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Direct linkdu Preez, Petro; Simmonds, Shan – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
Student-teachers are exposed to different approaches to teaching Religion Education in South Africa. Amongst these have been the phenomenological-reflective-dialogical approach of Cornelia Roux and the empathetic-reflective-dialogical approach of Janet Jarvis. These different approaches made immeasurable contributions as they started to shift how…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods, Religious Education
Download full textVandeyar, Saloshna – South African Journal of Education, 2021
An earlier paper focused on how born-free learners constitute, negotiate and represent their identities after almost two and half decades of democracy in South Africa. Utilising the theoretical framework of subjective realities of educational change, in this article I set out to explore what implications teachers' beliefs hold for born-free…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change
du Tolt-Brits, Charlene – South African Journal of Education, 2019
Research in self-directed learning (SDL) has become imperative for education and training in the international arena, and in South Africa. This is a result of the changing education landscape all over the world, initiated by the demands of the 21st century and the changes in knowledge and information production. Teacher-centred methods are still…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods, Student Motivation
Mathieson, Susan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
There is a growing awareness of the need to move beyond generic approaches to teaching, learning and assessment (TLA) to consider the importance of context in shaping TLA practices. However, efforts to engage with context have focused primarily on disciplinary epistemologies and in particular the differences between hard, soft, pure and applied…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Constructivism (Learning), Intellectual Disciplines, Teaching Methods
Jawitz, Jeff – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
This paper explores the use of situated cognition theory to investigate how new academics learn to judge complex student performance in an academic department at a South African university. The analysis revealed the existence of two largely separate communities of practice within the department, one centred on the provision of undergraduate…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Constructivism (Learning), Student Evaluation, Epistemology
Peer reviewedGravett, S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1995
Argues, based on a constructivist view of learning, that if knowledge is constructed rather than recorded as received, instruction must be viewed as creating learning environments that enhance the process of knowledge construction, and should guide, support, and accompany students in constructing an increasingly sophisticated understanding of…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Instruction, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
