• Exploring challenges caced by grade 11 learners when studying English first additional language poetry 

  Makgabo, Connie; Nyembe, Musawenkosi Wiseman (University of Venda, School of Human and Social Sciences, 2022)

  This article explores the challenges faced by English First Additional Language (FAL) Grade 11 learners when studying poetry. Poetry in South African secondary schools is a compulsory literature genre that is taught in ...
• The re-membering of literary bodies in the Zimbabwean classroom 

  Dewa, Flora; Genis, Gerhard (Routledge, 2022)

  This article explores ways in which literary and physical bodies are interlinked in a high-school English literature classroom in Zimbabwe. In this study, twenty-four Grade 12 learners, who are conceptualised as living ...
• Women’s leadership role in the Apostolic Faith Mission Church of South Africa 

  De Jager, Sarina; Botes, Jackie; Savhasa, Thandanani; Smit, Ina (University of the Western Cape, 2023-03)

  Women’s advancement into executive leadership in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) church in South Africa (SA) has not been able to keep pace with women’s movement into the workforce. As part of a resolution passed at the ...
• Exploring student teachers’ experiences of vulnerability in higher education spaces 

  De Jager, Sarina (Stellenbosch University, 2023-05)

  Recently, scientific interest in higher education students’ wellbeing has increased. The highlighted issues include professional development, professional identity, and personal behaviour. The significance of this study ...
• Rupturing the laws of discourse : learner agency in the construction of their identity in school discourses 

  Vandeyar, Saloshna; Ziqubu, Lwazi (University of the Free State, 2022-12)

  Utilising the theoretical frameworks of theory of power and theory of performativity, this case study explored how learners exercised agency in the construction of their identity in school discourses. Data capture incorporated ...
• Connection, desperation and disillusionment : exploring student wellbeing at a university in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic 

  De Jager, Sarina (University of the Free State, 2023-03)

  University students’ mental health and wellbeing has been a global public health issue of increasing concern in recent years, with a growing body of empirical evidence suggesting university students are a ‘very high-risk ...
• Learning in a pandemic : narratives of learners from low-income communities 

  Mphela, Nomonde Gina (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Utilising a social constructivist and interpretivist paradigm this study set out to explore how learners from low-income communities experienced learning during a pandemic. The study was qualitative in nature and used a ...
• Exploring the lived experiences of Grade 11 Geography teachers regarding fieldwork 

  Sikerete, Antonio (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The South African national curriculum for school geography, the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), lays emphasis on the requirement for all syllabus topics within the Geography Further Education and Training ...
• Musicking in the liminal Space between Community Music and Music Education 

  Oellermann, Esmari (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The study explored musicking, social capital, and social justice as connection points in the liminal space between community music (CM) and music education (MusEd). Musicking encapsulates active human involvement in ...
• Pedagogical practices in teaching siSwati as a first language in diverse linguistic settings 

  Mngometulu, Tholakele Constance (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Educational research indicates that sound pedagogical practices are essential for learners to achieve positive learning outcomes. This suggests that the success of any learning programme is dependent on the selection and ...
• Exploring breathwork paradigms of South African singing education lecturers 

  Potgieter, Gerhardus Cornelius (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This study explored the breathwork paradigms of South African Singing Education Lecturers (SASingEdL) through the lens of a Life Skills educator. The current South African Curriculum and Assessment Policy (CAPS) requires ...
• Youth experiences of a sport development programme in a rural South African context 

  Motlhaolwa, Leepile Cyril; De Jager, Sarina; Wood, Paola; Borresen, Jill (Montenegrosport, 2023-07)

  Sport is a powerful development tool and social connector. Sport development programmes are often perceived as an effective means of encouraging youth development and teaching positive values, as well as providing ...
• Youth experiences of a rural South African sport development programme 

  Motlhaolwa, Leepile Cyril (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The purpose of this research was to explore the youth experiences of a rural South African sports development programme to understand how and why the youth in rural South Africa experienced the sports development programme ...
• The importance of Life Orientation in a time of COVID-19 : perceptions of preservice teachers 

  Botha, Aletta E.; Rens, Julialet; De Jager, Sarina (AOSIS, 2022-05-30)

  This research explored the challenges experienced by society during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the role thereof in the validation of Life Orientation in South African schools. The importance of ...
• Utilizing a Historically Imbedded Source Based Analysis Model (HISBAM) in the history school classroom 

  Bunt, Byron; Warnich, Pieter (The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT), 2021)

  This paper aims to elucidate upon a model that imbeds historical skills, concepts and categorizations into a source-based analysis approach utilizing levels of cognitive complexity by combining different types of sources ...
• "Better a barefoot than none”: influences of nationalist ideologies on girlhood in the history classroom 

  Woest, Y. (South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT), 2021)

  This study adopted autoethnography as a research methodology to relive and reflect on my experiences as a White Afrikaner girl in a history class during the apartheid era in South Africa. This paper focuses ...
• Silenced and invisible historical figures in Zambia : an analysis of the visual portrayal of women in senior secondary school history textbooks 

  Mboyonga, Edward (South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT), 2021)

  Despite their significant contribution to the country’s historical development, women’s influence is commonly underestimated and ignored in Zambian history literature. Subsequently, their role remains undocumented in ...
• ‘A haunting of ancestors’ : the conjuring of memory in indigenous South African poetry 

  Genis, Gerhard (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)

  This paper focuses on the interaction of language, the physical and psychological body and the environment in creating a conjuring of ancestors in indigenous South African poetry. The ‘haunting’ of the ancestors is mirrored ...
• Knowledge, power and school history in post-independence Malawi : a critical analysis of curriculum change (1964-2022) 

  Bentrovato, Denise; Dzikanyanga, Nerva (2022)

  Emerging educational research in Africa reveals an eventful course of development for school history curricula in post-colonial African states as they grappled with issues of quality and relevance in history education. In ...
• Trends in African philosophy and their implications for the Africanisation of the South Africa history caps curriculum : a case study of Odera Oruka philosophy 

  Maluleka, Paul; Mathebula, Thokozani (South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT), 2022)

  A Kenyan philosopher, Henry Odera Oruka (1944–1995), conceptualised and articulated the six trends in African philosophy. These are ethno-philosophy, nationalistic-ideological philosophy, artistic (or literary philosophy), ...

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