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Supporting practitioners to promote motor development of babies in Early Childhood Care and Education centres: A PALAR approach
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023-07)This study was a journey of personal and professional learning through a participatory action learning and action research process between community and university co-researchers who formed an action learning group to ... -
The influence of an intervention on Life Sciences teachers' perceptions of the nature of science, indigenous knowledge and implications for their pedagogy and self-directed learning
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2024)This study sought to investigate the influence of an intervention on the Life Sciences teachers’ perceptions of the nature of science, indigenous knowledge, and the implications for their pedagogy as well as self-directed ... -
The role of motivation to develop self-directed learners in lower quintile secondary township schools
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)The role of motivation to develop self-directed learners in lower quintile secondary township schools Numerous researchers have emphasised the critical role of self-directed learning in education, particularly in township ... -
Support required by School- Based Support Teams of special schools to help teachers reduce barriers to learning
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory is the basis for this Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR) study, which aims to investigate the support needed by School-Based Support Teams (SBSTs) to help ... -
Collaboration between Grade R teachers and parents to promote outdoor play-based learning for education for sustainable development
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)Outdoor play-based learning (PBL) is a key component of early childhood education (Ali et al., 2018). However, due to a lack of expertise and resources, Grade R teachers focus more on formal teaching governed by policies ... -
The experiences of out-of-field intermediate phase educators with self-directed learning
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023-12)This study explored the experiences out-of-field (OOF) intermediate phase educators have with self-directed learning (SDL). The theoretical framework for this study explores the way in which self-directed learning is defined ... -
Management of violence in secondary schools of the North West Province
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023-12)Violence in schools in South Africa and globally is a very serious problem. Parents, teachers, learners, and the community alike are concerned about the escalating violence amongst learners and the gravity of the acts ... -
Education for Sustainable Development in Eastern Cape secondary schools
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023-12)Sustainable development (SD) is one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Today’s world presents an environment with immense degrees of inequality, social exclusion, poverty and environmental destruction. SD refers ... -
Supporting foundation phase teachers at rural schools to improve teaching skills in mathematics: A PALAR approach
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023-10)South Africa has had a good number of curricula implemented in the last decade. These curricula and specifically the mathematics curricula were ideally written for the mainstream learner. Unfortunately, for learners that ... -
Investigating kinds of support provided to primary school learners to alleviate language as a barrier to learning with specific reference to grades 4-6
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)The main purpose of the study is to investigate the kinds of support given to learners who experience language as a barrier to learning, and the support given to educators in order to support learners with this barrier. ... -
School principals' ability to influence the improvement of learner performance in selected rural schools in Limpopo
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)The focus of this study was on school principals' ability to influence the improvement of under- performance in rural schools. The effectiveness of school leadership lies within the principal’s competency in management, ... -
The role of self-directed learning in the promotion of historical thinking in first year Senior and FET History for Education students
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)Historical thinking allows an individual to understand the past by analysing and evaluating sources. These skills are not only critical in the discipline of history, but it also emphasises critical thinking to ensure a ... -
Strategies to develop beginner teachers' self- directedness through induction and mentoring
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)The study did not aim to develop strategies to advance self-directedness but to determine the perceptions of beginner teachers about the contribution of induction and mentoring as strategies to develop self-directedness. ... -
Leadership strategies to enhance History learner performance in township secondary schools in the Ngaka Modiri Molema district
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2021)Managing the teaching and learning of History and the performance of learners in township secondary schools of South Africa over the last decade has been characterised by diverse opinions from different stakeholders. The ... -
Inclusion of queer literature in a School for Language Education at a university : a framework
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)Research has shown that South Africa is a queerphobic country where straight citizens either reject or tolerate queer individuals whose gender identity differs from the norm. Queerphobia negatively impacts the lives of ... -
Riglyne vir die ontwikkeling van algebraïese denke deur middel van wiskundetaal en metakognitiewe strategieë
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)South African learners are first exposed to algebra in Grade 7 and therefore mathematical language plays a critical role in the development of algebraic thinking (Chimoni et al., 2019:58). Algebraic thinking develops through ... -
The implementation of the new competence-based curriculum : a case study of selected primary schools in Zimbabwe
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)The role of leadership in new curriculum reform implementation in the education system has not much coverage in the literature on leadership. The fusion of the curriculum leadership literature with systems theory and change ... -
Enhancing the visual literacy of first-year students by means of self-directed multimodal mobile learning
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)The concept of literacy has progressively developed over time. The latest changes were mainly driven by the affordances offered by technology. Even though the basic literacy skills of reading and writing have not disappeared, ... -
A Grade 1 pre-handwriting programme to promote inclusive practices in the classroom
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)The South African Curriculum and Policy Statement (CAPS) document requires a pre-writing programme to be implemented before embarking on formal instruction of handwriting in Grade 1. Yet, an official pre-handwriting programme ... -
A Lesson Study Approach for Grade 10–11 Biology teachers : a framework to foster teaching praxis in education for sustainable development
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)The Lesson Study Approach (LSA) is a professional learning approach that has the potential to revolutionise how teachers plan and deliver lessons in Africa. Despite teachers being trained in collaborative planning and peer ...
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