This article reports on the perceptions of academic resilience of Grade 8 and Grade 9 learners and their teachers in low socioeconomic township schools. Learners from township schools experience many risk factors that can ...
Sehoole, Molatlhegi Trevor Chika; Strang, Karen; Jowi, James Otieno; McVeety, Melanie(Open Journals in Education, 2024-01)
This article provides an analysis of how equitable, inclusive, and meaningful partnerships between the Global South and Global North, which have been characterized by challenges (Kumar 2019), can be established and enhanced ...
Williams, Elisma; Ferreira, Ronel; Botha, Tanita(Education Association of South Africa, 2023-12)
Limited research focusing on the cognitive strategies that support the resilience of teachers in a world pandemic has been conducted. By employing a sequential explanatory mixed method research design, this study was ...
Makwakwa, Eva G.; Mogari, David; Ogbonnaya, Ugorji Iheanachor(Wiley, 2024)
This study investigated first-year undergraduate statistics students’ statistical problem-solving skills on the probability of the union of two events, conditional probability, binomial probability distribution, probabilities ...
Van Putten, Sonja; Van Putten, Jessica K.; De Jager, Lizette J.(Routledge, 2023)
This study investigated the role of the mentor lecturer in the development of the Professional Teacher Identity (PTI) of 838 fourth-year pre-service teachers while doing Work Integrated Learning at a South African University. ...
Molotsi, Abueng R.; Moodley, Kimera; Van Wyk, Mari(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2023-07-31)
The use of digital technologies in the classroom has escalated, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although
technology and teacher development centres are available for teachers to use, they are often not ...
Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael; Holtge, Jan(Sage, 2023-04)
Does historic school engagement buffer the threats of disrupted schooling – such as those associated with the widespread COVID-19-related school closures – to school engagement equally for female and male high school ...
Most Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in South Africa have moved teaching and learning to online platforms due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With this new development, the responsibility falls upon HEIs to ensure the ...
This article reports on teachers’ perceptions of how ADHD may influence learners’ career choices. Purposive selection was used to identify six high school teachers who cater specifically for learners with Attention-Defic ...
Strauss, Annaly M.; Tolmen, Priscilla S.; Bipath, Keshni(AOSIS, 2023-01-12)
BACKGROUND : Within the multilingual context of KwaZulu Natal (KZN), learners in Grades 1–3
are taught in their native language which is isiZulu. From Grade 4, English or Afrikaans
becomes the medium of instruction. Yet, ...
Veerabudren, Sattiavany; Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Graham, Marien Alet; Geertsema, Salome; Le Roux, Mia(AOSIS, 2023-03-03)
BACKGROUND : Learners with reading and writing difficulties (RWD) are accommodated in
Mauritian government schools without formal curriculum adjustment and teacher support.
Little is known about their RWD. The aim was ...
Van Eck, Zetta; Wassermann, Johan; Van der Merwe, Clinton David(AOSIS, 2023-10-29)
BACKGROUND : This study identifies potential assets of the minibus taxi industry space and
alerts taxi drivers to the expectations of various role-players in education, through
understanding the views of various role-players ...
BACKGROUND : Despite extensive research on the specific learning disorder (developmental
dyslexia) – SLD (DD), many fallacies still cause confusion amongst professionals worldwide.
These myths involve the characteristics, ...
Van der Mescht, Pauli; Geertsema, Salome; Graham, Marien Alet; Le Roux, Mia; Johnson, Ensa(University of Johannesburg, 2023-05-25)
BACKGROUND : Physical, financial, social and emotional demands placed on caregivers caring
for their children with severe intellectual disabilities (CWSID) could lead to high levels of
burden.
AIM : This study aimed to ...
Aina, Adebunmi Yetunde; Du Plessis, Andre(Education Association of South Africa, 2023-11)
The South African Schools Act, No. 84 of 1996, stipulates how schools should manage and involve stakeholders in financial management. The literature suggests that stakeholders at non-fee-paying schools in the township and ...
Badal, Bernice; Vandeyar, Saloshna(Education Association of South Africa, 2023-11)
This qualitative case study set out to explore how teacher voice was manifested in their practices in curriculum change contexts, utilising the meta-theoretical paradigm of social constructivism and the theoretical framework ...
Mokgwathi, Mathelela Steyn; Graham, Marien Alet; De Villiers, J.J.R. (Rian)(Education Association of South Africa, 2023-11)
There is growing concern regarding the inadequate infrastructure in South African schools leading to unsafe environments for teachers and learners. This qualitative single case study involved interviews with 18 participants, ...
Van der Merwe, Charlotte(University of Pretoria, 1994)
The research has clarified the meaning of the concept career orientation and
explored the relation between career orientation and interests. This study has
shown that it is essential to plan a career and to guide according ...
Botha, Marga; De Jager, Sarina; Evans, Rinelle(University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Education and Development, 2023)
Teachers in the South African education system face numerous challenges that negatively affect their well-being and contribute to the high attrition rate in the teaching profession. Given that few studies in the South ...
This article explores the place of history education in state-sponsored nation-building in war-torn South Sudan, the world's youngest country. It examines discourses around nationhood transmitted via the first history ...