Student voice: Perspectives on language and critical pedagogy in South African higher education

Pedagogy and ICT use in South African Science Education

The purpose of this paper is to present work in progress as part of the analysis of the South African SITES 2006 data which forms the basis for an ongoing PhD study. The PhD study aims to examine how teachers in classrooms representing the majority of South African schools use ICT when they teach science and to explore factors which may be used as predictors of ICT use by science teachers in si...

Towards a reconciliation of Phenomenographic and Critical Pedagogy Perspectives in Higher Education through a focus on academic engagement

In this paper, we outline how the literature on phenomenography, specifically Marton and Booth (1997), and the literature that adopts a „critical approach‟, specifically Friere (1996), can be brought together to help us to understand the barriers that face students and teachers in engaging in learning and teaching in higher education. Our attempt is motivated by a wish to relate the different f...

Teaching Grammar: Perspectives on Language Learning in Higher Education

Wheelchair users, access and exclusion in South African higher education

BACKGROUND South Africa's Constitution guarantees everyone, including persons with disabilities, the right to education. A variety of laws are in place obliging higher education institutions to provide appropriate physical access to education sites for all. In practice, however, many buildings remain inaccessible to people with physical disabilities. OBJECTIVES To describe what measures South...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...