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Shifting from disorientation to orientation: reading student discourses of success
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2016)
Academic success in higher education is generally evaluated by means of concrete and measurable criteria that function as an institutional discourse of success. However, a parallel discourse of success that is far less ...
Education researchers as bricoleurs in the creation of sustainable learning environments
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)
Higher education has, to date, been unable to provide effective and lasting solutions
to challenges of education, because large sections thereof continue to search for
knowledge for its own sake. At best, they conduct ...
A quantitative literacy course for Humanities and Law students: the challenges of a context-based curriculum
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)
This article examines some aspects of the effectiveness of a first-year course in quantitative literacy
for Humanities and Law students at a South African university. This intervention is necessary to assist
students in ...
Constructive feedback as a learning tool to enhance students’ self-regulation and performance in higher education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)
If feedback is provided in a way that can develop students’ self-regulatory skills, it could enhance
learning and, consequently, lead to improved performance. To improve teaching and learning in higher
education (HE), ...
Queering transformation in higher education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)
Transformation in higher education has tended to focus on race and sex, at the expense of other forms
of discrimination. This article addresses the silencing of ‘queer’ issues in higher education. Using queer
theory as ...
Opinions of pre-service teachers towards community service-learning experiences
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)
This study examines the opinions of 41 teacher candidates taking a community service learning (CSL)
course. The implementation of this course and its contributions to participants’ personal, social and
academic development ...
Theorising multiply disadvantaged young people’s challenges in accessing higher education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)
This paper sketches an innovative conceptualisation of disadvantaged youth, shaped
dialogically by the interactions of theorising and data from a case study at Orange
Farm informal settlement in South Africa in 2013. The ...
Editorial
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)
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Group work as ‘terrains of learning’ for students in South African higher education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)
A common global perception of group work in the higher education context is that it
has the potential to act as a platform which can enable student learning by means
of interactions, shared diverse experiences, deep ...
Visual dimensions of academic discourse in higher education
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2010)
This article explores the visual nature of academic discourse within Higher Education
in South Africa. It provides insight into the increasing influence of the visual in
academic writing – arguing that the materiality ...