Faculty of Education
Recent Submissions
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"Bloed" (uit Melk): Tuiskoms in Afrika
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2021)‘n Groot gedeelte van Elsa Joubert se vroeë oeuvre word tematies oorheers deur die wyse waarop die mens van Afrika telkens nuwe insigte vorm omtrent die werklikheid van diepgeankerde wortels in verskillende wêrelde: ... -
Ecocritical Concerns in Select Afrikaans Narrative Works: Critical Perspectives
(UNISA Press, 2021)Environmentally oriented literary and cultural studies, or ecocriticism for short, gained traction in the United States of America in the late 1980s. It took root in South Africa no earlier than the start of this century ... -
Wildernis van menslike belewenis in Die troebel tyd van Ingrid Winterbach
(LitNet Akademies, 2019)Die troebel tyd skep ’n genuanseerde uitbeelding van depressie, ’n steeds gestigmatiseerde verskynsel in ons samelewing, ’n kritiese bewustheid van “andersheid” oftewel die afwyking van die sosiaal gekonstrueerde norm. Die ... -
Letterkunde as kulturele ekologie in Die Bergengel (Carina Stander)
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2019)Die Bergengel (The Angel of the Mountain), with its striking nature centeredness, is characterised by poetical and lyrical use of language. This aspect is drawn into the ecocritical study of the novel in this article. ... -
Addressing multi-language diversity in mathematics teacher education programs
(Springer, 2016)In this chapter, mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) from two different environments, namely South Africa (RSA) and the United States (US), join together to share our insights on the role that MTEs might play in the ... -
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 ... -
Implementing the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) in a challenging context: results from a large-scale quantitative study
(Emerald, 2019)Purpose An emphasis on school performance is not just a national issue, but must be examined within the global context. Successful leadership is ensured by school leaders’ compliance to a set of basic practices within ... -
Folk taxonomy and indigenous names for frogs in Zululand, South Africa
(BMC, 2019)Background We use taxonomy to organize the world into recognizable units. Folk taxonomy deals with the naming and classification of organisms through culture. Unlike its scientific counterpart, folk taxonomy is mostly ... -
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’ ... -
Reaksie op die artikel “ʼn Ekokrities-filosofiese perspektief op die kortverhaal ‘Katvoet’ (Riana Scheepers)” deur Carien Smith (Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 58(2):310-329)
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2018)Ek reageer graag op Carien Smith se artikel “ʼn Ekokrities-filosofiese perspektief op die kortverhaal “Katvoet” (Riana Scheepers)” in die Junie-uitgawe. Die energie van ʼn jong navorser in die veld van die ekokritiese ... -
A framework for project-based learning in consumer studies teacher preparation
(International Federation of Home Economics, 2017)Consumer Studies is a South African high school subject selected by a growing number of learners, requiring that more teachers need to be trained to facilitate the subject in schools. Teacher preparation is based on a ... -
Integrating cooperative learning into the combined blended learning design model: implications for students' intrinsic motivation
(IGI Global, 2019)Extensive research has been done on the implementation of cooperative learning (CL) in a face-to-face classroom. However, only a few studies could be found on the implementation of CL in a blended learning environment. The ... -
How are action researchers contributing to knowledge democracy? A global perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Although action research has been widely recognized as an appropriate methodology for promoting the democratization of knowledge, it is not always conducted from an emancipatory and transformative paradigm. Using AR in ... -
The potential contribution of the intended high school curriculum at exit level to the entrepreneurship education of South African youth
(Allied Business Academies, 2018)The highest unemployment rates recorded in South Africa since 2003 were announced in November 2016. Youth unemployment is still higher than the national average, adding to the conundrum. Government officials have long been ... -
A neglected opportunity: entrepreneurship education in the lower high school curricula for technology in South Africa and Botswana
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Technology is a school subject that forms part of the compulsory curriculum for high school learners in South Africa, and is a core theme in the subject Design and Technology in Botswana high schools. Knowledge and ... -
Perceived collective teacher efficacy in low performing schools
(Education Association of South Africa, 2018)The challenge of low performing schools continues to rear its ugly head in many countries, including South Africa. The responses to low performance differ from country to country, but none of these have included the ... -
Exploring a cohort of South African lecturers' views on the implementation of rubrics in a higher education environment
(Central University of Technology, Free State, 2017)Although the implementation of rubrics as teaching-learning and assessment tools has progressively become more visible in all educational settings, including the higher education context, lecturers' bona fide viewpoints ... -
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 ... -
Ethical implications of community-based research: a call to rethink current review requirements
(Sage, 2017)Researchers need to provide evidence that they have met ethical requirements before entering the field-rightly so, since the power and privilege embedded in academic researchers is considerable. However, given the calls ... -
A participatory action research approach to developing youth-friendly strategies for the prevention of teenage pregnancy
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Teenage pregnancy among school-going youth is a concern worldwide, but in socially-economically challenged environments it is a result of, and contributory factor to, a complex web of social injustice. In South Africa, ...