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Career choice in teacher education is an important national issue, particularly since there is a drive to increase enrolment in foundation phase teacher education programmes in the country. In this study we explore the motivation of two cohorts of South African first-year students for their decision...
Foundation PhaseSpecializationTeachersHigher EducationLackCareer CounselingThis case study reports on the impact of the lack of career counseling in South African universities, particularly in the Faculty of Education. Students are not sure of which specialization to choose, as a result they keep ...
The aim of this study was to investigate the emotional experiences of student teachers who were teaching in the Foundation Phase (Grade R to Grade 3) and to make recommendations on how they could deal with their feelings. Students who were enrolled for the BEd (Early Childhood Development and...
During the practicum, librarians model how they support student learning, through selection of resources for research and reading, information literacy demonstrations, and designing and assessing inquiry-based assignments. Examples of projects included the creation of curriculum units, resource kits, fiction...
An investigation of the support offered by the institution level support team to the foundation phase teachers in a single school in Johannesburg. Some of the major difficulties encountered in embracing an inclusive education system are, lack of commitment, lack of resources as well as a poor unde...
Language-in-education policy debates in South Africa indicate that the use of the mother tongue in Foundation Phase classrooms gives learners access to education in familiar circumstances and is one of the ways of achieving accessible universal literacy education. However, the multilingual situation in...
We still have no foundation to claim anything about the differences in learning outcomes regarding whether children are included or excluded because we have not explored this systematically. However, this could be one of several interesting “hidden” refractions that could help us enhance our ...
The 1988 syllabus, largely different from the other four syllabi in that it was mainly influenced by the CLT approach, laid a solid foundation for the syllabi issued in the next phase. Integrating with globalization (1991–2000) When CLT was first introduced to China in the late 1970s, it ...
and Karen was a pretty new Assistant Professor who had just won a Whiting Award for her great work as an instructor. We both loved what we did, and from these shared conversations was born Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR), a genesis I’ve written about plenty before in places likeArt...