; community; compassionate; compassionate citizenship; concept; context; control; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; crisis; current; democratic; development; different; economic; education; engagement; experiences; foucault; global; government; group; health; help; history; hongik; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.19; https://doi; human; ideals; identities; identity; imagination; individual; inequalities; ingan; insights; journal; kim; korean; life; literature; lives; local; lockdown; london; march; moral; need; nepal; new; nussbaum; oxford; pandemic; peace; people; personal; perspectives; philippines; political; power; press; public; question; racism; reflections; reflexivity; research; respect; response; responsibility; rights; samarajiva; security; self; sense; social; society; sociology; solidarity; starkey; states; structures; students; studies; theory; united; university; value; virus; way; western; work; working; world; writing; wuhan; york; young
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- pie-4791
- author: van Aardt, Linda; Venketsamy, Roy ; Thuketana, Nkhensani Susan; Joubert, Jacomina Christina
- title: The juxtaposition of rights and responsibilities: children’s experiences and perceptions
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 6876
- flesch: 49
- summary: Children are viewed as a person under 18 years of age and children have the right to; a name and nationality, be taken care of, food, a home, health care and social services, be protected, not be detained except as a last resort and not to be used in armed conflict. Child rights manual: Handbook for parliamentarians.
- keywords: 2016; aardt; africa; analysis; artefacts; available; basic; care; childhood; children; clean; comparative; data; department; development; differences; different; diverse; drawing; education; environment; experiences; family; figure; following; food; grade; home; house; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.9; human; joubert; juxtaposition; life; needs; nourishment; participants; perceptions; perspectives; playing; qualitative; research; responsibilities; rights; school; school b; settings; similar; similarities; south; study; sub; table; themes; thuketana; understanding; van; venketsamy; young
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- pie-4792
- author: Jacobs, Lynette; Wimpenny, Katherine; Mitchell, Lize-Marie; Hagenmeier, Cornelius; Beelen, Jos; Hodges, Merle; George, Varkey; DeWinter, Alun; Slambee, Chevon; Obadire, Segun; Viviani, Alessandra; Samuels, Lavern; Jackson, Leolyn; Klamer, Reinout; Adam, Noreen
- title: Adapting a capacity-development-in-higher-education project: Doing, being and becoming virtual collaboration
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 9635
- flesch: 48
- summary: Writing from an insider perspective as project partners, in this paper we draw from appreciative inquiry, using a metaphor of a mosaic as our identity, to first provide the background on the iKudu project before sharing the impact of the pandemic on the project’s adapted approach. We then discuss how alongside the focus of iKudu in the delivery of an internationalised and transformed curriculum using COIL, we have, by our very approach as project partners, adopted the principles of COIL exchange.
- keywords: 2015; 2016; 2020; africa; capacity; clear; coil; collaborative; colleagues; collective; coordinator; core; covid-19; curriculum; data; development; different; education; education project; end; erasmus+; essential; european; exchange; experience; face; focus; global; group; heis; higher; higher education; hit; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.22; ikudu; ikudu project; impact; impala; institutions; international; internationalisation; internationalised; jacobs; knowledge; leadership; learning; life; local; management; meetings; mosaic; need; networks; new; november; online; p11; p13; pandemic; paper; participants; partners; partnerships; people; perspectives; plans; practice; process; project; proposal; relationships; research; san; sense; situation; south; space; strong; students; teaching; team; technology; thinking; time; training; universities; university; virtual; ways; working; world; writing; year
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- pie-48
- author: Francis, Dennis
- title: Editorial
- date: 2010-12-30
- words: 884
- flesch: 32
- summary: Avalos, Téllez & Navarro reviews some of the problems faced by teacher education in general and in Chile specifically, focussing on the effects of six teacher education programmes on pre-service primary level teachers’ learning of mathematics and mathematics pedagogy. In our seventh article, Petersen and Henning addresses the issue of the theory-practice divide in pre-service teacher education from the viewpoint of design-based research (DBR).
- keywords: alant; article; education; essien; geometry; level; mathematics; practice; pre; science; service; students; teachers; teaching; technology; young
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- pie-4805
- author: Kruger, Erika
- title: Adapt or die in the time of a pandemic: Towards a grounded theory of strategic adjustments by an early childhood development training organisation
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 7855
- flesch: 45
- summary: The depth of these relationships facilitated consultation with ECD centre principals to establish the needs at the centres and in the community. ECD centres may be affiliated with a school as a pre-school and/or Grade R. Another option is to establish an ECD centre as a private for-profit business (pre-school, day‐care service, crèche or home‐based care facility) (Jules-Macquet, 2016).
- keywords: 2017; access; african; analysis; available; awareness; business; care; centres; ceptureanu; change; childhood; children; communities; community; covid-19; data; development; early; early childhood; ecce; ecd; ecd centres; economic; education; educators; entrepreneurial; financial; food; formal; general; group; harrison; health; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.10; information; innovative; journal; kruger; leadership; level; literature; lockdown; long; management; march; members; n.d; national; needs; november; npo; npos; open; organisation; pandemic; parents; participants; particular; perspectives; plan; principals; private; processes; programmes; project; quality; relationships; research; resources; results; role; school; sector; service; social; sonja; sound; south; staff; strategic; strong; study; support; sustainability; systems; team; term; themes; theory; thinking; thornberg; time; training; women; work
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- pie-4806
- author: Beckmann, Johan; Reyneke, Mariëtte
- title: COVID-19 challenges to access to education for learners living with severe disabilities: An education law perspective
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 8208
- flesch: 47
- summary: Keywords: Learners living with disabilities; inclusive constructive stakeholder engagement; limiting rights of learners; onus to act; best interests of the child. EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER COMPETING RIGHTS OF LEARNERS LIVING WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES Managing the competing rights of learners living with severe disabilities with the rights of other learners, other disabled learners and the rights of educators requires exceptional wisdom and appropriate management skills.
- keywords: access; act; africa; appropriate; article; available; basic education; beckmann; best; cape; case; challenges; children; constitution; country; court; covid-19; dbe; decisions; department; disabilities; disability; documents; education; education law; educators; engagement; general; government; guidelines; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.8; human; importance; intellectual; interests; january; justice; law; learners; legal; limitation; management; measures; minister; national; needs; new; pandemic; parents; person; perspectives; possible; pretoria; principal; principles; printers; problem; provisions; republic; reyneke; rights; rsa; schools; section; services; severe; severe disabilities; south; south africa; special; stakeholders; state; united; western
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- pie-4808
- author: Ehren, Melanie; Madrid, R. ; Romiti, Sara; Armstrong, P.W.; Fisher, P.; McWhorter, D.L.
- title: Teaching in the COVID-19 era: Understanding the opportunities and barriers for teacher agency
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 7383
- flesch: 35
- summary: The research lab we report on within this paper aimed to develop a better understanding of teacher agency in meeting the challenges of the pandemic and the physical and relational enablers and constraints of their environment. Keywords: COVID-19; distance learning; home-schooling; parent- teacher partnerships; teacher agency.
- keywords: 17th; access; agency; april; armstrong; august; bandura; british; canada; capacity; challenges; change; children; chile; collective; columbia; communication; conditions; constraints; context; countries; country; covid-19; data; development; education; efficacy; ehren; england; environment; era; example; face; families; findings; fisher; high; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.5; individual; italy; lab; learning; level; long; madrid; mcwhorter; ministry; moss; national; netherlands; new; online; ontario; pandemic; parents; participants; personal; perspectives; phase; physical; practice; priestley; primary; professional; profile; pupils; relevant; report; research; response; romiti; school; schooling; secondary; self; skills; social; students; study; support; survey; systems; teacher agency; teachers; teaching; term; theory; time; toronto; understanding; work
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- pie-4816
- author: van der Walt, Johannes (Hannes); Oosthuizen, Izak
- title: The opening and reopening of schools in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: An appraisal from two vantage points
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 8518
- flesch: 51
- summary: It is to be hoped that, in the event of another possible pandemic or state of emergency that might affect schooling in South Africa, and of course also elsewhere, school governing bodies will be allowed the space to act in accordance with their particular sphere of competence (as outlined in the relevant legislation), within the broad guidelines proclaimed by central Government, with the ancillary support and guidance of the relevant provincial departments of education and with the support of all other institutions somehow involved in school education. The parental corps (the parents-in-organisation) Since it would have been difficult for education authorities such as the Department of Basic Education to negotiate with the parents of all the learners in all the schools, the South African Schools Act (SA, 1996b: Section 1, 11 and 16) provides for public participation in the management of public schools in the form of representation on schools’ governing bodies.
- keywords: actions; administration; africa; authority; baijnath; basic; beeld; best; bodies; case; children; citizens; civil; community; competence; complexity; constitution; country; covid-19; crisis; december; decisions; department; der; differentiated; education; emergency; entities; ethic; ethical; fedsas; form; government; gregan; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.3; interests; june; justice; law; learners; legal; legislation; level; life; line; lockdown; march; ministry; new; non; oosthuizen; order; organisation; pandemic; parents; people; perspectives; players; principles; public; relationships; reopening; respect; respective; rights; role; schools; section; situation; social; societal; societal relationships; society; south; south africa; sovereignty; sphere; stakeholders; state; strauss; teachers; terms; theory; university; van; virus; walt; way; work
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- pie-4819
- author: Moloantoa, Kabelo; Geyer, Stephan
- title: Efficacy testing of a work-based support programme for teachers in the North West Province of South Africa
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 7734
- flesch: 48
- summary: The motivation and job satisfaction of secondary school teachers in KwaZulu-Natal: An education management perspective. 208 Research Article 2021 39(2): 208-224 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i2.15 EFFICACY TESTING OF A WORK-BASED SUPPORT PROGRAMME FOR TEACHERS IN THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA ABSTRACT Teachers face increased workplace challenges in South Africa.
- keywords: 2016; actualisation; africa; basic; burnout; challenges; classroom; data; dbe; design; development; different; district; education; efficacy; exposure; face; findings; following; fraser; geyer; group; hierarchy; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.15; important; indiscipline; individual; intervention; involvement; journal; lack; learners; learning; level; management; manual; maslow; materials; moloantoa; needs; new; north; nwpdoe; parental; parents; participants; perspectives; post; potential; pretoria; problems; process; programme; programme manual; province; qualitative; quality; relationships; research; resources; school; self; session; social; south; south africa; step; strategies; study; support; support programme; teachers; teaching; testing; theme; university; wbs; wbs programme; west; work; workplace; workplace challenges
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- pie-4821
- author: Wolhuter, Charste; Jacobs, Lynette
- title: The COVID-19 pandemic: Streamlining or capsizing the global higher education revolution
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 6813
- flesch: 39
- summary: The research agenda of Higher Education scholarship Finally, the disruption that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused in higher education worldwide creates the opportunity to take stock of the higher education research agenda (similar to the exercise done a decade ago by Wolhuter, 2014a), and to adjust this agenda to make higher education an even more relevant and valuable field of scholarship, guiding higher education planners and practitioners through these times. While the most prominent feature of this revolution is massification, it is a multifaceted revolution, involving all aspects of higher education, including the curriculum, methods of teaching and learning, the academic profession, funding, relations between higher education and government and management.
- keywords: 2019; academic; activities; africa; altbach; america; article; assessment; available; bank; c.c; case; cent; century; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; creed; democratisation; development; economic; economic revolution; economies; economy; education; education revolution; expansion; faculty; forces; function; funding; generation; global; global higher; government; growth; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.18; human; ict; institutions; international; internationalisation; jacobs; journal; knowledge; learning; liberal; management; managerialism; massification; neo; new; north; number; online; outbreak; pandemic; parts; past; people; perspectives; population; profession; quality; research; revolution; rights; rise; role; scholarly; sector; service; societal; societies; society; south; students; teaching; time; trend; universities; university; way; wolhuter; world; years
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- pie-4822
- author: none
- title: The learning experience of a visually impaired learner regarding emergency blended teaching and learning at a higher education institution
- date: 2021-03-12
- words: 6924
- flesch: 49
- summary: Such unwelcoming attitudes and environmental settings further intensify the learners’ impairment by rendering such learners unable (disabled) beyond their actual impairments (Johnson, 2003). Also, not much preparation was done to harmonise the Learning Management System with the needs of the visually impaired learners; an implication of major institutional gaps in learner support.
- keywords: 2017; academic; access; approach; blended; blended learning; case; challenges; computer; covid-19; data; different; disabilities; disability; education; environment; eswatini; experience; face; ferreira; findings; following; guide; help; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i1.21; impaired; impairment; infrastructure; instance; institutions; internet; jaws; journal; laptop; learners; learning; learning experience; lecturers; limited; management; material; meyers; moodle; narrative; need; online; online learning; paper; particular; people; performance; perspectives; portal; questions; research; rural; shift; simui; skills; social; software; students; study; support; system; teaching; technology; time; traditional; training; uneswa; university; use; visual; work
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- pie-4837
- author: Mtshali, Muntuwenkosi Abraham
- title: Students’ feelings about the online submission of assignments using Turnitin
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 6140
- flesch: 41
- summary: Design and accomplishment of BS-based supervisory system for student assignment online. The following quote reveals another participant’s feelings about online assignment submission: The online submission of assignments makes my studying difficult because when I submit, it always reports that I have plagiarized my work (J45).
- keywords: 2014; academic; africa; analysis; approach; article; assessment; assignments; batane; bme; business; class; component; creswell; data; education; et al; experience; feedback; feelings; heis; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.9; information; international; journal; large; learning; lecturers; lms; management; methods; online; online submission; paper; participants; perspectives; phenomenography; plagiarism; problem; process; qualitative; research; similarity; software; sources; south; space; students; study; submission; system; teachers; teaching; technology; time; tool; traditional; turnitin; university; use; ways; work; writing; yildirim
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- pie-4867
- author: Ngubane, Nomalungelo
- title: The use of the process approach in South African English First Additional Language classrooms: A discourse analysis
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 6758
- flesch: 58
- summary: It is against this backdrop that this study sought to investigate process approach instruction in which teachers are expected to systematically take learners through writing processes or stages of writing such as pre-writing or planning, drafting, revising and editing before their texts can be published. This implies that in a writing classroom it is actually the teachers’ careful selection and use of effective instructional approaches and teaching strategies that support and move learners progressively towards stronger cognition and comprehension of writing processes and, ultimately, to more independence in their learning process (Carstens, http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i3.11 1422021 39(3): 142-150 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i3.11 Perspectives in Education 2021: 39(3) 2009).
- keywords: activities; additional; african; analysis; approach; badger; brainstorming; cape; classroom; cultural; curriculum; development; discourse; editing; education; efal; english; essay; fet; findings; help; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.11; ideas; instruction; interaction; language; learners; learning; lesson; limited; phase; planning; process; process approach; processes; research; scaffolding; school; second; skills; social; socio; south; stages; study; teacher; teaching; texts; theory; time; topic; university; use; vygotsky; write; writing; writing process
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- pie-4878
- author: Basson, Ilsa; Jankowitz, Mardi
- title: Exploring the school-university mathematics skills gap for Economic Sciences
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 7432
- flesch: 39
- summary: This study aims to investigate this phenomenon, starting with content and Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy analyses of final year school examination papers in mathematics, comparing it with similar analyses of first-year mathematics-based module examinations in the Economic sciences. We did not find examples in the context of the transfer of mathematics skills from secondary school to economic sciences at university level and specifically for distance education.
- keywords: 2011; africa; analysing; analysis; applying; april; assessment; available; basic; basson; bcom; bloom; calculus; commerce; content; creating; curriculum; data; dbe; degrees; department; diagnostic; distance; dsc1520; dsc1630; economic; education; evaluating; examination; example; figure; final; finance; functions; gap; grade; handling; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.4; international; jankowitz; journal; knowledge; learning; level; linear; management; marks; mathematics; mathematics skills; modules; overlapping; paper; percentage; performance; period; perspectives; pre; problem; questions; rbt; remembering; results; revised; school; sciences; secondary; skills; solving; south; students; studies; study; table; taxonomy; technology; tertiary; test; thinking; topics; transition; understanding; unisa; university; university mathematics; year
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- pie-4881
- author: none
- title: Assessing selected teachers' adaptations towards and adolescent-orientated Life Orientation curriculum: A case study
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 6625
- flesch: 45
- summary: Life Orientation teachers to boost situational interest and to provide adolescent learners with an opportunity to expand their language on risky real-life scenarios known to them within a community of practice. This begs the question: how relevant are Life Orientation teachers’ teaching- learning methodologies in developing the South African adolescent’s knowledge, values and skills to mitigate environmental risks as outlined under the topic of social and environmental responsibility?
- keywords: 2017; 2018; 2019; activities; adolescent; adolescent learner; african; aids; approach; challenges; classroom; constructive; context; critical; curriculum; dbe; donald; edition; education; environmental; environmental education; environmental responsibility; experiences; focus; framework; grange; holistic; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.13; https://doi; issues; journal; knowledge; learner; learning; life; life orientation; life skills; live; meaningful; nel; new; orientation; orientation teachers; participants; pedagogy; perspectives; pretoria; principle; qualitative; real; research; responsibility; school; second; skills; social; socio; south; strategies; study; subject; swarts; teachers; teaching; teenage; textbooks; topic; understanding; university; values; van
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- pie-49
- author: Alant, Busisiwe P.
- title: “We cross night”: Some reflections on the role of the ESKOM Expo for Young Scientists as a means of accommodating disadvantaged learners into the field of Science and Technology
- date: 2010-12-31
- words: 4960
- flesch: 52
- summary: As shown below, black learners feature in no more than 12 of the 35 categories: Category 1: Meiring Naude Award – two black learners over a period of 20 years• Category 6: ESKOM - Best Rural Project – all black learners• Category 8: ESKOM Best Development Project – all black learners• Category 14: The Royal Aeronautical Society of South Africa – one black learner• 3 It is argued that the institution of the ESKOM Expo, while undoubtedly useful as a means of opening up young learners’ horizons of science and technology, is still not sufficiently flexible, both at a conceptual and an organisational level, for it to be the vehicle of technological empowerment it is intended to be.
- keywords: action; africa; alant; article; awards; black; bourdieu; categories; category; critical; culture; development; disadvantaged; durban; education; eskom; eskom expo; ethnography; experiences; expo; expositions; framework; hammarsdale; language; learners; local; madison; mathematics; means; models; narrative; national; nene; night; number; participation; particular; period; perspectives; picture; positionality; power; practices; presentation; pretoria; project; research; role; rural; school; science; scientists; sibusiso; south; technological; technology; understanding; university; use; vehicle; volume; ways; young; young scientists
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- pie-4912
- author: Coetzee, Wilma
- title: Determining the needs of introductory statistics university students: A qualitative survey study
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 6720
- flesch: 49
- summary: The comments of the students touched on similar topics that are being addressed internationally regarding the instruction and assessment of statistics students; therefore, it will be sensible to implement these recommendations in future. (2015) advocate the conception-focused curriculum to introduce statistics students to the “real world”.
- keywords: 2014; academic; active; african; analysis; assessment; better; carlo; class; coetzee; content; data; education; enjoyment; field; figure; focus; frequent; gaise; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.15; important; introductory; journal; learning; lecturer; management; method; modules; monte; needs; participants; performance; perspectives; probability; qualitative; questions; real; recommendations; report; research; respondents; sample; saturation; set; simulations; size; south; statistics; students; studies; study; survey; teaching; themes; time; tran; understanding; university; use; voice; way; wood; work
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- pie-4916
- author: Abraham, Reina
- title: Turning constraints into opportunities: Online delivery of communication skills simulation sessions to undergraduate medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 7417
- flesch: 37
- summary: As remotely facilitated simulation-based training http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.5 592021 39(4): 59-71 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.5 Abraham Online delivery of communication skills simulation sessions involves complex interactions, assessing important requirements for learner engagement with remotely facilitated communication skills simulation in medical education is necessary to provide educators with a better understanding of the processes for adapting technology to learning. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.5 632021 39(4): 63-71 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.5 Abraham Online delivery of communication skills simulation sessions Of all the respondents, 79% perceived the ease of use of the online simulation teaching session indicating that it provided a user-friendly platform that allowed facilitators, SPs and students to navigate through easily and skilfully.
- keywords: 2003; 2015; abraham; acceptance; access; christensen; clinical; cognitive; communication; communication skills; consultation; covid-19; cues; data; debriefing; delivery; education; effective; engagement; et al; experience; face; face communication; facilitated; facilitated simulation; facilitators; feedback; health; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.5; internet; journal; learners; learning; medical; medical education; methods; need; non; online; online simulation; pandemic; participants; patient; perceptions; person; person face; perspectives; pilot; platform; play; possible; previous; questions; reasoning; remote; respondents; role; scenario; session; simulated; simulation; skills; skills simulation; skills training; social; sps; students; study; survey; teacher; teaching; technology; time; training; tutors; understanding; use; verbal; video; year; zoom
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- pie-4953
- author: Nieuwenhuis, Jan
- title: Editorial
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 1114
- flesch: 49
- summary: Perspectives in Education is proud to include a number of international articles in the journal and in the planning for 2021 you will find this dimension growing in importance in the journal. i EDITORIAL The current issue is a unique collection of articles covering school and higher education, and can be divided into three broad themes: higher education, teaching and learning and teacher professional development.
- keywords: articles; butterfly; changes; chaos; childhood; curriculum; development; early; education; effect; gleick; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.ed; leadership; learning; lorenz; perspectives; professional; school; teachers; teaching; van; wellbeing
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- pie-4954
- author: Beckmann, J
- title: “Restorative school discipline: The law and practice”
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 3880
- flesch: 44
- summary: After 1994, the concept of alternatives to corporal punishment (ATCP) became very fashionable and the idea of replacing punitive or retributive punishment with restorative school discipline started enjoying wide support. However, both ATCP and the then efforts to introduce and inculcate the notion of restorative school discipline did not seem to have much impact on disciplinary problems in schools which, if anything, became increasingly problematic.
- keywords: approach; authors; book; chapter; concepts; corporal; disciplinary; discipline; education; educators; fact; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.23; implementation; important; justice; knowledge; law; learners; legal; misconduct; new; people; policy; possible; practices; problems; process; punishment; reference; restorative; restorative discipline; restorative justice; restorative school; review; role; school; school discipline; social; stakeholders; work
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- pie-4955
- author: Speight Vaugh, Melissa; de Beer, Josef
- title: Contextualising science and mathematics teacher professional development in rural areas
- date: 2020-12-03
- words: 6158
- flesch: 44
- summary: Similar to Jautse, Thambe and De Beer (2016), we allude to the fact that a “third partner” is needed in the value chain between schools and university teacher training to effectively prepare science teachers for a complex 21st century. Keywords: Teacher professional development; contextualised curriculum; indigenous knowledge; rural areas; science and citizenship education.
- keywords: 2009; 2012; 2016; affordances; africa; approach; areas; beer; case; classroom; cognition; community; constructivism; contextualising; cultural; culture; curriculum; cycle; data; department; design; development; district; education; environment; ethnobotanical; farm; foundation; hantam; holders; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v38.i2.14; indigenous; indigenous knowledge; inquiry; intervention; johannesburg; journal; khoi; knowledge; learners; learning; life; local; mathematics; museum; nature; needs; paper; participants; perspectives; phase; plants; professional; professional development; qualitative; region; research; rural; sampling; san; schools; science; science education; self; situated; slp; social; south; speight; stem; study; teacher professional; teachers; technology; university; van; views; work
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- pie-4971
- author: Kibirige, Israel; Odora, Ronald James
- title: Exploring the effects of YouTube on technology education students’ cognitive achievement in a mechanical system module
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 6492
- flesch: 49
- summary: Thus, this study’s findings suggest that YouTube videos and related quality multimedia learning materials will continue to play a significant role in serving the needs of 21st century students. 3.2 Limitations of YouTube-based instruction Based on research by Liimatta (2015) on the use of online YouTube videos in the classroom, one of the limitations is that YouTube does not always allow students to communicate with their instructors. This study explored students’ cognitive achievement in a technology mechanical system module using YouTube videos compared to Microsoft PowerPoint (MPP).
- keywords: 2000; 2005; 2017; achievements; better; cambridge; classroom; clips; coding; cognitive; cohen; content; control; data; design; difference; dual; education; effects; experimental; female; gain; gender; group; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.8; https://doi; hydraulic; instruction; journal; kasch; kibirige; knowledge; learning; lecture; males; mayer; mean; mechanical; microsoft; module; mpp; multimedia; odora; online; performance; perspectives; post; powerpoint; pre; presentations; psychology; quasi; research; researchers; results; science; scores; sided; significant; slides; students; studies; study; system; table; teaching; technology; test; theory; use; value; videos; visual; words; youtube; youtube videos
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- pie-5
- author: Maree, Kobus
- title: Editorial: Reflecting on 16 years of freedom in South African education - from hopeless to hopeful?
