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Paradigms, beliefs and values in scholarship: a conversation between two educationists
(AOSIS, 2011)
Scientific paradigms constantly play a role in scholarship, but researchers tend not to examine the roles of the belief and value systems associated with them. From time to time, however, a researcher may be confronted ...
Understanding the anatomy of religion as basis for religion in education
(AOSIS, 2011)
This article sprung from previous structural analyses of religion as onticity, but went somewhat further by placing more emphasis on encounters with the numinous as the core of religion, as well as on the dynamic character ...
Morality as the substructure of social justice: religion in education as a case in point
(Educational Association of South Africa (EASA), 2011)
Moral issues and principles do not only emerge in cases of conflict among, for instance, religious communities or political parties; indeed they form the moral substructure of notions of social justice. During periods of ...
Enabling white, Afrikaans–speaking adolescents toward post–divorce resilience: implications for educators
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2010)
Using rich qualitative data, we describe the ecosystemically-embedded protective antecedents that enabled 10 white, Afrikaans-speaking adolescents from divorced families towards resilience. The description both confirms ...
Design-reality gap assessment of an international distance education initiative
(Unisa Press, 2011)
This article assesses a recently completed discontinued internationally funded e-education initiative at a South African higher education institution (HEI). The e-Learning Initiative in South Africa (Elisa) project was a ...
Teacher pathways to resilience: interpretations of teacher adjustment to HIV/AIDS-related challenges
(Springer, 2013)
Resilience (or the capacity to adjust well to significant risk) is conceptualized as a dynamic, reciprocal transaction that occurs between people and their social ecologies. An outcome of resilience relies on a person, who ...
Towards a blended learning approach: a cooperative model for continuing teacher education
(Unisa Press, 2011)
The successful delivery of academic and logistical support and overall quality assurance processes will determine the survival of open and distance learning (ODL) in the higher education (HE) sector. The literature emphasises ...
Students' expectations of motivations for studying comparative education: a comparative study across nine countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America
(2011)
The aim of this research was to determine what comparative education students expect from comparative education courses. Students from nine countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America were surveyed. ...
The Game Object Model and expansive learning: creation, instantiation, expansion, and re-representation
(Universiteit van die Vrystaat/ Sabinet, 2011)
In this paper, the collaborative development, instantiation, expansion and re-representation as research instrument of the Game Object Model (GOM) are explored from a Cultural Historical Activity Theory perspective. The ...