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Using participatory video to explore teachers’ lived experiences
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)Teachers who work in economically and socially disadvantaged environments have first-hand knowledge of the challenges that can impede teaching and learning, yet their voices are often ignored when researchers and ... -
Implementing a multi-faith Religious Education curriculum in Botswana junior secondary schools
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)I explore the ways in which RE teachers understand and implement a multi faith Religious Educa tion curriculum in Botswana junior secondary schools. The multi faith RE curriculum came about as a result of an educational ... -
Markets, equality and democratic education: confronting the neoliberal and libertarian reconceptualisations of education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)The global emergence of market liberalism marks an effort to decouple the link between citizenship and the welfare state and to rearticulate people’s identity as homo economicus, as independent citizens having the right ... -
Learning to teach in South Africa
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Finding the best fit: the adaptation and translation of the Performance Indicators for Primary Schools for the South African context
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)Reform and improvement are imperative in the current South African education system. Monitoring of school and learner achievement is an essential for establishing praxis for school improvement. Diversity of culture and ... -
Erratum: Racial desegregation and the institutionalisation of ‘race’ in university governance: the case of the University of Cape Town
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Searching for a “pedagogy of hope”: teacher education and the social sciences
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)I analyse module outlines within a particular school of social sciences located in a faculty of education, and uncover the evolving systems of teaching social sciences in a teacher education curriculum. The data are ... -
The phenomenon of xenophobia as experienced by immigrant learners in Johannesburg inner city schools
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)This article aims to describe how xenophobia is experienced by a small selection of immigrant participants in five inner city schools in Johannesburg. The May 2008 xenophobic violence prompted the investigation. Theoretically, ... -
Design refinement tools for a teacher education curriculum: the example of a service learning course
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)This article addresses the issue of the theory-practice divide in pre-service teacher education from the viewpoint of design-based research (DBR). Using the example of a course in service learning (SL), the authors discuss ... -
Youth self-formation and the ‘capacity to aspire’: the itinerant ‘schooled’ career of Fuzile Ali across post-apartheid space
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)This article is a narrative analysis of one young boy’s encounter with his schooling across the rural and urban landscape. It is set against the backdrop of the changing social reproductive context of education in South ... -
Primary school teacher deployment: a comparative study
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Using cultural capital as a resource for negotiating participation in a teacher community of practice: a case study
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)Continuing professional development (CPD) initiatives for teachers in South Africa take on various forms, ranging from formalised, structured, credit-bearing certification programmes to informal, relatively unstructured, ... -
“We cross night”: some reflections on the role of the ESKOM Expo for Young Scientists as a means of accommodating disadvantaged learners into the field of Science and Technology
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)This article critiques the role of the ESKOM Expo for Young Scientists as a particularly salient node in the constitution of young learners’ identity as prospective participants in the field of science and technology. The ... -
Learning about the effectiveness of teacher education: a Chilean study
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)The article reviews some of the problems faced by teacher education in general and in Chile specifically, and on this basis, presents the results of a study focused on the effects of six teacher education programmes on ... -
Scholarship in teacher education in South Africa, 1995-2006
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)This article reports on findings pertaining to scholarship in teacher education drawn from a wider study on all education research in South Africa from 1995 to 2006. The study, which defined education research as broadly ... -
What teacher educators consider as best practices in preparing pre-service teachers for teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)This paper reports on an investigation into what teacher educators consider to be best practices in how to prepare pre-service teachers to effectively deal with the challenges of teaching Mathematics in multilingual contexts, ... -
Generic competences in Higher Education: studying their development in undergraduate social science studies by means of a specific methodology
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)Research into the acquisition of generic competences was carried out with the undergraduate social science programmes offered by the Ramon Llull University, Barcelona (Spain). For these programmes an innovative methodology ... -
Parents’ perceptions of home reading activities: comparing children with and without learning disability
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)The early reading process can be viewed as triadic, encompassing the child, the parents and the environment. We examine the impact of each of these three components on children’s participation in home reading activities ...