- date: 2017-05-16
- words: 2449
- flesch: 42
- summary: In the leading contribution, Searching for a “pedagogy of hope”: teacher education and the social sciences, M ichael Samuel (2010) analyses module outlines within a particular school of social sciences in a faculty of education. Samuel (2010) contends that the social sciences in teacher education tend to capitulate to external dominant forces and that little evidence exists of engaging with a critical discourse around the potential of teacher education.
- keywords: achievement; activities; africa; article; authors; children; contributions; critical; editor; education; educators; faculty; families; field; hope; inclusive; intact; issues; learning; mathematics; monitoring; new; parents; pedagogy; perceptions; perspectives; pie; reading; religious; role; schools; sciences; sensitive; social; south; study; support; systems; teacher; thinking; visualisation; volume; years
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- pie-50
- author: Avalos, Beatrice; Téllez, Francisco; Navarro, Silvia
- title: Learning about the effectiveness of teacher education: A Chilean study
- date: 2010-12-31
- words: 5209
- flesch: 43
- summary: Recognising these conflicting views about teacher education and the lack of recent evidence about how teacher education programmes are performing in Chile, we decided to examine six programmes in the context of the IEA TEDS-M1 (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement Teacher Education Development study –Mathematics) in which Chile participates. In Chile the unregulated growth of teacher education programmes in private universities and the mushrooming of distance programmes of doubtful quality have raised concerns about the quality and effectiveness of these programmes.
- keywords: arenas; avalos; basic; beliefs; better; case; changes; chile; conceptual; content; curriculum; development; differences; education; educators; effectiveness; effects; experiences; field; final; final year; focus; future; future teachers; group; institutions; international; items; knowledge; learning; level; mathematics; mathematics content; mathematics pedagogy; methods; numbers; opportunity; paper; pedagogy; perspectives; practicum; preparation; programmes; punta; quality; research; results; santiago; school; students; studies; study; teacher; teacher education; teaching; time; topics; universities; university; year; zeichner
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- pie-5080
- author: Motsoeneng, Thabiso Jonah; Nichols, Henry James; Makhasane, Sekitla Daniel
- title: Challenges faced by rural accounting teachers in implementing web-based collaborative learning
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 7407
- flesch: 44
- summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i3.7 812021 39(3): 81-93 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i3.7 Motsoeneng, Nichols & Makhasane Challenges faced by rural accounting teachers 4. LITERATURE REVIEW: INSIGHTS ABOUT CHALLENGES FACED BY ACCOUNTING TEACHERS In seeking to understand the challenges faced by accounting teachers in the implementation of web-based collaborative learning, we position this paper within the context of larger debates about challenges encountered by teachers in using ICT and learner-centred pedagogical practices. The findings reveal that accounting teachers are faced with myriad challenges that serve as a stumbling block in their attempt to implement web-based collaborative learning.
- keywords: 2010; 2012; 2013; 2017; 2019; access; accounting; accounting teachers; active; active learning; african; approach; caps; car; case; challenges; classroom; collaborative; collaborative learning; critical; curriculum; dbe; dissertation; education; effective; environment; findings; fourth; framework; grade; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.7; ict; implementation; information; journal; knowledge; lack; large; learners; learning; management; master; methods; paper; participants; perspectives; pretoria; process; qualitative; research; resources; role; rural; school; skills; social; south; study; support; teachers; teaching; teaching tools; technological; technology; time; tools; traditional; traditional teaching; training; understanding; university; unpublished; use; web
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- pie-5081
- author: Helmbold, Erika; Venketsamy, Roy; van Heerden, Judy
- title: Implementing Lesson Study as a professional development approach for early grade teachers: A South African case study
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 6437
- flesch: 44
- summary: Through Lesson Study discussions, participants naturally re-examined their beliefs in three particular schools of thought, namely the genetic predisposition of mathematical ability in learners developed through incidental teaching, the need for method-based teaching and the effects of teaching with a problem-solving approach. We recommend that further research be undertaken to ascertain the longevity of the impact on participants, the influence of the role of the facilitator in the Lesson Study process and the benefits of Lesson Study collaboration, not only across different school grades, but across school phases.
- keywords: 2011; 2013; 2015; 2020; africa; approach; available; awareness; case; challenges; collaborative; communication; concepts; conceptual; content; curriculum; cycle; data; demonstration; development; different; discussion; early; education; evidence; flow; general; goal; grade; group; heerden; helmbold; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.14; ideas; impact; improved; journaling; knowledge; learners; learning; lesson; lesson study; level; mathematics; maths; motivated; new; participants; personal; perspectives; planning; potential; practices; pre; problem; process; professional; questionnaire; reflective; research; resources; school; sessions; solving; south; study; teachers; teaching; time; understanding; van; venketsamy; way; week; white
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- pie-51
- author: van Putten, Sonja; Howie, Sarah; Stols, Gerrit
- title: Making Euclidean geometry compulsory: Are we prepared?
- date: 2010-12-31
- words: 5119
- flesch: 57
- summary: The value of geometry and the associated proof construction is affirmed by Hanna (1998: 5): Further evidence of the importance accorded to proof in school geometry is the benefit which it is expected to bring beyond the borders of that subject. Making Euclidean geometry compulsory: Are we prepared? SONjA VAN PuTTEN, SArAH HOWiE, GErriT STOLS university of Pretoria, 012 420 5657, 012 420 5723, 012 420 5750, sonja.vanputten@up.ac.za, sarah.howie@ up.ac.za, gerrit.stols@up.ac.za
- keywords: able; achievement; african; attitude; compulsory; course; curriculum; development; education; euclidean; euclidean geometry; fact; geometric; geometry; grade; group; hiele; hiele levels; instruction; intervention; interviewee; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; level; mathematics; mathematics education; module; optional; paper; place; pme; post; pre; pretoria; proof; putten; questions; research; results; school; secondary; south; students; study; subject; teachers; terms; test; theory; thinking; understanding; university; van; van hiele; year
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- pie-5126
- author: Govender, Nalini; Reddy, Poovendhree; Bhagwan, Raisuyah
- title: Academic and psychosocial challenges of Health Sciences students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A University of Technology perspective
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 9124
- flesch: 49
- summary: Keywords: Academic challenges; psychosocial challenges; university students; COVID-19; remote learning; mental health. Its exponential growth resulted in a spectrum of psychological aftermath, especially amongst university students (Liu et al., 2020).
- keywords: 2020; academic; access; africa; analysis; anxiety; approach; areas; associated; bhagwan; campus; challenges; connectivity; contact; context; countries; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; data; depression; difficult; disruption; education; environment; et al; experiences; face; family; fears; feeling; financial; good; govender; health; hedding; higher; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.5; impact; international; internet; isolated; issues; journal; lack; learning; level; life; limited; lockdown; medical; mental; need; network; online; online learning; pandemic; participants; personal; perspectives; poor; population; prevalence; progress; psychological; psychosocial; public; qualitative; rapid; readiness; reddy; related; research; rural; sampling; sciences; sciences students; south; stress; students; study; sub; support; system; teaching; technology; terms; thematic; theme; time; understanding; universities; university; university students; wellbeing; work
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- pie-5136
- author: Maphalala, Mncedisi Christian; Khumalo, Nontobeko Prudence; Khumalo, Ntombenhle Primrose
- title: Student teachers’ experiences of the emergency transition to online learning during the Covid-19 lockdown at a South African university
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 7193
- flesch: 48
- summary: In employing technology, lecturers could diversify the way they present lectures, provide additional information and improve student learning (Aljawarneh, 2020). It is thus seen as having a positive effect on student learning.
- keywords: 2015; 2020; academics; acceptance; access; african; assessment; challenges; conditions; content; covid-19; data; difficult; digital; discussion; divide; education; emergency; experiences; face; findings; focus; following; group; higher; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.4; information; institutions; interaction; internet; journal; khumalo; knowledge; learning; lecturers; living; lms; lockdown; management; maphalala; model; moodle; number; online; online learning; pandemic; participant; pedagogical; perspectives; prof; proficiency; quality; research; south; students; study; support; system; tam; teachers; teaching; technology; time; tools; transition; unfavourable; universities; university; use; virtual; work
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- pie-5149
- author: Rwodzi, Christopher; De Jager, Lizette
- title: Remote learning as an option by resilient English teachers in Gauteng resource-constrained secondary schools
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 8921
- flesch: 39
- summary: In support of the adaptive resilience of English teachers during adverse conditions, Bates (2018) and Altavilla (2020) strongly recommend English second language teachers’ need to understand that their roles have dramatically changed in comparison to the traditional system. In view of the curriculum requirements, English second language teachers are expected to take up initiatives and use digital technology to deliver lessons remotely.
- keywords: 2019; 2020; academic; access; addition; africa; availability; available; challenges; circumstances; cloud; collaboration; communication; competence; conditions; connection; connectivity; content; contexts; coronavirus; covid-19; crisis; curriculum; data; devices; different; digital; digital literacy; digital platforms; digital technology; discussions; education; emergency; emergency remote; english; english language; english teachers; environment; experiences; gauteng; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.6; human; information; initiatives; integration; jager; journal; knowledge; language; language teachers; learners; learning; learning programme; learning strategies; literacy; media; model; need; new; online; opportunities; participants; pedagogical; perspectives; place; platforms; practices; process; proficiency; programme; reading; remote; remote learning; remote teaching; research; resilient; resilient english; resource; rwodzi; schools; second; secondary; selected; situations; skills; social; south; state; strategies; students; study; support; tasks; teachers; teaching; technological; technology; tools; township; tpack; use
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- pie-5178
- author: Kadenge, Emure
- title: A district beginner teacher induction initiative in South Africa: The pressure and support contestation
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 6974
- flesch: 40
- summary: It focuses on how the idea of beginner teacher induction is conceptualised by examining the district induction programme’s teaching form and foci. While it is apparent that beginner teacher induction is being prioritised due to the pressing need for South African teacher professional development initiatives to work more towards developing and strengthening a repertoire of sound instructional practices.
- keywords: accountability; activities; africa; anderson; approach; beginner; beginner teacher; beginning; classroom; context; data; departments; development; diko; district; district beginner; district officials; education; educators; effective; findings; form; framework; government; hours; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.16; implementation; induction; induction programme; ingersoll; initiative; instructional; kadenge; key; knowledge; learner; learning; literature; local; management; new; officials; paper; pedagogical; perspectives; policy; practices; pressure; principals; procedures; professional; programme; public; purposes; quality; research; role; schools; section; service; sessions; smith; south; south africa; study; support; tdu; teacher; teacher induction; teaching; understanding; wong; workshops
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- pie-5182
- author: Norodien-Fataar, Najwa
- title: Lecturers' accounts of their curriculum practices at a university of technology
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 7024
- flesch: 50
- summary: Keywords: Curriculum practices; lecturer agency; reflexivity; teaching and research. Curriculum practices are defined in this article as the systematic organisation of teaching and learning based on practices to improve student learning (Morrow, 2007).
- keywords: academic; accounts; african; agency; approaches; article; autonomy; beliefs; bourdieu; centre; concept; context; courses; critical; crucial; curriculum; curriculum practices; data; degree; development; doxa; education; engagement; fataar; field; focus; game; habitus; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.17; illusio; individuals; institutions; knowledge; learning; lecturers; marketing; need; norodien; participant; pedagogical; perspectives; positions; practical; practices; programmes; reflexive; reflexivity; relation; research; role; social; south; staff; strategies; structures; students; study; support; teaching; technology; understanding; university; uot; use; values; work
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- pie-5189
- author: Potgieter, Erika; van der Walt, Marthie
- title: Puppetry as a pedagogy of play in the Intermediate Phase mathematics classroom: A case study
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 7762
- flesch: 43
- summary: The results show that, although learners often deem mathematics “mundane” and “unexciting”, puppetry allowed the participant’s learners (according to his reflections) to experience this subject as enjoyable and creative, encouraging participation and liveliness, as the puppet was considered a peer in teaching-learning. Mathematics is a key requirement for most disciplines in higher education and enables learners to be productive and effective citizens after school (Esan, 2015; Hassan & Rahman, 2017).
- keywords: 2017; 2019; 21st; action; affective; africa; analysis; approach; awareness; case; century; classroom; content; creative; curriculum; data; der; different; education; endeavours; experiences; figure; following; framework; games; goals; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.10; intermediate; intermediate phase; intervention; john; journal; kallio; knowledge; learners; learning; lesson; mathematics; meaningful; metacognitive; metacognitive awareness; monitoring; new; participant; pedagogy; performance; perspectives; phase; phase mathematics; planning; play; pop; potgieter; praxis; problem; prompts; puppetry; puppets; reflection; report; research; school; schraw; science; self; skills; social; south; strategies; study; task; teachers; teaching; teachinglearning; theoretical; thinking; topic; understanding; use; van; vygotsky; walt
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- pie-52
- author: Essien, Anthony A.
- title: What teacher educators consider as best practices in preparing pre-service teachers for teaching Mathematics in multilingual classrooms
- date: 2010-12-31
- words: 6489
- flesch: 51
- summary: What teacher educators consider as best practices in preparing pre-service teachers for teaching Mathematics in multilingual classrooms ANTHONy A. ESSiEN Marang Centre for Maths and Science Education, university of the Witwatersrand, South Africa anthony.essien@wits.ac.za Author’s mailing address: Anthony A. Essien ADDrESS: P. O. Box 453, Wits, 2050, SOuTH AFriCA OFFiCE: +27-11-717-3408; This paper reports on an investigation into what teacher educators consider to be best practices in how to prepare pre-service teachers to effectively deal with the challenges of teaching Mathematics in multilingual contexts, and how what teacher educators consider as best practices inform their own classroom practice.
- keywords: 2002; access; africa; afrikaans; awareness; barwell; best; case; classrooms; code; concepts; context; country; different; education; educators; english; environment; essien; excerpt; home; important; institutions; journal; language; learners; learning; linguistic; mathematics; multilingual; multilingual classrooms; multilingual mathematics; nature; need; perspectives; practices; pre; research; school; service; service teachers; setati; south; students; study; switching; teacher; teacher educators; teaching; tes; trust; universities; university; use
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- pie-5249
- author: Motsa, Ncamsile Daphne
- title: COVID-19: Understanding and responding to the educational implications for the vulnerable children of Eswatini
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 6693
- flesch: 41
- summary: Child vulnerability in Eswatini is mostly attributed to child poverty and the very high number of HIV/AIDS deaths experienced by the country for over three (3) decades (Swaziland Ministry of Health, 2017). Keywords: COVID-19; intersectionality; schools; social justice; vulnerable children; Eswatini.
- keywords: 2010; 2021; access; affected; children; complex; coronavirus; country; covid-19; crenshaw; daily; development; different; disparities; economic; education; effective; effects; equitable; eswatini; experiences; framework; gaynor; goals; government; groups; health; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.3; identities; implications; inclusive; inequalities; intersectionality; journal; justice; kingdom; learners; life; means; mkhatshwa; motsa; national; needs; new; pandemic; perspectives; policies; policy; poor; poverty; processes; research; restrictions; review; schools; social; spaces; studies; success; support; swaziland; systems; teaching; time; understanding; vulnerability; vulnerable; vulnerable children; ways; wilson
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- pie-5258
- author: Donitsa-Schmidt, Smadar; Ramot, Rony; Topaz, Beverley
- title: Shaping the future of distance learning in teacher education: MOOCS during COVID-19
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 8346
- flesch: 49
- summary: The guarded type (N=84) The pragmatic type (N=38) Figure 1: K-means cluster analysis of perceived usefulness of MOOCs in ITE Students were also asked how they perceived the importance of MOOCs studies in times of emergency such as COVID-19. The cumulative impact of studying several MOOCs within an ITE programme is a central finding of the current research, highlighting the effect of experiencing several courses.
- keywords: 2014; 2016; 2019; 2020; alternative; analysis; assessment; content; convenience; courses; covid-19; crisis; current; degree; design; development; digital; donitsa; education; effect; emergency; experience; experts; factors; findings; future; good; guarded; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.15; impact; importance; independent; institutions; international; israel; ite; items; journal; knowledge; learner; learning; lifelong; massive; means; model; moocs; new; online; online courses; open; outcomes; p<.001; pandemic; participants; perspectives; positive; pragmatic; pre; previous; professional; profiles; programmes; proportion; purpose; quality; ramot; research; review; role; satisfaction; schmidt; self; service; significant; students; studies; study; table; teacher; teacher education; teaching; times; topaz; total; type; usefulness; variables; varied; variety; zealous
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- pie-5265
- author: Carstens, Adelia; Rambiritich, Avasha
- title: Directiveness in tutor talk
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 7523
- flesch: 53
- summary: We believe that theory-led empirical research on tutor approaches and actions is necessary to demonstrate the situation-dependent efficacy of directive approaches and thereby dispel the myth that a peer role is preferred to a teacherly role. This paper attempts to start filling the research gaps related to directiveness as a graded strategy by responding to the following question: How can micro- and macro-pragmatic analyses of writing centre consultations inform our appraisal of the notion of directiveness in tutor talk?
- keywords: 1976; act; actions; acts; analysis; approaches; austin; background; belief; cambridge; cap; carstens; case; categories; center; centre; constative; consultations; data; directive; directiveness; education; essay; event; expression; hands; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.12; illocutionary; instructing; introduction; journal; laughter; level; linguistic; literature; mey; non; notion; order; particular; peer; perspectives; point; pragmatic; press; question; rambiritch; reigstad; research; role; searle; sentence; speaker; speech; statement; stick; strategies; student; study; table; talk; telling; terms; theories; theory; thesis; turn; tutor; tutoring; understanding; university; use; utterances; verbal; video; work; writing; writing centre
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- pie-5274
- author: Omidire, Margaret Funke; Aluko, Folake Ruth
- title: Academic and institutional readiness towards e-Learning to inform policy and practice in an evolving post-school education sector
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 9387
- flesch: 48
- summary: In addition, Maphalala and Adigun (2021) decry the deficits of e-Learning policies in many African higher education institutions, and a lack of technical and administrative support for staff for the implementation and use of e-Learning facilities. Hence, the research question that guided our study was, “In what ways can the readiness of educators for e-Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic inform our knowledge on e-Learning policies, strategies and practices in an evolving PSET sector?”
- keywords: 2018; 2020; 2021; academic; addition; affordances; african; aluko; approach; assessment; available; challenges; communication; coronavirus; covid-19; data; development; distance; diverse; earlier; education; educators; effective; environment; experience; extent; factors; faculty; findings; higher; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.4; https://doi; ict; impact; implementation; implications; individual; information; institutions; journal; july; knowledge; lack; learning; learning policies; lecturers; lockdown; management; mode; need; new; omidire; online; pandemic; participants; people; perspectives; phd; place; policies; policy; post; practices; prepared; prior; pset; readiness; ready; research; response; role; sector; staff; strategies; students; study; support; systems; teaching; technologies; technology; theme; theory; time; training; university; use; user; wellbeing; work
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- pie-5277
- author: Mutongoza, Bonginkosi Hardy; Olawale, Babawande Emmanuel
- title: Safeguarding academic integrity in the face of emergency remote teaching and learning in developing countries
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 7420
- flesch: 40
- summary: Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that to guarantee the authenticity of online assessment, institutions must ensure that assessment practices relate to real-world needs and the context in which students can apply acquired knowledge. Keywords: Academic dishonesty; academic integrity; COVID-19; higher education institutions; online assessment; online learning.
- keywords: 2014; ability; academic; academic integrity; approach; assessment; assessment practices; assessment security; challenges; cheating; context; countries; covid-19; data; digital; dishonesty; domain; eaton; education; effectiveness; emergency; et al; exams; face; findings; gamage; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.14; information; institutions; integrity; international; issues; journal; knowledge; koseler; lack; learning; lecturer; methods; misconduct; mixed; mutongoza; new; olawale; online; online assessment; online learning; ozkan; pandemic; paradigm; participants; perspectives; phase; practices; qualitative; questions; remote; research; result; security; social; software; strategies; students; study; systems; teaching; technologies; transition; universities; university; use; work; world
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- pie-5278
- author: Singh, Upasana G; Watson, Rashmi; Nair, Chenicheri Sid
- title: Across continents: A comparison of African and Australian academics' online preparedness
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 8898
- flesch: 37
- summary: A combination of regular and timely communication between academics and students, along with an interactive and actively engaging course design, online students can be more effectively engaged, supported and encouraged to persist within the online learning environment (Stone & Springer, 2019). However, in Australia students also had difficulties with connectivity and this could be due to the higher level of usage which is costly, and most students have limited budgets.
- keywords: 2019; 2021; academics; access; adoption; africa; arrangements; assessment; australia; australian academics; available; average; blended; capital; challenges; colleagues; communication; comparison; connectivity; continents; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; delivery; digital; education; effective; environment; face; factors; figure; framework; higher; higher education; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.3; impact; infrastructure; institutions; internet; journal; khan; learning; lectures; lms; mean; methods; moodle; nair; need; number; online; online learning; online teaching; p<.0005; pandemic; pedagogical; pedagogy; perspectives; preparedness; prior; private; quality; rating; readiness; remote; research; respondents; results; significant; singh; social; staff; students; study; support; teaching; technological; technologies; technology; test; tools; training; university; watson; wfh; whatsapp; working; zoom
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- pie-5285
- author: Steyn, Raita; Sefotho, Maximus Monaheng
- title: Challenging vision in visual arts in the South African sociocultural context
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 7415
- flesch: 40
- summary: 187 Research Article 2021 39(4): 187-201 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.13 Published by the UFS http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/pie © Creative Commons With Attribution (CC-BY) CHALLENGING VISION IN VISUAL ARTS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT ABSTRACT This conceptual article is anchored on critical phenomenology to challenge the monopolisation of visual arts by the sense of vision, thus depriving visually impaired people of aesthetic value beyond ordinary cognitive faculties. In her words, “... it has become increasingly evident that art history has largely been thrown into disarray, leaving its practitioners polarised in the debate concerning the scope of [the] object of study – visual art – and the methodological assumptions that have traditionally underpinned its strategies.
- keywords: 2007; 2019; abilities; abled; academic; aesthetic; african; approach; art; article; artistic; artists; arts; artworks; available; awareness; basic; blind; challenge; challenging; concepts; conceptual; context; creative; criteria; critical; culture; curriculum; decision; department; design; designers; development; different; direct; disability; eco; eds; education; established; exhibition; existence; experience; factors; figure; form; hephapreneurship; history; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.13; ideas; impaired; impairment; importance; inclusion; inclusive; inclusiveness; infinity; innovative; jung; lauwrens; learning; making; mind; need; new; people; persons; perspectives; positive; practice; pretoria; problems; process; project; public; research; risk; sefotho; senses; sight; social; sociocultural; south; stage; standards; steyn; students; study; thinking; touch; value; viewpoint; vision; visual; visual arts; world
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- pie-5287
- author: Ferreira-Meyers, Karen
- title: The need for revision of selected aspects of online Master's and doctoral student supervision
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 8504
- flesch: 45
- summary: The need for revision of selected aspects of online supervision Spanning three continents, including Africa, Stevens et al.’s 2021 study entitled “Doctoral supervision and COVID-19: Autoethnographies from four faculty across three continents” gave four faculty members the opportunity to write an auto-ethnography of their experience as doctoral student supervisors. The few studies highlighted above are an indication of the need for additional studies on different aspects of doctoral study supervision before, during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
- keywords: 2015; 2019; academic; africa; aspects; available; candidates; case; challenges; change; cohort; communication; course; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; data; defence; digital; distance; doctoral; doctoral students; doctoral supervision; education; email; experiences; face; ferreira; frequency; health; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.17; impact; information; interaction; international; journal; learning; main; master; means; meetings; meyers; need; new; number; online; online supervision; pandemic; participants; particular; perspectives; phd; possible; postgraduate; progress; quality; questions; rate; regular; related; relationship; research; respondents; responses; revision; sampling; skype; social; south; start; students; studies; study; supervisee; supervision; supervisors; survey; teaching; technologies; thesis; time; tools; universities; university; use; videoconferencing; way; work; world; zoom
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- pie-5291
- author: Phejane, Mojaesi Violet
- title: “The new normal”: A case study on the emergent transition towards online teaching and learning in internal medicine and anaesthesiology at the University of the Free State
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 7835
- flesch: 41
- summary: As a result, lecture contact sessions are insufficient for student learning and should be supplemented with self-study time to achieve learning outcomes. To meet the new needs of student learning in challenging situations, lecturers can provide interactive activities such as quizzes and surveys to allow students and lecturers to interact.
