• Neurophobia : the inconvenient truth 

  Venter, Gerda; Bosman, Marius C.; Lubbe, Johanna (Spanish Association of Anatomy, 2023-09)

  Medical schools have implemented strategies in response to neurophobia to counteract the negative perception and improve neuroscience experiences for undergraduate medical students. In this study, we explored the attitudes, ...
• A reflexive lens on preparing and conducting semi-structured interviews with academic colleagues 

  Buys, Tania Lee; Casteleijn, Daleen; Heyns, Tanya; Untiedt, Hannelie (Sage, 2022-11)

  In qualitative research, researchers often conduct semi-structured interviews with people familiar to them, but there are limited guidelines for researchers who conduct interviews to obtain curriculum-related information ...
• Neurophobia : a side effect of neuroanatomy education? 

  Venter, Gerda; Lubbe, J.C. (Irene); Bosman, Marius C. (Springer, 2022-11)

  Neuroanatomy in the medical curriculum tends to be challenging for both lecturers and students. Students and lecturers perceive the relevance and importance of neuroanatomy differently. If not taught sufficiently, students ...
• Using a social media project as a way to get students to communicate conservation messages to the general public 

  Shrader, A.M. (Adrian); Louw, Ina (Routledge, 2023)

  For conservation biologists to be effective, they need to be able to communicate to the general public. In today’s world, communicating means tapping into social media platforms. To get our final-year undergraduate students ...
• The use of reflective photography in a large service-learning module 

  Jordaan, Martina; Jordaan, Dolf (Common Ground Research Networks, 2021)

  The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) at a university in South Africa presents a compulsory undergraduate course, Community-based Project (code: JCP). It entails students working ...
• The teaching mix matters : rethinking veterinary education at a South African university 

  Pienaar, M.; Mostert, El-Marie (University of the Free State, 2021-03)

  Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a shift in teaching and learning practices. The University of Pretoria in South Africa was not entirely unprepared for this event, since the university’s teaching strategy ...
• From work-integrated learning to virtual case studies : navigating an alternative to fieldwork in paediatric occupational therapy 

  Van Niekerk, Karin; Uys, Kitty; Lubbe, J.C. (Irene) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-09)

  Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a crucial component of learning in the undergraduate occupational therapy (OT) programme. WIL provides essential work exposure, allows for theory-practice integration and forms part of ...
• Teaching pharmacology online : not just another narration 

  Cordier, Werner; Lubbe, J.C. (Irene) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-09)

  The COVID-19 pandemic placed educators in unique circumstances, not only due to their discipline- and student-specific considerations, but also their personal and professional milieu. Given a series of sudden ...
• Do we assess what we set out to teach in obstetrics : an action research study 

  Adam, Sumaiya; Lubbe, J.C. (Irene); Van Rooyen, Marietjie (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-06)

  BACKGROUND: Medical education empowers students to transform theoretical knowledge into practice. Assessment of knowledge, skills and attitudes determines students' competency to practice. Assessment methods have been ...
• Breaking the isolation : online group assignments 

  Adam, Sumaiya; Coetzee, Melantha; Lubbe, J.C. (Irene) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-09)

  The COVID‑19 pandemic forced educators to go online in a hurry in 2020 and adapt their teaching and assessment approaches. However, despite the urgency, teaching and assessment still need to remain constructively aligned, ...
• Do we assess what we set out to teach in obstetrics : an action research study 

  Adam, Sumaiya; Lubbe, J.C. (Irene); Van Rooyen, Marietjie (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-06)

  BACKGROUND. Medical education empowers students to transform theoretical knowledge into practice. Assessment of knowledge, skills and attitudes determines students’ competency to practice. Assessment methods have been ...
• Bringing literature to life : a digital animation to teach analogue concepts in radiographic imaging during a pandemic - lessons learnt 

  Essop, Hafsa; Lubbe, J.C. (Irene); Kekana, Mable (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-09)

  The fourth industrial revolution is upon us, bringing with it modern trends and new imaging equipment and techniques to radiography. While resource-rich institutions have successfully moved from analogue to digital equipment, ...
• Pedagogy to probity 

  Roos, Heleen; Lubbe, J.C. (Irene) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-09)

  At midnight, Thursday 26 March 2020, South Africa (SA) was declared a state of disaster and entered a nationwide lockdown to curb the rapid spread of COVID‑19. South Africans were instructed to stay home and all but ...
• Konteks van die ontstaan en opvoedkundige rol van Caravaggio se die onthoofding van Sint Johannes die Doper in die 17de eeu 

  Pretorius, Jannie (LitNet, 2020-12)

  In hierdie essay ondersoek die skrywer die konteks waarbinne Caravaggio se skildery Die onthoofding van Sint Johannes die Doper ontstaan het en die opvoedkundige rol daarvan in die 17de eeu op die eiland Malta. Caravaggio ...
• Higher education community engagement as a pathway to developing global citizenship practices in young people : South African perspective 

  Machimana, Eugene Gabriel; Ebersohn, L. (Liesel); Sefotho, Maximus Monaheng (Intellect, 2020-10)

  The aim of this study is to discuss how South African higher education (HE) is a mechanism to enable global citizenship. This qualitative secondary analysis study draws on retrospective qualitative case study data generated ...
• Online and face-to-face learning : evidence from students’ performance during the Covid-19 pandemic 

  Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Mthembu, Thulani; Nicholls, Nicky; Yitbarek, Eleni (Wiley, 2021)

  This study investigates the factors that predict students' performance after transitioning from face-to-face to online learning as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. It uses students' responses from survey questions and ...
• Teaching mise-en-place : student perceptions of the cooking pro forma process 

  Fisher, Hendrik Johannes (Hennie); Louw, Ina (Elsevier, 2020-12)

  This study investigates the perceptions of registered consumer science students (n = 58) and graduates (n = 39) from the Department of Consumer and Food Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) about compulsory forms ...
• Incorporating the mature students voice and lived experiences into continuous quality improvement 

  Lubbe, J.C. (Irene); Wolvaardt, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Liz); Turner, A.C. (Astrid) (Higher Education South Africa, 2020-11)

  Improving academic quality requires feedback from students since they have specific insight in their lived educational experience. Most institutions assess educational experience by evaluating individual modules. Few ...
• Student-faculty partnership in design : evaluating a co- creation practice and sharing of findings within the South African Higher Education context 

  Botha, Adriana Johanna Maria; Steyn, Adriana Aletta (Riana) (Higher Education South Africa, 2020-11)

  Creation of content in the higher education context has long been considered as a faculty responsibility. However, a drive towards inclusive curriculum transformation was requested by both students and professional ...
• Faculty’s experience of a formal mentoring programme : the perfect fit 

  Roets, Lizeth; Janse van Rensburg, Elsie; Lubbe, Johanna (Makerere University Medical School, 2019-06)

  BACKGROUND : The aging academic cohort in the faculty of health sciences necessitates transfer of knowledge and skills as a crucial component of sustainability. Formal mentoring programmes at higher education institutions ...

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