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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Narratives from North Africa : South African prisoner-of-war experience following the fall of Tobruk, June 1942
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2011-11)South African prisoners of war (POWs) captured at Tobruk in June 1942 experienced similar events and conditions. All shared a feeling of shock at becoming POWs and all of them had to deal with extremely difficult living ...
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Finding the plot in South African reading education
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)This article argues that we have lost the plot in South African reading education. To find it, we need to move beyond the predominant mode of reading as oral performance, where the emphasis is on accuracy and pronunciation, ...
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Die verhewe simboliese kapitaal van skoolhoofde op 'n plattelandse dorp
(LitNet, 2014-12)Hierdie artikel fokus op die inwerking van ’n plattelandse-dorp-konteks op skoolhoofde se leierskappraktyke. Skole in Suid-Afrika verskil drasties van mekaar ten opsigte van konteks, en skoolhoofde se leierskappraktyke is ...
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Doksa en verwerkliking van leeridentiteitspraktyke van hoerskoolleerders in 'n landelike werkersklasdorp
(LitNet, 2015-12)Hierdie artikel fokus op die aanpassings wat werkersklasleerders maak om hul leerpraktyke te bou. Die kernfokus is op aspekte van hoe die werkersklasleerders hul leeridentiteite in ’n spesifieke landelike werkersklasdorpskonteks ...
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The effect of three different exercise training modalities on cognitive and physical function in a healthy older population
(Biomed Central, 2017-08)Background Older adults are encouraged to participate in regular physical activity to counter the age-related declines in physical and cognitive health. Literature on the effect of different exercise training modalities ...
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Utilising the stone age for sport historical teaching
(The South African Society for History Teaching, 2016-12)In this article the author explored sport history pedagogy by combining the Canadian Benchmarking Project with the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT) for teaching ancient culture to undergraduate students of sport history. The ...
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Die geleefde ervarings van primere skoolonderwysers binne 'n kultuur van performatiwiteit
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016-12)Die doel van hierdie studie is om uiteindelik 'n diepgaande begrip te vorm oor die belewenisse van laerskoolonderwysers met betrekking tot die fenomeen van performatiwiteit en die betekenis wat hulle daaraan heg. Die ...
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Promoting social change amongst students in higher education : a reflection on the Listen, Live and Learn senior student housing initiative at Stellenbosch University
(Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017)Twenty-two years after apartheid South African higher education is still struggling with challenges around access, success and transformation. Stellenbosch University (SU), as a historically white university, is striving ...
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Volwasse studente in hoeronderwysinstellings : die portefeulje-ontwikkelingskursus as 'n voorbereidingsmeganisme vir akademiese sukses
(LitNet, 2016-02-23)Hoëronderwysinstellings moet toenemend aanpas by uiteenlopende, nietradisionele studentegemeenskappe, insluitend ouer volwasse studente. Die ondersoek waarop hierdie artikel gebaseer is, het bepaal hoe die erkenning-van- ...
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Towards a conceptual framework for interdisciplinary teaching and learning dialogues in higher education
(CSSALL, 2016)This paper explores the development and early validation of a conceptual framework for learning-centred teaching by six Teaching Advancement at Universities (TAU) Fellows and their mentor, each representing a different ...
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Gerrie gesels tennis
(Rapid Access Publishers, 2003)Ek wil vir geen oomblik te kenne gee dat my manier van afrig die enigste metode is nie. Dit is eerder ’n aanduiding van die filosofieë wat vir my gewerk het. Verder deel ek graag my oortuiging dat tennis speel ’n mens ...
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Education, democracy and citizenship revisited: Pedagogical Encounters
(SUN MeDIA, 2010)PREFACE: This book contains a revised collection of previously published articles spanning a period of five years (2004-2009) during which my seminal thoughts on democratic citizenship education have been developed. I ...
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Debating thesis supervision: Perspectives from a university education department
(SUN MeDIA, 2012)INTRODUCTION: The Department of Education Policy Studies decided to produce this occasional publication on the topic of thesis supervision as a way of bringing our academic labour in this hitherto ‘invisible’ area into ...
