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Direct linkSalimpour, Saeed; Bartlett, Sophie; Fitzgerald, Michael T.; McKinnon, David H.; Cutts, K. Ross; James, C. Renee; Miller, Scott; Danaia, Lena; Hollow, Robert P.; Cabezon, Sergio; Faye, Michel; Tomita, Akihiko; Max, Charles; de Korte, Michael; Baudouin, Cyrille; Birkenbauma, Daina; Kallery, Maria; Anjos, Sara; Wu, Qixuan; Chu, Hye-eun; Slater, Eileen; Ortiz-Gil, Amelia – Research in Science Education, 2021
Astronomy is considered by many to be a gateway science owing to its ability to inspire curiosity in everyone irrespective of age, culture, or general inclination towards science. Currently, where there is a global push to get more students engaged in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, astronomy provides an invaluable conduit to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Science Curriculum
Owusu-Agyeman, Yaw – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
This article examines the experiences and perceptions of academics about student engagement and how their professional practice in a professional community enhances students' persistence and success in a university in South Africa. While previous research has widely focused on students' perception of how student engagement enhances student success…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, College Students, Foreign Countries, College Environment
Suransky, Caroline; van der Merwe, J. C. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2016
Twenty years after Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa, deeply entrenched inequalities and injustices are still at the core of the country's social fabric. South Africa's public and private sectors continue to battle with the situation and higher education institutions are no exception. The South African Ministry of Education has…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Social Change, Organizational Culture, Student Leadership
Download full textBotha, R. J. Nico; Hugo, Jean-Pierre – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2021
Teachers leaving the profession before age of retirement is an ongoing problem in schools worldwide. While fewer teachers enter the profession each year, the number of teachers leaving the profession has increased. Many teachers listed lack of job satisfaction as a reason for leaving the education profession, while citing the lack of mentoring as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Job Satisfaction, Beginning Teachers
Chappell, Paul; Johns, Rebecca; Nene, Siphumelele; Hanass-Hancock, Jill – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
Over the past two decades, comprehensive sexuality education has increasingly been recognised as a measure that positively impacts on the sexual behaviour of young people in Africa. Despite this, and a political call to scale-up the use of comprehensive sexuality education in schools in South Africa, learners with disabilities continue to be left…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Intellectual Disability, Sexuality
Doria Daniels – Perspectives in Education, 2023
The 2000s saw a change in South Africa's Department of Correctional Services' theorising about adult education's potential to shift incarcerated men's thinking about their future in a proactive way. The plan was to advance active citizenship in the incarcerated. As such, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) introduced holistic, integrated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
Masenya, Malesela J. – SAGE Open, 2021
The debate on the de-colonization of universities in South African gained momentum after protests by students through the #FeesMustFall (FMF) and #RhodesMustFall (RMF) movements. At the center of these protests were issues like free access to education, accommodation, removal of apartheid and colonial statues, and the Africanization of the…
Descriptors: Universities, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Culturally Relevant Education
Carter, Jane; Knight, Ben; Vickers-Hulse, Karan – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
This article explores data from a group of British pre-service teachers (PST) following a teaching programme in South Africa. Their reflections are analysed in relation to assertions that such intercultural programmes do little to change hegemonic beliefs about the 'other'. Analysis of questionnaire and interview data suggests that whilst these…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Reflection, Foreign Countries
Francis, Dennis A.; Brown, Anthony; McAllister, John; Mosime, Sethunya T.; Thani, Glodean T. Q.; Reygan, Finn; Dlamini, Bethusile; Nogela, Lineo; Muller, Marguerite – Africa Education Review, 2019
The importance of quality education provision for all is a globally acknowledged principle for the creation of sustainable learning environments at primary and secondary levels. This article reports on a study that aimed to increase understanding of the context of how gender and sexuality diversity is responded to in schools in Southern Africa. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Barriers, Social Bias
Wilson, Lisa – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2022
The slogan "I can't breathe" reverberated in 2020 with the Black Lives Matter movement protests against police brutality and racial injustices in America. As much as there was an uncanny coincidence with that phrase and the root of the COVID-19 pandemic, the immediate association of those words for me, a dance educator in South Africa,…
Descriptors: Racism, Dance Education, Minority Group Students, Foreign Countries
McDowell, Anel; Bornman, Juan – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2022
Key-word-signing (KWS), an unaided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategy, has an important role to play in the education system. To date, limited research exists regarding the use of unaided AAC strategies in the school environment, especially in low- and middle-income countries. To address this research gap, the current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Chasi, Colin; Rodny-Gumede, Ylva – Africa Education Review, 2019
Calls for the decolonisation of higher education in South Africa have been punctuated by comments on black pain. This is not surprising if it is acknowledged that violence inordinately marks so much of South African life. What is rarely discussed though is the idea that pain has also come to be fetishised. Pain, for example, is valued as a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Blacks, Racial Bias, Equal Education
Mavunga, George – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2019
Using Critical Realism, this article looks at articles from selected South African newspapers which reported on the #FeesMustFall protests. The study established that, arising from the protests, was a culture characteried by tensions and distrust amongst stakeholders such as students, university management and the government. This, the article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Newspapers, Activism, Conflict Resolution
Madusise, Sylvia – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
Researchers have generally agreed that textbooks as a major conveyor of the curriculum play a dominant role in modern education scenes across different school subjects. The study analyzed a set of four learners' textbooks and their corresponding teachers' guides which are used as set books for teaching mathematics at Grade 9 level in South Africa.…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Mathematics Instruction, Textbooks, Textbook Evaluation
Rubbi Nunan, Julie Shantone; Ntombela, Sithabile – Education and Urban Society, 2019
Students' challenging behavior has become a serious problem internationally. In South Africa, there are reports highlighting that even primary schools experience serious forms of challenging behavior by students. This article emanates from a case study that utilized the social cognitive theory to understand how primary schools address this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Problems, Elementary Schools, Student Attitudes
