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Academic identities and communities of practice in a professional discipline

Author: Jawitz, Jeff Date: 2009 This paper explores the dynamics surrounding the formation of academic identities in a context where the nature of academic work is contested both as a result of tensions within the discipline and in response to pressure from both the institution ... Read more
The challenge of teaching large classes in higher education in South Africa : a battle to be waged outside the classroom

Author: Jawitz, Jeff Date: 2013 In this chapter, I explore the size and discipline of the largest classes offered at two higher education institutions in South Africa and based on the evidence at four institutions make the case that large classes is a minority phenomenon ... Read more
Communicating your findings in engineering education: the value of making your theoretical perspective explicit

Author: Jawitz, Jeff ; Case, Jennifer Date: 2009 The authors observe that many research papers in engineering education do not explicitly state the theoretical perspective underpinning their work. In this article they argue for the value of theory in assisting researchers in communicating ... Read more
Grappling with methodologies in educational research: science and engineering educators finding their way

Author: Jawitz, Jeff ; Case, Jennifer ; Marshall, Delia Date: 2009 Science and Engineering faculties at South African tertiary institutions have seen dramatic changes since the 1980’s due to a changing student body as a result of equity and redress measures. There has also been an increasing interest in ... Read more
An investigation into the performance and problems of first-year engineering students at the University of Cape Town

Author: Jawitz, Jeff Date: 1992 The first- and second-year results of the 1989 engineering student intake were analysed and revealed that matriculants from Black Education Departments performed significantly worse in the first year than those from White Education Departments. ... Read more
An investigation of the assessment of the continuous assessment portfolio component of art, craft and designs in Botswana junior secondary schools

Author: Kontle, Bitha Date: 2017 In this study, I undertook to investigate how the requirements of formative and summative assessment influence the practices of teachers of art, craft and design in Botswana junior secondary schools (BJSS) in relation to the continuous ... Read more
Investing in Teaching Development: Navigating Risk in a Research Intensive Institution

Author: Jawitz, Jeff ; Perez, Theresa Date: 01 Jun 2015 It is often assumed that academics working in a research intensive university are unlikely to invest in the professional development of their teaching. Institutional structures and culture tend to undermine investment in academics’ teaching ... Read more
Learning as acquiring a discursive identity through participation in a community: improving student learning in engineering education

Author: Allie, Saalih ; Armien, Mogamat Noor ; Burgoyne, Nicolette ; Case, Jennifer M ; Collier-Reed, Brandon I ; Craig, Tracy S ; Deacon, Andrew ; Fraser, Duncan M ; Geyer, Zulpha ; Jacobs, Cecilia ; Jawitz, Jeff ; Kloot, Bruce ; Kotta, Linda ; Langdon, Genev Date: 2009 In this paper, we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive ... Read more
Learning in the academic workplace: the harmonization of the collective and the individual habitus

Author: Jawitz, Jeff Date: 2009 One of the challenges of research into social practice is finding a way to take both the structural aspects of the social contexts and individual agency into account. This article describes the use of Bourdieu's social practice theory, together ... Read more
Learning to assess in the academic workplace: case study in the natural sciences

Author: Jawitz, Jeff Date: 2008 A study into how academics learn to assess student performance affirms the significance of context in understanding learning in the academic workplace. The study involved three case studies in academic departments with significant differences ... Read more
New academics negotiating communities of practice: learning to swim with the big fish

Author: Jawitz, Jeff Date: 2007 This paper explores the use of situated cognition theory to investigate how new academics learn to judge complex student performance in an academic department at a South African university. The analysis revealed the existence of two largely ... Read more
Presence and Absence: Looking for Teaching and Teaching Development in the Website of a 'Research-led' South African University

Author: Jawitz, Jeff ; Williams, Kevin Date: 2015 This article arises out of a broader study into the contextual influences on the professional development of academics as teachers in higher education in South Africa. Using Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis we examine the website of ... Read more c b
Student-centredness: the link between transforming students and transforming ourselves

Author: Blackie, Margaret A L ; Case, Jennifer M ; Jawitz, Jeff Date: 2010 It is widely accepted in the higher education literature that a student-centred approach is pedagogically superior to a teacher-centred approach. In this paper, we explore the notion of student-centredness as a threshold concept and the ... Read more
Understanding facilitator practice in the problem-based learning classroom

Author: Davids, Nawaal Date: 2014 This study looks at eight individual PBL facilitator cases in the field of medical education at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The aim of this study is to gain an understanding of what affects facilitation practice in a problem-based ... Read more
Unearthing white academics’ experience of teaching in higher education in South Africa

Author: Jawitz, Jeff Date: Jun 2016 The real and imagined racial differences and similarities between groups of students and staff have consequences in everyday experiences in South Africa. One aspect of engaging with the challenges facing higher education transformation ... Read more