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The effects of being habitually barefoot on foot mechanics and motor performance in children and adolescents aged 6–18 years : study protocol for a multicenter crosssectional study (Barefoot LIFE project)
(BioMed Central, 2016-09-02)Background: Barefoot locomotion has evoked an increasing scientific interest with a controversial debate about benefits and limitations of barefoot and simulated barefoot walking and running. While most current knowledge comes ...
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An examination of pre-service teachers’ capacity to create mathematical modeling problems for children
(SAGE Publications, 2017)This study examined preservice teachers’ (PSTs) capacity to create mathematical modeling problems (MMPs) for grades 1 to 3. PSTs created MMPs for their choice of grade level and aligned the mathematical content of their ...
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Threshold crossings and doctoral education: learning from the examination of doctoral education
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2016)Introduction: Doctoral supervision has been identified as a key factor in timely PhD completion. Therefore, this chapter sets out to explore what can be learned from doctoral examinations to support doctoral education ...
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Making sense of research in higher education
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2016)I was meeting with E about the problems that postgraduate researchers experience when carrying out their research. E was a well-respected and eminent professor from Stellenbosch University. I had known him for about four ...
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Doctoral students' identities : does it matter
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2016)Introduction: These excerpts depict the sentiments of doctoral students who were at different stages in their doctoral journey and shared their narratives with me. My interest in their narratives started long before ...
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Equity and access: a curricular perspective
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2016)Introduction: This chapter is concerned with equity and access to the curriculum, which has been shown by numerous analyses of statistics, as well as experience of those of us who are concerned to improve the state of ...
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Academic literacy as a graduate attribute: implications for thinking about curriculum
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2011)INTRODUCTION: This chapter is set within the current focus on graduate attributes. These are qualities which students require in order to study at university, as well as and more typically, the attributes that students ...
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Challenges for curriculum in a contemporary South Africa
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2011)INTRODUCTION: Curriculum is a complex and contested terrain that is variously described based on disparate philosophical lenses through which it is viewed. When the word ‘curriculum’ is used it is generally understood as ...
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A small-scale classroom research approach to curriculum renewal
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2011)INTRODUCTION: Ross argues that the term curriculum can be interpreted as the organisation of desired learning experiences and that it represents a guide to lecturers of what is to be taught in specific institutions (Ross ...
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Exploring linguistic resources in academic literacy development in isiXhosa printed media texts, within the framework of genre-based teaching
(Casas, 2017)This chapter explores properties of the influential genre-based approach to literacy development (developed by Australian researchers over the past three decades) regarding its possible application in the South African ...
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Research within the context of community engagement
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2009)Community engagement is a concept with a complexity of meanings, approaches and application. Derived from the scholarship of engagement of Boyer, community engagement reflects a commitment to relevance within the context ...
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Bringing the community into higher education
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2016)Introduction: The third core function of community interaction in higher education is often viewed as the peripheral activity in the triad of academic tasks. Community interaction is seen as an imperative which often results ...
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Addressing dualisms in student perceptions of a historically white and black university in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Normative discourses about higher education institutions may perpetuate stereotypes about institutions. Few studies explore student perceptions of universities and how transformative pedagogical interventions in university ...
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An investigation into the use of spreadsheet algebra programmes (SAPS) to influence teacher change in selected township high schools
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This study investigates possible teacher change after the use of Spreadsheet Algebra Programmes (SAPs) in Excel on functions, a ‘new form of teaching and learning’ in two township high schools from ...
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Exploring the role of ontological identity in the development of workplace literacy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The question about the possible role of ontological identity in the development of workplace literacy arose from my experience as adult literacy educator. Sensing parallels between my own refocusing of ...
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Endocrine response to small-sided games and match play in elite u19 South African soccer players
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Purpose Small-sided games (SSGs) are used worldwide with the intention of stimulating significant physiological adaptations in players that are specific to match demands. The external load of SSGs and ...
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The introduction of online mathematics assessment as an alternate assessment to facilitate mathematics learning of senior phase deaf and hard of hearing learners
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The difficulties Deaf and H/H learners experience during paper and pencil mathematics assessments as a result of reading, interpretation and language obstacles result in their poor performance in school ...
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