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Download full textOluwatoyin Jumoke Adelabu; Vusi Mncube – South African Journal of Education, 2023
Parents are an important part of any educational progress, and they are recognised as of key importance in children's learning. In addition, fruitful parents' participation in children's education has been reported to facilitate the development of learners' values, positive attitudes, and behaviour in which their emotional balance and maturity…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Family Involvement
Direct linkSmangele Mkhwanazi; Alet Moll – Educational Review, 2024
The article presents the narratives of two academics with mobility impairments who work in the largest open distance learning higher education institution in South Africa. We share our experiences as we navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic and reflect on this phase. For many people, life will never be the same after this pandemic; people have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Disabilities, Distance Education, Open Education
Marsling, Steve; Smith, Chris – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
This year sees the release of "London Recruits," a film chronicling the anti-apartheid activism of young men and women volunteers who, from 1967, travelled from the UK to South Africa. The recruits were invaluable to the campaigning work of the African National Congress and the wider international anti-apartheid movement because as white…
Descriptors: Activism, Racial Segregation, World History, Foreign Countries
Kobus Maree – Gifted Education International, 2024
This article reports on how intervention research based on integrative career counselling enhanced the existential experience of a gifted learner. The participant of this study was a purposively selected gifted 17-year-old girl learner in search of a career that would help her experience meaning, purpose, and hope in and through her career-life.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Self Concept, Gifted, Intervention
Emma Groenewald – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
This article focuses on the navigation and negotiation of a Zulu student on a diverse university campus in South Africa. Students in higher education institutions bring their life stories, shaped by lived experiences, culture, history, and language, to the campus, while the interconnection between race, language, culture, and gender creates new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Blacks
Müller, Marguerite; Le Roux, Adré; Kruger, Frans – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
This article presents a diffractive arts-based narrative that results from a re-turn of our work with subjectivity and memory in relation to our involvement with teaching social justice and diversity in education. Through intra-action, we explore the entanglement of subjectivity and memory in working towards different possibilities for more…
Descriptors: Memory, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, Time Perspective
Anthonissen, Christine – Applied Linguistics, 2020
Following a suggestion by Crosthwaite (2005) that autobiographical narratives can be viewed as organizational practices, this article turns attention to events of recalling and articulating personal histories of trauma produced during and after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings of 1996-8. Witness testimonies at…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Trauma, Resilience (Psychology)
Bozkurt, Aras; Xiao, Junhong; Lambert, Sarah; Pazurek, Angelica; Crompton, Helen; Koseoglu, Suzan; Farrow, Robert; Bond, Melissa; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Honeychurch, Sarah; Bali, Maha; Dron, Jon; Mir, Kamran; Stewart, Bonnie; Costello, Eamon; Mason, Jon; Stracke, Christian M.; Romero-Hall, Enilda; Koutropoulos, Apostolos; Toquero, Cathy Mae; Singh, Lenandlar; Tlili, Ahmed; Lee, Kyungmee; Nichols, Mark; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Brown, Mark; Irvine, Valerie; Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Farrell, Orna; Adam, Taskeen; Thong, Ying Li; Sani-Bozkurt, Sunagul; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Hrastinski, Stefan; Jandric, Petar – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023
While ChatGPT has recently become very popular, AI has a long history and philosophy. This paper intends to explore the promises and pitfalls of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI and potentially future technologies by adopting a speculative methodology. Speculative future narratives with a specific focus on educational contexts are…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Affordances, Teacher Role
Adelle, Camilla; Black, Gillian; Kroll, Florian – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: Post-positivist critics of the linear-rational understanding of the role of knowledge in decision making have long argued the need for the construction of socially robust knowledge to illuminate policy problems from a variety of perspectives, including lived experiences. Aims and objectives: This article charts the attempts of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Food, Knowledge Level
Prinsloo-Marcus, Loraine; Campbell, Bridget – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This paper is an extension of our 2021 research into pre-service teachers' linguistic autobiographies in a culturally diverse South African university. The paper, which is presented as conversations, examines what we learned about ourselves and our students through their reflective writing, our reflective writing, and our ensuing conversations.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Diversity (Institutional), Personal Narratives, Teacher Education Programs
Angu, Pineteh E. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
This article analyses literacy narratives of first-year students at a South African university. It uses excerpts from the literacy narratives to explain how this writing genre serves as an outlet for reconstructing experiences of social injustice and agency. The article discusses how students' experiences of social injustice and their sense of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Student Development, Literacy
Blose, Sibonelo; Muteweri, Evelyn – SAGE Open, 2021
Leadership is one of the critical drivers of educational institutions and has been overwhelmingly researched across countries. However, there is little with regards to early childhood development centers in the scholarship of educational leadership. South Africa has an assortment of early childhood development centers (ECD) ranging from fully…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Early Childhood Education, Experience
Percy, Alisa – Across the Disciplines, 2019
This paper engages with the central theme of this special issue, "From the Margins to the Centre," as a particular kind of narrative that occupies the imagination of literacy educators in the academy, particularly those who are located in the "centre," but whose experience ironically finds them "pinned to the margins"…
Descriptors: Reflection, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
de Villiers Bosman, Isak – Education for Information, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted education at all levels worldwide. This personal account documents some of the details of the shift to remote teaching in a South African context and discusses some opportunities and challenges present in this shift. The focus is on those issues that specifically apply to developing countries and some of these…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
Taylor, Dale L; Bangeni, Bongi – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2022
Drawing on a sociocultural understanding of identities as multiple and fluid, we investigate how six practicing teachers recruited their biographical resources in constituting their discourse identities in interviews. The South African context allows us to consider how systemic inequality shapes the identity resources available to teachers from…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Sociocultural Patterns, Social Differences, Racial Differences
