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Browsing Education by Type "Postprint Article"
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Vogel, F. Ruric; Human-Vogel, Salome
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-02)
A great deal of research within science and engineering education
revolves around academic success and retention of science and
engineering students. It is well known that South Africa is
experiencing, for various ...
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Ebersohn, L. (Liesel); Omidire, Margaret Funke; Murphy, P. Karen
(Springer, 2022-06)
In this article we apply an Afrocentric Resilience Theory (relationship-resourced resilience) to the domain of education research partnerships. We posit academic flocking as an equitable research partnership approach aimed ...
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Yani, Bridgette; Harding, Ansie; Engelbrecht, Johann
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)
This paper focuses on the students who are registered in the University of Pretoria’s academic development programme, named the Four-year Programme (FYP). The programme was introduced as a gateway for students who are ...
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Wu, Qiaobing; Ge, T.; Emond, Alan Martin; Foster, Kim N.; Gatt, Justine M.; Hadfield, Kristin; Mason-Jones, Amanda J.; Reid, Steve John; Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael; Wouldes, Trecia A.
(Elsevier, 2018-09)
OBJECTIVES : Using data from an international collaborative research project on youth resilience in the context of migration, this study aims to investigate how different acculturation patterns (i.e. integration, assimilation, ...
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Howie, Sarah J.; Scherman, Vanessa
(Elsevier, 2008)
In the past politics deprived many African children (in particular) in South Africa the opportunity of achieving quality education. This was most especially true in subjects such as mathematics and science. In this research ...
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Ubisi, Lindokuhle
(Routledge, 2021)
Despite public outcry, South Africa has decided to roll out comprehensive sexuality education in schools. Currently, however, there are no scripted lesson plans for teachers of learners with visual impairment. Local ...
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Van Rensburg, Angelique; Theron, Linda C.; Rothmann, Sebastiaan
(Sage, 2018-03)
Resilience, or being well-adjusted despite facing adversity that predicts negative life outcomes, is a process that is scaffolded by resilience-enabling supports. How well resilience-enabling resources support positive ...
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Woollett, Nataly; Bandeira, Monica Paulo dos Santos; Marunda, Sibusiswe; Mudekunye, Lynette; Ebersohn, L. (Liesel)
(Wiley, 2021-11)
Pregnant adolescents and young mothers comprise a vulnerable group, particularly in low and middle income countries, yet there is limited research describing this population, particularly in rural Zimbabwe. Using ...
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Theron, Linda C.
(Sage, 2020-01)
This aim of this article is to account for the resilience of adolescents who are challenged by structural disadvantage and to highlight that how adolescent resilience is accounted for depends on whether adolescent or adult ...
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Mampane, Motlalepule Ruth; Ebersohn, L. (Liesel); Cherrington, Avivit Miriam; Moen, Melanie Carmen
(Sage, 2014-12)
This study aims to explain how adolescents in a rural high school conceptualise school violence. Qualitative
data were collected over two two-day periods (24 hours) through child-centred tasks like drawing and the
completion ...
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Dellbridge, Carey-Ann; Lubbe, Carien
(NISC, 2009)
An adolescent’s subjective experiences of mindfulness were explored in a single case study of a 17-year-old
female. Data were created by means of ‘mindfulness sessions’, unstructured interviews, creative
expression, ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Levine, Diane; Ungar, Michael
(Sage, 2021-08)
What enables the resilience of African emerging adults who live in sub-Saharan Africa and must contend with an everyday reality that is characterized by structural disadvantage and related hardship? This question directed ...
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Ebersohn, L. (Liesel); Loots, Tilda; Mampane, Motlalepule Ruth; Omidire, Margaret Funke; Malan-van Rooyen, Marlize
(Wiley, 2017-08)
High-need contexts, such as those in postcolonial Southern Africa, require interventions that provide psychosocial and socioeconomic care and support. This comparative case study uses the lens of indigenous knowledge systems ...
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Cronje, Johannes Christoffel; Fouche, Johann
(Elsevier, 2008)
While different approaches to evaluation will yield different results, depending on the purpose of the evaluation this article describes an evaluation approach that was aimed at investigation the mental models of users of ...
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Lucas, Kirsten C.; Dippenaar, Susan M.; Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog
(Routledge, 2014-09)
Summative assessment qualifies the achievement of a student in a particular field of
specialization at a given time. Questions should include a range of cognitive levels from
Bloom’s taxonomy and be consistent with the ...
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Chimhande, Tinoda; Naidoo, Ana; Stols, Gerrit Hendrikus
(Routledge, 2017-07)
This article reports on a study of six Grade 11 learners’ levels of understanding of concepts related to the function definition and representation. Task-based clinical interviews were used to elicit the learners’ ...
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Wium, Anna-Marie; Pitout, Susara J.S. (Hanlie); Human, Anri; Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog
(Routledge, 2017)
Three lecturers respectively in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology,
Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy (SLPA, OT and PT) at a public Higher
Education Institution in South Africa collaborated to determine ...
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Kavai, Portia; De Villiers, Johannes Jozua Rian; Fraser, William John; Sommerville, Jaqui E.M.; Strydom, Nina
(Routledge, 2015-06)
In Life Sciences education internationally, including South Africa, the study of animal and organ morphology
has traditionally involved dissections since the early nineteenth century. The major purpose of this study was
to ...
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Stols, Gerrit Hendrikus; Long, Caroline; Dunne, Tim
(Routledge, 2015)
The purpose of this study is to apply the Rasch model to investigate both the Van Hiele
theory for geometric development and an associated test. In terms of the test, the objective is
to investigate the functioning of a ...
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Van Oordt, Marius Louis; Van Oordt, Theresa; Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog
(Emerald, 2014)
PURPOSE – This paper aims to focus on the thinking styles of a group of Accounting students, and to determine whether team teaching by two criteria-specific lecturers can be an effective collaborative teaching approach to ...