Research Articles (Education Studies)
Recent Submissions
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Opening Address by Prof. Samuel of the Journal of Education.
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The Writing Centre: a site for discursive dialogue in Management studies.
(University of South Africa., 2015)This article contributes to the ongoing conversation, in the South African Journal of Higher Education (SAJHE) and other journals, about academic literacy development in higher education. It reports on a small-scale ... -
Educational leadership: the audience creates the text.
(University of South Africa., 2014)Alternative conceptions of educational leadership that challenge the performativity culture do not appear substantively to alter the trajectory of practitioner’s everyday choices. This article uses as data the responses ... -
Critical dialogues with self: developing teacher identities and role.
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African Students who Excel in South African Higher Education: Retro(Pro)Spectivity and Co-Regulation of Learning.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2015)In addition to being more likely to fail and dropout, African students are also less likely to succeed academically, let alone excel while doing so. In a critical move against a dominant deficit, failure, and drop-out ... -
De-colonising international collaboration: the University of KwaZulu-Natal-Mauritius Institute Education Cohort PhD Programme.
(Routledge., 2014)This paper explores the setting up of the partnership across the Mauritian and South African higher education contexts with respect to the development of a postgraduate PhD doctoral studies programme. The Mauritian ... -
Beyond Narcissism and Hero-worshipping: life history research and narrative inquiry.
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The Other and I : Turkish teachers in South Africa.
(Routledge, 2013)Traditionally the analysis of school curriculum draws from the literature of ‘policy implementation analysis’. Instead, this paper focuses on a humanistic and socially responsive philosophy guiding curriculum action, ... -
Emergent frameworks of research teaching and learning in a cohort-based doctoral programme.
(University of the Free State, 2011)This article argues that alternate models of doctoral research teaching and learning pedagogy could address the challenge of under-productivity of doctoral graduands in the South African higher education system. Present ... -
Accountability to whom? For what? : teacher identity and the Force Field Model of teacher development.
(University of the Free State, 2008)The rise of fundamentalism in the sphere of teacher education points to a swing back towards teachers as service workers for State agendas. Increasingly, teachers are expected to account for the outcomes of their practices. ... -
Beyond the Garden of Eden: deep teacher professional development.
(Taylor & Francis., 2009)Becoming a professional teacher is falsely understood to be a simple process: usually consisting of a transference of skills to execute classroom pedagogy or classroom management. This article begins by exploring the ... -
Interrogating inclusionary and exclusionary practices : learners of war and flight.
(Perspectives in Education, 2005)There has been a significant increase in the number of undocumented people entering South Africa. A number of them include refugees. Many refugees are destitute and often denied basic needs such as health and education. ... -
Exploring alternative assessment strategies in science classrooms.
(ESASA, 2010)The knowledge children bring to the classroom or construct in the classroom may find expression in a variety of activities and is often not measurable with the traditional assessment instruments used in science classrooms. ... -
What mathematics learners say about the new South African curriculum reform.
(2005)In this article we report on what Grade 8 learners say about the new curriculum reforms in South Africa – Outcomes-based Education (OBE) and Curriculum 2005 (C2005) – that were introduced into their mathematics classrooms. ...
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