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South African teachers’ exposure to workplace bullying
(2013)
Research on workplace bullying (WPB) in occupations, identified teaching as a high risk
job. Yet there is a dearth of research on WPB among teachers. The aim of this study is
to contribute to the limited body of knowledge ...
Participatory action research and the construction of academic identity among postgraduate research students
(2013)
This paper discusses the construction of academic identity among postgraduate research
students who emerged from a participatory action research (PAR) project. The article
reports on how postgraduate research students ...
On bricolage and the creation of sustainable postgraduate learning environments
(2013)
In this paper I show how bricolage as a theoretical framework is used to understand and
enhance the learning of the postgraduate students and academics working as a team.
Bricolage is described as a metaphor for a research ...
Creating sustainable postgraduate supervision learning environments through critical emancipatory research
(2013)
This article articulates pedagogic praxis for postgraduate supervision couched
within sustainable learning environments with emancipatory aims. The paper
probes the discourses of hegemony as a form of power that relies ...
Sustainable rural learning ecologies- a prolegomenon traversing transcendence of discursive notions of sustainability, social justice, development and food sovereignty
(2013)
This paper contributes, through traversing contested notions of sustainability, social
justice, development and food sovereignty, to discourses around creation of sustainable
rural learning ecologies. There has always ...
Citizenship education and human capabilities: lynchpin for sustainable learning environment and social justice
(2013)
The paper builds on and contributes to literature in citizenship education studies in
higher education. Many studies in this field have explored the history, development and
implementation of various forms of citizenship ...
Beliefs that manifest through newspaper items in relation to peoples’ life challenges and their potential to enhance a sustainable learning environment in school science
(2013)
The paper documents beliefs that manifest themselves through newspaper items and
elaborates on their potential to enhance a sustainable learning environment in a school
science lesson. “Learning environment” is depicted ...
Realising a socially sustainable South African society through cooperative learning
(2013)
Education conceptualised in terms of the broader project of socially sustainable
development (SSD) makes cooperative learning (CL) valuable in realising the former.
Cooperative learning emphasises cooperation as integral ...
Intercultural communication problems relating to translation from English into Sesotho
(2013)
In this article, certain translative communication problems associated with the linguistic
and stylistic differences between English and Sesotho are identified and discussed. With
a view to help improve translation between ...
Towards a social sustainability in higher education: enhancing students’ solidarity and togetherness through collaborative projects in racially diverse learning environments
(2013)
One key goal in the mission and vision statement of the University of the Free State is to
recruit the best and most diverse students who work in solidarity and togetherness across
social and historical divides. This ...