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Understanding how we understand girls' voices on cultural and religious practices: toward a curriculum for justice
(Educational Association of South Africa (EASA), 2011)It is imperative to take account of the many faces of justice when exploring the elements of a curriculum for justice. Justice is not only about equity, equality and fairness, but about creating spaces where people can ... -
Understanding skills development in South African higher education institutions
(Unisa Press, 2009)As part of a critical interpretive research project on skills development in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), the authors attended to the perceptions of Skills Development Facilitators (SDFs) regarding the challenges ... -
Understanding the anatomy of religion as basis for religion in education
(AOSIS, 2011)This article sprung from previous structural analyses of religion as onticity, but went somewhat further by placing more emphasis on encounters with the numinous as the core of religion, as well as on the dynamic character ... -
University research ethics clearances: safety nets, or a false sense of legal immunity?
(Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2017)Ethics reviews are major events in the life of a researcher at a university. Ethics clearances for research projects are time consuming and sometimes slow down research progress. Because of the serious implications of ... -
Use of interactive whiteboards as part of a blended learning environment: not as white as it seems
(UNISA Press, 2015)Interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have become an essential technological medium of instruction, especially in distance education (DE), enabling interaction between lecturers and students over vast distances. Efficient ... -
Using action research to solve everyday problems in classrooms – a position paper
(CSSALL (UKZN), 2012)Recent national and international reports have shown that South African education is not up to standard. Some of the problem areas are the low levels of literacy and numeracy among South African learners as listed in the ... -
Using digital storytelling to externalise personal knowledge of research processes: the case of a knowledge audio repository
(Science Direct, 2014)While articulation gap describes skill deficiencies displayed by university entrants emerging from underperforming schools, the high attrition and articulation gap at postgraduate levels demonstrate inadequacies of the ... -
Using drawings and collages as data generation methods with children: definitely not child's Play
(Sage Publications, 2015)Appropriate data generation methods are key to a successful research project to attain rich and relevant data. When doing research with children, the methods selected should be age appropriate and enable them to contribute ... -
Using life design with vulnerable youth
(Wiley, 2016)Career counseling processes normed for Western contexts may not fully address the needs of vulnerable youth in disadvantaged, non-Western contexts. Therefore, this study examined the utility of a narrative career counseling ... -
Using metaphoric body-mapping to encourage reflection on the developing identity of pre-service teachers
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2017)This article explores the contribution that a teaching strategy, such as metaphoric body-mapping, can make towards the discourse on the development of professional teacher identity. Second-year students in a Life Orientation ... -
Using the capabilities approach for strengthening the sense of professionalism of teaching deeming themselves surveilled through a panopticon
(Independent Institute of Education, 2016)According to some teachers practising their profession in some of the most advanced and privileged schools in widely different parts of South Africa, they are not allowed by their superiors to work (optimally) as professionals. ... -
Using video observation and photo elicitation interviews to understand obscured processes in the lives of youth resilience
(Sage publications, 2014)Despite the increased effort to understand resilience processes in the lives of youth, the homogeneity of a largely westernized concept needs to be challenged in studies by incorporating meanings of resilience more relevant ... -
Utilizing a Historically Imbedded Source- Based Analysis Model (HISBAM) in the History school classroom
(South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the Department of Humanities Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, 2021)This paper aims to elucidate upon a model that imbeds historical skills, concepts and categorizations into a source-based analysis approach utilizing levels of cognitive complexity by combining different types of sources ... -
Utilizing a Historically Imbedded Source- Based Analysis Model (HISBAM) in the History school classroom
(North-West University, 2022)This paper aims to elucidate upon a model that imbeds historical skills, concepts and categorizations into a source-based analysis approach utilizing levels of cognitive complexity by combining different types of sources ... -
Validation of the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) in a multicultural context: the SABPA study
(UP, 2018)The aim of this study was to validate the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) for use in a South African context. The process of scale validation also sheds significant light on this culturally diverse group of participants’ ... -
The value of teaching practice as perceived by Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students
(AJOL, 2019)The pursuit of excellence in preparing student teachers for the teaching profession is a never-ending endeavour. This study aimed at investigating the value of teaching practice as perceived by the participants, how they ... -
The value of using folktales as an intervention tool to enhance resilience for children orphaned and rendered vulnerable by HIV and AIDS
(Taylor and Francis, 2015)The recent increase in the number of children orphaned and rendered vulnerable by HIV and AIDS has placed an added burden on schools as sites of care and support. Yet, many teachers regard this pastoral role as an added ... -
The value of using folktales as an intervention tool to enhance resilience for children orphaned and rendered vulnerable by HIV and AIDS
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)The recent increase in the number of children orphaned and rendered vulnerable by HIV and AIDS has placed an added burden on schools as sites of care and support. Yet, many teachers regard this pastoral role as an added ... -
Values-based self-reflective action research for promoting gender equality: some unexpected lessons
(University of the Free State, 2014)The idea of using values as a means of guiding our research decisions and judging the validity of our claims of knowledge is well established in literature on the self-reflective genre of action research. Values in action ... -
Values-based self-reflective action research for promoting gender equality: some unexpected lessons
(University of the Free State, 2014)The idea of using values as a means of guiding our research decisions and judging the validity of our claims of knowledge is well established in literature on the self-reflective genre of action research. Values in action ...