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Troublesome Knowledge of SoTL
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Manarin, Karen; Abrahamson, Earle – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
This study explores the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) as a form of troublesome knowledge (Perkins 1999) that continues to trouble its practitioners. Forty-eight higher education professionals from six countries described their understanding of SoTL in an online survey; ten individuals participated in follow-up interviews to consider…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Learning Experience, Followup Studies
Teaching and Learning as a Deliberative Encounter: On the Possibility of New Imaginings
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Waghid, Yusef – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
The writing of this essay coincided with the author's first meeting as a member of the newly established Task Team for the Council on Higher Education (CHE)--an advisory body to the national Ministry of Education--to review the state of higher education in South Africa over the past twenty years since its transition to a post-apartheid society.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Educational Theories
(Re)imagining Method in Educational Leadership and Management Research
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Le Grange, Lesley – South African Journal of Education, 2007
Over the past thirty years we have witnessed a proliferation of educational methods/methodologies aimed at helping us to make sense of the world--to provide clarity about the meaning of social reality. However, although these methods/methodologies are useful frameworks, they do not capture fully the untidy realities of the real world. The…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Educational Administration, Educational Research, Educational Practices
ICTs Promises and Pitfalls in Open and Distance Learning
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Kamanja, L. G. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2007
Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have for long been celebrated as the solution to access in education. New innovations like the internet and mobile technologies provide a great opportunity for mass delivery of education information especially in Africa where governments and institutions are struggling to equip the people with much…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Access to Education
Biennial Survey of Education, 1916-18. Volume II. Bulletin, 1919, No. 89
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Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
Volume II of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1916-1918 includes the following chapters: (1) Education in Great Britain and Ireland (I. L. Kandel); (2) Education in parts of the British Empire: Educational Developments in the Dominion of Canada (Walter A. Montgomery), Public School System of Jamaica (Charles A. Asbury), Recent Progress of…
Descriptors: Jews, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Methods
Distance Education into Group Areas Won't Go?
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Geidt, Jonathan – Open Learning, 1996
Examines the role of open and distance learning in South Africa's plans for educational reconstruction and discusses the educational consequences of apartheid. Reviews the delivery of adult basic education and training programs using distance methods. Concludes that some areas are likely to remain inaccessible to all possible modes of delivery.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apartheid, Delivery Systems, Developing Nations