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Direct linkManià, Kirby; Mabin, Linda Kathleen; Liebenberg, Jessica – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2018
This paper reflects on the teaching of science fiction texts to first-year engineering students at the University of the Witwatersrand as part of a Critical Thinking course that uses literature as a vehicle through which to develop competence in critical literacy and communication. This course aims to equip engineering students, as future…
Descriptors: Science Fiction, Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, College Freshmen
Slamat, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
In this article the author has followed an approach of "epistemological defamiliarisation" by looking with new eyes at education. The author wants to follow an approach that "challenges the prevailing common sense" in the hope that it will lead to a new vantage point from where a fresh view of the educational landscape is…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational Attitudes
