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Assaf, Lori Czop; Lussier, Kristie O'Donnell; Lopez, Minda – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2020
The purpose of this qualitative study was to uncover preservice teachers' generative learning and explore whether and how they built on and/or extended linguistically responsive teaching 1 year after participating in a study abroad program and community-based international service learning project. We relied on narrative reflections, interviews,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Teaching Methods, Service Learning, Preservice Teachers
Carnow, Anneline J.; Steenkamp, Andries; Ekron, Christélle – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2020
Background: IsiXhosa students enrolled for the BEd Foundation Phase qualification at a university in South Africa failed their first year in identified at-risk subjects, namely Mathematics in Education, Language in Education and Computer Literacy. The students stated the reasons for failure as not understanding the concepts and terms of the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Native Language, Undergraduate Students, Academic Failure
Cassim, Fatima – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2020
This article introduces playful learning as part of the decolonising project at institutes of higher learning in South Africa with specific reference to the discipline of communication design. Not only does the article interrogate the content of design education, specifically design for development, but more specifically the way that design for…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Processes, Communications, Design
Mickelsson, Martin – Environmental Education Research, 2020
This article aims to contribute to the knowledge of how the 'scaling' of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) activities is conceptualized in practice through transactional learning encounters. In the context of the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD, I discuss the re-actualisation of experiences as part of these encounters. The…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Educational Philosophy, Epistemology, Environmental Education
Newfield, Denise; Byrne, Deirdre C. – Education as Change, 2020
This article concerns ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project), which is a community of poets, scholars (including the authors), teachers and students, established in 2013 to promote, in educational systems, the work of contemporary South African poets. For the past three years (2017-2019), we have attempted through outreach and research to…
Descriptors: Poetry, Program Descriptions, Poets, Educational Change
McKay, Veronica – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2018
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 calls on countries to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Sub-goal 4.6 aims to ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults of both genders achieve literacy and numeracy, with literacy being regarded indispensable not only for the…
Descriptors: Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Sustainable Development, Learning Activities
DeWinter, Alun; Klamer, Reinout – Research-publishing.net, 2021
The iKudu project is a north-south collaboration between five universities in South Africa and five in Europe. As an EU-funded project, the overall aim is to capacity build around internationalisation at home through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). Originally presented at IVEC2020, this paper explores how iKudu navigates and…
Descriptors: Diversity, International Educational Exchange, Program Descriptions, Capacity Building
Wood, Lesley; Louw, Ina; Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2017
As supervisors who advocate the transformational potential of research both to generate theory and practical and emancipatory outcomes, we practice participatory action learning and action research (PALAR). This paper offers an illustrative case of how supervision practices based on action learning can foster emancipatory and lifelong learning…
Descriptors: Action Research, Experiential Learning, Lifelong Learning, Conferences (Gatherings)
Olivier, Jako – Commonwealth of Learning, 2023
This report provides an overview of the nature of open universities derived from the responses from 28 open universities in the Commonwealth. The data not only provide a snapshot of the nature of OUs, but also show some evidence of the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on open universities where institutions had to move all their learning and…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Learning Management Systems, Program Descriptions, Teaching Methods
Truman, Kiru; Mason, Roger B.; Venter, Petrus – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2017
Many retailers argue that university students do not have the practical experience and skills required in the workplace when graduating. This paper reports on research undertaken to address this issue and to identify a model to guide development and implementation of a retail store, on a university campus, to be used for work-integrated learning.…
Descriptors: Retailing, Workplace Learning, Experiential Learning, Surveys
John, Vaughn M.; Cox, Amanda J. – Cogent Education, 2018
Fostering positive and meaningful change amongst South African youth whose schooling and life experiences have rendered them largely ill-prepared, demotivated and often traumatised, is a complex endeavour, but one which needs urgent attention. Government programmes tend to ignore the psycho-social demands of the transition from unemployed…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Case Studies, Program Descriptions, Career Development
Robertson, Jane; Bell, Diane – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2017
Business Driven Action Learning (BDAL), as a learning philosophy that attempts to create real value for business is often used by executive education providers in their management development programmes. As the action learning facilitator, I found that the learning that took place during such a management development programme resulted in…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Educational Philosophy, Management Development, Stress Variables
McMillan, Janice; Stanton, Timothy K. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2014
In this paper we explore an approach to developing and implementing service-learning and community-based research in a study-abroad program in Cape Town, South Africa. Drawing on a notion of partnerships reflecting the values of accompaniment and transparency, and influenced by the importance of learning service, we outline an intentional, engaged…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
van den Berg, Geesje; Joffe, Muriel; Porto, Stella C. S. – Distance Education, 2016
In many parts of the world online education is still taking shape and faces many obstacles, including insufficient numbers of professionals prepared to teach using new technologies. This paper is a case study of academic capacity building to determine how a partnership between the University of South Africa (Unisa) and the University of Maryland…
Descriptors: Role, Partnerships in Education, Capacity Building, Foreign Countries
Aktas, Fatih; Pitts, Kate; Richards, Jessica C.; Silova, Iveta – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017
While higher education internationalization efforts have traditionally been associated with the expansion of study abroad experiences, the recruitment of international students and scholars, as well as the growth of area studies and language programs, the past decade has seen an increase in a variety of multi-disciplinary approaches to…
Descriptors: International Education, Citizenship Education, Study Abroad, Interdisciplinary Approach