Browsing PiE 2013 Volume 31 Issue 2 by Issue Date
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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 ... -
The influence of gender, parents and background factors on Grade 7 students’ beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics in Mozambique
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)The third study by the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality (SACMEQ) revealed that achievement in mathematics among Grade 6 children in Mozambique is declining, and gender differences ... -
Service learning as a response to community/school engagement: towards a pedagogy of engagement
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)The promulgation of the White Paper on Higher Education (1997) necessitated Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in South Africa to avail their expertise in their human resources and physical infrastructure for service ... -
Exploring the changing role of learning support teachers in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)The South African education system is continuously changing and adapting to address the challenges to provide access, equal and quality education in a new democratic dispensation. One such challenge is the way in which ... -
Development of verbal thinking and problem-solving among TshiVenda-speaking primary school children
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)The paper presents findings of primary school children’s performance on classification and generalisation tasks to demonstrate the fundamental connection between their verbal thinking processes and problemsolving, on the ... -
Emotional intelligence in learners with Attention Deficit Disorder
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)This study was undertaken to analyse and evaluate the nature and quality of emotional intelligence in learners with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and to investigate whether their emotional intelligence was enhanced, ... -
Student levels of engagement in learning: a case study of Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)South Africa is currently faced with the challenge of undesirably low throughput rates in higher education. The need to keep students interested and motivated to succeed are key objectives of many lecturers and institutions. ... -
Drawing AIDS: Tanzanian teachers picture the pandemic. Implications for re-curriculation of teacher education programmes
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)In this article, we explain how we engaged teachers in creating their own representations of HIV and AIDS in Tanzania as a starting point for re-curriculation of the undergraduate teacher education programme. We employed ... -
A vision of improvement of learning: South African teachers’ conceptions of classroom assessment
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)This article explored conceptions that teachers hold about classroom assessment and how these conceptions influence their classroom assessment practices. The qualitative study employed a case study approach. Semi-structured ... -
Queering transformation in higher education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)Transformation in higher education has tended to focus on race and sex, at the expense of other forms of discrimination. This article addresses the silencing of ‘queer’ issues in higher education. Using queer theory as ... -
Towards an Africanisation of community engagement and service learning
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)This article argues that the South African research community could benefit by engaging in more collaborative partnerships within the African continent in relation to community engagement. This argument relates to ... -
Growing researchers from the historically disadvantaged groups through internships
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)This article provides an overview of the nature and quality of research supervision and mentorship practices employed by supervisors and mentors of interns in a South African research council in an attempt to increase ... -
Education and training initiatives at the Central Methodist Church Refugee House in Johannesburg
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2013-06)Zimbabwean economic migrants and political refugees have been given refuge and provided with shelter at the Central Methodist Church (CMC) Refugee House, in central Johannesburg. The refugees have successfully initiated ...