One of the most significant educational accomplishments in a literate society is learning to read and write. Social-constructivist theorists emphasise the mediating role of language in the process of knowledge construction ...

English: My dissertation is a reflection on the first cycle of a journey in which I seek to make my practice a living theory by answering the question: How do I improve my professional practice as a teacher educator by ...

English: The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between science attitudes, occupational sex-role stereotypes and the entrance of rural Black females into natural science studies in Higher Education ...

Research on workplace bullying (WPB) in occupations, identified teaching as a high risk job. Yet there is a dearth of research on WPB among teachers. The aim of this study is to contribute to the limited body of knowledge ...

English: Literacy is essential for each learner's future and success, especially literacy in English. English is regarded as the world language and as South Africa's lingua franca. Consequently, English is used as language ...

“Teaching is the purposeful creation of situations from which motivated learners should not be able to escape without learning or developing.” (Cowan 2006:100) Four educational action research questions directed the study. ...

The overarching purpose of the study is: to compile a comprehensive database of the information infrastructures in the Free State province and investigate/determine how information from the database can be utilised by ...

In the light both of persistent inequality of education opportunities for low income families and a wide equality gap in South Africa, this article explores students’ university access by applying Amartya Sen’s capability ...

After more than 20 years of democracy in South Africa, the education system has certainly experienced a number of "growing pains". It is estimated that 99% of South African children today enter formal education, but the ...

Increasingly, teacher clusters are being used as a substitute for the more traditional approaches to the professional development of teachers. With this goal in mind, many provincial education departments in South Africa ...