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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 ...
The South African PhD: insights from employer interviews
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)
Current international trends reveal that doctoral education is increasingly expected to satisfy workplace
demands. In South Africa, Work Integrated Learning (WIL), introduced as part of the HEQF, is the
principal initiative ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The potential of critical feminist citizenship frameworks for citizenship and social justice in higher education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)
There is a paucity of South African literature that uses feminist critical approaches as a conceptual
tool to examine intersections of social justice and citizenship. This article aims to address this gap by
examining ...
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 ...
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 ...
Conceptualising transformation and interrogating elitism: the Bale scholarship programme
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013)
In this article, we consider the extent to which a scholarship programme at the University of
the Witwatersrand (Wits) engages with the challenges of transformation. This scholarship
programme highlights the transformative ...