- keywords: academic; access; activities; african; alternative; anaesthesiology; assessment; available; blackboard; case; challenges; communication; connections; connectivism; course; covid-19; data; devices; digital; disadvantaged; divide; downes; education; effective; emergency; emergent; environment; evaluation; experiences; face; free; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.10; information; institutions; internal; internet; issues; jena; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; lecturers; lms; materials; medicine; menon; methods; miam5810; module; motala; mpungose; need; new; normal; online; online learning; online teaching; pandemic; perspectives; platforms; practicals; principles; rayner; remote; research; resources; responses; self; siemens; skills; social; south; state; students; study; teaching; technology; time; traditional; transition; ufs; university; use; webb
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- pie-5297
- author: Reddy, Tanita; Woest, Yolandi
- title: The influence of learner behaviour on beginner teachers’ perceptions of their own credibility
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 6466
- flesch: 44
- summary: However, exploring teachers’ own perceptions of their credibility through the observation of learner behaviour may prove to be meaningful to teacher credibility. These modifications in lessons and behaviour influenced beginner teachers’ perceptions of their own credibility, which was conceptualised using four main dimensions: immediacy, trustworthiness, competence and dynamism.
- keywords: 2000; 2010; 2017; beginner; beginner teachers; behaviour; classroom; communication; competence; content; credibility; data; dimensions; discipline; dynamism; education; emotional; emotions; feedback; findings; form; freeman; haskins; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.8; identities; immediacy; important; influence; instructional; interest; intermediate; interview; journal; june; knowledge; language; learner behaviour; learners; learning; lessons; mccroskey; mehrabian; methods; model; motivation; need; nonverbal; observations; participants; perceptions; perspectives; phase; policies; positive; reddy; research; responses; schools; situations; south; student; study; teachers; teaching; teven; theme; trustworthiness; university; use; van; woest
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- pie-5298
- author: Themane, Mahlapahlapana Johannes; Mabasa, Layane Thomas
- title: Epistemic access and success of historically disadvantaged students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A South African experience
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 10947
- flesch: 50
- summary: Student access and success: Issues and interventions in South African universities. Student access and success in South African higher education institutions.
- keywords: 2014; 2017; ability; able; academic; access; administrative; adversity; africa; analysis; assessment; backgrounds; badat; case; category; challenges; concept; connectivity; context; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; cross; data; department; different; difficult; disadvantaged; disadvantaged students; education; epistemic; epistemic access; epistemological; example; experience; factors; findings; group; help; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.2; https://doi; implications; important; individual; internet; journal; knowledge; lack; learning; lecturers; limpopo; literature; mabasa; need; network; online; order; pandemic; paper; participants; peer; perspectives; physical; policies; policy; process; qualitative; question; research; resilience; resources; review; role; sampling; school; self; social; south; staff; strategies; strategy; students; studies; study; success; support; system; teaching; terms; themane; themes; theory; time; training; transformation; understanding; universities; university; use; ways; white; work; working; writing
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- pie-53
- author: Olivier, Tilla; de Lange, Naydene; Wood, Lesley
- title: Using participatory video to explore teachers’ lived experiences
- date: 2010-12-31
- words: 5080
- flesch: 54
- summary: Using participatory video to explore teachers’ lived experiences TiLLA OLiViEr, NAyDENE DE LANGE & LESLEy WOOD Faculty of Education research Technology and innovation unit Nelson Mandela Metropolitan university South Campus P O Box 77000 POrT ELiZABETH 6031 Keywords: participatory visual methodologies; research as intervention; participatory video; agency; pastoral role Introduction “Together we can make a difference” are the words used by one group of teachers to conclude their short video.
- keywords: approach; audience; challenges; change; clandinin; community; composite; connelly; curriculum; discussion; education; educators; experience; freire; home; inquiry; issues; journal; knowledge; lange; learners; learning; lived; methodologies; methods; mitchell; narrative; new; oaks; olivier; opportunity; participants; participatory; participatory video; pastoral; perspectives; practice; press; primary; process; production; project; qualitative; research; researchers; role; sage; school; social; south; teachers; teaching; text; understanding; video; visual; voices; way; work; york
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- pie-5301
- author: Aina, Adebunmi Yetunde; Ogegbo, Ayodele Abosede
- title: Investigating TVET college educators’ experiences while transitioning from the traditional classroom to the virtual classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 7509
- flesch: 40
- summary: In line with Parlakkilic’s (2017) finding regarding the use of virtual learning, this present study seeks to explore and describe TVET college educators’ experiences regarding virtual classrooms during the COVID-19 lockdown. Results To understand the experiences of TVET college educators when transitioning from a traditional classroom to a virtual classroom during the COVID-19 lockdown, the findings from this study are presented in terms of three themes that emerged from the data and are informed by the theoretical framework.
- keywords: able; access; activities; addition; africa; analysis; approach; attitude; case; challenges; change; classroom; college educators; colleges; covid-19; data; digital; education; educators; effective; environment; experiences; face; factors; findings; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.8; ict; information; interview; journal; kanter; lack; learning; lecturers; lockdown; management; managers; new; ogegbo; online; online learning; pandemic; participants; perspectives; practices; process; research; researchers; resistance; resources; responses; skills; social; south; students; study; support; system; teachers; teaching; technical; technologies; technology; time; tools; traditional; traditional classroom; training; transitioning; tvet; tvet colleges; tvet educators; use; virtual; virtual classroom; virtual learning; vocational; whatsapp; years
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- pie-5304
- author: Stott, Angela
- title: South African teachers' engagement in Teach Online: A case study about short course design
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 8350
- flesch: 44
- summary: This study sought to contribute to an understanding of effective programme design for developing such skills in such contexts by exploring the engagement of a cohort of South African teachers (n=97 initially, decreasing to n=25 across the programme) in a pedagogically and technologically moderately advanced 80‑hour short learning programme (SLP). Furthermore, the low absolute numbers and non-representability of the sample of those who answered the questionnaire relative to the population of South African teachers, limits generalisation from this case.
- keywords: 2011; 2018; 2021; access; african; african teachers; attrition; case; cognitive; collaborative; communication; communities; context; course; data; design; development; discussion; education; effective; engagement; face; features; figure; formative; forums; high; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.16; icts; information; instructions; internet; items; journal; knowledge; language; learners; learning; levels; load; low; material; module; need; number; online; participants; participation; perspectives; poor; practice; presence; principles; programme; questionnaire; questions; quintile; registration; relevant; research; retention; sample; schools; short; slp; slps; social; south; south african; stott; student; study; summative; sweller; table; tasks; teach online; teachers; teaching; theory; time; understanding; use; zoom
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- pie-5307
- author: de Klerk, Edwin Darrell; Palmer, June Monica
- title: Technology inclusion for students living with disabilities through collaborative online learning during and beyond a pandemic
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 7622
- flesch: 29
- summary: This theoretical paper considers the significance of ODL by demonstrating how to achieve technology inclusion for students living with disabilities through collaborative online international learning (COIL). The central question that this paper addresses is: How may HEIs achieve technology inclusion for students living with disabilities through collaborative online international learning (COIL) during and beyond COVID-19?
- keywords: 2012; 2015; 2016; 2019; 2020; 2021; academic; access; action; activities; africa; analysis; assistive; available; challenges; coil; collaborative; collaborative learning; collaborative online; covid-19; design; development; disabilities; disability; distance; dsd; education; education policy; experiences; framework; global; heis; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.5; human; inclusion; inclusive; inclusivity; individuals; information; international; international learning; journal; july; klerk; knowledge; learning; new; odl; online; online international; opportunities; palmer; pandemic; paper; participation; people; persons; perspectives; policy; post; rsa; school; skills; social; south; spaces; stipulations; strategic; students; study; support; system; teaching; technologies; technology; technology inclusion; terms; time; training; transformative; unesco; university; use; virtual; world
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- pie-5313
- author: Sango, Tatiana; Prince, Robert; Steyn, Sanet; Mudavanhu, Precious
- title: High stakes online assessments: A case study of National Benchmark Tests during COVID-19
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 9133
- flesch: 42
- summary: Conclusions In conclusion, we think that with careful design grounded in methodology, it is possible to successfully implement online tests in high-stakes examinations. Test candidates are preoccupied with the test session arrangements and might be stressed about the content of the test and the consequences of not doing well in the test, seeing the outcome of their performance as a barrier to higher education.
- keywords: ability; academic; access; additional; administration; africa; aql; article; assessment; august; available; benchmark; candidates; case; challenges; computer; context; covid-19; data; decisions; delivery; design; development; devices; different; digital; education; engagement; environment; examinations; example; exams; experiences; features; figure; high; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.13; implementation; important; internet; involved; issues; language; learning; level; literacy; mat; mode; mudavanhu; national; nbts; need; new; nitko; number; online; online assessments; online nbts; online test; pandemic; paper; performance; perspectives; platform; possible; pre; prince; process; processes; proctoring; project; quality; quantitative; required; results; sango; scores; security; sessions; skills; software; solution; south; stakes; stakes online; standardised; steyn; students; study; support; table; taking; team; technical; technology; test; test delivery; testing; time; use
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- pie-5335
- author: van den Berg, Geesje; Mudau, Patience Kelebogile
- title: Postgraduate students' views on the use of WhatsApp groups as an online communication tool to support teaching and learning during COVID-19
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 7449
- flesch: 48
- summary: It is important, though, that the purpose of such WhatsApp groups be clearly stated to users and ground rules need to be provided to make WhatsApp groups meaningful and fulfil its purpose and prevent abuse. 1122022 40(1): 112-128 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i1.7 Postgraduate students’ views on the use of WhatsApp groups as an online communication tool to support teaching and learning during COVID-19 Abstract
- keywords: 2019; academic; analysis; basic; berg; communication; communication tool; communities; connection; covid-19; crisis; data; disadvantages; distance; education; email; example; feelings; fellow; groups; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.7; humans; important; information; international; isolation; journal; learning; lecturers; lms; lockdown; management; maslow; media; messages; mobile; modules; mudau; needs; online; open; pandemic; participants; perspectives; postgraduate; purpose; questions; research; responses; sense; sharing; siemens; social; students; study; sub; support; teaching; technologies; technology; themes; theory; time; tool; unisa; university; use; van; views; whatsapp; whatsapp groups
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- pie-5339
- author: Zulu, Free-Queen Bongiwe
- title: Using teaching, social and cognitive presences as a lens to reflect on teaching a research module amid COVID-19
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 8752
- flesch: 45
- summary: 2. Emergency remote education and online teaching For the purpose of this study, I define the related concepts used during COVID-19 to refer to online teaching strategies and pedagogies and the brief literature on how universities and lecturers adapted to emergency remote teaching. The findings indicate that training and trials in preparation for transition to online teaching are important.
- keywords: 2015; 2020; academics; action; activities; african; article; assessment; building; carlon; challenges; chiroma; cognitive; communication; community; content; course; covid-19; data; development; disruption; education; emails; emergency; et al; experiences; face; findings; flores; framework; garrison; garrison et; group; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.11; information; inquiry; journal; knowledge; learning; lecturers; live; meda; module; moodle; online; online learning; online teaching; oral; outline; pandemic; perspectives; plan; practices; presence; presentation; proposal; reflections; remote; remote teaching; research; research module; session; social; social presence; south; students; study; support; synchronous; teacher; teaching; teaching presence; technology; time; training; transition; understanding; universities; university; use; waghid; whatsapp; zoom; zulu
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- pie-5349
- author: Swartz, Bronwyn Claudia; Valentine, Lucrecia Zinobia; Jaftha, Desiree Virginia
- title: Participatory parity through teaching with Telegram
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 8436
- flesch: 41
- summary: Against this backdrop, a Telegram teaching intervention was developed by two lecturers in the Engineering Faculty at a University of Technology (UoT) in SA to deliver curriculum content and engage with students in a low-tech, low-cost/low-data usage manner, and consequently to widen access to education, promote inclusivity and thereby facilitate student access, retention and success. Ostensibly, the greatest challenge was student access to data to continue the academic programme.
- keywords: 2020; academic; access; analysis; app; apps; august; available; challenges; class; classroom; collection; communication; community; covid-19; data; devices; dimension; discussion; easy; education; environment; face; findings; focus; fraser; group; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.6; information; initial; instant; internet; intervention; interview; jaftha; justice; learning; lecturers; lockdown; low; members; messaging; mim; mobile; online; open; pandemic; parity; participants; participatory; particular; perspectives; place; platform; qualitative; questions; recognition; redistribution; remote; representation; research; research participants; resources; second; social; south; students; studies; study; survey; swartz; teaching; technology; telegram; time; tool; triangulation; university; uot; use; valentine; validity; voice; work
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- pie-5350
- author: Jojo, Zingiswa
- title: Engaging mathematics student-teachers in an Open Distance e-learning context
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 8314
- flesch: 44
- summary: Moreover, according to Sesmiyanti (2016), for student teachers to be cognitively engaged, they should seek to go beyond the requirements prescribed in an assignment and relish a challenge. I suggest that the assignments should include questions that have incorrectly represented responses to tasks wherein student teachers must critique the response and correct it.
- keywords: able; activities; addition; africa; analysis; assignments; attard; behavioural; challenges; classroom; cognitive; cognitive engagement; concepts; context; course; data; development; didactics; different; discussion; distance; easy; education; effort; emotional; engagement; example; fet; figure; forums; framework; guide; help; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.12; ideas; interviews; jojo; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; lecturers; lives; mathematics; mathematics student; mathematics teachers; motivation; negative; new; odel; online; open; peers; perspectives; positive; problem; questions; research; responses; results; self; social; south; student; student engagement; student teachers; study; subject; support; tasks; teacher engagement; teachers; teaching; thinking; time; understanding; university; ways
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- pie-5353
- author: Durandt, Rina; Herbst, Sheldon; Seloane, Majane
- title: Teaching and learning first-year engineering mathematics over a distance: A critical view over two consecutive years
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 9195
- flesch: 48
- summary: The investigation over two consecutive years (2020 and 2021) is meant to yield prospects and contribute to the development of suitable pedagogies for online mathematics teaching and learning for engineering students in South Africa in the future. The approach includes the following key elements: an evaluation of prior knowledge by a diagnostic test; an investigation of students’ attitudes towards mathematics by means of the SATM questionnaire; weekly virtual lecture and tutorial sessions; weekly homework tasks; additional online resources; discussion forums between all role players (students, tutors and lecturers); online tutor support; the use of e-textbooks and online assessments via the university learning management system and an external platform (such as WeBWorK).
- keywords: 2020; 3𝑥𝑥; 4𝑥𝑥; 4𝑦𝑦; academic; africa; approach; article; aspects; assessments; attitudes; average; blackboard; blended; classroom; cognitive; cohort; content; continuous; correct; data; design; diagnostic; different; distance; domain; durandt; education; elements; engineering; engineering mathematics; environment; face; figure; formal; herbst; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.9; idea; items; johannesburg; key; knowledge; large; learning; learning approach; lecturers; level; lim; mathematics; minutes; modelling; module; new; number; online; online teaching; percentage; perspectives; platform; prior; questions; results; science; section; seloane; semester; south; statistics; structure; students; study; sub; support; table; tasks; teaching; tertiary; test; university; use; webwork; week; year; year engineering; ℎ(𝑥𝑥; � −; 𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠2𝑥𝑥
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- pie-5354
- author: Zvavahera, Promise; Garwe, Evelyn Chiyevo; Pasipanodya, Sheppard ; Chigora, Farai; Katsande, Chipo
- title: Leveraging academic-industry partnerships for inclusive virtual learning:
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 8006
- flesch: 34
- summary: The personalised email invites, the reminders and the provision of a survey URL helped the study achieve a response rate of 61% (61 participants), made up of 50% participants from private universities and another 50% from public universities. Industry, with support from the government, should come up with subsidised computer schemes for students and university staff so that virtual teaching and learning becomes a reality in the prevailing COVID-19 environment.
- keywords: 2013; 2019; academic; access; affected; affordable; african; analysis; areas; available; capacity; challenges; chigora; conceptual; connectivity; cooperation; cost; countries; covid-19; critical; data; deans; development; devices; digital; directors; economic; education; electronic; environment; face; facilities; factors; figure; findings; framework; funding; garwe; government; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.18; ict; inclusive; industry; industry partnerships; information; infrastructure; initiative; innovation; institutions; international; internet; interviews; journal; katsande; lack; learning; level; leveraging; literature; online; pandemic; participants; partnerships; pasipanodya; perspectives; pestle; policies; policy; post; power; preparedness; private; public; quality; related; required; research; section; staff; students; study; support; teaching; technology; universities; university; virtual; virtual teaching; way; world; zimbabwe; zimren; zvavahera
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- pie-5374
- author: van der Walt, Johannes (Hannes); Oosthuizen, Izak J
- title: Ubuntu in South Africa: Hopes and disappointments – a pedagogical perspective
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 8027
- flesch: 54
- summary: Christian Education South Africa (CESA) v Minister of the Government of the Republic of South Africa. These two tables paint a dismal picture of life and conduct in South Africa: a total of more than 400 000 reported serious contact crimes against South African females, children and males committed in a single year.
- keywords: 2008; 2020; africa; africans; application; applied; approach; basis; behaviour; cases; children; community; concept; condition; conduct; constitution; court; crime; daily; day; der; dignity; eds; education; equality; ethics; explanation; expression; fact; form; government; group; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.7; human; ideal; journal; july; jurisprudence; justice; lahti; legal; legislation; life; living; matolino; meaning; minister; modern; moral; murder; new; non; oosthuizen; opinion; ordinary; paper; past; pedagogical; people; person; perspectives; philosophy; pityana; possible; practices; precepts; principles; problem; public; reasons; relationships; research; respect; right; rsa; rules; school; social; society; south; south africa; spirit; state; term; traditional; ubuntu; ubuntu philosophy; ubuntugogy; university; values; van; view; walt; weinstein
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- pie-5392
- author: Nieuwenhuis, Jan
- title: Editorial
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 1329
- flesch: 41
- summary: As has become tradition, we close with a book review done by Saloshna Vandeyar of the book Teacher education for transformative agency: Because of our listing we are deemed accredited nationally and in many overseas countries and have recently received articles for publication from Russia, Morocco, Poland, USA, Australia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe as well as numerous other countries.
- keywords: articles; aspects; book; classrooms; communities; culture; development; editorial; education; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.1; important; intersectionality; issue; learners; learning; perspectives; phase; publication; research; sciences; sexuality; strategies; students; teachers; teaching; university; xhosa; year
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- pie-5395
- author: Vandeyar, Saloshna
- title: Teacher education for transformative agency: Critical perspectives on design, content and pedagogy
- date: 2021-06-11
- words: 1120
- flesch: 36
- summary: In this fascinating volume dedicated to illustrating transformative agency in teacher education by means of critical perspectives on design, content and pedagogy, editors Carina America, Nazeem Edwards and Maureen Robinson recognise the need to bring foreword the voices of teacher educators in the field, giving agency to and highlighting successful practices in culture-rich classrooms. Teacher educators of this programme have taken the important step of problematising the programmatic issues underpinning their respective subjects by engaging in shared deliberations on: • how to navigate within teacher education from the ravages of apartheid education to inclusive, democratic practices that address the developmental needs of the majority of our citizens; • the desire to move out of academic “silos” and to work across subjects and departments to build a shared understanding of the programme; • how to ensure structural and conceptual coherence across the programme while allowing lecturers the academic freedom to engage students critically within their disciplines; • how to engage with demands of knowledge-building in the twenty first century; and • how to integrate different forms of knowledge across the curriculum.
- keywords: agency; book; certificate; chapter; content; critical; design; education; educators; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i2.24; knowledge; modules; pedagogy; perspectives; pgce; postgraduate; practices; programme; south; teacher; transformative
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- pie-5396
- author: Fourie, Jean; Wilson, Claire
- title: Playing games in a masters class: Experiences of student educational psychologists
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 7306
- flesch: 53
- summary: In pairs, the students constructed educational games from everyday recyclable material with the purpose of reinforcing concepts related to phonics, spelling, reading and mathematics. Playing educational games is a supportive adjunct to remedial interventions in the therapeutic context.
- keywords: 2014; 2017; 2018; 2019; aeg; amory; analysis; anxiety; authentic; beneficial; board; challenging; children; class; cognitive; content; creative; data; design; development; different; difficulties; educational; educational games; educators; elements; emotional; engaged; engagement; experiences; figure; flow; focus; focused; fourie; fun; game; groups; hpcsa; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.15; immersion; inclusive; journal; knowledge; language; learners; learning; masters; mathematics; motivating; needs; new; participants; perspectives; player; playing; principle; problem; psychologists; psychology; publications; qualitative; reflections; remedial; research; sage; school; sense; sep; skills; social; south; special; students; study; support; thinking; use; wilson
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- pie-5399
- author: Alqarni, Turki Mahdi
- title: Faculty familiarity with inclusive practices for students with learning disabilities at Najran University
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 8535
- flesch: 33
- summary: 3.1 Faculty members› attitudes towards university students with learning disabilities Generally, faculty members have positive attitudes towards the inclusion of students with learning disabilities, but they have inadequate knowledge of disability inclusion in terms of legislation and providing appropriate accommodations (Abu-Hamour, 2013; Rao & Gartin, 2003; Khansa, 2015; Lombardi et al., 2015; Jensen et al., 2004; Khouri et al., 2019). However, previous studies did not investigate the faculty›s familiarity with inclusive practices for university students with LD at Saudi universities.
- keywords: 2007; 2015; academic; accommodations; alqarni; appropriate; arabia; attitudes; awareness; classroom; college; current; development; differences; disabilities; disability; education; et al; examination; examination practices; experience; faculty; faculty familiarity; faculty members; familiarity; findings; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.19; inclusion; inclusive education; inclusive practices; instructional; international; journal; knowledge; learning; learning disabilities; leyser; mean; members; murray; perspectives; post; postsecondary; practices; previous; professor; programmes; questionnaire; ranks; research; results; saudi; saudi arabia; saudi faculty; schools; secondary; secondary students; self; services; significant; skinner; special; special education; students; studies; study; support; survey; teaching; time; types; universities; university; university education; university students; use; years
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- pie-54
- author: Krüger, Deirdré; Osman, Razia
- title: The phenomenon of xenophobia as experienced by immigrant learners in Johannesburg inner city schools
- date: 2010-12-31
- words: 5556
- flesch: 53
- summary: Methods The methodology for the qualitative inquiry took the form of a triple-layered case study: the layers consisting of the various groups of participants: immigrant learners, South African learners and educators. South African learners and educators were selected as they were considered data rich and they could contribute to the inquiry and assist in getting beneath the surface to generate “thick” description (Geertz in Charmaz, 2006: 14).
- keywords: african; african learners; analysis; anti; apartheid; article; citizenship; city; content; country; crush; data; development; different; discrimination; dodson; education; educators; emotional; english; experience; fear; foreigners; form; groups; human; immigrant; immigrant learners; inner; interviews; johannesburg; journal; language; learners; level; need; new; participants; people; perspectives; phenomenon; process; racism; research; rights; schools; selection; sense; shea; social; south; south african; stereotyping; strangers; study; trust; university; violence; waghid; xenophobia; xenophobia education; years
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- pie-5466
- author: Vandeyar, Thirusellvan
- title: ICT policy appropriation: Teachers as transformative ICT agents
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 7010
- flesch: 50
- summary: Keywords: Appropriation; e-Education; transformative ICT agents; ICT policy; teacher professionalism. Despite teachers’ expressed desire for access to a more tangible policy, what clearly emerged from the data was teachers’ instrumental role in compiling ICT schemes of work, ICT curriculum and ICT policy that were influenced by their practice and teaching context.
- keywords: 2020; actors; african; agency; agents; analysis; approach; appropriation; attitudes; beliefs; case; change; classroom; coloured; confidence; context; cultural; curriculum; data; development; digital; district; education; education policy; experiences; formulation; helsby; ict; ict policy; implementation; independent; information; interpretation; journal; key; knowledge; learners; learning; levinson; literature; local; making; male; model; national; perspectives; policies; policy; policy implementation; practice; pretoria; professional; proudford; qualitative; research; role; school; sense; social; socio; south; stance; studies; study; sutton; systemic; teachers; teaching; technology; transformative; use; vandeyar; way; white; work; writerly
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- pie-5485
- author: Lunga, Prosper; Koen, Mariëtte; Mthiyane, Mthiyane Ncamisile
- title: School and the community: Managing disruptive learner behaviour in rural learning ecologies
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 7980
- flesch: 47
- summary: 722021 39(4): 72-88 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.6 SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY: MANAGING DISRUPTIVE LEARNER BEHAVIOUR IN RURAL LEARNING ECOLOGIES ABSTRACT Managing disruptive learner behaviour has for many years been a matter of concern to school administrators, teachers and parents. The research question addressed in this study relates to the strategies that can be utilised by communities and schools with a view of managing disruptive learner behaviour in rural learning ecologies.
