The Centre for Deaf Studies aims to develop globally competitive standards of excellence in the training of teachers of the Deaf, provide equitable learning, and research in the field of Deaf Education.
Physical education (PE) is an essential component of the school curriculum. However, studies show that many facilitators responsible for the delivery of PE in South African schools possibly lack the requisite specialist ...
The below text is a practical charter which calls for history teachers, students, learners and then the provincial and national Departments of Basic and Higher Education to decolonise. Decolonisation is often talked about ...
In this article I argue that Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) has necessitated and produced some transformative teaching methods, using the frameworks of Freire and hooks. However, I argue, that their methods are incongruous ...
The reunification of British Southern Cameroons and La Republique du Cameroun 1961
required the adoption of new national policies which were to guarantee that none of the colonial
identities were jeopardized.1 In doing ...
The call to a global education project involves transformations of educational ideologies, policy formulation, systems restructuring, and curriculum reforms that go beyond national/local considerations. While advocates of ...
In spite of today’s science classrooms being linguistically diverse, languages are still kept separate during academic instruction with education policymakers and stakeholders emphasising language purism and a strict ...
Teaching practice is a compulsory, legislated component of initial teacher education programmes in South Africa. During this experience, preservice teachers engage with their mentor teachers. By exploring first-year students’ ...
Research shows that first-year pre-service teachers enter initial teacher education programmes with certain beliefs in place about schooling. This paper explores first-year pre-service teachers' experiences of, beliefs and ...
The cardinal and ordinal aspects of number have been widely written about as key constructs that need to be brought together in children’s understanding in order for them to appreciate the idea of numerosity. In this paper, ...
Professional learning communities can be important sites for teacher learning depending on the quality of the conversations in these communities. This paper shows how different activities in teacher communities support ...
Background:
School adjustment is multifaceted that involves an array of demands varying in kind and degree which requires a variety of coping responses.
Several teen mothers have been re-admitted to secondary schools in ...
Abstract
Ideas of nationalisms as masculine projects dominate literary texts by African male writers. The texts mirror the ways in which gender differentiation sanctions nationalist discourses and in turn how nationalist ...
Abstract. This study explored the perceived challenges of online learning
encounter by rural educators in response to COVID-19 pandemic at a
selected rural school in South Africa. Within the qualitative approach, a
multiple ...
Documentaries, like other genres, are being increasingly used by wildlife conservationists for creating
awareness and influencing viewers to become active backers of wildlife protection. While there have been
analyses ...
McPherson-Geyser, G.; De Villiers, R.; Kavai, P.(2020)
The implementation of experiential learning within schools may hold many
advantages. The objective of this study was to identify how experiential learning
influences the teaching and learning of Life Sciences (biology). ...
Background:
Decision making is critical to each organization and it requires the ability to find a possible balance between risky and cautious decisions. The
Kenyan secondary schools are mandated by the Ministry of ...
Universities across South Africa have positioned learning management systems (LMS) as central to remote teaching and learning in response to COVID-19. This fundamentally challenges traditional teaching and learning practices ...
In this paper, we discuss the results of a case study about the teaching strategies used by three primary school educators to decode Grade 4 science terminology. In South Africa, the study of science is formally introduced ...
Van As, A.; Excell, L.; Magadala, N.; Gqoli, N.(2020)
There is a growing emphasis for early education to be both contextually appropriate and culturally responsive. In post-apartheid South Africa, early childhood care and education (ECCE) centres have become ‘melting pots’ ...
This article describes how the Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly negative for skill
formation in South Africa but, at same time, there are high expectations for the technical and
vocational education and training ...