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21st century tertiary design education in post-apartheid South Africa : a question of quality

Author: Leroux, Allen Date: 2007 The dissertation explores the question of; what drives excellence in tertiary design education in 21st Century post-Apartheid South Africa? Is it what the state does in terms of policy and regulation or is it what the higher educational ... Read more
A case study of grade 6 multilingual learners' experiences with monolingual assessment practices in a working-class township school in Cape Town.

Author: Cingo, Siviwe Innocent Date: 2022 This qualitative case study focusses on the experiences and challenges f multilingual learners when writing monolingual assessments. It draws on a growing body of poststructuralist theory on linguistic repertoire and translanguaging in order ... Read more
A case study of multimodal and authoritative meaning making in grade 5 isiZulu, English, and Natural Sciences lessons in a quintile 1 primary school

Author: Msimango, Mfundo Jabulani Date: 2022 This is a case study of multimodal and authoritative meaning making in grade 5 isiZulu, English, and Natural Sciences lessons in a quintile 1 primary school in KwaZulu-Natal, uMzinyathi Municipality in Nqutu. This study investigated the nature ... Read more
A case study of the curriculum logic of a South African university degree programme in sports management and its appropriateness to the labour market

Author: Landman, Megan Date: 2021 Over the past 50 years, sport has undergone a process of commercialisation and professionalisation, and has become “big business”. It now requires adequately trained professionals to manage the daily operations of sport businesses. The question ... Read more
A Comparative Study of the Freirean Pedagogical Practices employed by Popular Educators in South Africa and Canada during Facilitator Training

Author: Steer, Ashleigh Date: 2018 This thesis sets out to explore a comparative study of four Popular Educators using Freirean pedagogical practices in Canada and South Africa and discusses how different country contexts affect their pedagogies. This study explores how critical ... Read more
A cultural-historical activity theory based analysis of lecturer and student understanding of learning in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town

Author: Van Heerden, Thomas Date: 2019 Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) provides a framework for analysing activity systems. I use that framework to investigate teaching and learning in two first-year university mathematics courses at the University of Cape Town. The ... Read more
A cultural-historical analysis of Grade 9 History curriculum and its pedagogical resources for learners' conceptual development

Author: Mutheiwana, Pertunia Date: 2021 This study examines the extent to which the South African Grade 9 History Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) document and its supplementary teaching resources (learners' textbooks and teachers' guides) outline knowledge focused on ... Read more
A neo-Vygotskian comparative analysis of the availability of simple scientific concepts in science in the English National Curriculum Year 1 and the South African National Curriculum and Policy Statement Grade 1

Author: Grüner-Hegge, Sophia Victoria Date: 2022 South Africa continues to lag behind other countries in mathematics and science in benchmarks tests such as the TIMSS tests. The importance of teaching science early in the school curriculum has been established in research. However, some ... Read more
A sociological analysis of phonics lesson plans across four structured pedagogic programmes in South Africa

Author: Boyd, Colleen Date: 2022 Nationally, there has been widespread acceptance that South Africa's schooling system faces a literacy crisis. In response to this, school improvement efforts have taken the form of structured pedagogic programmes – “a triple cocktail” of ... Read more
A synthesis of cognitive science research on the mental number line, and its relation to the pedagogical use of number lines in the teaching of elementary arithmetic in the Foundation Phase of schooling

Author: McNamara, Ellen Date: 2022 In this paper, I examine how biologically endowed computational systems help to frame our experiences as it relates to using the number line in school mathematics. This study is a synthesis of the research findings in cognitive science and ... Read more
Access to academic literacy : a study of the economics language and communications tutorial at the University of Cape Town

Author: Baker, David Scott Date: 2001 In recent years, many universities have begun to recognize the importance of providing students with some form of access to academic literacy, particularly within the learner's chosen field of study. In order to address these needs at the ... Read more
Accommodation or confrontation? Some responses to the Eiselen commission report and the Bantu education act with special reference to the Methodist church of South Africa

Author: Rundle, Margaret Date: 1991 This study was undertaken at a time when South African politicians and educators are facing the challenge of a major restructuring of the education system, and at a time when the the Methodist Church of South Africa is being encouraged, by ... Read more
Acquiring & forgetting a second language : a study of three children aged 5-11 years

Author: Keogh, Susan Elizabeth Date: 1983 This investigation is concerned with what three children remembered or had forgotten of a second language after an interval of two years. An in-depth study, consisting of recognition and recall tests, was made of 13-year-old identical twin ... Read more
Acquiring communicative competence for the world of work : a business needs analysis and its impact on curriculum development and delivery

Author: Grant, Terri Date: 2003 This study, undertaken over a two-year period (2001/2) concerns the appropriate content for teaching communicative competence to contemporary graduates. It comprised two parts, phase one and phase two. Phase one set out to gauge the "fit" ... Read more
Action research : an exploration

Author: Colyn, Wendy May Date: 1987 Includes bibliographies. Read more
Action research in teacher education : the case of the National University of Lesotho B.Ed programme

Author: Pholoana-Motebang, Bonane Date: 2002 The purpose of this study was to examine the environment of action research project in the National University of Lesotho B.Ed. teacher education programme. The intention was to identify factors that facilitate or impede action research at ... Read more
An activity systems view of learning programming skills in a virtual lab: A case of University of Jos, Nigeria

Author: Gogwim, Joel Date: 2017 It is difficult to learn professional courses such as Computer Science without hands-on activities with appropriate technical support. Computer Science programming courses are the core of a Computer Science qualification and some of the ... Read more
The admission process : how portfolio assessment establishes the pedagogic subject of fashion design

Author: Dahl, Avryl Date: 2007 This research draws on the work of Basil Bernstein as a theoretical structure with which to investigate the entry selection process that assesses prospective fashion design students' portfolios. It will be revealed how the three interrelated ... Read more
Adoption of learning management systems among information technology educators at a rural South African university : an activity systems perspective

Author: Ngandu, Matipa R Date: 2015 The growth of ICTs in education is a reflection of societal change. The demand for Higher Education Institutions to produce graduates who are equipped for the 21st century is a primary concern to all stakeholders in the education and development ... Read more
Adult conceptions of the environment: an analysis of a formal curriculum in Environmental Education

Author: Reddy, Shaada Date: 1996 This research reports on an evaluation of conceptions of the environment held by a group of students at the University of Cape Town. This group of students were all registered for the degree of Bachelor of Education, and included in their ... Read more

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