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George, Gavin; Tucker, Leigh Adams; Panday, Saadhna; Khumalo, Fatih – Perspectives in Education, 2019
The Life Orientation (LO) learning area provides the primary vehicle for the delivery of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information in South African schools. The efficacy and uptake of the LO agenda is understood to rest with the individual educator facilitating this learning area, as located within a particular schooling environment and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Teaching Methods, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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Dlamini, Reuben; Rafiki, Meschac – Africa Education Review, 2022
There is a certain degree of technological determinism in the discourse on information and communication technology (ICT) in education. Technological determinism is the relationship between the technical and the social, in this case, technological development taking place outside the socio-economic realities of societies. Hence, the discourse on…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Unions
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Torres, Kelly M.; Giddie, Lord – Peabody Journal of Education, 2020
South African schools experience diverse access to educational technology. Further, South African educators have limited opportunities to attend educator professional development workshops focused on technology integration. These differences can have a tremendous impact on students' educational experiences and educators' levels of self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Herselman, Marlien; Botha, Adele; Dlamini, Sifiso; Marais, Mario; Mahwai, Nare – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
The purpose of this paper is provide evidence of how the selected teachers at 24 schools in 7 provinces in South Africa reacted to questions pertaining to the extent of their prior training, attitudes towards technology, perceived self-confidence in integrating ICTs and finally using ICTs on a daily basis. The project is known as the Information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Moodley, K.; Callaghan, P.; Fraser, W. J.; Graham, M. A. – South African Journal of Education, 2020
While a considerable body of research has focused on learners' acceptance of or resistance to mobile technologies, fewer studies have focused on teachers. This research study aimed to understand the factors influencing South African teachers' acceptance of or resistance to using mobile technologies in their classroom practice. The Technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Technology Integration, Educational Technology
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Mukeredzi, Tabitha Grace – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
The self-study investigates my professional learning during participation, coordination and facilitation of a Curriculum Framework development project for Advanced Diploma in Adult Education with adult education academics from 10 South African universities. The potential for reflective questions as a key reflection and professional learning…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Teacher Educators
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Fanni, F.; Rega, I.; Cantoni, L. – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2013
The aim of this article is twofold. First, the final results of two research projects, which investigated the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on primary schools teachers in disadvantaged areas in Brazil (BET k-12) and South Africa (MELISSA), are presented and discussed. Second, the Self-Efficacy construct is proposed as a…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Elementary School Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Chao, Li-Wei; Gow, Jeff; Akintola, Olagoke; Pauly, Mark – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2010
The purpose of this study was to compare two different methods to teach educators about HIV/AIDS. Sixty educators were selected from eight schools in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, to undergo HIV/AIDS training using an interactive CD-ROM intervention. Another sixty educators from other schools were selected to undergo a two-day Life Skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
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Wood, Lesley; Olivier, Tilla – Teacher Development, 2008
Health Promoting Schools have been introduced to encourage teachers to engage with the community, to promote all facets of health of both learners and teachers. However, previous research established that South African teachers in general were not feeling very motivated, given the problematic environments in which they were working. The…
Descriptors: Intervention, Self Efficacy, Disadvantaged Environment, Teacher Effectiveness
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Pateman, Neil A., Ed; Dougherty, Barbara J., Ed.; Zilliox, Joseph T., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference includes the following research reports: (1) Improving Decimal Number Conception by Transfer from Fractions to Decimals (Irita Peled and Juhaina Awawdy Shahbari); (2) The Development of Student Teachers' Efficacy Beliefs in Mathematics during…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Mathematics Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Metalinguistics