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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Educating Grade 6 students for higher-order thinking and its influence on creativity
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Educating students for higher-order thinking provides them with tools that turn them into more critical thinkers. This supports them in overcoming life problems that they encounter, as well as becoming an integral part of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
'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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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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