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Direct linkSangster, Alan, Ed.; Stoner, Greg, Ed.; Flood, Barbara, Ed. – Accounting Education, 2020
This paper presents a compilation of personal reflections from 66 contributors on the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 in accounting education in 45 different countries around the world. It reveals a commonality of issues, and a variability in responses, many positive outcomes, including the creation of opportunities to realign learning and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Mogra, Imran – Journal of Moral Education, 2007
This article reviews a series of ten books entitled "Tas-heelul akhlaq wal aadaab [Morals and manners made easy]" that were produced by the Jamiatul Ulama (Council of Religious Scholars) in Transvaal in South Africa. They are designed for children between the ages of six and fifteen and are increasingly in use in the "makatib"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, Textbooks, Ethics
Peer reviewedNel, Etienne – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1999
Reviews the series of books, "The Geography Discipline Network Guides on Teaching, Learning, and Assessment," produced by the Geography Discipline Network. Reveals two strengths of the series: (1) it provides practical guidelines on improving traditional teaching strategies; and (2) it promotes active learning. Considers the potential…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Book Reviews, Cultural Relevance, Educational Background
Pastoll, Gregory – 2002
This book describes what is wrong with the western schooling process and shows how it manipulates learners through grading them. It also describes what an education process requires to be truly educative. The chapters of section A, "The Relation between Motivation and Meaningful Learning," are: (A1) "Meaningful Learning and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness
Boughey, Chrissie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
In this article, the author discusses how universities and the academics who work in them understand the relationship between teaching and research. In several countries, acknowledgement of the need to link teaching and research has led to the development of institutional strategies to achieve this goal. In South Africa, the linking of teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Instruction, Research
Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
In this paper we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
In this paper, we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Peer reviewedDreyer, Carisma; Nel, Charl – System, 2003
Many South African students who enroll in higher education are underprepared and have low reading ability. Outlines the reading strategic component of an English for professional purposes course offered for such students in a technology-enhanced environment. Results indicate that students who received strategic reading instruction received higher…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High Risk Students
van Louw, T.; Waghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
The article critically reflects on the positive portrayal of mentorship as a professional development strategy for educators. We argue that the conceptualisation of classical mentorship has been informed mainly by functionalist thinking. We contend that the supposedly beneficial nature of the mentorship relationship has been given such prominence…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Mentors, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values
Download full textAtmore, Eric – 1993
In May 1990, the Ministry of National Education announced its Education Renewal Strategy (ERS) for education in South Africa to seek short- and medium-term managerial solutions for some of the nation's most pressing educational needs. This ERS advances five major policy recommendations for a future education model: (1) race should not be a factor…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Day Care, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
Twigger, Anthony J. – 2002
Recent research has identified trends in the training systems of 13 countries in Africa (Egypt, Mauritius, South Africa); the Arab States (Bahrain, Jordan); Asia (Australia, Fiji, Malaysia); Eastern Europe (Albania, Slovenia); Western Europe (Ireland, Portugal); and the Mediterranean region (Malta). The trends identified are legislation;…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Educational Legislation, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedNaidoo, Kammila – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1996
Argues that college students are generally less dependent and more motivated to learn than is generally assumed, based on a survey of 252 third-year University of South Africa students. Recommends that academic departments find new ways of accommodating learner self-direction, re-examine traditional teaching paradigms, and continuously evaluate…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Change Strategies, Course Content, Curriculum Design
Garbers, J. G. – 1984
This paper, presented at the International Conference on Education for the Gifted, outlines points for consideration in designing a program for the education of gifted children in the Republic of South Africa. The points focus on the importance of mainstreaming, identification of giftedness, the need for close cooperation between home and school,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Administration, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Wildemeersch, Danny, Ed.; Finger, Matthias, Ed.; Jansen, Theo, Ed. – 2000
In this book, 16 authors from Europe, Africa, and the United States reflect on the transformations that are currently taking place in the field of adult and continuing education. The 12 chapters are "Reconciling the Irreconcilable? Adult and Continuing Education Between Personal Development, Corporate Concerns, and Public Responsibility"…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Citizenship Education
Ungerer, E. – 1984
The paper describes steps taken in initiating a program for gifted students undertaken in 11 secondary schools in Cape Province, South Africa. The development of an identification model was made difficult because the fixed South African educational system inhibits creativity and productive thinking abilities. Factors used to select students for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Creativity, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries
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