- keywords: 2015; abc; action; activities; analysis; antecedent; approach; aware; behaviour; causes; challenges; change; children; classroom; communities; community; consciousness; context; critical; data; discussions; disruptive; disruptive behaviour; disruptive learner; ecologies; education; environment; fgds; findings; focus; following; group; gudyanga; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.6; involved; involvement; issues; journal; koen; learner; learner behaviour; learner participation; learning; learning ecologies; level; lunga; making; management; methods; model; mthiyane; narratives; parental; parents; participants; participation; participatory; people; perspectives; practice; problem; process; punishment; reflective; research; rural; rural learning; rural schools; school; secondary; simovska; social; south; stakeholders; state; strategies; study; teachers; teaching; university; use; useful; view; ways
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- pie-5498
- author: Breedt, Ilze; Beckmann, Johan; du Plessis , Andre
- title: From not-for-profit to profit-driven independent schools through the eyes of some of the stakeholders: Change of governance in independent schools
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 7245
- flesch: 58
- summary: This qualitative study sought to explore the experiences of stake holders at independent schools during and after the transition from a not-profit governance approach to a for-profit governance approach after a change of ownership. Keywords: Independent schools; not-for-profit governance; profit- driven governance; South African school system.
- keywords: 1996; 2017; academic; accountability; africa; approach; beckmann; better; breedt; business; change; children; communication; company; corporate; country; data; decisions; development; different; economic; economy; education; environment; expectations; experience; good; governance; government; governors; growth; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.14; increase; independent; independent schools; interests; king; learners; management; money; new; parents; participants; perspectives; plessis; principal; private; profit; profit governance; profit school; public; quality; report; research; responsibility; schools; south; staff; stakeholders; standards; study; sub; system; teachers; terms; theme
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- pie-55
- author: Petersen, Nadine; Henning, Elizabeth
- title: Design refinement tools for a teacher education curriculum: the example of a service learning course
- date: 2010-12-31
- words: 4707
- flesch: 57
- summary: However, for students theory remained theory and practice comprised a set of skills and techniques of teaching and communicating. This design tool highlights the need for integration of various types of knowledge, originating in tacit theories of everyday life, or in grand theories, such as care theory and social interdependence theory, but meeting somewhere around the middle in a shared epistemic space.
- keywords: action; care; caring; concepts; course; curriculum; dbr; design; discourse; eds; education; epistemic; epistemological; example; experience; framework; grand; gravemeijer; inquiry; interdependence; intermediary; justice; knowledge; learning; new; noddings; pedagogy; perspectives; petersen; practice; process; refinement; research; revision; ruthven; service; social; students; table; tacit; teacher; theories; theory; tools; university; use; vygotsky; way; work; world
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- pie-5531
- author: none
- title: The sustainable development goals as criteria for the global ranking of universities
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 6344
- flesch: 38
- summary: Since 1983, but especially since the dawn of the new millennium, the number of global rankings of universities in circulation has increased, so much so that by 2011, when Shin, Toutkoushian and Teichler (2011) published the first book on global university rankings, there were already 33 such rankings on the internet (Shin, Toutkoushian & Teichler, 2011). The problem with university rankings.
- keywords: academic; altbach; america; australia; autonomy; challenges; community; comparative; countries; criteria; declaration; development; development goals; economic; education; education revolution; example; function; global; global higher; global ranking; global south; global university; goals; higher; higher education; history; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.1; humanity; impact; impact rankings; incheon; inclusive; industry; institution; international; internationalisation; july; kingdom; knowledge; learning; mccowan; metrics; nations; neoliberal; new; north; number; overall; performance; perspectives; place; poverty; principles; pursuit; quality; rankings; research; revolution; rise; role; score; sdgs; sector; social; society; south; states; studies; sustainable; sustainable development; table; teaching; times; unesco; united; universities; university; university rankings; use; vision; wolhuter; world
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- pie-5557
- author: Basson, Ilsa
- title: Twenty years into the new millennium: How integrated is Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at secondary school level?
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 10360
- flesch: 27
- summary: Grade 11 Planning Calender 2020 Mathematics Physical Sciences Information Technology 32 Finance growth and decay Control test Practical Assessment Task (PAT) 33 Finance growth and decay Oxidation number Database design 34 Finance growth and decay Exploiting lithosphere or earth’s crust Database design and GUI 35 Revision Exploiting lithosphere or earth’s crust Internet and WWW and GUI 36 Revision Revision Internet solutions and GUI 37 Revision Examination Social implications and PAT 38 Examination Examination Practical Assessment Task (PAT) 39 Examination Examination Examination 40 Examination Examination Examination 41 Examination Examination Examination 42 Examination Examination Examination Table 7. Grade 12 Planning Calender 2020 Mathematics Physical Sciences Information Technology 15 Differential calculus: limit, gradiet, find derivative Chemical equilibrium Softw eng: algorithmic thinking 16 Diff calc: stas points & concavity, sketch func’s & its deriv, eq. of func Equilibrium constant Practical Assessment Task (PAT) 17 Differential calculus: applications Acid-base reactions Practical Assessment Task (PAT) 18 Examination Acid-base reactions Examination 19 Examination Examination Examination
- keywords: 2020; activities; africa; algebra; alignment; analytical; angles; applications; aspects; assessment; available; basic; basson; change; chemical; chemistry; circle; computational; computer; computer science; computing; concepts; conservation; content; current; curriculum; data; database; dbe; decades; design; development; disciplines; education; energy; equations; examination examination; exponents; fet; figure; finance; force; functions; geometry; grade; graphs; growth; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.2; inequalities; information; information technology; integrated; integration; interdisciplinary; internal; internet; introduction; journal; law; laws; learners; learning; level; linear; march; mathematics; momentum; motion; nature; new; newton; number; pat; perspectives; physical; physics; planning; practical; programming; quadratic; reaction; revision; school; science; science education; secondary; shows; skills; software; south; speed; statistics; stem; study; subjects; subtopics; system; table; task; teaching; technology; textbooks; thinking; time; topics; trigonometry; van; vectors; week; work; world; years
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- pie-5563
- author: Aluko, Ruth; Krull, Greig; Mhlanga, Ephraim
- title: Shaping open, distance and e-learning in post school education and training: A call for a revised agenda
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 8583
- flesch: 39
- summary: org/10.18820/2519593X/pie. v40.i1.1 e-ISSN 2519-593X Perspectives in Education 2022 40(1): 1-17 PUBLISHED: 04 March 2022 RECEIVED: 14 August 2021 ACCEPTED: 17 December 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i1.1 http://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=11341 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/530481521735906534/Overcoming-Poverty-and-Inequality-in-South-Africa-An-Assessment-of-Drivers-Constraints-and-Opportunities http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/530481521735906534/Overcoming-Poverty-and-Inequality-in-South-Africa-An-Assessment-of-Drivers-Constraints-and-Opportunities http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/530481521735906534/Overcoming-Poverty-and-Inequality-in-South-Africa-An-Assessment-of-Drivers-Constraints-and-Opportunities http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0499-042X http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0690-5869 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i1.1 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i1.1 22022 40(1): 2-17 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i1.1 Perspectives in Education 2022: 40(1) digitise content, to provide more flexible learning opportunities and to improve the quality of student learning. What does a blurring of boundaries between the physical and digital mean for student learning?
- keywords: 2020; 4ir; access; africa; aluko; approaches; appropriate; article; ashour; assessment; assurance; august; available; beliefs; challenges; change; commonwealth; connectivism; context; countries; course; covid-19; critical; curriculum; czerniewicz; demands; design; development; dhet; digital; distance; distance education; education; ertl; experiences; focus; forms; future; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.1; important; information; institutions; journal; knowledge; krull; learning; management; mechanisms; methods; mhlanga; mulenga; need; odel; online; online learning; open; pandemic; perspectives; place; post; practices; processes; provision; pset; quality; remote; research; revolution; salmi; school; school education; sector; shaping; siemens; skills; social; society; south; students; support; system; teaching; technologies; technology; theory; traditional; training; transition; universities; work; world
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- pie-5564
- author: Mkhize, Msizi
- title: Pre-service accounting teachers’ confidence and motivation in doing mathematics
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 8944
- flesch: 42
- summary: Accounting students perform a variety of calculations in accounting courses. It was noted that from the means for third-year accounting students scored lower than the means for first- and second-year accounting students.
- keywords: 2010; 2012; accounting; accounting calculations; accounting students; accounting teachers; achievement; advanced; african; attitudes; beliefs; calculations; challenges; challenging; class; confidence; correlation; courses; data; deci; education; effectance; effectance motivation; efficacy; english; factors; figure; help; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.10; interviews; journal; knowledge; learning; level; low; mathematical accounting; mathematics; maths; mean; mkhize; modules; motivated; motivation; number; participants; perspectives; positive; pre; problems; quantitative; questionnaires; questions; research; results; scale; school; scores; second; self; service; service accounting; significant; skills; statement; students; study; subjects; success; table; teachers; teaching; test; work; year; year accounting
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- pie-5574
- author: Olawale, Babawande; Mncube , Vusi; Ndondo, Shepherd ; Mutongoza, Bonginkosi Hardy
- title: Building a sustainable and democratic future in rural South African higher education institutions
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 7280
- flesch: 37
- summary: As such, the study examined how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected rural higher education institutions in building a sustainable and democratic future. The study’s findings revealed that while the Covid-19 pandemic represents a time of survival of the fittest, which also strengthened democratic tenets and revolutionised the higher education sector, the pandemic has revealed pre-existing institutional issues and vulnerabilities in rural higher education institutions.
- keywords: 2014; 2020; academic; activities; approach; building; case; challenges; community; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; culture; data; democracy; democratic; democratic future; design; development; digital; economic; education; education institutions; engagement; environment; face; findings; future; green; heis; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.2; impact; inclusive; institutions; international; issues; journal; knowledge; learning; lecturers; manager; mncube; mutongoza; ndondo; new; olawale; online; outbreak; pandemic; paradigm; participants; participatory; perspectives; peters; platforms; political; practices; principles; qualitative; quality; research; researchers; resilient; resources; role; rural; rural heis; service; social; society; south; staff; students; study; sustainability; sustainable; system; teaching; theory; time; transformation; universities; university; way; world
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- pie-5583
- author: Venketsamy, Roy; Hu, Zijing
- title: School leaders’ responsibilities for ensuring safe schools for teaching and learning during COVID-19
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 7268
- flesch: 48
- summary: With a phased-in approach to grades returning to school, school leaders had to ensure that their environment was safe, conducive, welcoming, respectful, inclusive and supportive at all times. A qualitative case study, involving individual interviews with principals, was conducted using the Health Theoretical Framework of attitudes, behaviours and communication (ABCs) to investigate how school leaders were ensuring a safe and conducive environment for teachers and learners.
- keywords: 2020; approach; appropriate; available; basic; behaviours; challenges; children; communication; conducive; covid-19; data; dbe; department; distancing; education; emergency; environment; equipment; findings; gde; government; guidelines; health; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.2; infection; information; leaders; learners; learning; management; masks; measures; national; need; opening; outdoor; pandemic; parents; participants; perspectives; place; precautions; pretoria; prevention; printers; protocols; research; responsibilities; risk; safe; safe school; safety; school; school environment; school leaders; sl3; sl4; social; south; spread; staff; stakeholders; students; support; teachers; teaching; team; times; unicef; unions; virus
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- pie-5594
- author: Madyibi, Siphe; Bayat, Amiena
- title: A case study of early childhood development facility infrastructure in Philippi, South Africa
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 7254
- flesch: 40
- summary: The following literature review supports the case for why ECD facility infrastructure matters in terms of its implications for child development and the extent to which the ECD sector’s prominent stakeholders, namely the state and communities, are liable for financing the infrastructure of ECD facilities. 2.1 Why ECD facility infrastructure matters: Development implications Investing in ECD facilities’ physical infrastructure is a necessity for child development (Barret et al., 2019).
- keywords: 2007; 2016; 2020; act; adequate; africa; age; area; available; bayat; building; cape; case; childhood; childhood development; children; city; communities; data; department; design; development; development facility; dsd; early; early childhood; ecd; ecd facilities; ecd facility; ecd infrastructure; education; environment; exact; facilities; facility; facility infrastructure; fisher; government; high; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.11; impact; informal; infrastructure; international; journal; lack; learning; legislation; likely; madyibi; national; objects; outside; owners; perspectives; philippi; physical; play; policy; primary; quality; registration; relationship; republic; requirements; research; researchers; residential; resources; safety; sample; separate; services; settlements; social; south; space; standards; state; status; study; table; toilets; town; type; unregistered; unregistered ecd; unregistered facilities; use
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- pie-56
- author: Sung, Youl-Kwan
- title: Markets, equality and democratic education: Confronting the neoliberal and libertarian reconceptualisations of education
- date: 2010-12-31
- words: 5030
- flesch: 48
- summary: Milton Freedman, Hayek’s student, also strongly believes the major reason for the failure of the quasi market application in education is that market reform has been incomplete in the absence of a price mechanism and sufficient competing suppliers. To satisfy the demand side of market conditions, it would seem to follow that parents function as economically rational individuals (homo economicus), who act out of self-interest.
- keywords: children; choice; chubb; citizenship; claim; conditions; cultural; democratic; democratic education; different; economic; education; equality; freedom; friedman; hayek; homo; human; individual; individualism; justification; law; libertarian; liberty; london; market; material; matter; moe; moral; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; nozick; opportunity; order; paper; parents; people; perspectives; political; power; press; property; public; rational; reform; rights; routledge; rule; schools; social; society; state; students; sung; system; theory; time; understanding; university; value; way; welfare; york
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- pie-5617
- author: Mtshali, Muntuwenkosi Abraham; Ngwenya, Jabulisile Cynthia; Myende, Thandanani Hansford
- title: Teachers' perceptions of the factors influencing rural school Grade 12 Business Studies learner performance in the National Senior Certificate
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 6699
- flesch: 46
- summary: The study nurtures awareness of teacher factors influencing rural school learners’ performance in Grade 12 Business Studies, so that Business Studies teachers in emerging economies can think of ways to address these factors to improve learner performance. Self-confidence in studying is but one lacking characteristic in rural school learners owing to poor family structure epitomised by single parenting, poor parent support and deprived economic status, which give rise to poor academic achievement by learners (Chibale & Nakamba, 2018).
- keywords: 2015; 2018; 2019; academic; achievement; africa; analysis; article; assessment; basic; business; business studies; case; challenges; circuit; class; classes; context; curriculum; data; day; department; development; district; education; examination; face; factors; goal; grade; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.10; innovative; international; interviews; journal; knowledge; kwazulu; large; learner performance; learners; learning; levels; management; methods; natal; new; ngwenya; nsc; number; participant; perceptions; performance; perspectives; poor; province; qualitative; question; report; research; results; rural; school; secondary; size; skills; south; strategies; students; studies; study; subject; support; teachers; teaching; textbooks; theory; time; umbumbulu; umlazi; understanding; use; year
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- pie-5619
- author: Maree, Niconette; Vos, Deon
- title: The influence and value of science and technology in the education systems of South Africa and Russia
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 7780
- flesch: 39
- summary: More recent studies showed that in 2018, at an education forum in Moscow, it was brought to light that Russia had invested many resources towards the improvement of the Russian education system, with an emphasis on technology education in order to ensure equality in the access to technologies (Hill, 2020). How is technology education implemented in South African Schools?
- keywords: 2011; 2017; 2018; 2020; access; africa; aim; available; brics; challenges; changes; countries; data; department; development; different; digital; digital divide; distribution; divide; economic; economy; education; education systems; focus; following; fourth; growth; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.3; ict; implementation; important; individuals; industrial; influence; information; innovation; internet; journal; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; literature; major; new; opportunities; order; organisation; paper; people; perspectives; quality; relevant; research; revolution; role; russia; schools; science; skills; social; south; south africa; study; systems; teachers; teaching; technological; technologies; technology; terms; use; value; vos; world
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- pie-5630
- author: Tabe, Hennades; Heystek, Jan; Warnich, Pieter
- title: Leadership of learning and change for successful learning outcome in History Education
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 7333
- flesch: 42
- summary: Despite the contention that there is insufficient statistical evidence to support the relationship between school leadership and specific learner’s academic performance, researchers such as Mestry (2017) and Leithwood et al. (2020) have variously alluded to the fact that school leadership quality indirectly influence teacher’s effectiveness and learners’ academic performance thereof. School leadership and management in South Africa:
- keywords: 2014; academic; accountability; africa; analysis; areas; available; categories; challenges; change; curriculum; data; different; education; educators; findings; functions; geography; heystek; history; history educators; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.12; humanism; important; influence; interview; journal; knowledge; lack; leadership; learner performance; learners; learning; leithwood; level; macro; management; managerial; managerial leadership; outcome; parents; participant; performance; perspectives; positive; possible; practice; principal; problem; process; quality; researchers; resources; responsibility; role; school; school leadership; social; south; stakeholders; study; subject; support; system; tabe; teacher; teaching; theory; township; underperformance; warnich; ways; work
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- pie-5633
- author: Nieuwenhuis, Jan
- title: Editorial
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 897
- flesch: 37
- summary: The transition to online teaching and learning by universities and institutions of higher education, is of course clouded with controversy as academics and students engage in the transition. Another challenge that has gained importance during the age of online teaching relates to plagiarism or students copying from the web in their assignments.
- keywords: african; assignments; challenges; children; covid-19; education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.1; learning; online; parents; perspectives; schools; south; students; teachers; teaching; transition
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- pie-5634
- author: Eke, Chidi Idi
- title: Student leadership: Participation of the representative council of learners in management of school violence in high school
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 6634
- flesch: 49
- summary: Schools Governing body remains the highest decision-making body in school African schools as stipulated by SASA Act No.84 of 1996, the presence of learners Representatives on the body entails that learners voice are heard and considered in school management decisions means their participation harmonises critical decisions in school management. 251 Research Article 2022 40(2): 251-263 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i2.18 Published by the UFS http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/pie © Creative Commons With Attribution (CC-BY) Student leadership: Participation of the representative council of learners in the management of school violence in high school Abstract School violence has been on the increase over the past few years, despite several interventions put in place by school management, the Department of Education and parents.
- keywords: 2016; academic; act; africa; attributes; behaviours; bessong; better; class; class leaders; class management; classroom; climate; collection; community; components; council; data; development; education; educators; effective; environment; governance; grade; high; high schools; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.18; increase; information; interventions; journal; knowledge; leaders; leadership; learners; learning; management; managers; paper; participants; participation; peer; people; perspectives; positive; qualitative; rate; rcls; relationship; representative; representative council; research; role; sasa; school; school climate; school management; school violence; secondary; session; size; skills; social; south; stakeholders; student; study; teacher; teaching; time; training; tuition; unacceptable; violence; vital
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- pie-5636
- author: Jacobs, Lynette
- title: “Skoolleierskap en die skep van produktiewe leerruimtes in skole”: School leadership and the creation of productive learning environments in schools
- date: 2021-09-16
- words: 904
- flesch: 35
- summary: The authors of the book argue that space is pivotal to our experience of the world, and report on two school leaders who regarded the creation of spaces within which formal and informal learning can flourish as seminal to their task. In my opinion this book not only promotes original research that adds to the body of knowledge on school leadership, but it takes a refreshing approach to leadership, particularly to the leader as the creator of physical, mental and social space (theorised by Henri Lefebvre [1991]).
- keywords: authors; book; chapter; concept; creation; die; education; http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/530481521735906534/overcoming-poverty-and-inequality-in-south-africa-an-assessment-of-drivers-constraints-and-opportunities; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i3.20; leadership; learning; mental; physical; productive; research; school; social; space; study; van; wat
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- pie-5643
- author: Coetzee, Wilma
- title: Measuring risks associated with students of introductory statistics: Scale development and implementation
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 7593
- flesch: 51
- summary: Student anxiety and attitudes in business statistics. Figure 1: Risk factors (having mean values greater than 3) versus mean risk.
- keywords: 2012; academic; analysis; anxiety; attitude; constructs; correlation; course; criterion; cronbach; data; development; discriminant; e n; education; ee s; factors; fit; good; gr ee; greater; hair; high; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.11; introductory; introductory statistics; items; journal; low; ly ag; mark; mathematical; mean; measure; model; module; motivation; negative; ng ly; number; onwuegbuzie; overall; participation; performance; perspectives; procrastination; questionnaire; reliability; research; results; risk; s tro; sample; scale; square; ssrq; statistics; students; study; test; total; tra; tro; tro ng; validity; value; variance
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- pie-5647
- author: Kratochvílová, Jana; Lojdová, Katerina; Vlčková, Katerina
- title: Pupil diversity in teacher preparation curriculum
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 6916
- flesch: 35
- summary: Student diversity is embraced in syllabi as a condition for future work with pupil diversity including student self-knowledge, which should be helpful in this case. Pupil diversity in teacher preparation curriculum Abstract This study focused on the concept of pupil diversity in the planned curriculum of teacher preparation programmes.
- keywords: analysis; approach; attitudes; classroom; conceptual; content; curriculum; czech; development; differentiation; dimension; discourse; diversity; documents; education; experience; explicit; group; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.13; ideological; implemented; implicit; inclusive; individual; issue; journal; knowledge; learning; legislative; lessons; levels; methodological; methods; multicultural; needs; objectives; otherness; pedagogical; personalised; perspectives; planned; planned curriculum; practical; practice; preparation; professional; programmes; psychological; pupil; pupil diversity; qualitative; reflection; related; research; results; school; significant; skills; social; special; specific; students; studies; study; subjects; support; syllabi; teacher; teacher education; teacher preparation; teaching; terms; theoretical; training; work
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- pie-5654
- author: Viviani, Alessandra
- title: Inclusion and education to sustainable development: The experience of the University of Siena
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 7156
- flesch: 37
- summary: The UN 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015, represents the global blueprint of this transformation and includes all three dimensions (economic, environmental, and social) of sustainable development, adopting a holistic approach (Sachs, 2012). Since the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2004-2015)3, UNESCO has launched a programme aimed at reorienting education systems towards sustainable development through its Aichi-Nagoya Declaration on Education for Sustainable Development.
- keywords: 2012; 2019; 2030; academic; action; activities; adopted; agenda; approach; attitudes; awareness; challenges; change; citizenship; citizenship education; climate; community; conference; content; course; culture; development; discrimination; economic; education; environmental; environmental education; esd; europe; european; example; field; gce; gender; global; global citizenship; goals; good; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.9; human; inclusion; inclusive; initiatives; institutions; international; issues; journal; key; knowledge; learners; learning; level; need; network; non; paris; perspectives; project; quality; relevant; research; rights; school; siena; skills; social; social inclusion; societies; society; students; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; time; transformative; unesco; universities; university; values; viviani; world; years
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- pie-5655
- author: Nyoni, Jabulani
- title: Flexibility and agility in pedagogical contingency planning design in open, distance and e-learning
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 7920
- flesch: 39
- summary: It involves a conscious, careful and systematic process of arranging a future course of action directed at goal accomplishment. Comb (cited in Akpan, 2011) describes educational PCP design as the application of rational systematic analysis to the process of educational development with the aim of making education more effective and efficient in responding to the needs and goals of the learners http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i3.10 1532022 40(3): 153-162 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i3.10 Nyoni Flexibility and agility in pedagogical contingency planning design and the society. PCP design education and practice in the United States have only come to embrace concepts and topics related to diversity and social justice relatively recently.
- keywords: 1971; 2011; access; action; activities; africa; agility; basic; children; connectivity; contingency; contingency planning; countries; country; course; covid-19; crisis; design; development; digital; distance; distance learning; diverse; diversity; education; effective; equal; equity; flexibility; fundamental; future; gender; global; goals; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.10; human; inclusion; institutions; internet; journal; justice; key; leadership; learners; learning; lecturers; levels; like; long; management; means; nations; needs; new; nyoni; objectives; odel; online; open; organisation; pandemic; paper; paris; pcp; pcp design; pedagogical; pedagogical contingency; pedagogy; people; perspectives; planners; planning; planning design; policies; policy; principles; process; programmes; quality; rawls; research; resources; rights; school; skills; social; social justice; society; solutions; south; students; support; sustainable; systems; teaching; technology; term; theories; theory; time; training; unesco; united; use; virtual; way; world
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- pie-5662
- author: Milligan, Meg; Mankelwicz, John M. ; See, Hoon Peow
- title: Narcissism as a global barrier to education for sustainable development
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 8927
- flesch: 37
- summary: The factors counterbalance, so that it is not certain what the short-run impact of narcissistic leader behaviours will be for environmental performance. Narcissistic leader behaviours may have mixed effects in the short run, but in the long run they are counterproductive.
