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Asanda Boboyi – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
This conceptual paper explores the integration of "Ubuntu" philosophy in the school social work practice in South Africa, suggesting a transformative framework to enhance social work practice in a school setting based on the principles of interconnectedness, compassion and community. Drawing from critical social work theories, cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, School Social Workers, Social Values
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Verhoef, Anné Hendrik; Fourie, Mariette; Janse van Rensburg, Zander; Louw, Henk; Erasmus, Mianda – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2022
This article was motivated by the need to academically frame and share the response of the North-West University (NWU) to the perceived increase of academic dishonesty during COVID-19. Within the ambit of the online (hybrid) teaching and learning approach that became dominant during the COVID-19 pandemic, the NWU established a Community of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cheating, Communities of Practice, Pandemics
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Wilmot, Kirstin – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
This part-reflective, part-conceptual article focuses on the issue of supervision models and the need to move away from the dominance of the traditional master-apprentice model which continues to persist in many social sciences and humanities contexts. Drawing on communities of practice theory, I critically reflect on my own PhD supervision…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Supervision, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
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Hochfeld, Tessa; Schmid, Jeanette; Errington, Sheri – South African Journal of Education, 2022
In this article we report on a South African study conducted with 1,779 learners aged 11 to 18 years from 8 schools in urban areas in and around Johannesburg. These learners' perspectives on school safety confirm that South African learners experience their schools as unsafe. Their primary concerns related to coercion and violence against learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Safety, Student Attitudes, Violence
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Du Preez, Hannelie; West, Joyce – Perspectives in Education, 2022
Amongst the contemporary needs of societies in the fourth industrial revolution, are student-teachers who are adaptable, ethical, and literate in developing technology-mediated environments. Cultivating such teachers requires engaging them experientially in blended learning practices. We explored 155 student-teachers' experiences of blended…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Student Teachers, Blended Learning, Foreign Countries
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Khan, Sharlene; Asfour, Fouad; Skeyi-Tutani, Zodwa – Transformation in Higher Education, 2022
Background: This article explores the dynamics of the Black Feminist Killjoy Reading Group (BFK) of the Rhodes University Fine Art Department and the Wits University Fine Art Department, as a space of black-African feminist care for participants. It reflects on the motivation to create the group, examines methodologies employed by the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Feminism, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Nereshnee Govender – Perspectives in Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic catapulted higher education institutions to shifting their teaching, learning and assessment practices. Universities globally were abruptly forced to close their doors and adapt to digital learning platforms with the intention of meeting students' learning needs. In a University of Technology (UoT) context such as the Durban…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Inclusion
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Meyer, Merna; Balfour, Robert – Africa Education Review, 2020
The community engagement project described in this article took the form of the re-invention and re-interpretation of a historic symbol (Diana the elephant) on the Potchefstroom Campus of North-West University (NWU), South Africa. In 2015, the Faculty of Education Sciences invited staff and students to reinterpret the elephant (a symbol of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries, Service Learning
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Samantha Hoffman; Rouaan Maarman – Perspectives in Education, 2024
The absence of a shared understanding of quality education for South African schools prompted this study to apply the capability approach of Amartya Sen to investigate the productive qualities of teachers. The study outlines the significance of integrating teachers' perspectives into discussions surrounding quality education in South Africa. More…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, High School Teachers
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Arko-Achemfuor, Akwasi; Romm, Norma; Serolong, Lesego – International Journal for Transformative Research, 2019
In this article we offer a discussion around our academic-practitioner involvements with one another and with a targeted community, in relation to a particular project. In the title of the article, we have hyphenated the term "academic-practitioner" to render fuzzy the distinction between "academic" roles (associated with…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning
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Mugume, Taabo – Perspectives in Education, 2023
The research on students' sense of belonging in higher education has evolved into a prominent theme worldwide. Institutional research focuses on the institution understanding itself and helps leaders to rethink improvement initiatives. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has required of institutions to revise student support programmes and approaches…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sense of Community, Student Attitudes, COVID-19
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Moloi, Mojakgomo David; Molise, Habasisa Vincent; Kola, Malose Isaac – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2023
This paper investigated the strategic devices that can be used to enhance the accounting cash journals content knowledge (ACJCK) of Grade 9 economic and management sciences (EMS) teachers. The study was qualitative, with three participants selected from one rural school in the Thabo-Mofutsanyane education district. The interviews were used to…
Descriptors: Accounting, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Grade 9, Secondary School Teachers
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Cherrington, Avivit M.; Scheckle, Eileen; Khau, Mathabo; De Lange, Naydene; Du Plessis, Andre – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2019
This article seeks to address what it means to be an 'engaged' university and, in so doing, to contribute to current discourses -- in a fast growing field -- about how to collaborate with communities for meaningful social transformation. As a group of researchers from the faculty of education in a South African university, we share our thinking…
Descriptors: Universities, School Community Relationship, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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McIntyre-Mills, J.; Karel, J.; Arko-Achemfuor, A.; Romm, N. R. A; Serolong, L. – International Journal for Transformative Research, 2019
The project review as outlined in this article explores the questions: What is transformative research and what is transformation as far as the community stakeholders are concerned? To what extent has the transformative research achieved its intended outcomes? The Bokamoso project (founded by Lesego Serolong as facilitator and investor) is an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Occupations, Rural Areas, School Community Programs
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Belluigi, D. Z.; Thondhlana, G. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2022
A presumed indicator of change, in terms of the South African higher education sector's racialised past, are the quantitative measures of numerical 'diversity' within the academic staff composition at historically white institutions. To better inform policy, academic development curricula and institutional culture, this study focuses on…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, African American Teachers, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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