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Early childhood education in South African townships: Academics accepting the challenge to empower early childhood development practitioners
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2013)This paper presents a descriptive study of an Early Childhood Development (ECD) intervention project, grounded in a community-based research approach that resulted in a wide range of learning and development opportunities ... -
Early Childhood Education in South African Townships: The Role of Innovation towards Creating Conducive Teaching and Learning Environments
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2014)This paper presents a descriptive study of an Early Childhood Development (ECD) intervention project, grounded in a community-research approach that resulted in more conducive ECD teaching and learning environments in ... -
Eating soup with a fork - why the EFAL syllabus cannot promote learning across the curriculum
(University of Johannesburg, 2010)Dismal literacy figures of South African learners, on the one hand, and poor matriculation results of public school learners who still prefer English as a medium of instruction, raise the question whether the current second ... -
Educating on the basis of thin and thick value orientations
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2015)Some theorists about education in a multicultural society such as that of South Africa have been propounding the notion that public (state) education should be based on a minimum-universalistic human rights value system, ... -
Education from a post-post-foundationalist perspective and for post-post-foundationalist conditions
(AOSIS, 2015)Viewed from a Western historical-philosophical perspective, there seem to be at least three broad philosophical orientations on the basis of which Christian educators could approach their pedagogical task. The first is ... -
Education reform in southern Africa since the 1960s: what progress has been made?
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2014)The investigation reported in this paper centred on the socially relevant question of whether a number of countries in Southern Africa, particularly their education systems, had not only succeeded to shrug off their ... -
Education services and resilience processes: Resilient Black South African students' experiences
(Elsevier, 2014)The resilience literature is increasingly drawing attention to formal service provision as a means for social ecologies to support children's and youths' positive adjustment to challenging life circumstances. This article ... -
Educational psychology and resilience in developing contexts: a rejoinder to Toland and Carrigan (2011)
(Sage publication, 2013)If educational psychologists wish to make a meaningful difference as practitioners, both to the children they work with and the ecologies these children come from, then, knowledge and application of resilience theory is ... -
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 ... -
An educational strategy for combating moral degeneration in South African society.
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An educator approach towards learner discipline as a prerequisite in dealing with learner misconduct
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Educators and the quality of their work environment: an analysis of the organisational climate in primary schools
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)The prevalent organisational climate in primary schools in the North West Province was determined in order to formulate management strategies to increase the organisational climate. For this purpose, a quantitative ... -
Educators experiences of inclusive learning contexts: An exploration of competencies
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Educators' selection and evaluation of natural sciences textbooks
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2008)Due to the central role of textbooks in the teaching and learning of science, it is imperative that textbooks provide correct content and instructional support. We investigated how 16 South African Grade 7 natural science ... -
Eerste taal as onderrigmedium in hoër onderwys: 'n Internasionale perspektief
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016)The purpose of this article is to illuminate the issue of home language as a language of learning and teaching (LOLT) at university level in South Africa, in view of international historical and comparative perspectives. ... -
Eerstejaarstudente se belewing van leerderdissipline tydens praktiese onderwys
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The effect of cooperative learning on the thinking skills development of Foundation Phase learners
(Taylor & FrancisUnisa, 2014)We report on the findings obtained from a mixed-method study conducted in South Africa with a conveniently and purposively selected sample of 60 Grade 3 learners and their two teachers. The aim was to establish the thinking ...
