Author:Mokou, GoitsioneDate:2017This research study was motivated by a research project which observed differences in achievement levels within the creative arts classroom between working class schools and middle class schools. These achievement gaps were largely attributed ...Read more
Author:Kotta, Linda; Case, Jenni; Luckett, KathyDate:2014Nearly sixteen years into the new democracy, student success at South African universities continues to be differentiated along lines of race. The tendency has been to define the problem in terms of student deficit. This article suggests that ...Read morecb
Author:Luckett, Kathy; Luckett, ThembiDate:2009This paper reports on the findings of a formative evaluation of the mentorship support programme run by the Maskh'iSizwe Centre of Excellence for recipients of its bursaries. Learning theory traditions have typically been divided into those ...Read more
Author:Luckett, KathyDate:2012This paper contributes to understanding why curriculum design in a discipline with a horizontal knowledge structure is difficult, time-consuming and contested. A previous paper on the same case study in one sociology department reported that ...Read more
Author:Karassellos, Lara TraceyDate:2019This study is positioned in the context of the South African higher education landscape, which is currently grappling with issues of access and inequality. Online education is one of the potential approaches to expand access to South African ...Read more
Author:Begbie, Ceclin KirstyDate:2018The need for higher skill levels in South Africa’s labour market warranted an
investigation into why some learners from poor communities make the decision to leave high
school at the end of Grade 9, whilst other learners continue to Grade ...Read more
Author:Adebulehin, Aderinsola MichelleDate:2017Given South Africa’s racialized history of access to education, redress efforts targeted at achieving
equity in access to universities for students from across racial backgrounds have been well underway
for over two decades now. More recently, ...Read more
Author:Cox, GlendaDate:2016Despite the existence of many successful initiatives to promote the sharing and use of Open Educational Resources (OER), sharing and use of OER is not a widely accepted practice in higher education. The reasons for lecturers' choices on whether ...Read more
Author:Wolff, Karin; Luckett, KathyDate:2012In order to design two distinct engineering qualification levels for an existing University of Technology programme, empirical evidence based on the current diploma is necessary to illuminate the nature of and the relationship between the ...Read more
Author:Wolff, KarinDate:2011In order to determine two distinct engineering qualification levels for an existing University of Technology (UoT) programme, empirical evidence based on the current diploma is necessary to inform decisions as to qualification-appropriate ...Read more
Author:Luckett, KathyDate:2007This paper analyses the take-up of proposals for a national quality assurance system in South Africa using different approaches to quality assurance to classify stakeholder responses to survey and interview questions. The context of the study ...Read more
Author:Luckett, Kathy; Hunma, AditiDate:2014This paper addresses the problem of curriculum design in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and more specifically the challenge of designing foundation courses for first-generation or 'disadvantaged' learners. Located in the social realist ...Read more
Author:Luckett, KathyDate:2007This article discusses methodological issues in relation to models of quality assurance for higher education. It first traces the historical development of the widely adopted pragmatic model and shows how this model has been adapted by the ...Read more
Author:Luckett, KathyDate:2010This paper attempts a brief meta-reflection on quality assurance policy and practice in South African higher education, with a focus on methodology. More specifically it seeks to answer the question 'What are the effects of the Higher Education ...Read more
Author:Luckett, KathyDate:2009This article aims to address a theoretical question, ‘what is the relationship between knowledge structure and curriculum structure?’, by answering an empirical, context-specific question, ‘what drives and legitimates the curriculum in one ...Read more
Author:Kotta, Linda ThokozileDate:2011The study, informed by Bhaskar’s realist philosophy for social science, seeks to provide an explanation for the differential success rates in a final year chemical engineering design course.Read more
Author:Meinert, LeighDate:2013This study adopts a sociological approach to the issue of academic resilience amongst first generation university students in a developing world context. As suggested in the opening quotation above, this study aims to generate insight in to ...Read more
Author:Luckett, KathyDate:2012This article addresses the problem of making programme evaluation sufficiently meaningful and cognisant of context such that practitioners, in this case of academic development, can gain new understandings of their situation in order to improve ...Read more