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Climate change knowledge, concerns and experiences in secondary school learners in South Africa
(OASIS, 2022)
Climate change poses a major threat to the future of today’s youth. Globally, young people
are at the forefront of climate change activism. Their ability to engage, however, depends
on the level of knowledge of climate ...
Teaching and learning history in the time of the coronavirus pandemic
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)
This is an academic yet personal and subjective piece written to analyse and reflect upon personal experiences with regard to the teaching and learning of history under the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this paper, I ...
The epistemology of (m)other tongue(s): What does this mean for language in education?
(AOSIS, 2021)
Background: The promotion of ‘mother tongue’ is at the core of the global education agenda.
Aim: This article explored the problematic nature of the mother tongue concept, and the
subsequent effects it has on language ...
Foucault and the origins of the disciplined subject : post-subjectivity as a condition for transformation in education
(AOSIS, 2019)
Background: The need for transforming South African education can ultimately be traced to a
form of Western subjectivity which dominated Europe since the classical age (1600–1750). The
notions of ‘discipline’ and ...
Why should an ethics of care matter in education?
(AOSIS, 2021)
When a black 2nd-year student educator gets chased away from a school whilst doing his
teaching practice for hair ‘not setting an appropriate example to learners’, the incident elicits
questions about the rights of student ...
Reimagining systems that support early childhood development centres in offering quality education
(AOSIS, 2022)
Systems ensure the attainment of goals at any educational level, including quality early
childhood education. Various studies focus on the benefits and components of quality early
childhood education, yet none emphasise ...
Considering the Basotho indigenous education and school system as resources for peace-building education in Lesotho
(AOSIS, 2022)
Lesotho faces political, economic, social, cultural, religious, institutional and interpersonal
violence, a situation that prompted the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) to introduce ...
First-year History Education students’ personal narratives of the history of South Africa
(AOSIS, 2018)
This article is based on a free writing exercise given to 31 first-year History Education students in which they were, asked to write ‘The history of South Africa according to me’. Using narrative enquiry, the stories of ...
Thinking processes used by high-performing students in a computer programming task.
(North-West University, 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 ...
HIV and AIDS knowledge of Pharmacy students at the University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus)/Tshwane University of Technology before and after a teaching intervention
(2009)
Healthcare workers need to be qualified to deal with the specific requirements
of the HIV/AIDS syndrome, which demands technical and scientific knowledge and
understanding of the disease. Adequate knowledge about HIV/AIDS ...