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Mayaba, Nokhanyo; Otterup, Tore; Webb, Paul – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2013
Problems of poor performance in science and mathematics education have been related to language deficiencies, including writing skills. Writing to learn science is an important skill but is not easy to acquire, especially when children learn in a second language. In order to investigate possibilities for developing writing in South African and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Area Writing, Science Instruction, Case Studies
Stott, Angela – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2013
The force concept in physics is known to be poorly understood by high school and university students throughout the world, with alternative conceptions being prevalent. In this study, I surveyed the conceptions regarding force of a large and varied convenience sample of South African physical sciences teachers, and sought patterns between levels…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Sciences, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Hewson, Mariana G. – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2012
African traditional healers (THs) were interviewed in order to explore their indigenous knowledge (IK) concerning natural science topics and science teaching, with potential implications for school science curriculum. First, THs in Lesotho were interviewed about their general ideas and these were compared with ideas obtained from THs in a previous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Folk Culture, Indigenous Knowledge
Meiring, Les; Webb, Paul – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2012
This study focuses on the effects of the exposure of pre-service education students (n=87) to a variety of toys used as educative curriculum material in an attempt to develop their understanding of energy. Changes in their knowledge, their confidence in terms of this knowledge, and the reasons they attributed for any changes in both their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers, Toys, Energy
Ramnarain, Umesh; van Niekerk, Celeste – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2012
This paper reports on an analysis of student conceptions in responses to explanation-type questions in a grade 12 (17-18 years) South African national physics examination. We were guided in our analysis of 921 examination scripts by a framework developed by Dagher and Cossman on types of explanations in science which enabled us to understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 12, Secondary School Science, Physics
Lemmer, Miriam – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2011
More than a thousand Grade 10 Physical Science learners from four South African provinces participated in a study that probed their conceptions of energy. The purpose was to determine the learners' conceptual resources, i.e. their initial conceptions, and identify the potentially productive resources from which they may construct physics concepts.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 10, Knowledge Level
Govender, Nadaraj – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2011
Twenty-nine Zulu-speaking primary school teachers were enrolled for a certificate in-service science education course. Initially, informal classroom discussions with these teachers pointed out poor conceptual knowledge in basic astronomy. This study investigated teachers' scientific and indigenous conceptions of the Earth-Moon-Sun (E-M-S) system,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy, Indigenous Knowledge, Astronomy
Lelliott, Anthony – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
This study describes how a group of grade 7 and 8 students in South Africa engaged with the notion of spatial scale in the Universe before, during and after a visit to an astronomy science centre. A limited amount of research has been conducted on this concept worldwide. Using a combination of concept maps, observations and interviews, results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8, Spatial Ability
Ramorogo, Gaobolelelwe; Ogunniyi, Meshach – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
In pursuance of one of the goals of the new South African curriculum to integrate science with Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), this study, which forms part of a larger study, is concerned with determining teachers' and learners' conceptions of a number of familiar natural phenomena. Several recent studies have indicated that: (1) learners do…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Cultural Influences
The Impact of Explicit Instruction on Undergraduate Students' Understanding of the Nature of Science
Vhurumuku, Elaosi – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
This study investigated the influence of a short explicit-reflective Nature of Science Course (NOSC) on access students' ideas about the Nature of Science (NOS). Eighty five students registered for a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa went through a seven week course that deliberately sought to develop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction