PiE 2011 Volume 29 Issue 2
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Teaching recent history in countries that have experienced human rights violations: case studies from Chile
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)Incorporating recent history into the educational curricula of countries that have experienced human rights violations combines the complexities of teaching history, teaching recent history, and human rights education. ... -
(Re)thinking (trans)formation in South African (higher) education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)In this article I outline two broad sets of changes characterising the South African higher education landscape. The first relates to, among other things, structural changes (such as mergers and incorporations), the ... -
Book review - The burden of educational exclusion: ‘Understanding and challenging early school leaving in Africa’
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)Abstract not available -
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 ... -
Pathways through the education and training system: do we need a new model?
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)Analyses conducted by the Education, Science and Skills Development (ESSD) research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) reveal major areas of misalignment in the South African education pathway system. ... -
English education for young children in South Korea: not just a collective neurosis of English fever!
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)The aim of this article is to rethink English education for young children in South Korea through exploring a great variety of complex, interrelated terrains in terms of its emergence and popularity in an era of globalisation. ... -
Formative assessment as mediation
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)Whilst principles of validity, reliability and fairness should be central concerns for the assessment of student learning in higher education, simplistic notions of ‘transparency’ and ‘explicitness’ in terms of assessment ... -
Addressing the assessment dilemma of additional language learners through dynamic assessment
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)Many learners with an additional language (AL) as their language of learning and teaching (LoLT) have not acquired the level of proficiency required for them to demonstrate their knowledge and achieve the desired outcome ... -
‘Behind the doors of learning’: the transmission of racist and sexist discourses in a History classroom
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)Now that the doors of historically white schools have officially been opened to Black learners, this paper presents a critical analysis of discourses of domination transmitted behind the doors of learning in a History ... -
Doing justice to social justice in South African higher education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)This paper attempts to develop a conceptualisation of social justice in higher education based on a close reading of the current literature in the field. An important assumption we make is that higher education is a ...