PiE 2010 Volume 28 Issue 3
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Diverging on diversity and difference: the mask of inclusion
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)In this paper we argue that the clichéd phrases, ‘dealing with difference’ and ‘dealing with diversity’, despite their commitment to accepting and appreciating difference and diversity, may be used in counterproductive ... -
Book review - The brave 'new' world of education: creating a unique professionalism
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Vulnerability and belonging in the history classroom: a teacher’s positioning in “volatile conversations” on racism and xenophobia
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)This article is explorative in its attempt to define vulnerability within transformative pedagogy by analysing excerpts from two “volatile conversations” on racism and xenophobia between a teacher and her grade nine class ... -
Informing educational psychology training with students' community engagement experiences
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)The purpose of this article was to describe students’ experiences of community engagement in an Educational Psychology practicum in order to inform relevant educational psychology training literature with experiences of ... -
Locating the doctoral study in the ‘paradigm skirmishes’: challenges and prospects for adopting a paradigm cradle
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)It is important to understand the thought patterns of students and supervisors that underlie the choice of paradigm and determine the progression of doctoral studies as an integral part of articulating scholarship at the ... -
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 ... -
An analysis of family-school collaboration in preventing adolescent violence in urban secondary schools
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010)The purpose of this article is to describe how school staff members, learners and parents collaborate to prevent adolescent learner violence in two different urban secondary schools. The increase in acts of interpersonal ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...