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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What is (post)quanlitative research?
(HESA, 2018)The (post)human turn has ushered in new ways of doing inquiry. (Post)humanism is the catalyst for news ways of thinking and doing research under an umbrella term called (post)qualitative research. In this article I discuss ...
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Foot strike patterns differ between children and adolescents growing up barefoot vs. shod
(Georg Thieme Verlag, 2017)Effects of early and permanent footwear use are not well understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of habituation to footwear on foot strike patterns of children and adolescents. Healthy habitually ...
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Responding to violence in post-apartheid schools : on school leadership as mutual engagement
(University of South Africa Press, 2016)Schools in post-apartheid South Africa appear to be under siege by violence. In turn, school leaders find themselves in the unenviable position of not only having to deal with inadequate educator professionalism and learner ...
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A narration of a physical science teacher's experience of implementing a new curriculum
(University of South Africa Press, 2016)This article narrates the lived experiences of a Physical Science teacher named Thobani (pseudonym) in implementing a new curriculum in South Africa. Drawing on the work of Husserl and Heidegger, the article describes the ...
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Professional practice schools as a form of school-university partnership in teacher education : towards a social justice agenda
(University of South Africa Press, 2016)Twenty years into democracy, South Africa is still struggling to improve the quality of its education system. The identification of schools that can work closely with universities to mentor student teachers has been suggested ...
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'Youth amplified' : using critical pedagogy to stimulate learning through dialogue at a youth radio show
(University of South Africa Press, 2017)In this paper I describe and analyse how critical pedagogy, an approach to teaching and learning that encourages students to reflect on their socio-political contexts, may stimulate critical consciousness and dialogue at ...
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Skoolhoofde se leierskapspraktyke wat betrekking het op die skep van “fisiese ruimtes” om gesonde leeromgewings by hul skole te vestig
(LitNet, 2018)Hierdie artikel fokus op hoe twee skoolhoofde, deur middel van hul leierskaps- en ruimteskeppende praktyke, produktiewe leeromgewings by hul skole skep. Die artikel bespreek die wyse waarop twee geselekteerde skoolhoofde, ...
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Ouers van kinders in hulle middelkinderjare met aandagtekort- en hiperaktiwiteitsversteuring se belewing : ’n veerkragtigheidsperspektief
(LitNet, 2018)Aandagtekort- en Hiperaktiwiteitsversteuring (ATHV) word gekenmerk deur ‘n aanhoudende patroon van onoplettendheid en/of hiperaktiwiteit-impulsiwiteit wat ‘n negatiewe invloed op daaglikse funksionering en ontwikkeling ...
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The search for ecologies of knowledge in the encounter with African epistemicide in South African education
(UNISA Press, 2015)This article discusses the manufactured absence of African epistemologies, that we refer to as ‘epistemicide’, in formal education in Africa. The exemplifying case for our argument is the western hegemonic positioning ...
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Legitimising critical pedagogy in the face of timorous, mechanistic pedagogy
(UNISA Press, 2015)The literature on critical pedagogy is awash, on the one hand, with notions of emancipatory pedagogy that liberate students and teachers from the snares of capitalist ideological hegemony. On the other hand, claims abound ...
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Community-engaged curricula in higher education : the case of a master's programme in play therapy
(UNISA Press, 2015)This article presents the results from research on community-engaged curricula using feedback from international and South African academics who teach on postgraduate programmes with a community engagement component. It ...
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Are doctoral studies in South Africa higher education being put at risk?
(UNISA Press, 2015)Inasmuch as many attempts are being made in South Africa to increase the doctoral throughput rate, it appears as if the rush to produce doctoral (PhD) qualifications might just be the biggest risk that confronts the ...
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On the democratisation of science education through Facebook : implications for autonomy, equality and teacher education in universities
(UNISA Press, 2015)In this article I offer a defence for using educational technology to democratise classroom practices in relation to science education and teacher education at universities. My contention is that educational technology, ...
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The views of commerce students regarding "free" higher education in South Arica
(HESA, 2018)At the end of 2015, student protests (demanding ‘free’ higher education) took place at most South African universities. An official answer from the South African government regarding ‘free higher education’ is still being ...
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Feeling some typ'a way : a young Black woman's experience of education in South Africa
(HESA, 2018)This article aims to contribute to conversations about Black subjectivity by engaging with the reflections of a young, Black, female student at Stellenbosch University. An auto-ethnographic approach is used to demonstrate ...
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Values, institutional culture and recognition of prior learning
(HESA, 2018)In this paper, I draw a link between values, institutional culture and the Stellenbosch University (SU) Regulation for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and Credit Accumulation Transfer (CAT). I do this because the ...
