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Download full textPhillips, Heather N. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2023
Background: The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study of 2016 lays claim to the need for critical thinking to be developed since, in the South African context, 78% of learners could not even retrieve explicitly stated information (lower-order thinking) from texts, as opposed to 4% in the rest of the world. Critical, higher-order…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Workshops
Direct linkUmesh Ramnarain; Sumayya Moosa – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2023
In South Africa, there is a strong recognition of the affordances of information and communications technology (ICT) in science teaching and learning. A key indicator for the effective use of ICT is the technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) of teachers with TPACK-Practical (TPACK-P) being an important iteration related to teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technology Uses in Education
Ramnarain, Umesh Dewnarain; Rudzirai, Clive – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Scientific inquiry has been advocated as a common curriculum goal in school science education in South Africa, and also throughout the world. In South Africa, the introduction of inquiry-based instruction in a reformed science curriculum has met with serious challenges, such as the under-preparedness of in-service teachers. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Segalo, Letlhoyo; Rambuda, Awelani Melvin – South African Journal of Education, 2018
In South Africa, the common law principle of "in loco parentis" entitles teachers, as the guardians in the school environment, to discipline learners. However, in view of new legislation advancing children's rights, it is unclear as to the extent to which teachers can or do enact the "loco parentis" role. This study employed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers, Discipline Policy, Focus Groups
Vandeyar, Saloshna; Swart, Ronel – Education as Change, 2016
This paper sets out to advance the concept of an "epistemology of compassion" first proposed by Vandeyar (2013; 2016). Utilising a single embedded case study and the theoretical mooring of post-conflict pedagogy this paper attempts to find links between Jansen's perceptions of a post-conflict pedagogy and Freirean pedagogy and to argue a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Content Analysis, Semi Structured Interviews
Breed, Betty; Mentz, Elsa; Havenga, Marietjie; Govender, Irene; Govender, Desmond; Dignum, Frank; Dignum, Virginia – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2013
The research reported in this article formed part of an internationally funded project about the empowerment of Information Technology (IT) teachers in economically deprived rural schools in the North-West and KwaZulu-Natal provinces in South Africa. The current paper focused on the use of self-directed metacognitive (SDM) questioning in a pair…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Teacher Competencies, Grade 10
Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Almeida, Patrícia Albergaria, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
This volume contains papers submitted to the 11th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 14-17 May 2013, and papers submitted to the 1st International Distance Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre "Scientific Cooperation,"…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, Comparative Education, Global Approach
