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Rodney Duffett; Dylan Cromhout; Pieter Steenkamp – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2023
A majority of service learning (SL) studies focus on the student benefits and challenges, whereas few consider the organization (community partner) viewpoint. This study examines the value that small businesses place on a marketing-oriented SL project run by the academic Marketing Department at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Marketing, Professional Education, Service Learning
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Olagunju, Anu; Frankish, Tarryn; Wade, Jean Philippe – Cogent Education, 2022
Studies have shown how social media, including Facebook and Twitter, are reshaping communication, news, and information. It is therefore important to explore the role social media plays in student protests and campaigns in order to determine to what extent social media allows participation and audience inclusion during #FeesMustFall and other…
Descriptors: Social Action, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Tuition
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Malcolm, Matthew R.; O'Donoghue, Tom – Education Research and Perspectives, 2016
Issues arising from relationships between academic departments in universities and external stakeholders are numerous and complex. The matter is illustrated in this paper by focusing on a dispute in the theology department at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, which came to a head from 2004 to 2007. The dispute itself is detailed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Departments, Theological Education
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Biscombe, Monique; Conradie, Stephané; Costandius, Elmarie; Alexander, Neeske – Education as Change, 2017
In the political, social, cultural and economic context of South Africa, higher education spaces provide fertile ground for social research. This case study explored "othered" identities in the Department of Visual Arts of Stellenbosch University. Interviews with students and lecturers revealed interesting and controversial aspects in…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Universities, Departments, Interviews
Mushome, Avhasei Merium; Monobe, Ratau John – Online Submission, 2013
This article presents the attitude of lecturers towards the visually impaired students in one of the universities in the Limpopo Province. First, it is argued that the experience of a visual impairment by a student has a greater effect on the strategies and methodologies used for instruction than on the curricular content to which the student is…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Visual Impairments, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Botma, Gabriel J. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2012
A former whites-only South African university's journalism department employs a dual-medium language policy in which Afrikaans and English alternate in classrooms, and students may use either. Admissions processes include a test of linguistic ability (general/cultural knowledge and writing skills). Citing Bourdieu, this article disputes the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Writing (Composition), Journalism Education, Linguistics