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The relevance of software development education for students
(IEEE, 2015)Despite a widely–acknowledged shortage of software developers, and reports of a gap between industry needs and software education, the possible gap between students' needs and software development education has not been ... -
Religion Education as Praxis: Voices and Narratives on Teaching and Learning Experiences
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Religion in education in South Africa: was social justice served?
(Educational Association of South Africa (EASA), 2011)The promulgation of South African policy regarding the place of religion in public education was delayed until 2003, after a lively debate. The National Policy on Religion in Education effectively banned confessional, ... -
Religion in education: is critical engagement with social justice possible?
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Religion in education: Is there yet another solution?
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Religion in Education: Who is Responsible?
(Alternation, 2008)Religion in Education1 (RiE) in South Africa seems to be the playing field of many stakeholders. This subject and/or research domain is hosted in either Departments of Religious Studies in Faculties of Human Sciences or ... -
Religious tolerance and intolerance: 'Engravings' on the soul
(AOSIS, 2016)The recent violent anti-social acts by individuals and groups who feel deeply committed to some or other religious ideal have underscored the importance of the inculcation of religious tolerance in young children for the ... -
Replicating society’s discrimination of disadvantaged and marginalized groups: inclusive education, and the power of the curriculum
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2014)This paper sought to establish how the school system perpetuated the discrimination in society by, failing to accommodate children with special needs in normal classrooms. The ecosystem theories, theories of inclusion and ... -
Reporting effect sizes as a supplement to statistical significance testing in reading
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Research on doctoral education in South Africa against the silhouette of its meteoric rise in international higher education research
(University of the Free State/ Sabinet, 2011)The aim of this article is to survey the international literature on doctoral education from a South African perspective. A colossal amount of published research on doctoral education abroad has accumulated in recent years, ... -
Research on HE in South Africa: stocktaking and assessment from international comparative perspectives
(Unisa, 2014)Abstract The aim of this article is to compare higher education (HE) research in South Africa with developments in the field of HE research internationally. This will be done by means of a content analysis of HE scholarly ... -
The research output of female academics at a South African university: progress with gender equity?
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Two pressing demands directed to the South African academy in the post 1994 environment, have been those of gender equity and of increasing research output. The progression of women to the higher academic ranks is a problem, ... -
Research policy and governance in the United Kingdom - critical perspective and implications for South African higher education research
(South African Association of Research and Development in Higher Education, 2009)This article begins with a critical consideration of five trends in social and educational research policy and environment in the UK and internationally: (1) the intensification of public criticisms of education research ... -
Resilience in the face of fragile X syndrome
(Sage publication, 2012)In this article, we communicate transformative findings from a case study on the resilience of a young woman with fragile X syndrome (FXS), a genetic condition involving mental impairment and physical, emotional, and ... -
Resilience research with South African youth: caveats and ethical complexities
(Sage, 2012)Studies of resilience, or the process of adjusting well to major challenges commonly associated with negative outcomes, have proliferated in recent years. Despite the popularity of this research focus, there are suggestions ... -
The resilience-enabling value of African folktales: the read-me-to-resilience intervention
(SAGE, 2017)Resilience, or the process of adjusting well to adversity, draws on personal and social ecological resources (i.e., caregiving and community supports). Previous research—conducted mostly in the Global North—has shown that ... -
Resilient street youth: a qualitative South African study
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)Only quite recently have researchers begun to conceptualize street youth as resilient. The findings from our qualitative phenomenological study with 20 adolescent street youth in South Africa augment this transformed ... -
Resistance to change in impoverished schools of a South African province
(Business Perspectives Publishing, 2015)After the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, changes have taken place to eliminate the previous racially discriminating practices in the education system. These changes, among others, included the desegregation ... -
Resistance to change in schools: perceptions of principals and teachers in a South African province
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Resistance to change in schools: perceptions of principals and teachers in a South African province
(Business Perspectives, 2014)Changes are taken place in the South African society, especially in education, to address the previous discriminatory practices in favor of a free and democratic dispensation. Literature shows that change always goes hand ...