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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
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
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
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
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
Deitle, Kevin; Lee, Daniel – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2021
Background: This qualitative study examined apartheid-era South Africa, from 1948 to 1994, which established social and administrative policies that deliberately curtailed the education of Indigenous and other South Africans as a means of oppressing non-European ethnic groups. Analysis: In lieu of face-to-face interviews, the experience of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational History, Racial Segregation, Social Change
Okeke-Uzodike, Obianuju E. – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
The pace of global transformation places a great emphasis on the need for development, with higher education identified as a key agent in the development of a knowledge economy. Higher education systems have been challenged with providing the necessary skilled person-power to complement the changing labour market. Postgraduate supervision is a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Supervision, Graduate Students
Swarts, Tarynne; Hannes, Karin; Rodrigues-Quiles, Jose A. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
Due to an increase in mobility programs, the number of South African international students is on the rise. Despite this increase there is a lack of research on South African international students. The acculturation challenges of South African international students, studying in Flanders, Belgium in a non-Anglophonic context was investigated. A…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Student Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment, Cultural Differences
Mason, Henry D. – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
This article reports on a qualitative study that explored the use of coping strategies among first-year students in managing academic-related stressors. Qualitative data were collected using a non-probability and purposive sample. A total of 225 first-year students who were registered at a South African university participated in the study by…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Qualitative Research, College Freshmen, Coping
Gachago, Daniela; Clowes, Lindsay; Condy, Janet – Gender and Education, 2018
After nearly 25 years of democracy, lives of young South Africans are still profoundly shaped by the legacies of apartheid. This paper considers how these differences are produced, maintained and disrupted through an exploration of changing narratives developed by a small group of South African pre-service teachers, with a particular focus on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, Preservice Teachers, Fathers
Clark, Frenchesca June; Triegaardt, Paul Karel – Perspectives in Education, 2022
The digital divide and the low socio-economic status of many South African school communities, including rural Limpopo, the site of this research study, created an immediate and urgent need to transform teaching and learning during the unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic. Within this context, this study demonstrated the importance of technology…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Rural Schools, Social Differences
