Browsing Faculty of Education by Title
Now showing items 712-731 of 756
-
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 ... -
Ver van die huis, maar naby die grond: die rol van die natuur ten opsigte van krisishantering in die vreemde in Stiltetyd (Marita van der Vyver) en Sabbatsreis (Annelie Botes)
(Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2009)This article explores the role played by nature and by the interaction with nature in dealing with crisis circumstances during a stay in a foreign country, as depicted in Stiltetyd (Marita van der Vyver) and Sabbatsreis ... -
Verbruikerstudie-onderwysstudente se affektiewe ervarings tydens projekgebaseerde leer
(AOSIS, 2016)Die implementering van projekgebaseerde leer het die potensiaal om affektiewe faktore in studente positief te ontwikkel wat selfgerigte lewenslange leer kan bevorder. Lewenslange leer is 'n sleutelvereiste vir onderwysers ... -
Vergifnisonderwys: die sleutel tot die ontlonting van ongelukkigheid oor sosiale onreg
(AOSIS, 2017)Forgiveness education: The key to the dissipation of misery due to social injustice. Personal and global conditions have recently highlighted the importance for individuals and communities to be able to forgive other ... -
Vergifnisonderwys: is dit (voor)teoreties toereikend begrond?
(LitNet, 2017)Ontleding van 'n aantal onlangse publikasies op die terrein van vergifnis en vergifnisonderwys het aan die lig gebring dat hoewel vergifnisonderwys tot dusver, sover vasgestel kon word, nog nie standaard as deel van die ... -
Vervlegte interaksie: implementering van 'n bring-jou-eie-toestel-benadering teenoor verskafde tabletrekenaar
(AOSIS, 2016)Effective interaction in classes and real-time feedback are challenges that may occur in any classroom. In this regard, mobile technologies may act as a supplement in a so-called blended context. This article investigates ...