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Institutionalising teacher clusters in South Africa: dilemmas and contradictions
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012)
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 ...
Exploring differential science performance in Korea and South Africa: a multilevel analysis
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)
This paper reports on secondary analysis of TIMSS 2003 data with the aim of
explaining the difference in science achievement of Korean and South African learners.
The question asked by this research, i.e. which factors ...
Assessing early number learning: how useful is the Annual National Assessment in Numeracy?
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013)
Annual National Assessment (ANA) performance in Mathematics across the primary
grades in South Africa indicates a decrease in mean performance across Grades
1–6. In this paper, we explore the apparently high performance ...
Lesbian, gay and bisexual citizenship: a case study as represented in a sample of South African Life Orientation textbooks
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)
Over the past two decades, sexual citizenship has emerged as a new form of citizenship coupled with
increased interest in the challenges to citizenship and social justice faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and ...
Opportunities to develop mathematical proficiency in Grade 6 mathematics classrooms in KwaZulu-Natal
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013)
In this article, we propose a rubric for assessing the teacher’s provision of opportunities
to develop mathematical proficiency in classrooms. The rubric is applied to data
from 30 video recordings of mathematics lessons ...
Does deafness spell disaster? An analysis of the written English levels of deaf children in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)
This article presents the findings of an empirical comparative study in the Nelson
Mandela Metropole investigating the difference between the written English of deaf
children and the written English of hearing children ...
Multiple femininities in a'single sex'school: re-orienting Life Orientation to learner lifeworlds
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)
Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa faces many pedagogical
challenges, not least among which is that it is sometimes perceived as irrelevant to
learners’ real interests and concerns. Learners report that ...
The curriculum and citizenship education in the context of inequality: seeking a praxis of hope
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)
In South Africa, more than most countries, the meaning of citizenship and related rights has faced severe
contestation centred on categories such as race, class and nation. Close to two decades after the first
democratic ...
From discomfort to collaboration: teachers screening cellphilms in a rural South African school
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)
South Africa continues to contend with an HIV pandemic. Teachers have the potential
to address prevention and treatment with their learners but they struggle to
implement HIV and AIDS education. Cellphilm projects—using ...
Big Ideas in primary mathematics: issues and directions
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013)
This article is located within the literature arguing for attention to Big Ideas in
teaching and learning mathematics for understanding. The focus is on surveying the
literature of Big Ideas and clarifying what might ...