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Browsing Unit for Distance Education by Issue Date
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(Unisa Press, 2008)This article emanates from a comparative study of the quality of a B.Ed. (Hons) programme in contact and distance contexts in a dual-mode institution, in terms of access, delivery and output. Both versions of the programme ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)Gender parity in primary and secondary education has yet to be achieved in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Malawi. The presence of female teachers is recognised as positively impacting on girls’ enrolment ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)This paper is a response to calls made in the teacher education pedagogy literature (e.g. Loughran, 2006; Moletsane, 2003; Murphy, 2008; Russell, 1997) for teacher educators to take a critical look at how they mediate ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)This paper is based on a study conducted to determine the infl uence of a curriculum-based dynamic assessment (CDA) procedure on the performance and effect on additional language (AL) learners in mainstream education. ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)The teacher’s use of lecture method has been observed to be ineffective in bringing about the right attitude towards the environment and environmental problems. The purpose of this research is to fi nd out what are the ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)This study was conducted to evaluate changes in student teacher trainees at the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, after completing a course on the Human Immunodefi ciency Virus/Acquired ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)Africa is perhaps the only continent in the world where most formal or school education is conducted in instructional languages that are foreign to most learners and their teachers. In contexts where formal learning is ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)This paper discusses research conducted among distance education students at the University of Pretoria in 2009. The aim of the research was to explore moral reasoning and how it may be guided or infl uenced by what students ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)Distance education is a learner-centred approach to education that emphasises independent learning based on the assumption that students are self-motivated and active in the learning process. However, due to the fact ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)In an attempt to improve students’ retention and ensure high per cohort completion rates, a student support system of cluster meetings was introduced for the upgrading of teachers from primary teacher certifi cate to ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)Teaching as a profession is deeply rooted in historical antecedents. Granted that its journey from the status of a voluntary service in the hands of Christian missionaries with no legal instruments and reliable conditions ...
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Implementing blackboard: a case study of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa (Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)Universities, in general, form a critical component of a country’s national system of innovation and are its intellectual backbone. However, the capacity of many African universities to lead the process of integrating ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)The term “ethical conduct” brings to the fore a debate about the distinctions between codes of conduct and their purposes, and ethical principles and their place in the teaching profession. Some would argue that codes of ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)The philosophy of inclusive education necessitates rigorous changes in the school system for it to be effective. In order to respond to the challenge, countries are required to develop structures that make it possible for ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)Nations continue to strive to improve their education systems through various strategies and plans. Some of these are outcomes of research on various aspects of education; hence the need for continuous research on all ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)The goal of distance education in Ghana is to make quality education, especially at the tertiary level, more accessible and relevant to meeting the human resource needs of the country. This is to improve performance as ...
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(Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 2011)This paper focuses on how distance education (DE) facilitators of the Advanced Certifi cate in Education (ACE) are trained, supported and quality-assured during contact sessions to improve their facilitation skills. The ...
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