- keywords: 2010; 2020; associated; barrier; behaviour; beliefs; benefit; business; counterproductive; culture; decisions; development; discretionary; disorder; displacement; economic; education; effective; effects; efforts; entitlement; environmental; factors; faculty; focus; followers; followership; framework; function; future; global; goals; good; grandiosity; grijalva; group; group leader; hesd; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.3; impacts; increase; influence; institutions; interactions; investment; journal; leader; leader behaviour; leadership; learning; levels; linkage; long; management; managers; mankelwicz; members; milligan; model; muf; narcissism; narcissistic; narcissistic leader; nations; needs; new; opportunities; organisational; outcomes; overall; path; performance; personality; perspectives; power; press; processes; profit; programmes; projects; propositions; psychology; quality; relationships; research; resilience; resources; results; review; rewards; role; run; science; self; sense; short; social; specific; staff; status; students; superior; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; teams; term; theory; time; trust; united; university; utility; way; williamson; work; world
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- pie-5666
- author: Cronje, Martha Magdalena
- title: The role of higher education institutions in addressing South Africa's reading crisis in view of sustainable development
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 8403
- flesch: 57
- summary: Expecting African learners to say the neutral vowel before they can read is like expecting English learners to say African click sounds before they can read English. The authors warn against the assumption that African learners can attain phonological awareness the way English learners do.
- keywords: 2019; acquisition; additional; african; african learners; approach; article; assessment; author; basic; caps; children; communicative; comprehension; crisis; cronje; dbe; development; e.g.; education; empirical; english; esl; example; foundation; grade; grammar; heis; higher; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.12; initial; institutions; intervention; july; knowledge; language; learners; learning; lesson; letter; literacy; new; oral; perspectives; phase; phonics; pirls; plan; poor; pretorius; primary; quality; reading; report; research; results; role; school; second; skills; sounds; south; south africa; spaull; state; strategies; study; syllabic; syllables; taylor; teachers; teaching; test; township; university; use; vos; vowels; way; week; words; years
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- pie-5667
- author: Nicol, Christian Bob; Gakuba, Emmanuel; Habinshuti, Gonzague
- title: Student's perceived science inquiry process skills in relation to school type and gender
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 6512
- flesch: 52
- summary: Science inquiry process skills are activities that students carry out in scientific investigations to enable the acquisition of scientific knowledge and skills (Abungu et al., 2014). The need for learners to develop science inquiry process skills is aligned with the tenets of the constructivist learning perspective.
- keywords: 2012; academic; available; bank; bong; challenges; counterparts; county; data; design; development; difference; education; effect; experiments; female; female students; findings; gakuba; gender; girls; government; grade; group; habinshuti; high; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.12; inquiry; inquiry process; items; journal; knowledge; laboratories; learners; learning; liberia; mean; model; need; nicol; percentage; perspectives; practise; private; private schools; process; process skills; question; research; response; results; schools; science; science inquiry; science process; scientific; scores; secondary; senior; significant; skills; standard; students; study; table; teachers; teaching; test; total; use; world
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- pie-5669
- author: Brown, Clive Jimmy William; Samuel, Michael Anthony
- title: Sustaining evolving teaching practicum models in higher education: A conversational ethnodrama between South African teacher educators
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 9595
- flesch: 47
- summary: Over time, even before the onset of Covid-19, the specific institution was characterised by increasing diversification of its student body and increased enrolment of student teachers resonating with similar patterns across other TEIs nationally. It includes the hesitance of school mentors, student teachers and teacher educator supervisors to adopt alternative practices to conventionalised rituals of TP.
- keywords: 2022; academic; access; administrative; african; analysis; analytical; approach; article; author; brown; challenges; choices; concerned; context; contextual; conversational; coordinator; curriculum; data; design; designing; development; dialogical; dialogue; different; doctoral; education; ethnodrama; ethnographic; experience; face; field; fieldwork; form; friendship; future; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.11; https://; initial; institution; interpretations; ite; journal; kind; know; learning; lecturers; lesson; likely; making; mas; mentor; models; multiple; national; need; new; online; pandemic; partnerships; perspectives; phenomenon; policy; possibilities; practice; practicum; pragmatic; professional; professional learning; programme; quality; questions; reflective; representation; research; resources; samuel; schools; social; society; south; spaces; specific; staff; strategy; student teachers; students; study; support; tcia; teacher; teacher education; teaching; theoretical; theory; times; tp curriculum; transformative; underpinning; university; voices; way; world; year
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- pie-5671
- author: Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse
- title: Mitigating the digital divide in the South African higher education system in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 8010
- flesch: 35
- summary: To alleviate the challenges of internet access at home for higher education students, the DHET negotiated with mobile network operators for reduced data rates for NSFAS students http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i3.13 2042022 40(3): 204-211 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i3.13 Perspectives in Education 2022: 40(3) to receive 10 GB daytime and 20 GB night-time data for three months (Tamrat & Teferra, 2020). The disparity among higher education students in terms of technology usage and skill for higher education virtual learning contributes to the challenges of the digital divide in South Africa.
- keywords: 2017; academic; access; african; african higher; areas; article; backgrounds; bank; campus; challenges; connectivity; context; countries; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; crisis; data; delivery; digital; digital divide; digital facilities; digital learning; disadvantaged; divide; economic; education; education institutions; education system; emergency; essop; face; facilities; government; groups; higher; higher education; households; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.13; ict; inequalities; inequality; information; infrastructure; institutions; internet; journal; justice; learning; lecturers; lockdown; march; materials; national; new; non; notion; nsfas; online; online learning; pandemic; paper; pedagogy; perspectives; platforms; remote; report; research; resources; response; rural; services; skills; social; south; south african; strategies; students; system; teaching; technology; training; transition; universities; university; use; virtual; woldegiorgis; world
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- pie-5674
- author: Sithole, Mashango Phillemon; Gumede, Phiwayinkosi Richmond
- title: Sustaining a tutorship programme at a university of technology: A systems approach
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 7952
- flesch: 41
- summary: 224-240 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i3.15 Sustaining a tutorship programme at a university of technology: a systems approach Abstract The role of tutorship programmes at universities is well documented. Given the continual challenges faced by universities such as low pass rates, low retention rates, low graduation rates, under-preparedness of first-year students, low throughput rates, and at-risk students, tutorship programmes have become an indispensable part of teaching and learning at universities.
- keywords: 2016; 2017; 2021; academic; access; activities; african; approach; benefits; challenges; components; conceptual; context; coordination; critical; departments; development; education; figure; framework; funding; general; graduation; gumede; gupta; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.15; implementation; inputs; institution; internal; interventions; journal; key; learning; low; management; maphalala; mckay; model; mpofu; need; ntuli; online; paper; peer; penprase; performance; perspectives; players; policy; programme; rates; research; resources; role; sithole; social; south; students; studies; study; success; support; sustainability; sustainable; systems; teaching; technology; term; theory; tldc; training; transformation; tutorials; tutoring; tutorship; tutorship programme; universities; university; vital; year
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- pie-5676
- author: Chen, Huanchun; Pang, Nicholas
- title: Sustaining the ecosystem of higher education in China: Perspectives from young researchers
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 11014
- flesch: 41
- summary: While the University expects young researchers to have high research productivity, they also allocate young researchers with heavy teaching loads and lots of administrative work. High research productivity in vertically undifferentiated higher education systems: Who are the top performers?
- keywords: 2011; 2012; aaron; academic; analysis; assessment; associate; attributes; bronfenbrenner; chen; china; chinese; citation; class; colleges; current; data; demographic; department; development; different; difficult; difficulties; discipline; double; ecological; ecosystem; education; environment; evaluation; face; factors; faculty; findings; funding; future; gansu; gender; good; griss; henan; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.7; humanities; impact; important; institutional; international; interviews; irvin; january; jiangsu; journals; key; leadership; lecturer; level; local; management; manuscripts; martin; members; microsystem; nash; national; new; non; nondouble; number; online; pang; participants; performance; personal; perspectives; policy; productivity; professor; project; province; publications; quality; related; relationship; research; research funding; research productivity; researchers; resources; results; science; scientific; scientific research; shanghai; social; studies; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; systems; teaching; theory; time; tina; universities; university; women; work; working; world; year; young; young researchers
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- pie-5679
- author: Saudelli, Mary Gene; Niemczyk, Ewelina
- title: Education for sustainable development: Insights from Canadian and South African universities
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 7498
- flesch: 29
- summary: Philosophy, perception and interpretation of concepts – the concept of sustainable education. Marques et al. (2018) emphasise the importance of research at higher education institutions (HEIs), which has the potential to inform citizens about their responsibility in environmental, social, and economic stewardship.
- keywords: action; africa; agenda; analysed; analysis; areas; attention; canada; canadian; challenges; citizens; commitment; community; contexts; countries; country; curriculum; data; development; documents; economic; education; engagement; environmental; esd; evidence; evident; february; financial; findings; funding; future; global; goals; government; heis; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.4; human; implementation; indigenisation; initiatives; institutions; international; investigation; journal; justice; knowledge; learning; mandates; mission; national; nations; perspectives; province; public; qualitative; reconciliation; report; research; resources; role; sdgs; section; social; society; south; south africa; statements; strategic; strategy; students; studies; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; systems; terms; truth; universities; university; vision; world
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- pie-5687
- author: Rossouw, Johannes
- title: Sustainable development of a researcher's career trajectory
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 8681
- flesch: 37
- summary: Supporting researcher career development. Keywords: sustainable development, career trajectory, early- career researcher, capacity building, research productivity 1.
- keywords: 2020; academic; analysis; approach; associates; available; building; career; career development; career trajectory; certain; challenges; context; data; development; doctoral; early; economy; ecrs; education; end; environment; established; experience; february; fellows; following; funding; global; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.6; importance; individual; initial; institution; interest; journal; knowledge; members; mentors; needs; new; number; order; pandemic; paper; par; path; perspectives; phase; phd; planning; position; positive; post; postdoctoral; pre; process; productivity; profile; programme; publications; research; research career; researcher development; researchers; retirement; scholar; scholarly; set; skills; social; southampton; specific; staff; strategies; strategy; students; studies; study; support; sustainable; sustainable development; term; time; trajectory; uct; university; upcoming; upward; vitae; work
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- pie-5691
- author: Du Preez, Petro; Le Grange, Lesley; Maistry, Suriamurthee; Simmonds, Shan
- title: On sustainability and higher education: Towards an affirmative ethics
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 7518
- flesch: 37
- summary: In doing so, we draw on Rosi Braidotti’s (2019; 2013) critical, posthumanist perspective, which enables us to perform two methodological moves: 1) a critical philosophical exploration of the concept sustainability and 2) generating affirmative propositions for thinking about sustainability education. Keywords: sustainability; higher education; affirmative ethics; sustainability education 1.
- keywords: 2013; affirmative; africa; agenda; alternative; anthropocentric; approach; article; braidotti; concept; creative; critical; curriculum; deleuze; development; discourses; education; end; environmental; ethical; ethics; example; focus; forms; free; future; goals; grange; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.8; https://doi; ibid; immanence; immanent; instrumentalist; journal; le grange; life; maistry; means; nations; needs; neoliberal; new; non; notion; open; pedagogy; perspectives; philosophy; policy; politics; posthuman; posthumanism; potentia; power; preez; present; press; process; productive; project; propositions; relational; relationship; research; sdgs; simmonds; social; south; subject; sustainability; sustainability education; sustainable; sustainable development; teacher; teaching; terms; thinking; time; transcendent; understanding; united; university; verhoef; words; world; york
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- pie-5695
- author: Kriger, Samantha; Walters, Cyrill; Jansen, Jonathan
- title: How COVID reconfigured family relationships: Explaining the work of academic women through the lens of complexity theory
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 8350
- flesch: 53
- summary: In short, Covid not only changed but also increased the previously steady familial dynamic between academic women and their children, with clear implications for academic work. Explaining the work of academic women through the lens of complexity theory Abstract Since 2020, there has been a flurry of research on the impact of Covid-19 on families, and some research on the effects of the pandemic on academic parents.
- keywords: academic; academic women; academic work; african; behaviour; career; career academic; case; childcare; children; complexity; conditions; covid; covid-19; data; domestic; early; education; effects; elderly; elements; emotional; experienced; familial; families; family; female; gender; guilt; health; home; house; household; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.5; husband; impact; important; interactions; jansen; kriger; lives; lockdown; mid; mother; needs; new; non; number; office; online; pandemic; parents; partners; perspectives; physical; pre; primary; reconfigured; relationships; research; responsibilities; roles; school; schooler; self; social; south; space; stress; study; support; survey; system; time; toddler; understanding; universities; university; walters; women; work; working; young
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- pie-57
- author: Ebrahim, H. B.
- title: Dominant discourses of teachers in early childhood education
- date: 2010-12-31
- words: 5132
- flesch: 65
- summary: Earlier on we saw how ideas from child development and developmental psychology promoted the discovery of the scientific child as the true child. However, critiques of the biological perspective on child development argue that whilst children’s immaturity is a biological fact, the way in which it is understood and made meaningful is incumbent upon forming relationships with real children in specific contexts (Penn, 2005; Prout & James, 1997).
- keywords: africa; age; approach; biological; boys; cannella; centre; childhood; childhood education; children; data; development; difference; discourses; dominant; early; early childhood; ebrahim; ecd; ece; education; english; excerpt; foucault; gender; girls; home; ideas; james; knowledge; language; learning; london; macnaughton; miss; mrs; need; new; open; order; parents; perspectives; practice; press; research; sense; shape; social; south; studies; study; teachers; theoretical; thinking; university; use; way; ways; work; years; young
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- pie-5701
- author: Mafenya, Nkhangweleni Patrick
- title: Exploring technology as enabler for sustainable teaching and learning during Covid-19 at a university in South Africa
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 6100
- flesch: 37
- summary: By its nature, online teaching and learning depend entirely on technological devices and the internet; therefore, technology is undeniably the most pressing challenge to online learning, especially if those involved in the process of teaching are not digitally competent due to inexperience or insufficient training (Adedoyin & Sokyan, 2020). The literature reviews conducted indicate that distance learning have a negative impact on student learning, citing social isolation of students and social disconnection as areas of major concern.
- keywords: access; addition; africa; attitudes; challenges; classroom; connectivism; countries; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; crisis; criteria; data; delivery; dhawan; digital; distance; education; educators; enabler; experiences; face; findings; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.14; inclusion; information; institutions; international; internet; journal; lack; learning; lecturers; literature; lockdown; mafenya; new; online; online learning; online teaching; outbreak; pandemic; perspectives; primary; qualitative; research; results; review; social; south; spread; students; studies; study; sustainable; system; teaching; technological; technologies; technology; theory; time; tool; traditional; transition; university; use; world
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- pie-5719
- author: Grobler, Annemie
- title: Teachers’ experiences of parents' involvement in Foundation Phase learning during COVID-19
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 7876
- flesch: 49
- summary: As one teacher remarked, “At school learners repeat work, at home they just do it to get it done.” Based on an interpretivist paradigm, a process of inductive reasoning was followed, commencing with the specific phenomenon of teacher experiences on parental involvement and cooperation, in order to move towards the general in formulating conclusions.
- keywords: 2021; africa; area; cape; childhood; children; classroom; cohen; collaborative; communication; contact; content; covid-19; curriculum; data; early; eds; education; environment; experiences; findings; foundation; free; future; grade; grobler; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.3; impact; investigation; involvement; items; jansen; jones; knowledge; language; learners; learning; level; lockdown; need; number; open; order; pandemic; parental; parents; perspectives; phase; physical; process; questionnaire; research; responses; role; sample; school; schooling; september; situation; socio; south; state; stress; study; success; support; teachers; teaching; technological; technology; theme; theory; time; town; transfer; work; years
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- pie-5721
- author: Rakolobe, Kelello ; Tlali, Tebello
- title: Towards a humane learner punishment: A Lesotho secondary schools' teachers perspective
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 6599
- flesch: 51
- summary: Keywords: children’s rights, cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment; international and regional treaties and protocols; teacher professional ethics; social contract theory. Literature review The literature was reviewed in four areas, namely: conceptualisation of ethics, the significance of teacher professional ethics, the attributes of an ethically competent teacher and the definition of cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment.
- keywords: 2010; 2018; 2019; act; aware; behaviour; children; codes; context; contract; convention; corporal; corporal punishment; cruel; data; degrading; degrading punishment; discipline; education; emotional; ethical; ethics; findings; focus; forms; framework; good; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.16; humane; inhuman; international; interpretation; journal; law; learner punishment; learners; legal; lesotho; life; meaning; methods; moet; moral; need; non; participants; perspectives; phrase; physical; practice; professional; punishment; qualitative; rakolobe; research; rights; school; secondary; service; skills; social; strategies; study; teachers; teaching; theory; torture; training; treaties; treatment; uncrc; way
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- pie-5734
- author: Makina, Antonia
- title: Students experiences of demotivating online formative assessment strategies at an open distance learning university
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 10003
- flesch: 48
- summary: Learner support services for online students: Scaffolding for success. 322022 40(2): 32-51 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i2.4 Students experiences of demotivating online formative assessment strategies at an open distance learning university Abstract There is a growing body of research that suggests that improving the quality of online formative assessment strategies increases students’ motivation to participate in online assessment.
- keywords: 2002; 2005; 2010; 2011; 2012; achievement; activities; activity; approach; assessment; assessment strategies; assignments; challenges; charts; communication; course; design; development; different; digital; discussion; distance; dofas; education; effective; environments; experiences; factors; feedback; figure; formative assessment; forums; grid; group; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.4; important; information; institution; journal; leaders; learner; learning; lecturers; ma#1; ma#3; makina; maps; marks; med; media; mind; motivated; motivation; need; new; odl; online; online assessment; online formative; online learning; open; paper; participants; participation; peer; perspectives; platforms; practices; process; quality; research; results; social; spaces; students; students experiences; study; support; tasks; teaching; technical; technology; themes; time; university; use; way; work; years
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- pie-5735
- author: Kruger, Johan; Beckmann, Johan ; Du Plessis, Andre
- title: The management and governance conundrum in South African public schools: principals’ perspectives
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 6693
- flesch: 50
- summary: This often leads to unhealthy relationships between school principals and SGBs that escalate to such levels of tension that court intervention becomes the only way to remedy the situation. This often led to unhealthy relationships between school principals and SGBs that escalated to such levels of tension that intervention by the DBE or courts became the only way to remedy the situation.
- keywords: 2004; 2021; act; african; approach; authority; beckmann; best; bodies; body; boundaries; case; challenges; community; conundrum; data; decision; democratic; department; der; duku; duties; education; educators; functions; governance; high; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.5735; important; interests; learners; levels; making; management; members; mohapi; netshitangani; parents; participants; participatory; perspectives; policy; positive; power; principal; professional; professional management; public; relationship; research; respect; rsa; sasa; school; school governance; school management; school principals; section; sgb; sgb relationship; sgbs; south; south african; staff; tension; trust; van; way
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- pie-5741
- author: Ajayi, Oluwakemi; Moosa, Moeniera; Aloka, Peter
- title: Parental level of education and career decision-making among Grade 12 learners in South Africa
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 6686
- flesch: 52
- summary: Career decision making of Greek post-secondary vocational students: The impact of parents and career decision making efficacy. Similarly, the study established that there was no significant difference in career decision making between the learners whose parental education was university and those of college [M. Diff.
- keywords: 2016; africa; age; ajayi; aloka; anova; background; career; career decision; career development; children; choices; college; counselling; data; decision; decision making; development; difference; education; factors; formal; future; grade; group; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.17; impact; influence; information; job; journal; learners; level; life; lower; making; mean; moosa; parental; parental education; parental level; parents; participants; people; perspectives; post; primary; primary education; process; professional; psychology; questionnaire; relationship; research; result; scale; school; schooling; secondary; secondary education; self; significant; social; south; students; study; super; support; table; township; university; young
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- pie-5804
- author: Zulu, Ncamisile
- title: “I decided…”: Agency in Black women professors
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 8924
- flesch: 47
- summary: © Creative Commons With Attribution (CC-BY) “I decided…”: Agency in Black women professors Abstract Literature predominantly portrays Black women academics as individuals who usually lack a sense of belonging, unable to manage their workload and struggle with career progression in higher education. In contrast with what seems to be mostly non-progress for Black women academics in higher education institutions, Subbaye and Vithal (2017) indicate there has also been some progress made in the inclusion and number of Black women who have become academics and made progress within academia, since the introduction of democracy in 1994.
- keywords: 2003; 2013; 2015; 2019; able; academia; academics; action; african; african higher; agency; agentic; american; analysis; article; bandura; barrett; belonging; black; black women; career; challenges; data; development; dhet; education; education institutions; example; faculty; findings; future; gender; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.15; https://doi; human; identity; individuals; influence; institutions; interviews; jones; journal; lewin; life; likely; literature; management; mokhele; motivation; outcomes; participants; people; personal; perspectives; professional; professors; progression; race; ramohai; research; responsibility; result; role; science; self; sense; set; social; south; south african; space; staff; study; success; teaching; terms; theory; time; universities; university; white; women; women academics; women professors; workloads; zulu
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- pie-5811
- author: Du Plooy, Lucinda
- title: A quasi-ethnographical exploration of how young learners establish their learning practices in their environmental space: The township community and their homes
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 8550
- flesch: 57
- summary: Keywords: Quasi-ethnography; learning practices; spatial positioning; human agency; educational practices; township space 1. Fataar (2007), in his work “townships on the move”, captured the dual workings of township spaces.
- keywords: 1997; activities; africa; area; businesses; cape; capital; children; christian; class; community; computer; context; culture; daily; data; deficit; delft; different; dynamics; education; environmental; environmental space; ethnographical; ethnography; evident; exploration; family; fataar; field; games; grandmother; home; home space; house; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.5; information; jade; knowledge; learners; learning; learning practices; lebo; lived; living; middle; multiple; muslim; neighbourhood; nespor; networks; new; notes; paper; parents; people; perspectives; photo; play; plooy; popular; positioning; practices; qualitative; quasi; realities; relationship; research; resources; rich; school; shafiek; small; social; south; space; spatial; study; teachers; things; time; township; way; ways; worlds; young
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- pie-5816
- author: Nieuwenhuis, Jan
- title: Editorial
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 742
- flesch: 42
- summary: These articles raise a number of important concerns that should be taken further in the educational discourse as it touches on vital aspects in the provision of education not only in South Africa but also across the globe. For many educational authorities the butterfly moment was to plan education on a day-to-day basis.
- keywords: africa; articles; butterfly; day; education; http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/530481521735906534/overcoming-poverty-and-inequality-in-south-africa-an-assessment-of-drivers-constraints-and-opportunities; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.1; learning; life; online; perspectives; research; south; teaching
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- pie-5817
- author: de Wet, Corene
- title: The changing face of colonial education in Africa
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 1435
- flesch: 44
- summary: Kallaway demonstrates the African response to colonial education in two case studies from South Africa that highlights the careers of two African leaders in the field of education. i4.16 e-ISSN 2519-593X Perspectives in Education 2021 39(4): 236-238 PUBLISHED: 6 December 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.16 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5208-2963 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.16 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.16 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.16 2372021 39(4): 237-238 http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v39.i4.16 De Wet The changing face of colonial education in Africa In Chapter 1
- keywords: academic; africa; apartheid; author; book; cape; chapter; colonial; colonial africa; colonial education; context; development; education; face; highlights; history; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.16; kallaway; new; policy; research; social; south; south africa; town; university
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- pie-5818
- author: Coughlan, Felicity; Coughlan, Daniel
- title: Understanding higher education: Alternative perspectives
- date: 2021-12-06
- words: 2251
- flesch: 45
- summary: A book review by Dr Felicity Coughlan and Daniel Coughlan The authors of this book, Chrissie Boughey and Sioux McKenna, enjoy a hard-earned reputation for their contribution to higher education and for the lucidity with which they make that contribution. My fellow reviewer has a perspective on higher education recently informed by his own postgraduate studies and his perspective as a new lecturer, while mine, it must be declared, is probably more accurately currently described as managerial.
