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Teacher pathways to resilience: interpretations of teacher adjustment to HIV/AIDS-related challenges
(Springer, 2013)
Resilience (or the capacity to adjust well to significant risk) is conceptualized as a dynamic, reciprocal transaction that occurs between people and their social ecologies. An outcome of resilience relies on a person, who ...
Learners’ perceptions of mobile devices for learning in higher education - towards a mobile learning pedagogical framework
(WASET, 2013)
The dramatic effect of information technology on society is undeniable. In education, it is evident in the use of terms like active learning, blended learning, electronic learning and mobile learning (ubiquitous learning). ...
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 ...
Positive adjustment to poverty: how family communities encourage resilience in traditional African contexts
(SAGE Publications, 2013)
In the main, resilience literature explains positive adjustment to adversity in ways that are biased towards western culture. Although studies of resilience among African Americans have reported the importance of kinship, ...
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 ...
Development of ODL in a newly industrialized country according to face-to-face contact, ICT, and e-readiness
(Athabasca University Press, 2013)
A large number of unqualified and under-qualified in-service teachers are holding back socio-economical development in South Africa, a newly industrialized country. Open and distance learning (ODL) provides an innovative ...
Educational simultaneous interpreting as tool to stimulate reflection on multilingualism in mathematics teacher education programmes
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Simultaneous interpreting from English into Setswana as target language in the training of mathematics teachers
was launched in a Mathematics Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) programme in 2009. This was introduced
in ...
PALAR as a methodology for community engagement by faculties of education
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2013)
Community engagement (CE) is a core function of the university in South Africa. In the field of
education, the imperative to pursue and promote CE provides an exciting opportunity for
researchers to work with school ...
An investigation into the disciplinary methods used by teachers in a secondary township school in South Africa
(OASIS, 2013)
The research that this article reports on investigated the incidence of learner discipline problems, the effect of them on teachers, the teachers’ methods of maintaining discipline and the effectiveness of those methods ...
Students' experiences of demands and challenges in open distance education: a South African case
(Unisa Press, 2013)
This article provides a short overview of the literature on the demands and challenges in open distance education. A profile of a group of South African open distance education students’ learning environments as well as ...