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Wright, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
During a content and language project at a University of Technology (UoT) in Cape Town, South Africa, pairs of language and content lecturers, whose broad definition of integration was "the provision of linguistic access to content knowledge", co-authored ten integrated textbooks. Their intention was to assist first year learners with…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Waghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
In a recent essay entitled "Ex and the City": on cosmopolitanism, community and the "curriculum of refuge", Molly Quinn (2010) introduces her readers to a poetic exploration of cosmopolitanism and curriculum change. She begins and inconclusively ends her essay with poetic language and affirmation of cosmopolitan justice through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Moral Values, Ethical Instruction
Chweu, G.; Schultz, C. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Higher education institutions are facing challenges with regard to improving the success and pass rate of students. Mentorship in the life skills programmes should contribute significantly in addressing these issues. A study was undertaken to determine students' perceptions of the life skills programme at the Tshwane University of Technology. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis
Matshedisho, K. R. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
This article argues that even though the experiences of disabled students have programmatic implications, their needs should not be isolated from other students'. Instead they should be understood as part of the student life cycle within the pluralistic paradigm of education. In demonstrating the argument this article will: (a) outline some of the…
Descriptors: Models, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience
Mbali, C. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
The following lines of arguments against the metrics of journal articles is developed: (1) Textual output should no longer be main valued output; (2) Digitalization enables other ways of advancing knowledge; (3) Measures by journal article favours the disciplines of Natural Science and Engineering (NSE) and moulds other disciplines of Social…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, College Faculty, Faculty Publishing, Foreign Countries
Paideya, V.; Sookrajh, R. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Many under-prepared university students do not know how to study (Martin and Arendale 1993) because they have not yet developed the abstract reasoning skills that allow them to learn new ideas simply by reading a text or listening to a lecture. This article draws from selected findings from a PhD study currently being undertaken at a university in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Stoichiometry, Intervention, Focus Groups
Pillay, A. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Through a review of the literature, this article argues that it is imperative that lecturers at institutions of higher education not just embrace multiliteracy for teaching and learning, but accept, incorporate and affirm the many literacies that students bring with them to the lecture room. Multiliteracy in the lecture room supplements…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Active Learning, Lecture Method
Schulze, S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
The Management of one college at Unisa initiated a structured mentoring programme to develop researchers, among others. This article reports the views of 43 mentees of the programme one year after implementation. The research design was a survey. The items in a questionnaire were influenced by the self-efficacy theory and the constructivist views…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Mentors, Institutional Research, Self Efficacy
Simpson, Z.; van Ryneveld, M. B. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
During and prior to professional registration with the Engineering Council of South Africa, engineering graduates are expected to engage in advanced literacy practices which represent a high level of cognitive demand. This process is the final "gate" through which engineering graduates must pass in order to be acknowledged as…
Descriptors: Graduates, Engineering, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Twalo, T. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
South Africa's democratic state has been clouded by various social and economic ills like joblessness, skills shortage, poverty and crime. These are a result of various complex issues which include the apartheid legacy, misdirected education system and poor planning for long term national priorities. This article looks at the lost opportunities to…
Descriptors: Community Development, Racial Segregation, Foreign Countries, Job Development
Walker, M.; McLean, M. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
This article charts a research project on higher education and poverty reduction chronologically, mapping the process of thinking through and generating an Index of public-good professional education based on literatures; empirical data from actors-lecturers, students, alumni, professional bodies and NGOs; and participatory dialogue. Amartya Sen's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Poverty, Integrity, Nongovernmental Organizations
Taylor, Y.; Taylor, R. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
The article critically re-interrogates three high profile cases of white racism at South Africa's former "open universities" to highlight the way in which existing debates around academic freedom fail to come to terms with questions of racial injustice after apartheid. The cases covered are the Makgoba affair at Wits, the Mamdani affair…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Open Universities, Academic Freedom, Racial Segregation
Vandeyar, S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
This study set out to explore how academics construct and negotiate their identities within the world of the academe. Identity construction involves different forms of community participation and identification. Utilising the research methodology of narrative inquiry, this article explores how academics came to see themselves across those…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Communities of Practice, Personal Narratives, Self Concept
Hemson, C.; Singh, P. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
A study of academic staff at a South African university of technology used questionnaires and interviews to understand perceptions and experiences related to inclusion and exclusion. Taking critical race theory as the theoretical framework, the study revealed high levels of anger amongst staff of different racial identities. Expressions of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Questionnaires, Interviews, Phenomenology
Pattman, R. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
In the light of the notorious video made by white students at the University of Free State (UFS) in which black middle aged cleaners were subjected to forms of degradation in a mock initiation ceremony (which included being given food mixed with urine) the Minister of Education authorised an investigation on social cohesion in universities. The…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Participatory Research, Race, Universities