Faculty of Education
The vision of the Faculty of Education is to be "acknowledged and respected unequivocally as a leading and engaged research-driven education faculty". In line with this, we pride ourselves on playing a leading role in education, both locally and globally. Central to our vision is a commitment to engage with educational challenges, particularly in South Africa.
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A century of misery research on coloured people
(African Sun Media, 2020)When a group of Stellenbosch University (SU) researchers published an article on the “low cognitive functioning” and “unhealthy lifestyle behaviours” of coloured women,2 there was immediate outrage across the campus and ... -
Reinterrogating race in scientific research : a view from the history of physical anthropology
(African Sun Media, 2020)It might come as a surprise to some to learn that the concept of race is a fairly recent phenomenon in the history of humanity. Race, as a marker of human difference, was only introduced in the sixteenth century. However, ... -
(Individual) responsibility in decolonising the university curriculum
(HESA, 2021)Since the “#RhodesMustFall” and “#FeesMustFall” student protests of 2015 and 2016 there has been much written about decolonisation in South Africa, particularly in relation to the curriculum. However, not much has been ... -
Self-efficacy in creativity and curiosity as predicting creative emotions
(Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, 2021)Self-efficacy constructs could predict students’ practices and affect in learning the sciences. Researchers have pointed at such constructs as predictors of students’ mathematics achievement and performance. Self-efficacy ... -
An investigation into teachers’ perspectives on the implementation of environmental concepts in life orientation in grade 9 : a Western Cape case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : This thesis investigated teacher’s experiences of teaching the subject Life Orientation in terms of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) Policy Document for South African schools. Teachers’ ... -
Learning by design : enhancing the digital literacy of adult learners in a blended learning environment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The higher education landscape is changing, influenced by phenomena like globalization, democratization, massification and emerging technologies. The reality higher education institutions (HEIs) are facing ... -
Development of students’ intercultural competencies through a study abroad experience : an institutional case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Internationalisation has become an important endeavour in higher education in South Africa and abroad. Internationalisation can be advanced in multiple ways, and one such way is through study abroad. Study ... -
High school mathematics teachers’ learning experiences, during a professional development intervention to improve their understanding of linear and quadratic functions using GeoGebra
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Mathematics is a compulsory subject at all levels of pre-tertiary Namibian education and mathematical functions are key concepts of the mathematics curriculum. Personal experience has shown that teaching ... -
A feminist critique of ubuntu : implications for citizenship education in Zimbabwe
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : In 2015 the government of Zimbabwe announced the rollout of a new education policy that represented a curriculum overhaul at the primary and secondary school level. At the centre of this policy was the ... -
Inclusion in community educational psychology : a journal content analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The fields of Community Psychology and Inclusive Education in Educational Psychology share many common values such as empowerment, social justice and inclusion. The concept of inclusion, central to both ... -
Teaching senior secondary school mathematics for retention
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The very school existence is established on the basis that learners retain, retrieve, or remember what they are taught at a later stage especially during the high-stakes examination at the exit levels ... -
Die onderrigleervoorkeure van Generasie Z-studente in hoër onderwys : ʼn bestek-oorsig
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Die geskiedenis van die mensdom toon dat die onderskeiding en benaming van verskillende generasies ʼn eeue-oue verskynsel is. Oor die jare heen toon generasies gemeenskaplike kenmerke, generasiebewustheid ... -
Teachers identifying and responding to learner errors and misconceptions in numbers, operations and relationships in the intermediate phase
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways in which Intermediate Phase (Grades 4, 5 and 6) teachers identify and respond to learners’ mathematical errors and misconceptions in the content area ... -
The place-making pedagogical practices of teachers in an inclusive high school
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : This thesis explores the place-making pedagogical practices of six high school teachers at their special-needs school. The study investigates a link between space and identity, which provides a conceptual ... -
Faktore wat studente motiveer om by 'n Afrikaanse privaat hoëronderwysinstelling te studeer
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : In die navorsing aangaande bemarking in hoër onderwys (HO) word die fokus geplaas op die student as verbruiker van ʼn diens. Vir die suksesvolle voortbestaan van ʼn hoëronderriginstelling (HOI) is dit ... -
The impact of COVID-19 on chess in South Africa
(CSSALL Publishers, 2020)In this chapter I address the question of the way that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic with its new normal and social distancing, impacts the sport code of chess in South Africa. This pandemic has already drastically ... -
Content and trends in inclusion research in South African community educational psychology : a South African journal review
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The content and trends in research are regarded as an important area of research as they can give an indication of the movement and content of a specific field. In this study, the content and trends in ... -
Teacher education for transformative agency : critical perspectives on design, content and pedagogy
(African Sun Media, 2020)"Many teacher education programs globally are undergoing significant changes in response to government policy, imperatives driven by global competitiveness, as well as local conditions. This is particularly relevant in the ... -
Ta'arruf as a philosophy of Muslim education : extending Abu Bakr Effendi’s pragmatism
(African Sun Media, 2020)In this book, Yusef Waghid constitutes his argument in defence of ta’arruf (associational knowing) as an expanded conception of ta’dib (good education). In the first part of the book he elucidates Abu Bakr Effendi’s position ... -
How three high-fee independent secondary schools in the Western Cape currently conceptualise language support for international students with language barriers
(South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), 2020)A steadily increasing number of wealthy foreigners, mainly from other African countries, opt to send their teenage children to independent secondary schools in South Africa to give their children what they perceive to be ...
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