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BACKGROUND: Working structurally with patterns at foundation phase (FP) enhances habits of mind that advance early algebra at this early stage of mathematical learning. The South African curriculum proposes that learners ...
In this article, we present aspects of teaching that draw attention to connections - both within and between examples - in order to explore the potential objects of learning that are brought into being in the classroom ...
Background: Music as one of the creative arts offers an ideal vehicle to implement alternative teaching and learning strategies, including the implementation of purposeful but playful pedagogies that are increasingly being ...
BACKGROUND: Given the context of low attainment in primary mathematics in South Africa, improving learners' understanding of multiplicative reasoning is important as it underpins much of later mathematics.
AIM: Within a ...
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In this paper, we present and discuss a framework for considering the quality of primary teachers’ mediating of primary mathematics within instruction. The “mediating primary mathematics” framework is located in a sociocultural ...
Sibu visits his mama in the city during school holidays and soon learns that his beloved Gogo has fallen ill. We follow his journey trough uncertainty and difficult emotions. This third story in our Ingane Yami series ...
SASL Games are a great way of enjoyment and active engagement in the classroom, and can improve and motivate learning. These games have been developed with the key principles of Deaf Culture and Deaf community in mind. ...
Doherty, Christo(Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
The full proceedings of the Arts Research Africa Conference 2020, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, from 22 - 24 January 2020. Description: An international conference organised by the Arts Research ...
Schwab, Michael(Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
Emphasises the changing fabric of knowledge and that artistic research has already had an effect on this fabric. Argues for a historical epistemology, and for unsecured forms of knowledge. Uses the experience of editing ...
Ravengai, Samuel(Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
How can artistic research offer the opportunity to create knowledge based on African practice and produced from the African context? This presentation will delineate seven approaches to artistic research and argue for ...
Stewart, Michelle(Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
How do measurable methods of research move between theoretical critique, technical reporting and creative practice? This question is explored with reference to her own practice-based PhD, the experimental animation, Big Man.
Hall, Louise(Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
Drawing from Hall’s own experience with the first Practice-led Research (PLR) PhD in Visual Art at UKZN, this paper argues for the potential of PLR to generate a very particular kind of knowledge based on the dyadic ...
Pyper, Brett(Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
Are certain forms of African music-making inherently advantaged or disadvantaged through engagement with artistic research? How does the quest to advance decoloniality factor into such efforts? What does such belated ...
Nii-Dortey, Moses(Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
This paper engages what strategic/ethical research options can be deployed for preserving, performing and documenting artworks such as The Lost Fishermen, a dying folk opera, which is arguably one of Ghana’s most successful ...
Felix, Sandra(Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020-07)
How does the new PhD in practice-based design research in the School of Architecture at Wits position itself? This paper is an account of the author-practitioner’s exposure to the long history of engagement with design ...