- keywords: academics; access; africa; authors; book; change; chapter; context; contribution; education; good; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v39.i4.17; learning; new; perspectives; private; public; purpose; sector; social; south; students; understanding
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- pie-5906
- author: Aina, Adebunmi; Bipath, Keshni
- title: Accessing resources that promote quality education for young children: Experience of early childhood development centres' principals
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 7646
- flesch: 47
- summary: 2.6 Roles of ECD centre principals in accessing resources Britto et al. (2011) emphasise that ECD centres may not necessarily be able to provide all the quality indicators (resources) privately but should get support from the ecological system around them. Keywords: Learning resources, ECD centre principal, Funding, management and leadership, quality ECCE.
- keywords: 2012; 2015; 2016; access; africa; aina; appropriate; areas; atmore; bipath; britto; britto et; care; centres; childhood; childhood development; childhood education; children; community; data; development; dimensions; early; early childhood; ecce; ecd; ecd centres; ecological; education; environment; equipment; essential; et al; example; experiences; external; fees; financial; framework; funding; funds; government; health; human; immediate; information; infrastructure; international; journal; lack; leadership; learning; levels; local; management; materials; members; national; organisations; parents; participants; perspectives; physical; practitioners; principals; programmes; quality; quality early; quality ecce; quality education; research; resources; settings; skills; social; south; study; suburban; support; systems; township; training; years; young
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- pie-5914
- author: Amos-Williams, Taryn; Sayed, Yusuf; Singh, Marcina
- title: The experiences of teacher educators managing teaching and learning during times of crises at one initial teacher education provider in South Africa
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 7889
- flesch: 42
- summary: These are teacher educator pedagogy; the sociality of teaching and learning; equity and pedagogy; effects of the pandemic on teacher educators’ wellbeing; and institution and context. This article presents a snapshot of how teacher educators responded to the COVID-19 crisis between 2020 and 2021, and the implications of what has been deemed “emergency remote modes” of teaching for the future of higher education pedagogy.
- keywords: academic; access; africa; available; context; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; crisis; data; delivery; education; educators; emergency; experiences; face; following; foundation; foundation phase; future; higher; higher education; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.6; impact; inequities; initial; institutional; ite; journal; knowledge; lack; leadership; learning; lecturer; loss; monoculture; need; new; non; online; online learning; online teaching; pandemic; particular; pedagogic; pedagogy; perspectives; phase; practical; practicum; programme; rapanta; remote; research; resources; responses; role; santos; sayed; sense; singh; social; sociality; sousa; south; staff; stress; students; study; support; teacher; teacher educators; teaching; technology; time; university; uot; virtual; wellbeing; work
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- pie-5919
- author: Chandramohan, Sandhya; Bhagwan, Raisuyah
- title: Insights into community engagement at a University of Technology in South Africa: A qualitative inquiry with academics
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 8810
- flesch: 41
- summary: University community engagement and lifelong learning. Keywords: higher education, community engagement, social change, partnerships, curriculum, students 1.
- keywords: 2015; 2016; 2017; academics; activities; african; benefits; bhagwan; boyer; care; chandramohan; change; civic; collaborative; communities; community; community engagement; context; data; development; discussions; education; engaged; engagement; et al; experience; faculty; favish; february; findings; focus; form; gain; global; group; health; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.14; initiatives; insights; institutions; interviews; issues; jacob; journal; justice; knowledge; learning; local; members; model; needs; new; opportunity; participants; partnerships; people; perspectives; phase; practice; problems; process; processes; projects; publishers; qualitative; relationship; relevant; research; resources; responsibility; scholarship; sense; service; skills; social; societal; society; south; students; study; sub; sustainable; symbiotic; teaching; technology; theme; transformation; understanding; universities; university; way; work
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- pie-5923
- author: Hu, Zijing
- title: Emergency remote education in higher education institutions during COVID-19: Students’ voices
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 6837
- flesch: 47
- summary: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the life of higher education students: A global perspective. O’Sullivan (2017) also found that most students lacked the appropriate skills and knowledge to adequately use technology for online learning.
- keywords: 2020; access; adoption; affected; african; appropriate; aristovnik; bakkabulindi; challenges; cloete; communication; contact; covid-19; data; diffusion; education; emergency; ere; et al; experiences; face; financial; findings; heis; higher; higher education; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.5923; impact; infrastructure; innovation; institutions; internet; journal; knowledge; lack; learning; lecturers; model; online; online learning; online teaching; pandemic; participants; perspectives; programme; rashid; remote; remote education; research; researchers; rogers; skills; social; south; students; studies; study; teaching; technological; technology; time; universities; use; view; world; yadav
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- pie-5936
- author: Olaitan, Olutoyin; Mavuso, Nosipho
- title: Adapting to technology tools in a learning environment: A case study of first-year students at a traditional African university
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 7063
- flesch: 47
- summary: The implication of this is that most of the first-year students have had no access to computers or any sort of technology learning tool before joining the university. Constructs from the two theories were combined as a way of robustly investigating how students perceived the ease of use, and their own attitude towards these tolls that were previously unfamiliar but had now been “forced” upon them as a result of becoming university students.
- keywords: 2013; 2015; academic; acceptance; access; african; analysis; attitude; blackboard; blended; case; challenges; constructs; correlation; data; digital; education; environment; factors; gender; higher; increase; information; innovative; institutions; intention; international; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; level; lms; management; mavuso; model; new; non; odds; olaitan; online; paper; perspectives; research; results; shows; significant; skills; social; south; square; students; studies; study; table; tam; teacher; teaching; technological; technologies; technology; technology tools; tertiary; test; theory; tools; tpb; tpb_tn; traditional; unit; universities; university; use; value; variables; year
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- pie-6
- author: Samuel, Michael
- title: Searching for a "pedagogy of hope": teacher education and the social sciences
- date: 2017-05-16
- words: 7693
- flesch: 47
- summary: Alternately, it might be argued that teacher education module designers can learn from the language from outside. T his merger suggests that interpretations of social sciences education may be symptomatic of historical governance issues of the newly formed institution, rather than disciplinary considerations about the identity of the social sciences.
- keywords: academic; africa; analysis; arts; assessment; base; boundaries; boundary; case; challenges; content; course; critical; cultural; culture; curriculum; data; department; designers; development; dialogue; different; disciplinary; disciplines; discourse; education; education curriculum; educators; example; faculty; fet; forms; fusion; history; hope; identity; ithin; justice; knowledge; language; learning; level; march; mathematics; methodology; model; module; multi; natal; national; nature; new; new language; notions; official; outlines; outside; paper; particular; pedagogy; perspectives; policy; power; powerful; practice; professional; programme; quality; reference; research; school; school curriculum; sciences; sciences education; separate; social; social sciences; south; specific; sports; sse; staff; students; studies; sub; systems; teacher; teacher education; teaching; technology; theory; undergraduate; university; volume; ways; year
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- pie-6003
- author: Terhoven, René
- title: Discourse in curriculum policy enactment: a focus on leadership practices
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 7253
- flesch: 51
- summary: University of Nottingham: College for school leadership. Leadership for coping with and adapting to policy change in deprived contexts: Lessons from school principals.
- keywords: 2013; activities; african; article; ball; ball et; caps; class; class school; context; curriculum; curriculum policy; dbe; development; direction; discourse; discursive; education; enactment; et al; expectations; expected; focus; good; high; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6003; incoming; incoming discourse; journal; leadership; leadership practices; learners; learning; maguire; management; means; members; monitoring; people; platform; policy; policy enactment; practices; principal; process; research; responses; results; school; setting; smt; smts; south; specific; strategies; study; subject; support; teachers; teaching; time; translation; way; working
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- pie-6005
- author: Sithaldeen, Riashna; van Pletzen, Ermien
- title: Applying systems principles to achieve greater integration of student support at a decentralised institution
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 8204
- flesch: 44
- summary: 382022 40(4): 38-54 http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6005 Applying systems principles to achieve greater integration of student support at a decentralised institution Abstract The role of student support in enabling successful student outcomes is widely acknowledged. This paper draws on systems thinking to develop a framework to guide the assessment and improvement of student support.
- keywords: 2012; 2014; 2016; academic; advising; advisors; african; approach; available; booklet; capacity; careers; case; challenges; communication; conceptual; curriculum; data; december; decentralised; defined; degree; education; effective; engagement; experience; faculty; feedback; focus; framework; functions; goal; greater; help; higher; higher education; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6005; important; information; institutional; integrated; integration; journal; lack; management; mentor_interview; mentoring; need; orientation; outcomes; paper; peer; perspectives; pletzen; principles; purpose; redesign; research; resources; retention; sau; services; significant; sithaldeen; south; ssc; ssc_interview; staff; structures; student; student advising; student support; study; success; support; support functions; support structures; systems; time; training; university; van; way; year
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- pie-6021
- author: Swarts, Pieter
- title: Connecting embodied learning to social and environmental responsibility for the realisation of Life Orientation outcomes
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 6314
- flesch: 46
- summary: Successful direction by LO teachers regarding social and environmental challenges becomes important because learners must be able to translate acquired knowledge into action. This has implications for how LO teachers view their learners, including their teaching and learning approaches towards social and environmental challenges.
- keywords: 2015; action; activities; african; approach; bodies; body; challenges; change; classroom; community; curriculum; data; dbe; edition; education; environmental; environmental challenges; environmental responsibility; experiences; findings; framework; grange; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.7; human; important; issues; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; lesson; life; lived; lo teachers; magano; nel; new; observations; orientation; outcomes; participant; perspectives; policy; potential; practice; qualitative; real; research; responsibility; second; skills; social; south; study; swarts; teachers; teaching; textbook; values; van; view; world
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- pie-6078
- author: Marsay, Gloria
- title: Educators’ perspectives on the relevance of Social and Emotional Learning skills in South Africa
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 5638
- flesch: 46
- summary: There is evidence worldwide that implementation of SEL skills is effective for improving academic achievement as well as success in the future life. Findings indicate that 68 participating purposive selected educators, who wrote written responses to open- ended questionnaires, believe SEL skills would have a positive impact on the learning environment; would be essential for learners to become future ready; and would be beneficial to themselves as educators both personally and professionally.
- keywords: 2019; african; approach; appropriate; available; awareness; career; charmaz; communities; context; countries; data; development; education; educators; effective; emotional; environment; findings; future; help; high; hope; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6078; important; interventions; journal; learners; learning; life; livelihood; making; management; marsay; need; november; orientation; people; personal; perspectives; positive; relevance; research; rural; school; sel; sel skills; self; skills; social; south; study; support; sustainable; theories; theory; theron; transition; workplace; world; young
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- pie-6085
- author: Koen, Mariëtte
- title: Teaching in and beyond pandemic times
- date: 2022-03-04
- words: 1327
- flesch: 42
- summary: The topics are pressure; pedagogy; preparation; pioneers; poverty; privilege; perspective; parents and parent teachers; peer teaching; perseverance and pastoral care. The themes shared in this publication foregrounded that learners and teachers had been affected by COVID-19.
- keywords: book; chapter; closed; covid-19; doors; editors; education; http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/530481521735906534/overcoming-poverty-and-inequality-in-south-africa-an-assessment-of-drivers-constraints-and-opportunities; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i1.19; human; jansen; learners; learning; lockdown; pandemic; poem; readers; social; south; stories; teachers; teaching; times
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- pie-6133
- author: Nel, Benita P
- title: Professional learning by mathematics teachers through video-stimulated recall
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 7404
- flesch: 57
- summary: The use of videos in conjunction with teacher professional learning and reflection is also on the increase globally (Gaudin & Chalies, 2015). However, much more research is needed to understand the specific effects of this tool on teacher learning (Geiger, Muir & Lamb, 2016).
- keywords: 2𝑦𝑦; 3𝑥𝑥; 4𝑦𝑦; answer; approach; aspects; aware; ccl; class; classroom; competence; conscious; data; development; dialogue; different; education; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6133; individual; initiatives; interview; journal; knowingly; knowledge; learners; learning; lesson; mathematics; mathematics teachers; model; muir; nel; new; perspectives; practice; professional; professional learning; questions; recall; recorded; reflection; research; school; second; self; stage; study; teacher; teacher l; teaching; terminology; time; tool; unaware; use; video; vsr; work
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- pie-6140
- author: de Jager, Sarina
- title: Connection, desperation and disillusionment: Exploring student wellbeing at a university in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 6956
- flesch: 44
- summary: Pre-existing mental health challenges among university students have consequently been compounded by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Introduction In recent years, the mental health of university students has become a pressing public health concern.
- keywords: 2017; 2019; 2020; 2021; 2022; 41(1; academic; africa; analysis; anxiety; campus; challenges; connection; context; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; data; depression; desperation; disillusionment; disorders; distress; education; engagement; experiences; faculty; feeling; findings; flourishing; head; health; higher; higher education; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6140; image; impact; international; jager; journal; large; learning; life; meaning; mental; mental health; method; model; morgan; nature; online; pandemic; participant; perma; perspectives; photos; photovoice; positive; present; psychological; psychology; qualitative; relationships; research; second; seligman; sense; significant; social; south; space; stress; students; study; support; understanding; universities; university; university students; urban; wellbeing; world
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- pie-6176
- author: Buttler, Timothy; Scheurer, Jacob
- title: Perceptions of pre-service teachers on breakout room micro-teaching with Zoom
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 11226
- flesch: 47
- summary: PSTs valued breakout room interactions, though males and females valued different aspects. In contrast, breakout room interactions revealed active, engaged PSTs.
- keywords: 2018; 2020; 2021; 2022; 41(1; activities; analysis; approaches; aspects; available; blended; bors; breakout; breakout rooms; buttler; challenges; change; classroom; collaboration; collection; comfortable; communication; content; conversations; correlation; course; covid-19; creswell; data; delivery; design; development; digital; distance; education; educators; effective; emergency; environment; experiences; face; findings; future; general; group; higher; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6176; impact; information; interactions; international; item; journal; july; june; learning; lessons; level; literature; makri; meeting; methodology; methods; microteaching; mixed; new; northrup; online; online education; online learning; pandemic; pedagogical; peers; perceptions; person; perspectives; positive; post; practices; pre; process; professor; programmes; psts; qualitative; questionnaire; questions; recordings; remote; research; responses; rooms; scheurer; school; service; significant; skills; social; students; study; support; survey; synchronous; table; teacher; teacher education; teaching; technology; time; university; use; video; videoconferencing; virtual; work; zalavra; zoom
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- pie-6182
- author: Svongoro, Paul; Mudzi, Fennie
- title: Optimising students’ participation during emergency remote teaching in the Covid-19 pandemic
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 8707
- flesch: 40
- summary: To increase student-to-student and student-to-lecturer engagement, students also reported how some of their lecturers used breakout rooms (note how breakout rooms meant to increase student-to-student and student-to-lecturer engagement address Khan’s pedagogical and technological dimensions, for instance). Students also called upon their institutions to offer training programmes related to how they could access materials from data bases or digital libraries so that students could navigate the digital information terrain with more ease.
- keywords: 2016; 2019; 41(1; academic; academic integrity; academic staff; access; assessment; assignments; available; challenges; class; classes; conduct; covid-19; data; digital; dimension; education; environment; ethical; ethics; face; fgd; framework; heis; higher; home; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6182; ict; information; institutions; integrity; interactive; issues; khan; learners; learning; lecturers; libraries; literature; necessary; need; online; online learning; online teaching; pandemic; participants; participation; perspectives; plagiarism; practices; private; programmes; public; questions; related; research; resources; social; staff; strategies; students; study; support; svongoro; teaching; technological; technology; terms; time; tools; traditional; training; universities; university; use; values; views; zimbabwe
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- pie-6186
- author: Du Preez, Hannelie; West, Joyce
- title: Early childhood student-teachers’ experiences of blended learning using Community of Inquiry as theoretical framework
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 7476
- flesch: 37
- summary: Providing vision and support towards optimising student learning and success. The latter characteristic is a common phenomenon in South Africa where early childhood education teachers are mainly female (Petersen, 2014).
- keywords: analysis; approach; assessment; blackboard; blended; blended learning; childhood; citizenship; citizenship education; cognitive; coi; collaboration; communication; community; contact; content; count; curriculum; data; delivery; democratic; democratic citizenship; design; discussion; early; education; environment; experiences; face; factor; framework; garrison; good; group; heis; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6186; information; inquiry; items; knowledge; learning; lms; management; method; milieus; module; new; offers; online; pedagogies; perspectives; platform; preez; presence; quantitative; questionnaire; reliability; research; results; row; sessions; skills; social; social presence; social studies; socio; software; south; statistics; student; studentteachers; studies; study; system; table; teachers; teaching; teaching presence; technology; tools; understanding; use; value; virtual; weekly; west
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- pie-6190
- author: Ramohai, Nthuna Juliet ; Holtzhausen, Somarie
- title: Academic women departmental heads’ coping mechanisms during COVID-19: A capabilities approach perspective
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 7507
- flesch: 37
- summary: We believe that shedding light on the COVID-19 lived-experiences of women academic leaders will enable institutions to understand them and draw on their narratives when planning interventions during crisis periods. Moreover, the coping strategies that women academic leaders displayed were mostly linked to Sen’s (1999) Capability Model.
- keywords: 2019; 2021; academic; academic leaders; africa; agency; applied; approach; available; capabilities; capability; challenges; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; crisis; critical; departmental; development; education; effective; effects; enablers; environment; et al; experiences; face; focused; freedoms; functionings; gender; heads; health; hei1; hei2; heis; higher; higher education; hod10; hod3; hod8; hod9; hods; holtzhausen; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6190; https://doi; human; impact; institutions; international; journal; leaders; leadership; learning; lockdown; management; mechanisms; narrative; online; opportunities; organisation; pandemic; paper; participants; people; period; perspectives; physical; problem; psychological; qualitative; ramohai; research; resilience; resources; responsibilities; roles; scholars; situation; social; south; staff; strategies; stress; stressful; studies; study; support; teaching; technology; time; transformation; understanding; university; women; women academic; women departmental; women leaders; work; working
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- pie-6191
- author: Mkhize, Msizi Vitalis; Mtshali, Muntuwenkosi Abraham; Sithebe, Khumbuzile
- title: Teacher factors influencing Grade 12 Accounting learners’ performance in the Eswatini General Certificate Secondary Examination
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 8250
- flesch: 52
- summary: More experienced teachers have higher expectations for good learner performance (Rubie-Davies, Flint & McDonald, 2021). Effective teaching may manifest itself in high scores in learner performance assessments, or in rewarding classroom interaction (Mastrokoukou et al., 2022).
- keywords: 2013; absenteeism; academic; academic performance; accounting; accounting learners; analysis; assignments; attitude; available; characteristics; class; classwork; completion; content; data; demographic; dissertation; dlamini; education; effectiveness; eswatini; examination; factors; feedback; findings; gcse; good; grade; high; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6191; impact; influence; information; interviews; journal; kenya; knowledge; learners; learning; marking; methods; motivation; mtshali; negative; non; number; papers; participants; performance; perspectives; poor; punishment; quantitative; questionnaires; questions; research; results; revision; sampling; schools; secondary; sithebe; social; standard; students; study; subject; swaziland; syllabus; table; teachers; teaching; tests; time; university; variables; work
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- pie-6224
- author: Van der Westhuizen, Marichen ; Hlatshwayo, Lindokuhle
- title: Towards flexible learning and teaching: Lessons learned from educator and student experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 7006
- flesch: 46
- summary: An educator participant expressed frustration regarding the fact that student data was primarily for nighttime use: Typical academic challenges experienced by university students include not managing time and distractions effectively and a reduced focus on studies (Maqableh & Alia, 2021).
- keywords: 2020; academic; access; african; approach; better; blended; blt; campus; challenges; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; data; der; development; devices; digital; discussion; education; educators; effective; experiences; face; findings; flexible; flexible learning; flt; future; google; heis; higher; higher education; hlatshwayo; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6224; inclusion; international; journal; lack; learning; lecturers; library; need; olt; online; online learning; pandemic; participants; participation; performance; perspectives; platform; post; practices; research; resources; review; skills; social; social work; south; south african; statement; students; study; support; teaching; technology; time; training; university; use; van; westhuizen; whatsapp; work; workers
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- pie-6265
- author: Africa, Cherrel; Yu, Derek; Karriem, Abdulrazak; Raymond, Bonita
- title: Crisis leadership: Reflecting on the complex role of academic (middle) leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 7733
- flesch: 46
- summary: Last but not the least, in addition to tutors, Graduate Assistants (GAs) were introduced to support teaching staff. Crisis leadership: Reflecting on the complex role of academic (middle) leaders African socio-economic context meant that many students did not have access to personal computers and laptops, which forced many to rely on their mobile phones (Khan et al., 2020; Khoza, Khoza & Mukona, 2021; Neuwirth, Jovic & Mukherji, 2020; Patrick, Abiolu & Abiolu, 2021; Khan, 2022).
- keywords: academic; access; accounting; additional; africa; article; assessment; campus; chairs; challenges; changes; circumstances; classes; clear; communication; complex; contact; context; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; crisis; data; decisions; department; different; difficult; economic; education; environment; example; experiences; face; fact; faculty; higher; higher education; home; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6265; ikamva; impact; importance; institutions; internet; isd; issues; journal; key; leadership; learning; level; lockdown; long; making; management; managers; middle; middle managers; mode; modules; need; new; numerous; online; pandemic; personal; perspectives; place; postgraduate; pre; processes; programmes; rapid; research; responsibilities; role; social; south; staff; students; studies; study; support; survivalist; systems; teaching; time; tools; units; university; use; uwc; work; year
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- pie-6272
- author: Ugwuanyi, Christian; Okeke, Chinedu; Alex, Jogymol
- title: Exploring South African university academics’ level of preparedness for emergency multimodal remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 5733
- flesch: 37
- summary: According to Matarirano, Gqokonqana and Yeboah (2021), the COVID-19 pandemic led some universities to use synchronous and asynchronous instruction to conduct emergency remote teaching. (2022) opine that the only option to deal with the situation orchestrated by COVID-19 is to convert physical classrooms to virtual ones and promote online teaching and learning through emergency remote teaching (ERT).
- keywords: 2020; 2021; academics; african; analysis; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; data; design; digital; education; emergency; emergency multimodal; emergency remote; environment; et al; experiences; face; faculties; findings; higher; home; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6272; impact; institutions; instruction; interview; journal; lack; learning; level; methods; multimodal; multimodal remote; occupation; okeke; online; online teaching; pandemic; participants; person; perspectives; preparedness; qualitative; remote; remote teaching; research; researchers; result; skills; south; students; study; support; teaching; technology; time; training; ugwuanyi; universities; university; university academics; use; work
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- pie-6284
- author: Mokoena, Moratoa Trinity; Janse van Vuuren, Petro
- title: Lessons learnt from teaching an Applied Drama and Theatre pedagogy online in a digitally divided South Africa
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 8521
- flesch: 43
- summary: The literature covers the role of the digital divide and the complexities of migrating an Applied Drama and Theatre pedagogy online. David Reiersgord (2020) explicates that central to online learning is the ability for students to access their content.
- keywords: 2020; 41(1; academic; access; african; applied; applied drama; approach; aspects; available; body; central; challenges; change; collaboration; collective; community; connectivity; contact; contexts; covid-19; curriculum; data; devices; digital; digital divide; divide; drama; education; educators; ert&l; ethnography; experience; face; fictional; findings; group; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6284; immersion; institutions; janse; journal; june; learning; lessons; life; methods; mokoena; nebe; new; notes; online; online learning; pandemic; participant; participation; pedagogical; pedagogy; perspectives; physical; platforms; practical; practice; praxis; prendergast; presence; present; process; processes; reflection; remote; research; role; saxton; september; social; south; space; story; strategies; students; study; teaching; theatre; theatre educators; theatre pedagogy; university; use; van; vuuren; whatsapp; world; zoom
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- pie-6291
- author: Pietersen, Doniwen
- title: Perspectives on dialogue and care in teaching, learning relationships in an ever-changing online higher education landscape
- date: 2023-06-23
- words: 8458
- flesch: 46
- summary: Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, Fourth Industrial Revolution, higher education, Learning Management System, pedagogies of care, social capital, student engagement, student success, technology 1. Many lecturers in the online higher education landscape predominantly come from affluent educational habitus, whereas many students come from working-class backgrounds.
