PiE 2014 Volume 32 Issue 3
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Examining opportunities for the development of interacting identities within pre-service teacher education mathematics classrooms
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)In any pre-service mathematics teacher education classroom, multiple identities are co-constructed simultaneously through the practices in which such classrooms engage. These multiple identities, which are interrelated ... -
Shrouds of silence: a case study of sexual abuse in schools in the Limpopo Province in South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)This study seeks to understand the reasons that allow a parent, a principal and a teacher to maintain silence when young girls under their care are sexually abused. Put another way, it attempts to explain what it is about ... -
Research at private higher education institutions in South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)Very little is known about whether and what kinds of research are being undertaken at private higher education institutions (PHEIs) in South Africa. This article draws on a recent survey of all registered PHEIs undertaken ... -
Understanding economic and management sciences teachers’ conceptions of sustainable development
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)Sustainable development has become a key part of the global educational discourse. Education for sustainable development (ESD) specifically is pronounced as an imperative for different curricula and regarded as being ... -
Education for rural development: embedding rural dimensions in initial teacher preparation
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)In South Africa, rural education and development are issues of social justice, especially in places that were previously established as homelands. This article presents some of the tensions that are inherent in the ... -
Discussing sexual identities with pre-service primary school English-language teachers from a Spanish context
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)This article is based on a discussion with seven voluntary Spanish pre-service primary school English-language teachers on queer issues. The focus group followed a questionnaire on their knowledge and understanding of ... -
A social semiotic approach to textbook analysis: the construction of the discourses of Pharmacology
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)This article takes a multimodal social semiotic approach to analysing educational textbooks. We are interested in the ways in which educational textbooks contribute to designing our social futures by constructing both ... -
Reflections on Creemers' Comprehensive Model of Educational Effectiveness for reading literacy: South African evidence from PIRLS 2006
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)This study reports on a doctoral investigation (Van Staden, 2010) to identify and explain relationships between some major learner- and school-level factors associated with successful reading in Grade 5. South African ... -
Towards a reconceptualisation of “word” for high frequency word generation in word knowledge studies
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)The present paper derives from a PhD study investigating the nexus between Grade 4 textbook vocabulary demands and Grade 3 isiXhosa-speaking learners’ knowledge of that vocabulary to enable them to read to learn in Grade ... -
E-readiness of open and distance learning (ODL) facilitators: implications for effective mediation
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)This article is a narrative report of the findings from the analysis of multicultural facilitators’ discourses on their e-readiness in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) affordances in open and ... -
Successful students’ negotiation of township schooling in contemporary South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)This article draws on data from a larger longitudinal qualitative case study which is tracking the progress of students over the course of their undergraduate degrees at a South African university. For this paper, we ... -
Using Foucauldian ‘discursive practices’ as conceptual framework for the study of teachers’ discourses of HIV and sexuality
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)Educational research conducted in the context of the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa has produced diverse knowledge claims. A review of extant literature espoused elements of ambiguity and contradictions which ... -
Inclusion of disability issues in teaching and research in higher education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2014)Evidence suggests that the lack of inclusion of disability issues in the curricula of higher education institutions may result in the perpetuation of practices that discriminate against disabled people in the broader ...
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