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Addressing the negative impact of consumerism on young people by (re)awakening their spirituality through sense of place
(HESA, 2018)Consumerism holds the view that personal wellbeing and happiness depend largely on the material goods a person can buy (Dwyer 2007). Advertising constantly bombards our youth with images of materially seductive things. The ...
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Literacies : skills and practices in developing writing identities
(Stellenbosch University, 2018)This study was prompted by the fact that students who use a second language (L2) for higher education studies are often faced with the dilemma of not being able to express themselves in writing. This study attempts to ...
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Die gebruik van ondersoekgebaseerde wetenskaponderrig om studente se konseptuele begrip van gelykstroomelektrisiteit te bevorder
(AOSIS, 2017-05-26)Navorsing in wetenskaponderwys het ontstaan uit die positivistiese paradigma waarin wetenskaplike kennis as onveranderlik beskou was. Hierdie artikel ondersoek die gebruik van ondersoekgebaseerde wetenskaponderrig as ’n ...
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Die rol van 'n veeltalige selfoonvakwoordeboek in die ontwikkeling van konsepgeletterdheid vir onderwysstudente in die ekonomiese en bestuurswetenskappe
(LitNet, 2017)Van die vele uitdagings van nuwelingstudente aan universiteite is nie net om ’n meer algemene akademiese woordeskat te ontwikkel nie, maar ook om die vakwoordeskat van hulle studierigting te bemeester. Vir baie studente ...
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Die leerpraktykvorming van plattelandse werkersklasleerders gegrond op hulle fondse van kennis
(LitNet, 2017)Hierdie artikel handel oor hoe vyf landelike werkersklasleerders hulle fondse van kennis (FvK) gebruik vir die vestiging van hulle leerpraktyke. Met fondse van kennis verwys ons na die noodsaaklike kulturele praktyke en ...
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Die navigasiepraktyke van leerders uit arm, landelike gebiede
(LitNet, 2017)Hierdie artikel handel oor ’n groep arm, landelike leerders se belewing van hulle skoling in ’n landelike woongebied. Dit beskryf die hoërskoolleerders se aanpassings- en navigasiestrategieë in eendimensionele eendersmakende ...
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The role of leadership practices in establishing a curriculum policy platform at working-class schools
(Education Association of South Africa, 2018)This article focuses on the way in which the school management teams (SMTs) of three selected working-class schools have developed and implemented a range of leadership practices within their schools in order to provide a ...
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Performatiwiteit as verskynsel in die onderwys
(LitNet, 2017)Performatiwiteit in die onderwys is ’n neoliberale verskynsel. Die neoliberalisme is ’n gedagterigting wat effektiwiteit, doeltreffendheid en gehalte beklemtoon. Met hierdie artikel word daar op die toenemende belang van ...
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Professionele ontwikkeling vir Afrikaans huistaal-onderwysers ter bevordering van leesbegrip van niemoedertaalsprekers
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017-12)Hierdie studie ondersoek die professionele ontwikkelingsbehoeftes van onderwysers met betrekking tot die bevordering van die leesbegrip van niemoedertaalsprekers in Afrikaans-huistaalklasse. Gebaseer op die data wat ...
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Taal as hulpbron in intermediere fase wiskunde-onderrig in die Oos-Kaap : op soek na 'n effektiewe pedagogiek vir wiskunde-onderrig
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017-09)In Suid-Afrika is dit nie verpligtend dat studente tydens hul wiskunde-onderwysopleiding eers die taal van leer en onderrig (TvLO) moet bemeester nie. Voorts word geen of minimale leiding gegee met betrekking tot ʼn ...
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Imaginative play and reading development among Grade R learners in KwaZulu-Natal : an ethnographic case study
(AOSIS Publishing, 2018-06)This article argues that imaginative play can fulfil a valuable role in the development of reading among pre-school children. It uses Feuerstein’s Mediated Learning Experience as a theoretical lens and defines the concepts ...
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A sudden sickening sensation : South African prisoner-of-war experience on board the San Sebastian, December 1941
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2018)During the Battle of Sidi Rezegh on 23 November 1941, a large number of volunteers from the Union Defence Force (UDF) was taken prisoner by Axis forces. Between 2 000 and 2 500 of these men were transported to Italy on ...
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Homework policy review : a case study of a public school in the Western Cape Province
(Education Association of South Africa, 2018)A key concern today is the question of homework in our nation’s public schools. In this study, an investigation was conducted with the first no-homework policy, which has been introduced in one of the primary schools in ...
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A multi-level researcher development framework to address contrasting views of student research challenges
(HESA, 2018)Ensuring quality and completion of students’ research places pressure on postgraduate supervisors. Postgraduate students’ primary interest in theoretical and practical knowledge rather than research, influences the completion ...
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