- keywords: 2005; 2006; 2018; 2020; academic; access; action; active; african; article; backgrounds; blackboard; capacity; care; caring; challenges; choice; class; class students; consciousness; course; covid-19; critical; cultural; deliberative; democracy; democratic; dialogical; dialogue; digital; education; engagement; environment; face; free; graph; habitus; higher; higher education; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6291; important; institutions; journal; kind; knowledge; learning; learning process; lecturers; level; lms; management; means; need; online; online education; online learning; online teaching; order; outcomes; pandemic; pedagogies; pedagogy; people; perspectives; pietersen; platforms; process; recognition; relationships; research; social; social class; society; south; space; state; stratification; students; study; support; system; taylor; teaching; technological; technology; terms; theory; ufs; university; use; working
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- pie-6292
- author: Bazirake, Joseph Besigye; Hamukuaya, Hashali; Chauke, Tinyiko; Mngadi, Anele; De Raedt, Amy
- title: Beckoning a new post- Covid higher education engagement agenda: Lessons from Nelson Mandela University Covid-19 responses
- date: 2023-03-30
- words: 6546
- flesch: 35
- summary: The paper follows with a background to the university’s commitment to community engagement through the creation of the Hubs of Convergence under the newly constituted Engagement and Transformation Portfolio (ETP) in 2019. It further notes that while community engagement is a core mission of institutions and is part of the work of universities in South Africa, it remains fragmented and not linked to the universities’ academic projects (Wood, 2016).
- keywords: 2010; 2017; 2020; 41(1; academic; activities; africa; agenda; approach; available; bazirake; beehive; cape; ccc; ccw; committee; communities; community; community engagement; context; convergence; core; covid-19; department; education; education engagement; emergency; engagement; food; government; higher; higher education; hoc; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6292; hubs; initiatives; institutions; knowledge; learning; lessons; local; mandela; mandela university; march; model; muthwa; national; nelson; nelson mandela; new; pandemic; paper; partnership; perspectives; physical; post; pretoria; projects; research; responses; responsive; schalkwyk; service; social; society; south; south africa; stakeholders; strategy; structures; support; transformative; universities; university; vision; work
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- pie-6294
- author: van Staden, Christa; Nel, Liezel
- title: Using WhatsAppbased mobile learning environments during abrupt switches to online learning: A duoethnographic account
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 7849
- flesch: 55
- summary: The MLE provided a learning space, as many students were overwhelmed by the switch to e-portfolios. Many students wrote that they considered dropping out, but they did not, as they were supported by their peers.
- keywords: 2013; 41(1; abrupt; activities; african; available; beliefs; better; christa; classroom; contact; contexts; currere; dialogic; different; distance; duoethnography; education; emergency; environments; experiences; face; free; future; group; higher; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6294; impact; learning; lecturers; level; liezel; limited; march; messages; methodology; mle; mles; mobile; module; nel; new; norris; online; online learning; pandemic; paper; peers; perspectives; postgraduate; practices; remote; research; sage; sawyer; school; sessions; skills; social; south; staden; statistics; stories; storytelling; students; success; switches; teacher; teaching; technologies; time; training; undergraduate; university; use; values; van; way; whatsapp; world; year
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- pie-6295
- author: Muloiwa-Klenam, Takalani; Sharpley, Kristan; Thahale , Mpho ; Taimo, Neo; Mogaladi, Tshegofatso ; September , Jerome
- title: Student perspectives on the challenges of an online orientation at a large South African university during the COVID-19 pandemic
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 6701
- flesch: 41
- summary: Investigating the academic and social benefits of extended new student orientations for first-year students. Student transition programmes such as orientation and first-year experience activities also moved online, which presented challenges for both staff and students.
- keywords: 2022; 41(1; academic; access; activities; african; approach; available; challenges; community; covid-19; crozier; culture; data; development; digital; education; engagement; environment; experience; face; faculty; findings; friends; higher; home; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6295; information; institution; klenam; learning; lizzio; muloiwa; new; online; online learning; online orientation; opportunity; orientation; pandemic; participants; perspectives; programme; research; residence; resources; self; sense; services; sessions; shift; skills; south; students; study; success; support; survey; time; transition; university; week; year; year students
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- pie-6296
- author: Moosa, Moeniera; Aloka, Peter JO
- title: Factors that kept first-year students motivated at a university in Johannesburg during lockdown
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 6661
- flesch: 47
- summary: Addressing student motivation and learning experiences when taking teaching online. Academic motivation of university students and the factors that influence it in an E-Learning Environment.
- keywords: able; academic; achievement; addition; better; change; competence; course; covid-19; deci; degree; determination; education; external; extrinsic; face; factors; family; fear; findings; goals; half; hard; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6296; internal; intrinsic; johannesburg; learning; life; lockdown; mode; motivated; motivation; need; online; online learning; pandemic; participants; period; perspectives; power; remote; research; ryan; self; situation; social; south; students; study; success; support; teaching; theory; time; university; work; year; year students
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- pie-6298
- author: Fynn, Angelo
- title: Academic burnout among Open Distance e-Learning students during the COVID-19 pandemic
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 8908
- flesch: 53
- summary: Exploring the relations between student cynicism and student burnout. How obstacles and facilitators predict academic performance: The mediating role of study burnout and engagement.
- keywords: 2015; absorption; academic; academic burnout; analysis; aro; average; bakker; burnout; change; coefficients; college; correlation; covid-19; cynicism; demands; disengagement; distance; dropout; education; emotional; engagement; et al; exhaustion; factor; findings; fynn; high; high levels; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6298; hypothesis; impact; institution; intention; inventory; items; job; journal; learning; learning students; leiter; levels; low; low levels; maslach; model; moderate; negative; number; olbi; online; open; pandemic; performance; perspectives; population; psychological; psychology; regression; relationship; research; resources; respondents; results; role; salmela; sample; schaufeli; score; significant; south; stress; students; studies; study; study engagement; subscale; support; symptoms; table; time; university; uwes; vigour; work
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- pie-6300
- author: Zvavahera, Promise; Chirima, Ngonidzashe Elizabeth
- title: Flexible work arrangements and gender differences in research during the COVID-19 period in Zimbabwean higher learning institutions
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 6952
- flesch: 46
- summary: Keywords: Gender, COVID-19, flexible work arrangements, higher education institutions, Zimbabwe 1. AUTHOR: Dr Promise Zvavahera1 Ngonidzashe Elizabeth Chirima2 AFFILIATION: 1IBS University, Papua New Guinea 2Africa University, Zimbabwe DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/ pie.v41i1.6300 e-ISSN 2519-593X Perspectives in Education 2023 41(1): 88-102 PUBLISHED: 31 March 2023 RECEIVED: 15 September 2022 ACCEPTED: 13 March 2023 Research Article https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6300 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6984-6475 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-7780 https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6300 892023 41(1): 89-102 https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6300 Zvavahera & Chirima Flexible work arrangements and gender differences in research To combat the effects of COVID-19, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Belgium successfully migrated to flexible work arrangements (Johanson, 2021; Mendez & Carvalho, 2021).
- keywords: 2011; 2018; 2019; 41(1; academics; affordances; african; arrangements; available; business; challenges; chirima; covid-19; data; differences; domestic; education; employees; environment; family; female; female academics; figure; findings; flexible; flexible work; fwas; gender; higher; higher learning; home; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6300; human; hybrid; institutions; journal; lack; learning; learning institutions; management; model; norms; outputs; perspectives; physical; place; power; quadrant; related; research; research outputs; researchers; resources; respondents; responsibilities; roles; society; staff; study; support; systems; time; traditional; values; women; work; work arrangements; working; workplace; world; zimbabwe; zvavahera
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- pie-6318
- author: Petersen, Fazlyn
- title: Factors affecting students’ use of a data-free instant messenger for on-line peer tutoring: a large, undergraduate class at a historically disadvantaged university
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 8301
- flesch: 48
- summary: The price value is expected to be a factor, as students will no longer need to pay for data when using the Moya MIM for online peer tutoring. The Moya application allows students to chat and send voice notes to tutors and peers without using data.
- keywords: 2019; 41(1; acceptance; access; africa; analysis; application; available; behavioural; bere; cape; case; class; code; conditions; connectivity; constructs; content; cost; course; covid-19; data; disabling; education; effort; expectancy; factors; findings; free; free instant; future; groups; higher; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6318; influence; information; instant; instant messenger; intention; internet; journal; knowledge; large; learning; literature; low; messenger; mim; mims; mobile; model; moya; moya instant; moya mim; online; online peer; online tutoring; peer; peer tutoring; performance; perspectives; petersen; preferred; qualitative; recommendations; research; responses; results; significant; social; south; students; study; systems; teaching; technology; theoretical; theory; tool; tutoring; tutors; university; usage; use; western; whatsapp; year
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- pie-6319
- author: Howard, Barbara; Ilyashenko, Natalia; Jacobs, Lynette
- title: Cross-cultural collaboration through virtual teaming in higher education
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 7301
- flesch: 42
- summary: Keywords: Collaboration among higher education students; cross-cultural teaching in Higher Education; international studies; internationalisation; transformative learning AUTHOR: Prof Barbara Howard1 Dr Natalia Ilyashenko2 Prof Lynette Jacobs3 AFFILIATION: 1Appalachian State University, United States of America 2Novgorod State University, Russia 3University of the Free State, South Africa DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/ pie.v41i1.6319 e-ISSN 2519-593X Perspectives in Education 2023 41(1): 74-87 PUBLISHED: 31 March 2023 RECEIVED: 18 August 2022 ACCEPTED: 20 January 2023 Research Article https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6319 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5769-5411 https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5914-9300 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1582-5024 https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6319 752023 41(1): 75-87 https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6319 Howard, Ilyashenko & Jacobs Cross-cultural collaboration through virtual teaming 1. Since the two countries’ academic calendars differ, the weeks in which they overlapped were designated for collaboration among student teams.
- keywords: 2016; 41(1; africa; approach; appstate; author; available; blessinger; business; challenges; collaboration; communication; countries; country; course; cross; cultural; cultures; design; development; differences; different; distance; education; experience; group; halim; haug; higher; higher education; howard; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6319; ilyashenko; initial; international; internationalisation; jacobs; journal; learning; lecturers; level; moodle; new; novsu; online; pandemic; partners; partnership; perspectives; platform; policies; programme; project; reflections; research; resources; results; russia; shared; skills; south; staff; state; strategies; students; studies; study; teaching; team; teaming; time; united; universities; university; usa; use; value; virtual; work; world
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- pie-6328
- author: Dankers, Paul; Scholtenkamp, Juliet
- title: Advances made by the University of the Western Cape in the support of remote online teaching and learning for student success and access
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 5895
- flesch: 42
- summary: By ensuring alignment of outcomes, course content, assessment tools and the selection of relevant eTools that support course design circumvented any kind of inequality that discouraged student access and success. 4. Advances made by the University of the Western Cape in the support of remote online teaching and learning for student success and access Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing advances were made by higher education institutions (HEIs) to support remote online teaching and learning for student success and access, which are increasing areas of research.
- keywords: 257; academic; access; addition; advances; african; assessment; blended; cape; ciect; content; course; covid-19; curriculum; data; delivery; design; different; digital; divide; education; environments; epistemological; ert; faculties; heis; higher; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6328; ict; ikamva; inequality; infrastructure; interactive; knowledge; lack; learning; lecturers; literature; module; need; new; online; online teaching; pandemic; pedagogies; post; practices; presentations; quality; remote; research; reviews; shift; south; staff; students; success; support; teaching; team; technologies; technology; theme; training; transformation; university; use; uwc; western
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- pie-6337
- author: Janse van Vuuren, Corlia; Muller, Annari; Strydom, Francois
- title: Flexible curriculum design for quantitative skills development: Building on the insights gained during COVID-19
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 9188
- flesch: 37
- summary: These strategies include student engagement, student-staff relationships, flexibility in curriculum design and delivery, staff and student development and equitable resourcing. 137 Research Article 2023 41(1): 137-154 https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6337 Published by the UFS http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/pie © Creative Commons With Attribution (CC-BY) Flexible curriculum design for quantitative skills development: Building on the insights gained during COVID-19 Abstract Before the COVID-19 pandemic, technology-enhanced learning and its relation to student engagement, and the necessity of good student-staff relationships for creating a successful education environment were evident.
- keywords: 41(1; academic; access; activities; analysis; article; available; bedenlier; blended; bond; buntins; campus; challenges; class; cohort; collaborations; confidence; context; covid-19; curriculum; data; delivery; design; development; education; engagement; environment; et al; face; facilitator; figure; final; flexibility; flexible; focus; group; higher; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6337; human; implementation; important; journal; large; learning; mark; module; online; pandemic; participant; pathways; pedagogy; performance; perspectives; positive; post; programme; quantitative; quantitative skills; quantway; related; relationships; research; results; second; semester; skills; small; staff; strategies; student engagement; students; study; synchronous; table; teachers; teaching; technology; test; time; traditional; university; work
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- pie-6379
- author: none
- title: Student poverty in South African universities: Promoting the wellbeing and success of students
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 10081
- flesch: 44
- summary: Despite finances not reflecting student poverty on their own, they are a key aspect of multidimensional student poverty. While providing funding only does not sufficiently address student poverty, the study recommends that universities should consider devising robust measures to identify those financially deprived and provide them with adequate funding.
- keywords: 2018; 2020; academic; access; accommodation; activities; administration; african; analysis; approach; basic; campus; capabilities; conditions; confidence; data; deprivation; deprived; development; dimensions; education; error; evasys; fgds; figure; finances; financial; findings; gore; hard; health; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6379; indicators; lack; learning; living; margin; means; multidimensional; needs; online; participation; percentage; phase; physical; poor; population; poverty; psychological; questionnaire; random; research; researchers; resources; responses; sample; sampling; size; social; south; statistical; student poverty; students; studies; study; survey; total; universities; university; walker; wellbeing
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- pie-6414
- author: Vandeyar, Saloshna; Ziqubu, Lwazi
- title: Rupturing the laws of discourse: Learner agency in the construction of their identity in school discourses
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 8611
- flesch: 56
- summary: The concept of learner identity can be viewed from two perspectives, namely humanism (Charteris, 2014) and poststructuralism (Zembylas & Chubbuck, 2018). This implied a shift from the old conceptualisation of learner identity, which was western and White- centred to a more inclusive conceptualisation that would accommodate Black African learners (Makoelle, 2014).
- keywords: 2012; 2014; 2016; african; agency; applied; behaviour; butler; case; charteris; code; complex; concept; conduct; construct; construction; context; cultural; data; different; disciplinary; discipline; discourse; discursive; education; excellence; exercise; findings; form; foucault; good; grade; hierarchical; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6414; https://doi; human; ideal; ideal learner; identities; identity; independent; individuals; inquiry; instruments; interaction; interviews; journal; kind; language; laws; learner agency; learner identity; learners; learning; measures; mechanisms; new; norton; observation; participants; particular; people; perspectives; positions; possible; power; principal; process; qualitative; research; resources; school; self; social; south; space; study; subject; system; teachers; use; vandeyar; ziqubu
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- pie-6417
- author: Nieuwenhuis, Jan
- title: Editorial
- date: 2022-06-08
- words: 524
- flesch: 19
- summary: The UNICEF report claims engaging in positive coping strategies, prosocial behaviours and online learning opportunities have been key factors in building children’s resilience during this time. In reading through these it is realised how important it is to engage learners in positive coping strategies, prosocial behaviours and online learning opportunities as essential factors in building children’s resilience during times of crisis, and how these need to be highlighted and harnessed through greater investment in mental health promotion and prevention interventions.
- keywords: children; covid-19; education; experiences; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i2.1; learning; online; opportunities; perspectives; school; strategies
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- pie-6469
- author: Ontong, Juan; Bruwer, Armand; Schonken, Chrystal
- title: The effectiveness of a first-year module presented as an accelerated learning programme to repeating students for subsequent learning
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 6945
- flesch: 37
- summary: Impact of program length on student learning. 4.1 Descriptive analysis The descriptive analysis of the final grades achieved by the sample as divided into the three groups are presented in Table 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6469 622022 40(4): 62-69 http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6469 Perspectives in Education 2022: 40(4) Table 1: Student performance measured through final module grades Category N Mean Std.
- keywords: academic; academic year; accelerated; accelerated learning; accounting module; achievement; analysis; base; base module; beattie; deep; deep learning; difference; eames; education; et al; final; final module; financial accounting; grades; group; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6469; impact; learning; learning programme; literature; mean; module grades; modules; ontong; order; pass; performance; programme; research; results; review; second; significant; south; students; study; subsequent; subsequent learning; subsequent module; subsequent second; success; surface; surface learning; table; traditional; year financial; year module
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- pie-6573
- author: Coetzee, Moreen; Coetzee, Corene; Gaigher, Estelle
- title: First-year university students' conceptual understanding of electric circuits in relation to school and personal background
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 6875
- flesch: 42
- summary: The readiness of high school students to pursue first year physics, Africa Education Review, 9(1): 142-158. Explaining the relationship between high school students’ selected affective characteristics and their physics achievement.
- keywords: 2001; 2012; achievement; african; attitudes; average; better; circuits; classroom; coetzee; conceptual; conceptual understanding; development; different; direct; distribution; education; effectiveness; electric; english; factors; figure; frequency; gaigher; gender; group; high; home; howie; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6573; instruction; instrument; international; items; journal; language; learners; learning; level; location; mathematics; mean; model; participants; performance; person; personal; perspectives; physical; physics; poor; practical; pretoria; previous; research; results; rural; sample; school; science; science education; second; south; south african; students; study; table; teachers; teaching; township; type; understanding; university; value; work; year
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- pie-6583
- author: Fourie, Laurette; Naidoo, Parvathy
- title: Middle leaders and managers’ perspectives of distributive leadership during COVID-19
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 9863
- flesch: 45
- summary: Prior to COVID-19 rearing its ugly head in early 2020, distributive leadership was seen as a method of thinking and reshaping school leadership and a fresh alternative for improving the quality of education (Hamzah & Jamil, 2019). School leadership and management in South Africa.
- keywords: 2013; 2016; 2018; 2020; advantages; analysis; authority; autocratic; available; case; challenges; change; context; covid-19; data; decision; delegative; democratic; departmental; deputy; development; different; distributing; distributive leadership; education; educators; effective; effects; emotional; environment; face; factors; fatigue; fourie; good; grade; group; growth; harris; heads; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6583; https://doi; important; improvement; individuals; international; interviews; journal; khan; knowledge; lack; leadership; leadership styles; learning; level; making; management; managers; members; methods; middle; middle leaders; naidoo; new; november; open; opportunities; organisation; p10; pandemic; participants; people; perspectives; post; practices; principal; qualitative; research; researchers; responsibilities; roles; school; school leadership; situation; skills; social; south; specific; staff; study; styles; support; tasks; teaching; team; teamwork; theme; time; type; understanding; work; working; workload
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- pie-6635
- author: De Jager, Chane; Triegaardt, Paul Karel
- title: Exploring perceptions of parents in supporting learning during COVID-19 at a South African primary school
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 10248
- flesch: 44
- summary: Keywords: COVID-19, educational development, online learning, perceptions of parents; parental involvement 1. It was however vital that schooling took place, but learners missed out on contact time with their teachers which resulted in setbacks for many learners, as some parents could assist with online learning and support AUTHOR:
- keywords: 2020; academic; april; aspects; available; black; challenges; children; communication; covid-19; data; differences; difficulties; dimensions; education; english; factor; groups; higher; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6635; independent; items; language; learners; learning; learning environment; learning process; level; management; mean; mother; multivariate; nguni; online environment; online learning; online service; online teaching; order; order factors; p =; pandemic; parents; perceptions; perspectives; provision; qualification; questionnaire; r =; race; race groups; research; respondents; results; school; school management; significant; sotho; south; study; support; teachers; test; tongue; tongue groups; univariate; 𝑋𝑋 �
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- pie-6638
- author: Olaitan, Olutoyin; Mavuso, Nosipho
- title: Investigating the challenges faced by female students in STEM courses: case study of a traditional South African University
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 6774
- flesch: 51
- summary: SE09 = I can remain calm when facing difficulties because I can rely on my coping abilities SE10 = When I am confronted with a problem, I can usually find several solutions The Likert scale plot for self-efficacy shows that female students in STEM fields are ambivalent with respect to their self-efficacy and how this affects their ability to perform well in their chosen field of study (Figure 1). © Creative Commons With Attribution (CC-BY) Investigating the challenges faced by female students in STEM courses: case study of a traditional South African University Abstract The paper investigated the challenges faced by female students enrolled in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) field of study.
- keywords: 2012; 2017; ability; academic; advanced; african; april; bandura; behaviour; beliefs; blackburn; career; ceci; challenges; cognitive; courses; data; density; development; education; efficacy; engineering; environmental; et al; expectations; factors; family; female; female students; field; figure; gender; goal; high; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6638; influence; journal; june; level; literature; mavuso; obstacles; olaitan; outcome; paper; parents; peers; performance; personal; perspectives; plot; research; respondents; results; review; role; science; self; setting; significant; social; south; stem; stem courses; strong; students; studies; study; support; technology; theory; underrepresentation; university; women; year
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- pie-6649
- author: Mugume, Taabo
- title: Students' sense of belonging at a South African university during COVID-19
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 9320
- flesch: 48
- summary: Students also noted the support provided by the university’s COVID-19 task team, in particular, making laptops available to students and putting in place the GlobalProtect application. This paper therefore does not simply consider student experiences during the pandemic and what they mean for sense of belonging, but also highlights lessons we can take into the future to improve students’ sense of belonging, and how a university may respond to a future crisis.
- keywords: 2015; 2019; 41(1; academic; access; accommodation; activities; african; available; black; campus; case; challenges; change; climate; college; community; covid-19; data; dumford; education; effect; environment; et al; example; experience; face; family; findings; generation; generation students; health; higher; home; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6649; implications; important; initiatives; institution; interviews; journal; june; learning; life; mental; mugume; need; negative; new; nsfas; online; orientation; pandemic; parents; peer; perspectives; positive; race; relationships; research; senior; sense; social; south; staff; strayhorn; strong; strong sense; students; study; success; support; theme; time; undergraduate; undergraduate students; universities; university; white; work; year; year students
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- pie-6654
- author: Verster, Jacques; Sayed, Yusuf
- title: Development of teacher knowledge in an initial teacher education programme qualifying mathematics teachers
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 7517
- flesch: 39
- summary: However, there are two ways in which existing subject content is linked to pedagogical knowledge to influence the development of http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6654 1672022 40(4): 167-179 http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6654 Verster & Sayed Development of teacher knowledge in an initial teacher education programme professional teacher knowledge: 1) “pedagogical theory and skills [are] generic and applicable within and across subject domains”; and 2) pedagogical theory and skills are anchored “within a particular subject domain” (Reeves & Robinson, 2010: 244). http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6654 1692022 40(4): 169-179 http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6654 Verster & Sayed Development of teacher knowledge in an initial teacher education programme Data collection involved semi-structured interviews (six teacher educators interviewed during the latter part of 2014 and five NQTs during their first NQT term in 2015) and document analysis (study guides, PGCE service provider policies, programme guide, faculty handbook, university website, and prospective teacher portfolios of assessment retained for moderation).
- keywords: 2010; africa; analysis; approach; assessment; certificate; classroom; component; content; content knowledge; curriculum; data; development; dhet; didactics; disciplinary; disciplinary knowledge; education; educator; experience; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6654; initial; interview; involved; ite; knowledge; learners; learning; mathematics; matter; matter knowledge; national; paper; pedagogical; pedagogical knowledge; perspectives; pgce; pgce programme; policy; portfolio; postgraduate; practice; professional; programme; prospective; research; sayed; school; self; skills; south; specialised; specialised subject; specific; studies; study; subject; subject matter; teacher; teacher education; teacher knowledge; teaching; types; university
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- pie-6666
- author: Archer, Elizabeth
- title: Technology-driven proctoring: Validity, social justice and ethics in higher education
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 6828
- flesch: 44
- summary: Security breaches are not uncommon with digital proctoring systems (Slusky, 2020; Goveas, 2021). These unproctored measures do not require proprietary software with unknown algorithms assessing students’ level of suspiciousness.2 Figure 7: Level of intrusion of proctored vs unproctored online assessment (Author) 2 Level of suspicion is terminology often employed by digital online proctoring systems when referring to how students are flagged.
