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Browsing Research Articles (Humanities Education) by Type "Article"
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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 ...
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Wolvaardt, Gustaaf; Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog
(Unisa Press, 2012)
The Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) offers, inter alia, an advanced
management development programme for health care managers in the public and
private sector, sponsored by the United States Agency for ...
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Jorolan-Quintero, Genevieve; Makgabo, Mmamoyahabo Constance
(University of Johannesburg, 2020-04)
South Africa and the Philippines are home to a number of indigenous groups whose
cultures and traditions have not been tainted by centuries of colonization. This
paper compares the pre-colonial literature of cultural ...
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Reddy, Vasu
(Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2017-03)
This article provides an anthropological reading of one of Opperman’s early
poems, “Ringdans van die hamerkoppe” (Blom en Baaierd, 1956). The argument
motivates a perspective on Opperman that emphasises his role as a ...
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Mirkin, Philip Joshua; Evans, Rinelle; Ferreira, Johannes Theodorus
(Education Association of South Africa, 2020-12)
Modern science education the world over deliberately remains in the objective, rational, positivist paradigm. In South African classrooms, this paradigm is often alienating for young learners who then stop learning science ...
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Masola, Athambile
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2018-05)
For the most part, the inter-war years in South Africa have been researched as the time when African nationalism and resistance developed. Many such studies analyse the work of African intellectuals (mostly men) in this ...
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Woest, Yolandi
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-11-13)
This article focuses on the experiences of beginner teachers of the transdisciplinary demands
evident in school curricula. A detailed inductive thematic analysis of open-ended interviews
with ten beginner teachers from ...
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Vandeyar, Saloshna
(Education Association of South Africa, 2021-12)
An earlier paper focused on how born-free learners constitute, negotiate and represent their identities after almost two and half decades of democracy in South Africa. Utilising the theoretical framework of subjective ...
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Jarvis, Janet; De Jager, Sarina
(AOSIS, 2021-09-30)
Life Orientation (LO) as a compulsory subject in the South African school curriculum (Grades
7–12) aims to develop the learner’s self-in-society. This implies a holistic approach that includes
the personal, social and ...
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Nyamayedenga, Mildred Shingirirai; De Jager, Lizette J.; Aluko, Folake Ruth
(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2018-08)
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
comes recommended as an ideal teaching
method in Zimbabwe because of its ability to
assist learners to become communicatively
competent. Most studies on CLT in Zimbabwe
focus on ...
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Steyn, Raita; Sefotho, Maximus Monaheng
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Education, 2021-12-06)
This conceptual article is anchored on critical phenomenology to
challenge the monopolisation of visual arts by the sense of vision,
thus depriving visually impaired people of aesthetic value beyond
ordinary cognitive ...
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Van Aswegen, Hendrika Johanna; Van Aswegen, Riekie
(Unisa Press, 2011)
This article offers a South African perspective on the role of composers as an important link in the process of conductors selecting repertoire for children’s choirs. The following research question is explored: “What is ...
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Wassermann, Johannes Michiel; Bentrovato, Denise
(South African Society for History Teaching, 2018-12)
The purpose of the study presented in this article is to understand the experiences
of final year pre-service South African high school history teachers on their
engagement with controversial issues during their teaching ...
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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 ...
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Steyn, Raita; Hendrickx, Benjamin
(Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, 2020-08)
Statues referring to history are expressions of the collective conscience of nations or groups
in a nation, and therefore their value is determined by the changing policies and altering
concepts of such nations or groups. ...
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Delport de Villiers, Christa; De Jager, Sarina
(AOSIS, 2021-11-04)
The Independent Education Board (IEB) introduced the need to facilitate critical conversations
on controversial topics in the Life Orientation (LO) classroom at the National Conference in
2016. This shifted the focus of ...
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Snyman, Salome
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2013)
This article deals with journalist, dramatist and novelist Stephen Black’s The Dorp (1920), a novel which I regard as the earliest
example of what I have named the small-town novel sub-genre of the South African English ...
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Runhare, Tawanda; Mulaudzi, Olga; Vandeyar, Saloshna; Dzimiri, Patrick
(Ife Center for Psychological Studies/Services, 2014-12)
Policies that provide for equitable access to formal education by girls who could fall
pregnant while in school are now common in Africa. However, the benefits of such
policies to the affected girls vary from country to ...
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Chiponda, Annie F.; Wassermann, Johannes Michiel
(South African Society for History Teaching, 2016-12)
This article analyses the depiction of women in the verbal text of a history
textbook used at junior secondary school level in Malawi. The focus falls on
how women are depicted in the textbook and why they are depicted ...
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Steyn, Raita
(Institute for Afro-Hellenic studies, 2018)
This paper will present the outcomes of a study visit to Greece, organised by the Institute of Afro-Hellenic Studies, which took place during the period of 22 September to 23 October 2017. The IAHS has had a long history ...