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Metaphors are a useful way of accessing students' conceptions of teaching and tracking how their conceptions shift over time. This article analyses metaphors for ‘being a teacher’ written by a group of South African student ...
Initial teacher education programmes offer inclusive education
modules that seek to prepare teachers for teaching diverse
learners. While there is growing research on the content and
pedagogy of inclusive education ...
Rusznyak, L.; Balfour, R.; Von Vollenhoven, W.; Sosibo, L.(UV/UFS, 2016)
From text: Initial teacher education (ITE) programmes are expected to prepare teachers who have the capacity to develop conceptually strong, responsive and inclusive teaching practices. The extent to which ITE programmes ...
This paper presents a comparative analysis of education courses offered across five South African universities participating in the Initial Teacher Education Research Project. The analysis compares knowledge selected for ...
In contexts where inclusive education is nascent, teacher educators
face the challenge of preparing pre-service teachers for a system that
does not yet exist. While this might be possible through universitybased coursework, ...
Much is at stake with regard to academic success of first-year students in higher education. This paper presents the findings of an empirical study which looks at shifts in students’ understanding of a concept through a ...
It is expected that that pre-service teachers are adequately equipped to meet the needs of diverse students. This article discusses the choices that teacher educators must make in designing inclusive education courses. The ...
Rusznyak, L.(All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, 2017)
Promoting teacher professionalism is regarded as a strategy to address the disparate quality of learning in South African
classrooms. Through a qualitative analysis of initial teacher education (ITE) programmes offered ...
Rusznyak, L.; Kimathi, F.(Published by th e University of Johannesburg and Unisa Press., 2018)
Teaching and teacher education in South Africa have emerged from a highly fragmented past. Teachers from diverse backgrounds, experiences and qualifications find themselves working together in schools where they do not ...
As inclusive education has gained traction internationally, there has been a demand for teachers who are equipped to teach diverse learners. This has led to attempts to capture the competences of inclusive teachers in ...
There is little contention that gender equity continues to be a challenge in many societies across the Southern African region. Dominant discourses that perpetuate inequality are often reflected in school materials such ...
Much research in face-to-face contexts outlines the importance of early adjustment on students’ higher education experiences. However, few studies have replicated this research in distance learning contexts to unpack the ...
Mogodi, M.; Kebaetse, M.; Molwantwa, M.; Prozesky, D.; Griffiths, D.(Springer Nature, 2019)
Background: Community-based education (CBE) involves educating the head (cognitive), heart (affective), and the
hand (practical) by utilizing tools that enable us to broaden and interrogate our value systems. This article ...
Dison, L.; Shalem, Y.; Taylor, D.(Hosted by Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service since 2016., 2019)
There is general agreement that there are many structural constraints beyond students’ control which influence the degree of success that students can attain as they learn to participate in academic practice. Less understood ...
Transformation in Higher Education has been an ongoing concern in post-apartheid South Africa,
especially in light of universities’ expected contribution to economic and socio-political
transformation. In particular, ...
There has been an unprecedented demand for equitable access to post-secondary education post
1994, perhaps because of the change in policies broadening participation of black people in
traditional universities in South ...
In the tumultuous time we find ourselves, debates about pedagogy have taken centre stage once again. Concerns raised by the student protests of 2015 and 2016 have highlighted the urgent need to re-think traditional teaching, ...
Students’ academic literacy practices frequently do not prepare them for, or articulate with, the ways of thinking and practising within their chosen academic disciplines (Boughey, 2010; Clarence, 2010; Wingate & Tribble, ...
This article analyses the patterns of international academic mobility in higher education with particular focus on academic staff. Using the ‘pull and push factors’ as a conceptual framework, it argues that the patterns ...
There has been an unprecedented demand for equitable access to post-secondary education post
1994, perhaps because of the change in policies broadening participation of black people in
traditional universities in South ...