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PALAR as a methodology for community engagement by faculties of education
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2013)
Community engagement (CE) is a core function of the university in South Africa. In the field of
education, the imperative to pursue and promote CE provides an exciting opportunity for
researchers to work with school ...
Values-based self-reflective action research for promoting gender equality: some unexpected lessons
(University of the Free State, 2014)
The idea of using values as a means of guiding our research decisions and judging the
validity of our claims of knowledge is well established in literature on the self-reflective
genre of action research. Values in action ...
Assisting school management teams to construct their school improvement plans: an action learning approach
(Education Association of SA (EASA), 2014)
This article reports on a first cycle of a larger action research study conducted to determine how Circuit Teams could support School Management Teams of underperforming high schools towards whole-school development. ...
'You learn from going through the process': the perceptions of South African school leaders about action research
(SAGE, 2013)
In South Africa, the under-resourced and socially challenging contexts in which the
majority of schools function, calls for leadership that has the vision to look beyond
seemingly insurmountable problems. South African ...
Helping learners think more hopefully about life after school: the usefulness of participartory visual strategies to make career education more contextually relevant
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)
Learners living in challenging socio-economic circumstances face limited opportunities
for further education and employment. In this context, formal career guidance which
merely provides information about specific jobs ...
Improving the instructional leadership of heads of department in under-resourced schools: a collaborative action-learning approach
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2016)
An unacceptable number of learners in under-resourced schools in South Africa are failing to perform adequately in national and international benchmark tests. Poor learner performance has been linked to poor-quality teaching, ...
Using life design with vulnerable youth
(Wiley, 2016)
Career counseling processes normed for Western contexts may not fully address the needs of vulnerable youth in disadvantaged, non-Western contexts. Therefore, this study examined the utility of a narrative career counseling ...
A participatory approach to service-learning in creative arts education: a win-win learning opportunity for campus and community?
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2016)
Service-learning has been shown to be effective in preparing students to live and work in a diverse and rapidly changing society, especially when it is based on a democratic partnership between university students and ...
Drawing AIDS: Tanzanian teachers picture the pandemic. Implications for re-curriculation of teacher education programmes
(UFS, 2013)
In this article, we explain how we engaged teachers in creating their own representations of HIV and AIDS in Tanzania as a starting point for re-curriculation of the undergraduate teacher education programme. We employed ...
The resilience-enabling value of African folktales: the read-me-to-resilience intervention
(SAGE, 2017)
Resilience, or the process of adjusting well to adversity, draws on personal and social ecological resources (i.e., caregiving and community supports). Previous research—conducted mostly in the Global North—has shown that ...