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Adult Education as Care Work in a South African Prison: The Role of Adult Educators
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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
Professional Development of Technology Teachers: Does Their Training Meet Their Needs?
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Gumbo, M. T. – Perspectives in Education, 2020
The phenomenological study on which this article is based inquired into Grade 9 Technology teachers' professional development through workshops on pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) as well as their training needs. The workshops took place in Nelspruit in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Data were gathered from two groups of teachers who attended the…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Educational Needs, Secondary School Teachers, Grade 9
Professional Development Networks: From Transmission to Co-Construction
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Ngcoza, Ken; Southwood, Sue – Perspectives in Education, 2015
This article offers an extract of a qualitative case study focused on collaborative professional development of science teachers in a transformative continuous professional development (TCPD) network, whose aim is the professional development of science teachers with a view to improving praxis. Teacher narratives generated through an iterative…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Transformative Learning, Professional Continuing Education