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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 ... -
The value of pair programming in the IT classroom
(Independent Institute of Education, 2017)In the South African curriculum, Information Technology (IT) is one of the elective subjects in high school. In IT, 60% of the subject focuses on software development, an aspect that has proved to be challenging. In this ... -
Thinking processes used by high-performing students in a computer programming task
(NWU Vaal Triangle Campus, 2011)Computer programmers must be able to understand programming source code and write programs that execute complex tasks to solve real-world problems. This article is a transdisciplinary study at the intersection of computer ... -
Three current developments in teaching-learning and knowledge creation and the implications thereof for education: a reformational perspective
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2016)The aim of this paper is to survey the following three contemporary developments in the conceptualisation of teaching-learning and of knowledge creation and to spell out the implications thereof for education: the rise of ... -
Three-year changes of prothrombotic factors in Africans with a high clinical suspicion of obstructive sleep apnea
(Schattauer Publishers, 2016)A hypercoagulable state might be one important mechanism linking obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with incident myocardial infarction and stroke. However, previous studies on prothrombotic factors in OSA are not uniform and ... -
Toegang tot navorsingsassistentskappe aan universiteite in die globale noorde en globale suide
(LitNet, 2017)Die ontwikkeling van nagraadse studente as navorsers is wêreldwyd ’n belangrike doelwit in die hoëronderwyskonteks. Navorsingsleerruimtes soos navorsingskursusse, navorsingswerkswinkels en navorsingsassistentskappe kweek ... -
Toward an African definition of resilience: a rural South African cummunity’s view of resilient Basotho youth
(Sage Publications, 2013)Resilience, or adaptive behavior in the face of adversity, has recently come to be understood as a phenomenon that should not be uniformly conceptualized across contexts and cultures. This emerging understanding has urged ... -
Towards a blended learning approach: a cooperative model for continuing teacher education
(Unisa Press, 2011)The successful delivery of academic and logistical support and overall quality assurance processes will determine the survival of open and distance learning (ODL) in the higher education (HE) sector. The literature emphasises ... -
Towards a model of teaching practice experience informed by mentoring practices drawn from African indigenous knowledge
(UZ Foundation, 2016)The study investigates the interrelationships between teaching practice experience and the training of traditional healers amongst the Batlokwa and Bakwena communities in Madikwe, the North West Province in South Africa. ... -
Towards a spirituality of Open Distance Learning
(UNISA Press, 2015)This article suggests attention to the paideia of the soul as an educative corrective for preparing open distance learning students for living in the current technologydependent world. This world is undergirded by a ... -
Towards a spirituality of open distance learning
(Unisa, 2015)This article suggests attention to the paideia of the soul as an educative corrective for preparing open distance learning students for living in the current technology-dependent world. This world is undergirded by a ... -
Towards a typology of sources of inspiration of student teachers
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2013)A typology of student teachers’ sources of inspiration in the form of a two-tiered theoretical framework formed the foundation of a questionnaire administered to student teachers in three different countries. The results ... -
Towards an optimal person-environment fit: a baseline study of student teachers’ personality traits
(EASA, 2018)This research sets out to conduct a baseline study on personality traits of student teachers to assess the possible implications for an optimal person-environment fit or unfortunate misfit. A non-experimental quantitative ... -
Towards successful schooling: The role of courts and schools in protecting conflicting individual educator and learner rights
(VerLoren Van Themaat Centre / Unisa Press, 2014)Conflict frequently arises between the individual rights of individuals. In resolving such conflicts, the relevant rights have to be balanced in order to reach a just equilibrium (interpreted as parity). At school level, ... -
Towards understanding (religious) (in)tolerance in education
(AOSIS, 2014)In recent years, schools and education authorities world wide have been paying increasing attention to issues surrounding diversity and religious (in)tolerance. The term ‘tolerance’ is, however, clouded by considerable ... -
Towards using e-portfolios in an ODL development state
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Trainee teachers' observation of learner-centered instruction and assessment as applied by history and social sciences teachers
(South African Society for History Teaching, 2013)A growing body of research shows that the overall quality of teaching and learning is improved when learners have the opportunity to become actively involved in the learning process through which ample opportunities are ... -
Trainee teachers' observation of learner–centered instruction and assessment as applied by history and social sciences teachers
(South African Society for History Teaching -, 2013)A growing body of research shows that the overall quality of teaching and learning is improved when learners have the opportunity to become actively involved in the learning process through which ample opportunities are ... -
Transformation in education control resulting from major political changes in South Africa and two Balkan states: 1990-2005
(Sodobna Pedagogika, 2017)Since comparative educationists and education systems experts are expected to advise governments and departments of education regarding the transformation of education in their countries and also because they have an ...