- keywords: 2009; 2020; 41(1; academic; adams; additional; african; algorithms; anxiety; approach; archer; article; aspects; assessment; available; barrett; challenges; cheating; coghlan; coghlan et; colour; conditions; covid-19; data; debate; different; digital; digital proctoring; disability; education; environmental; et al; ethical; ethics; exam; face; factors; feathers; figure; flagged; higher; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6666; hussein; institutions; issues; journal; justice; knijff; learning; literacy; march; n.d; november; online; online assessment; opportunity; pandemic; paper; people; performance; perspectives; practice; process; proctored; proctoring; research; review; rose; silverman; skin; social; software; south; students; study; surveillance; systems; technology; test; time; tools; university; validity; visser
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- pie-6741
- author: Matjokana, Tuelo Nelly
- title: Early childhood care and education policy intentions and the realities in rural areas
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 8292
- flesch: 50
- summary: In developing this argument the following issues will be explored: (i) funding norms and standards of ECD centres and challenges of access to funding; (ii) norms and standards regarding infrastructure and the state of infrastructure of many ECD centres in rural areas; (iii) norms and standards concerning quality learning programmes and the state of learning programmes at rural ECD centres; and (iv) resourcing of ECD centres in terms of practitioner’ training, leadership and management of ECD programmes. Van der Walt, De Beer and Swart (2014) state that ECD centres on private land are required to be zoned appropriately.
- keywords: 2019; access; africa; areas; atmore; basic; care; centres; challenges; childhood; children; communities; data; dbe; department; der; development; disadvantaged; dsd; early; ecd; ecd centres; ecd policies; ecd programmes; education; environment; et al; facilities; framework; funding; funds; government; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6741; implementation; inadequate; infrastructure; journal; knowledge; lack; learning; level; managers; matjokana; mbarathi; national; niecd; norms; parents; participants; perspectives; policies; policy; practitioners; pretoria; programmes; quality; quality ecd; registration; requirements; research; resources; rural; sanitation; services; social; south; south africa; standards; study; training; unregistered; van; walt; water; years; young; young children
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- pie-6743
- author: de Villiers, Zandra; Barnard, Elna
- title: Grade 1 teachers’ experiences of supporting learners living with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 10061
- flesch: 62
- summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6743 2052022 40(4): 205-214 http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6743 De Villiers & Barnard Grade 1 teachers’ experiences of supporting learners I had … beanbags .... R ew ar d le ar ne rs w ho c om pl et e th e ac tiv ity in ti m e. http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6743 2072022 40(4): 207-214 http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6743 De Villiers & Barnard Grade 1 teachers’ experiences of supporting learners S U P P O R T S TR A TE G IE S F O R G R A D E 1 L E A R N E R S L IV IN G W IT H A D H D C ha ra ct er is tic s S up po rt s tr at eg ie s R ec om m en da tio ns M ot iv at io ns A le ar ne r i s re w ar de d w ith p riv ile ge s or p hy si ca l o bj ec ts to e nc ou ra ge g oo d be ha vi ou r a nd d is co ur ag e un w an te d be ha vi ou r. P riv ile ge s en ta il be in g re w ar de d as a c la ss c ap ta in o r a ct in g as a m es se ng er , a dd iti on al re ce ss , p la yt im e or to ke n re in fo rc em en t. C lo ck w ith im ag es Im ag es o f t he d ai ly s ch ed ul e ar e pu t o n th e an al og ue c lo ck to re m in d A D H D le ar ne rs w he n an a ct iv ity b eg in s an d en ds .
- keywords: 2016; 2017; 2020; academic; activities; adhd; africa; analysis; assessment; attention; available; barnard; basic; behaviour; beliefs; bronfenbrenner; cape; case; children; classroom; content; data; deficit; department; design; development; discipline; disorder; district; dupaul; e le; education; experiences; feet; feuerstein; field; focus; foundation; framework; grade; group; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6743; hyperactivity; inclusive; individual; interactive; interview; ith; iti; journal; knowledge; le ar; learners; learning; living; mainstream; management; march; mccoy; methods; mle; model; ne r; needs; new; northcutt; paper; participants; perspectives; phase; physical; positive; pretoria; qualitative; r c; r s; r t; research; researchers; resources; review; rief; s s; s w; schools; self; skills; social; south; special; strategies; students; study; support; support strategies; symptoms; system; t11; teachers; teaching; themes; time; tin; understanding; university; unstructured; use; van; villiers; visits
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- pie-6776
- author: Leal, Fernanda; Finardi, Kyria; Abba, Julieta
- title: Challenges for an internationalization of higher education from and for the global south
- date: 2022-09-30
- words: 4695
- flesch: 31
- summary: Some of them are outlined: • There is, in fact, a tense relationship between the values of university internationalization and globalization, or despite the discourses that distance them, internationalization refers to an agent of globalization and to a phenomenon of interest to capital. In the Global North, an evident conceptualization aligned with the mentioned concerns is the one of “Internationalization of Higher Education for Society (IHES)”, which, by claiming that this process should bring a meaningful contribution to society (De Wit, 2019), assumes that work on internationalization must be linked to work on social engagement, with a focus on “global issues” such as xenophobia, populism, climate change, and preservation of democracy (Brandenburg, 2020; De Wit, Leal & Unangst, 2020).
- keywords: 2019; abba; academic; america; brazil; challenges; colonial; concept; context; cooperation; countries; critical; córdoba; de sousa; discourses; dominant; economic; education; educação; epistemic; epistemological; finardi; future; global; global south; higher; higher education; historical; http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593x/pie.v40.i3.16; idea; ihe; institution; internationalization; jones; k.r; knowledge; latin; leal; meneses; north; perspectives; phenomenon; political; possible; power; practices; press; process; production; recognition; relations; relationship; review; santos; social; society; sousa; south; ssc; sul; translation; universidade; university; wit; world
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- pie-6812
- author: Clark , Frenchesca June ; Triegaardt, Paul
- title: Future-fit leaders for future-fit schools: Principal narratives of leading rural primary schools for 4IR imperatives
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 7763
- flesch: 49
- summary: Consequently, to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, school leaders had to use fourth industrial revolution (4IR) imperatives to transform the way they were leading. The study aimed to understand the types of future- fit leadership techniques used by school leaders that AUTHOR: Ms Frenchesca June Clark1 Dr. Paul Karel Triegaardt1 AFFILIATION: 1University of Johannesburg, South Africa DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/ pie.v40i4.6812 e-ISSN 2519-593X Perspectives in Education 2022 40(4): 296-311 PUBLISHED: 23 December 2022 RECEIVED: 22 October 2022 ACCEPTED: 22 November 2022 Research Article http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6812 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0630-0077 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0294-1459 http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6812 2972022 40(4): 297-311 http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6812 Clark & Triegaardt Future-fit leaders for future-fit schools created future-fit schools in Limpopo’s rural primary schools.
- keywords: 2018; 2019; 2020; 4ir; africa; age; agility; available; century; challenges; clark; collaboration; communication; covid-19; crisis; data; development; devices; digital; education; educators; findings; fit; fit education; fit leaders; fit leadership; fit schools; fourth; future; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6812; imperatives; industrial; journal; knowledge; leaders; leadership; learners; learning; limpopo; mclennan; meetings; narratives; national; need; neuroleader; notes; online; order; pandemic; parents; participants; perspectives; poor; primary; principal; question; ready; research; result; revolution; rural; schools; skills; social; south; staff; stakeholders; students; study; system; teachers; teaching; technology; time; tools; triegaardt; understand; use; virtual; voice; whatsapp; work
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- pie-6823
- author: Ntsala, Sekanse; Seabela, Pricilla Mamare
- title: Obstructions to the integration of ICT in English First Additional Language lessons: The case of Limpopo intermediate phase classrooms
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 7031
- flesch: 53
- summary: 6.2 Teachers’ lack of ICT skills Like the previous discussion, another major concern is with regard to ICT skills and competency in the use of ICT equipment. When this happens, ICT lessons are disrupted, because electricity in some form is required for ICT- related lessons.
- keywords: 2019; 2020; 4ir; additional; africa; assessment; available; case; challenges; classrooms; computer; concern; connectivism; contextual; data; design; devices; difficult; economic; education; efal; english; equipment; factors; focus; highlights; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6823; ict; impact; industrial; information; integration; intermediate; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; language; learners; learning; lessons; limited; literacy; need; ntsala; observations; obstructions; paper; participants; perspectives; phase; policy; poor; power; problem; qualitative; reading; research; resources; revolution; rural; schools; situation; skills; south; strategies; students; study; subjects; teachers; teaching; technological; technology; terms; theory; time; understanding; use; work
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- pie-6837
- author: Hlatshwayo, Mlamuli Nkosingphile; Zondi , Thabile ; Mokoena, Thabang
- title: It gives me anxiety! Black Academics’ experiences of teaching large classes during the Covid-19 pandemic in a South African university
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 8665
- flesch: 47
- summary: These spaces should largely be informal and unstructured, to give voice and support to academics on what is to be done and could potentially constitute the “communities of practice” (Ching, 2021) for helping/ supporting/working with academics as they navigate and negotiate large class teaching during the COVID-19 period. This is because different universities have their own institutional policies/approaches/strategies how they cope and respond to large class teaching in the pandemic period, potentially creating a bifurcated and largely unequal sector.
- keywords: 2013; 2020; 2021; academics; access; africa; anxiety; approach; assessment; black; black academics; business; challenges; classes; connectivity; context; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; curriculum; data; decolonial; demands; development; difficult; digital; education; emergency; engagement; epistemic; experiences; face; frustrations; global; grange; group; higher; higher education; hlatshwayo; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6837; inclusive; inequality; infrastructure; institutions; journal; justice; knowledge; large; large classes; learning; love; maluleka; massification; menon; mokoena; motala; need; new; online; online learning; online teaching; opportunities; pandemic; paper; participants; pedagogy; perspectives; questions; remote; remote teaching; research; review; rural; sandoval; sector; social; south; south africa; students; study; support; system; teaching; technology; time; transition; universities; university; use; virtual; white; work; year; zondi
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- pie-6847
- author: Kanbur, Ozlem; Kirikkaleli, Nurdan
- title: Interaction between teachers’ emotional intelligence and classroom management
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 6173
- flesch: 54
- summary: The study results concluded that EQ levels of primary school teachers are moderately related to their CM skills, as expected. EQ skills can be defined as a complement to IQ or cognitive skills.
- keywords: age; aware; bilimleri; classroom; cm skills; concept; data; degree; difference; dimension; duygusal; education; emotional; emotional intelligence; emotions; enstitüsü; eq levels; eğitim; female; gender; higher; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6847; ile; incelenmesi; increase; intelligence; interaction; i̇stanbul; kanbur; kirikkaleli; levels; management; master; order; parallel; perspectives; positive; primary; relationship; research; results; scale; school; scores; seniority; significant; significant difference; similar; situation; skills; sosyal; status; students; study; success; sınıf; table; teachers; test; thesis; trnc; unpublished; variable; years; yönetimi; zekâ; öğretmenlerinin; üniversitesi
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- pie-6849
- author: Oparinde, Kunle Musbaudeen; Govender, Vaneshree ; Moyo, Sibusiso
- title: Entrenching internationalisation in African Higher Education Institutions
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 6734
- flesch: 30
- summary: Internationalisation: the conceptual model According to the American Council of Education (2013), internationalisation is a strategic, coordinated process that seeks to align and integrate policies, programs, and initiatives to position colleges and universities as more globally oriented and internationally connected institutions. Internationalisation, as rightly posited by Knight (2013), is a process through which university role-players need adequate periods to learn, internalise, and begin to exhibit their knowledge of internationalisation.
- keywords: 2013; 2015; 2018; 2019; academic; activities; african; african higher; agenda; american; available; beelen; benefits; collaboration; comprehensive; concept; current; curriculum; definition; development; differences; different; diverse; diversity; economic; economy; education; education institutions; exchange; framework; future; global; govender; heis; higher; higher education; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.6849; human; important; inclusion; inclusive; innovation; instance; institutions; intercultural; international students; internationalisation; knight; knowledge; learning; lens; local; mobility; model; moyo; need; oparinde; paper; perspectives; policies; policy; process; programmes; relevant; research; role; social; south; staff; strategic; students; study; teaching; training; understanding; universities; wit; world
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- pie-6863
- author: Mnisi, Khutso
- title: A case for deliberate and accommodative design for blended teaching and learning in universities in developing countries
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 7667
- flesch: 40
- summary: A critical review of the impact on learning outcomes of education technology in supporting formative assessment in schools, Research Papers in Education. Technological pedagogical content knowledge: A framework for teacher knowledge.
- keywords: 2011; 2013; academics; access; accommodative; address; africa; approach; article; available; bernstein; blended; blended learning; case; cast; chiu; concepts; concern; content; content knowledge; countries; curriculum; deliberate; design; different; differentiation; digital; disciplines; discourse; education; engagement; epistemic; form; framework; higher; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6863; important; inclusive; institutions; journal; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; means; mishra; mnisi; module; multiple; need; online; pck; pedagogical; pedagogy; perspectives; production; research; resources; review; schools; science; singulars; social; south; structure; student; studies; support; teachers; teaching; technological; technologies; technology; theory; tools; tpack; training; udl; universal; universities; university; use; young
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- pie-6912
- author: Ndlovu, Ntombenhle; Mthimkhulu , Sandile ; Gumede , Phiwayinkosi R.
- title: Students’ acceptance and perceptions of online assessments post- COVID-19 pandemic: A case of Community Extension students at a historically disadvantaged institution
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 6544
- flesch: 41
- summary: Online assessments as an assessment approach continue in many universities post the COVID-19 pandemic, hence, it is important to understand its acceptability amongst students because of the existing contestation with issues of effectiveness of online assessments when compared to traditional invigilated paper- based assessments (Ellis, Oeppen & Brennan, 2021). The COVID-19 pandemic, however, necessitated a drastic shift towards online assessments and negated the practicality of traditional assessments.
- keywords: 2020; 2022; academic; acceptance; access; analysis; anxiety; assessments; challenges; cheating; community; completing; covid-19; data; disadvantaged; ease; easy; education; extension; face; factors; future; gumede; higher; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6912; information; institutions; journal; learning; level; likely; majority; model; mthimkhulu; ndlovu; neutral; online; online assessments; online test; pandemic; paper; participants; perceptions; performance; perspectives; preferred; quality; research; results; shift; students; study; table; teaching; teams; technical; technological; technology; test; universities; university; use
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- pie-6937
- author: Shushu, Hamilton
- title: The experiences of mathematics subject advisors when conducting school support visits
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 6736
- flesch: 49
- summary: Exploring the challenges of school curriculum advisors in a selected district in Limpopo, South Africa. This article addresses the gap by exploring the deeper understanding of mathematics subject advisors’ experiences when conducting school support visits.
- keywords: 2014; advisors; africa; attitudes; cape; challenges; class; curriculum; dbe; department; district; education; educators; experiences; factors; foundation; good; grauwe; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.6937; impact; implementation; lack; learners; learning; management; managers; mathematics; mathematics subject; negative; northern; officials; participants; perspectives; phase; phenomenological; policy; practices; research; role; school; school support; shozi; sithole; south; stephen; study; subject; subject advisors; support; support visits; tatana; teachers; teaching; tjozongoro; union; university; visits; work
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- pie-7
- author: Dinama, Baamphatlha
- title: Implementing a multi-faith Religious Education curriculum in Botswana junior secondary schools
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 5432
- flesch: 60
- summary: Yet, more than ten years after the introduction of this curriculum change, little is known about how RE teachers in B otswana understand and implement the multi faith RE curriculum. Mentoring and collaboration Another issue that emerged, was that after graduating and joining teaching, RE teachers did not receive any mentoring in their schools.
- keywords: botswana; case; change; christian; classroom; collaboration; content; curriculum; education; experience; faith; gaborone; government; help; hen; interview; iro; iss; journal; junior; knowledge; koloni; laban; learning; march; multi; multi faith; new; pedagogical; policy; practices; professional; question; rabin; reform; religion; religious; religious education; research; schools; secondary; skills; students; study; subject; teachers; teaching; terms; textbooks; understanding; university; unpublished; use; volume; work; years
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- pie-7003
- author: de Wet, C
- title: Editorial
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 1318
- flesch: 27
- summary: Die importance of applying systems principles to improve student support is central in Sithaldeen and Van Pletzen’s case study. This creates challenges in communication, continuity and efficacy of student support.
- keywords: academic; african; articles; challenges; covid-19; education; environment; funding; future; higher; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.7003; issue; leadership; learners; learning; mathematics; parents; perspectives; role; school; south; students; study; success; support; teachers; universities
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- pie-7004
- author: Beelen, Jos
- title: Why we should continue to ask critical questions about internationalisation at home
- date: 2022-12-23
- words: 1391
- flesch: 19
- summary: 4. Internationalisation at home and inclusion Internationalisation at home, with its focus on all students, has been considered an inclusive form of internationalisation. The easy popularity of internationalisation at home While internationalisation at home - and the related concept of internationalisation of the curriculum - made their way into the policies of many universities, mobility of students remained the key focus.
- keywords: critical; curriculum; development; education; exchange; global; home; http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/pie.v40i4.7004; internationalisation; internationalised; key; learning; mobility; outcomes; pandemic; purposeful; questions; report; students; virtual
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- pie-7067
- author: René Beyers; Du Plessis, André
- title: Factors that influence public school principals’ professional discretion: Perspectives of South African public-school principals
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 7732
- flesch: 50
- summary: However, the participants indicated that laws and policies often compel them to make decisions that they may not necessarily be comfortable with and that may not be https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.7067 392023 41(2): 39-48 https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.7067 Beyers & Du Plessis Factors that influence public school principals’ professional discretion in the best interests of the learners. https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.7067 412023 41(2): 41-48 https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.7067 Beyers & Du Plessis Factors that influence public school principals’ professional discretion … multi-cultural school, we’ve got double parallel medium, all those kinds of things.
- keywords: 2005; 2016; african; appropriate; best; changes; competencies; constitution; contextual; data; decisions; different; difficult; discretion; discretionary; education; environment; experience; external; factors; fear; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.7067; important; influence; intelligence; interests; internal; knowledge; kutz; law; laws; leadership; learners; making; management; marishane; need; participants; personal; perspectives; plessis; policies; policy; political; principals; professional; professional discretion; public; research; rights; rsa; school; school principals; section; situations; south; specific; stress; study; theory; time; training; use; values
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- pie-7088
- author: Khumalo, Samukelisiwe; Rawatlal, Randhir; Nnadozie, Victor ; Mahadew, Ashnie ; Mpungose, Cedric Bheki ; Mazibuko, Phakamile
- title: Technology-mediated advising for student success: Exploring selfmediated academic support for undergraduate students using AutoScholar Advisor System
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 7608
- flesch: 42
- summary: The notion of student success in higher education is complex (Kuh et al., 2006; Scott, 2018; Tinto, 2012; Tiroyabone & Strydom, 2021; Kahu & Nelson, 2018), and therefore context-nuanced academic support strategies are needed to target outcomes in student success metrics better, namely self-efficacy, academic performance, persistence, retention, and completion (Soika, 2021). The study is part of a pilot project for enhancing student success in a four-year undergraduate degree (BEd) programme.
- keywords: 2014; 2018; 2019; academic; academic support; access; advising; african; agency; analysis; analytics; approach; authorship; auto; available; baxter; change; class; college; comments; completion; context; crw; cum; cum laude; current; data; degree; development; education; engagement; experiences; factors; figure; graduation; higher; higher education; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.7088; ifenthaler; important; institutions; international; journal; khumalo; kuh; laude; laude students; learning; magolda; need; new; outcomes; pass; performance; perspectives; positive; potential; project; questionnaire; research; review; role; self; semester; social; soika; south; strydom; student; student academic; student success; study; success; summa; support; system; technology; track; undergraduate; understanding; universities; university; use; van; view; yang; year
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- pie-7097
- author: So-oabeb, Josef; du Plessis, Andre
- title: Leadership competencies for teacher professional development: perspectives of Namibian principals, heads of departments and teachers
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 7991
- flesch: 43
- summary: Keywords: distributed leadership, functional leadership, heads of department, instructional leadership, leadership competencies, school leadership, school principals, teacher professional development. It was established that school leadership competencies are significant towards enabling principals and HODs to support the professional development of teachers.
- keywords: 2012; 2017; 2019; able; accountability; activities; administrative; agunwa; analysis; bafadal; blase; change; christensen; communication; competencies; competent; creswell; data; development; digital; education; effective; et al; experience; female; findings; functional; goden; good; heads; hods; honours; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.7097; instructional; instructional leadership; international; interpersonal; interviews; johnson; journal; knowledge; kumar; leadership; leadership competencies; learning; listening; literature; management; namibian; need; oabeb; owan; participants; performance; perspectives; plessis; practices; principals; professional; professional development; qualitative; research; respondents; role; school; school leaders; school principals; sciences; secondary; skills; studies; study; subject; support; teacher professional; teachers; teaching; technology; theory; university; work; yasin; years
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- pie-7151
- author: Naidoo, Devika; Mabaso, Mbali
- title: Social constructivist pedagogy in business studies classrooms – teachers’ experiences and practices
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 6599
- flesch: 44
- summary: Data analysis of observation and interview data show that business studies teachers intentionally rely on direct instruction to ‘cover’ the syllabus. However, Business Studies teachers encountered challenges in complying with the syllabus mandate of incorporating action-oriented pedagogical approaches, such as project-based learning, commercial enterprise visits, simulations, case studies, and class presentations (Sithole & Lumadi, 2012).
- keywords: 2015; absent; active; africa; analysis; approaches; business; business studies; caps; challenges; classrooms; cognitive; concepts; constructivist; constructivist pedagogy; content; coverage; critical; curriculum; data; dbe; development; direct; dominant; dualist; education; entrepreneurial; environment; epistemology; findings; grade; group; high; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.7151; implementation; individual; instruction; journal; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; lesson; mabaso; method; naidoo; need; new; overcrowded; participants; pedagogical; pedagogy; people; perspectives; plans; positive; process; qualitative; research; resources; role; school; secondary; shortage; skills; social; social constructivist; south; strategies; studies; study; subject; syllabus; teachers; teaching; textbook; theory; time; topic; understanding; use; vygotsky; workload; years
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- pie-7317
- author: Archer, Elizabeth ; Mugume, Taabo
- title: Editorial
- date: 2023-03-31
- words: 767
- flesch: 15
- summary: “Student perspectives on the challenges of an online orientation at a large South African university during the COVID-19 pandemic” sheds light on the challenges of implementing an online orientation programme for first-year students and how universities can leverage online orientation to support students’ transition into the university environment. “Students’ sense of belonging at a South African university during COVID-19” investigates the sense of belonging of undergraduate students during the pandemic and how the university responded to the crisis.
- keywords: academic; article; challenges; covid-19; education; higher; learning; online; pandemic; participation; south; students; theme; university
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- pie-7440
- author: Nieuwenhuis, Jan
- title: Editorial
- date: 2023-06-30
- words: 751
- flesch: 31
- summary: At many higher education institutions education took on an almost emergency approach. If there is one lesson that higher education institutions learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that students very easily become discouraged and lose interest and commitment towards their studies.
- keywords: article; covid-19; crisis; education; higher; https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i2.7440; lack; learning; pandemic; perspectives; research; students; support; teaching
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- pie-8
- author: Makina, A.
- title: The role of visualisation in developing critical thinking in mathematics
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 5563
- flesch: 49
- summary: Van den B erg (2004:292) states that self assessment or self monitoring facilitates critical thinking processes by influencing learners’ responsiveness and thus plays a key role in determining how learners selectively paid attention during problem solving. The role of visualisation in developing critical thinking in mathematics A .
- keywords: able; assumptions; box; council; critical; critical thinking; curriculum; data; development; education; example; figure; focus; help; ideas; image; imagery; important; information; knowledge; kosslyn; learners; learning; march; mathematics; mental; mind; national; new; order; paper; pattern; perspectives; presmeg; problem; processes; quality; reasoning; relevant; representations; research; results; role; self; shape; skills; solution; solving; students; tasks; teachers; teaching; thinker; thinking; thought; transformation; understanding; university; use; visualisation; volume; way; written
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- pie-9
- author: Johnson, Ensa; Bornman, Juan; Alant, Erna
- title: Parents’ perceptions of home reading activities: comparing children with and without learning disability
- date: 2010-03-31
- words: 6182
- flesch: 53
- summary: Environmental aspects Environmental aspects are described in terms of two variables, namely the frequency of library visits and the types of books children are exposed to. O n the other hand, similarities exists regarding the type of books children are exposed to.
- keywords: able; activities; aspects; books; checklist; children; development; different; disabilities; disability; early; education; enjoyment; environment; est; exact; experiences; exposure; fisher; focus; frequency; grade; groups; home; hughes; independent; journal; language; learning; library; literacy; magazines; march; material; parental; parents; participation; perceptions; perspectives; pictures; print; process; quarterly; questionnaire; questions; readers; reading; relation; relationship; research; responses; results; role; school; significant; similar; skills; small; specific; stories; story; study; sénéchal; test; type; variables; volume; words
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