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Integrated Environmental Teaching in South Africa: An Impossible Dream?
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Mokhele, Matseliso Lineo – Perspectives in Education, 2011
To its credit, the new National Curriculum Statement (NCS) for GET (General Education and Training) recently revised into a new Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) in RSA has put a premium on the inclusion of environmental learning as an integrated component of all subject areas in the primary school phase of learning. This is in…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
Building Capacity for Developing Statistical Literacy in a Developing Country: Lessons Learned from an Intervention
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North, Delia; Gal, Iddo; Zewotir, Temesgen – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
This paper aims to contribute to the emerging literature on capacity-building in statistics education by examining issues pertaining to the readiness of teachers in a developing country to teach basic statistical topics. The paper reflects on challenges and barriers to building statistics capacity at grass-roots level in a developing country,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Capacity Building, Statistics, Developing Nations
Researching Doctoral Pedagogy Close up: Design and Action in Two Doctoral Programmes
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Danby, Susan; Lee, Alison – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
With growing international interest in diversifying sites for pedagogical work within the doctorate, doctoral programmes of different kinds are being developed in different disciplinary, institutional and national settings. However, little is known about how the pedagogical work of these programmes is designed and enacted, and with what effects.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Social Action, Doctoral Programs
Policy and Strategies for ESL Pedagogy in Multilingual Classrooms: The Classroom Talk Programme
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Naicker, Shalina; Balfour, Robert J. – Language Learning Journal, 2009
This paper explores the impact of a specially designed programme of communicative strategies on English second language (ESL) development in a scaffolded case study that set out to promote teacher-guided, constructive learner talk in the outcomes-based education arts and culture classroom. The programme was implemented in a multilingual secondary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Outcome Based Education, Classroom Communication, Multilingualism
Digital Imaging South Africa (DISA): A Case Study
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Saunders, Christopher – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: To tell the story of a particular digitisation project with which the author has been closely involved, illustrating the problems and scope of the project and focusing especially on the issues relating to the selection of appropriate content. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based largely on personal involvement in the project…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Program Descriptions, Program Development
Vocational Education and Training for Life Long Learning in the Information Era. IVETA [International Vocational Education and Training Association] Conference Proceedings (Hong Kong, China, August 6-9, 2000).
Vocational Training Council (Hong Kong). – 2000
This document contains 123 papers from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The papers focus on the following themes: (1) societal and ethical issues; (2) human resource development and personnel training; (3) international issues; (4) information technology in VET;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Alternative Assessment