Browsing Research Articles (Curriculum Studies) by Title
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Generalising some geometrical theorems and objects
(Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa, 2016)This article presents two possible examples of appropriate generalisation activities. The first is the generalisation of a familiar theorem for cyclic quadrilaterals to cyclic polygons, while the second is the generalisation ... -
Getting the boys involved : using an interactive questionnaire to investigate Grade 6 boys’ writing
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Whilst research has been conducted on reading skills at primary school level in South Africa, not much research exists on writing, especially boys’ writing. This article focuses on the use of an interactive questionnaire ... -
Graduate attributes : how some university students experience and learn them
(HESA, 2020)The voices of university students are often absent from academic discourses on the learning of graduate attributes (GAs). Such attributes are mostly constructed and conceptualised from the viewpoint of academics, institutions, ... -
Hemisferiese integrasie en die rolprent Fiela se kind as onderrigstrategie om lees te bevorder
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2010-09)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Alhoewel die twee hemisfere van die menslike brein identies voorkom, toon navorsing dat elke hemisfeer oor gespesialiseerde funksies beskik. Die linkerhemisfeer is hoofsaaklik gespesialiseer om ... -
Die herkonseptualisering van volhoubaarheid na die dekade van opvoeding vir volhoubare ontwikkeling
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2015-03)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die afgelope dekade (2005–2014) is gekenmerk deur verskeie bewusmakingsveldtogte aangaande volhoubare ontwikkeling. Nietemin, tesame met die veelvoudige waarskuwings wat die behoefte aan ’n volhoubare ... -
'n Hervoorstelling van die begrip grond tydens 'n ondersoek na die rol van grondgebaseerde onderwys in Suid-Afrika
(LitNet, 2019)Reeds sedert die aanvang van die koloniale era in Suid-Afrika is grond ’n emosiebelaaide en sensitiewe kwessie. Tot dusver is die vraagstuk rondom grond hoofsaaklik vanuit eng politiese en ekonomiese perspektiewe benader, ... -
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 ... -
Human rights literacies and students' paradoxical understandings of tolerance and respect
(HESA, 2017)Ivanhoe (2009:312) states that the “majority of contemporary Western philosophers who accept the fact of ethical pluralism and take this as a cause for concern, tend to argue for tolerance in the face of such differences”. ... -
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 ... -
Imaginative play and reading development among Grade R learners in KwaZulu-Natal : an ethnographic case study
(AOSIS, 2018)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 ... -
Imagologie en die bestudering van literêre stereotipes in die onderrig van Afrikaans as addisionele taal
(AOSIS Publishing, 2002-11)Imagology is the study of national and ethnic stereotypes as represented in literature. These stereotypes are represented in literary images of identity and alterity when intercultural contact is portrayed in texts. The ... -
In-service teachers' perspectives of pre-service teachers' knowledge domains in science
(Education Association of South Africa, 2011)The concept of pedagogical content knowledge is integral to teaching as a profession and is often considered to be an important aspect of a teacher's lived experience. Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is described as a ... -
An individualised literacy intervention for low progress readers and writers in the foundation phase
(Stellenbosch University, 2011)Current literacy interventions (i.e. programmes of instruction for low-progress readers and writers that are supplementary to the literacy programmes used in mainstream classrooms) implemented in most Western Cape schools ... -
The influence of the user needs paradigm in specialised lexicography : Some reflections in connection with two South African wine dictionaries
(Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2014)This article describes the influence of the user needs paradigm in the construction of specialised dictionaries. It shows that this paradigm coincides with the main tenets of the function theory of lexicography, a theoretical ... -
Die insluiting van ’n (multi-) kulturele komponent in die kurrikulum vir Afrikaans as addisionele taal
(AOSIS Publishing, 2001-11)In this article the author pleads for a democratisation of Afrikaans as an additional language curriculum so that the teaching and learning of Afrikaans could contribute towards cross-cultural consciousness. Relevant ... -
An instrumental approach to modelling the derivative in Sketchpad
(AOSIS Publishing, 2011-11)Encouragement to integrate information and communication technologies into mathematics education curricula is an increasingly universal phenomenon. As a contribution to the discourse, this article discusses the potential ... -
Die integrasie van humoristiese tekste in die opleiding van taalonderwysstudente binne 'n konstruktivistiese paradigma
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008)Die artikel beskryf ’n gevallestudie waarin humoristiese tekste in die onderrig van Afrikaans aan onderwysstudente geïntegreer is. Die betrokke navorsingsprogram is gebaseer op 'n onderrigprogram wat binne 'n konstruktivistiese ... -
Die integrasie van tegnologie in die Afrikaans huistaal-klaskamer van skole in die Wes-Kaap : 'n gevallestudie
(LitNet, 2019)Die doel van hierdie navorsing was om die vlak van tegnologie-integrasie in die Afrikaans Huistaal-klaskamer van skole in die Wes-Kaap te ondersoek. In die 21ste eeu het die gebruik van tegnologie ’n belangrike deel van ... -
Integrating literacy practices in business education : pedagogic intentions for teacher training
(Stellenbosch University, 2014)The importance of literacy and literacy practices as an instrument of conceptual and cognitive development is well documented. Reading and writing skills have an integral role in higher education, yet the application of ... -
Integrating sustainability into business education teacher training
(Education Association of South Africa, 2014-08)Businesses are increasingly coming under scrutiny from stakeholders who expect them to report how they protect the environment, how they guarantee no human and labour violations in their value chain, and how they function ...
