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McNamee, Lakshini; Jacobs, Cecilia; van Schalkwyk, Susan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
Funding has become an established means of promoting the professionalisation of teaching and learning. Various funding schemes in Higher Education have incentivised innovation and research aimed at developing a scholarship of teaching. However, a causal relationship is impossible to prove and the underlying subjective processes of scholarly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affordances, Educational Finance, Scholarship
Yenchun Wu; Marco Fabio Benaglia – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
For over two decades now, the application of Citizen Science to Education has been evolving, and fundamental topics, such as the drivers of motivation to participate in Citizen Science projects, are still under discussion. Some recent developments, though, like the use of Artificial Intelligence to support data collection and validation, seem to…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Science Education, Educational Development
Ronnie, Linda – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2023
Limited integrated data on the educational and professional accomplishments of the South African TVET sector make it difficult to confidently assess its efficacy. In particular, there is a need to identify the barriers both within and facing this post-school educational field. This conceptual paper therefore asks the question: What factors enable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Barriers, Affordances
Gallant, Agnetha; Watermeyer, Jennifer; Sawasawa, Cynthia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated that speech--language therapists (SLTs) make a radical change to provide services to their clients safely via telepractice. For many practitioners, telepractice was an unfamiliar mode of practice that had to be implemented under emergency conditions. Limited literature on SLTs' experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, COVID-19
Kakoma Luneta, Editor; Marc Schäfer, Editor – Springer, 2024
This edited volume addresses the need for reforms in mathematics teacher training, spurred by scientific advancements and societal changes, encompassing calls for changes in curricula, content, and instructional methods. The text highlights the complexities of teaching mathematics, specifically within Africa. It provides an exploration into how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Barriers
Apoorva Valli Shankar, Contributor – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2024
UNESCO-UNEVOC's study highlights the crucial role of TVET systems in this transition, identifying barriers and enablers to integrating circular economy principles in TVET curricula in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Key factors include policy frameworks, industry partnerships, curriculum updates, and coordinated efforts between TVET authorities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Barriers, Affordances
Coniam, David; Falvey, Peter – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2022
This book focuses on the topic of academic publishing. It discusses the mounting, serious problems that researchers, particularly new researchers, encounter when trying to publish their research. The book addresses the issues of publishing as well as the salient factors militating against academic publication and the mitigating factors encouraging…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Faculty Publishing, Researchers, Foreign Countries
Ngonda, Tiyamike – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2023
The COVID-19 restrictions resulted in the most significant disruptions to education in this century. Universities responded differently to the restrictions. For example, some universities in Southern Africa closed and had no academic activities for months. These universities had little online teaching and learning, opting for a phased return to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
Ayodele Abosede Ogegbo; Mafor Penn; Umesh Ramnarain; Oniccah Pila; Christo Van Der Westhuizen; Noluthando Mdlalose; Ivan Moser; Martin Hlosta; Per Bergamin – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study investigated how pre-service teachers perceive and plan to use a virtual reality classroom for science teaching during microteaching practices. The UTAUT 2 model was adopted as the conceptual framework for this study. Data were collected through an online survey from eighty-three pre-service science teachers from a large metropolitan…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Computer Simulation, Science Instruction
Hu, Zijing – Perspectives in Education, 2023
The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic was declared a public health emergency of international concern. In South Africa (SA), institutions had to adopt emergency remote education, thus resulting in significant challenges for both students and lecturers. This article investigated students' views and perceptions towards emergency remote education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, School Closing, Student Attitudes
Neluvhola, T. G.; Van Zyl, A. E.; Maliwichi, L. L. – South African Journal of Education, 2022
Learner migration, which occurs worldwide, is the voluntary and intentional movement of learners from 1 school to another school of their choice in order to secure better learning opportunities. The study reported on here contributes to the literature on learner migration by focusing on the inequalities caused by racism, benefits and challenges…
Descriptors: School Choice, Student Mobility, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Thavanesi Gurayah – Africa Education Review, 2022
The objective of this study was to explore facilitators and barriers to completing an occupational therapy degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. A single case study design was used. The inclusion criterion was that participants had to have completed their occupational therapy degrees in 2015 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Seven graduates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Academic Persistence
Jili, Nokukhanya N.; Ede, Chuks I.; Masuku, Mfundo Mandla – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The third quarter of 2020 marks the closure of on-campus face-to-face pedagogies in South Africa's institutions of higher learning due to Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The need to maintain social distancing necessitated the transition to emergency remote teaching. A few institutions of higher learnings could move their classes effectively to…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, School Closing, Electronic Learning, Technology Integration
Bozkurt, Aras; Xiao, Junhong; Lambert, Sarah; Pazurek, Angelica; Crompton, Helen; Koseoglu, Suzan; Farrow, Robert; Bond, Melissa; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Honeychurch, Sarah; Bali, Maha; Dron, Jon; Mir, Kamran; Stewart, Bonnie; Costello, Eamon; Mason, Jon; Stracke, Christian M.; Romero-Hall, Enilda; Koutropoulos, Apostolos; Toquero, Cathy Mae; Singh, Lenandlar; Tlili, Ahmed; Lee, Kyungmee; Nichols, Mark; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Brown, Mark; Irvine, Valerie; Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Farrell, Orna; Adam, Taskeen; Thong, Ying Li; Sani-Bozkurt, Sunagul; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Hrastinski, Stefan; Jandric, Petar – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023
While ChatGPT has recently become very popular, AI has a long history and philosophy. This paper intends to explore the promises and pitfalls of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI and potentially future technologies by adopting a speculative methodology. Speculative future narratives with a specific focus on educational contexts are…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Affordances, Teacher Role
Wallace-Watkin, Carla; Sigafoos, Jeff; Waddington, Hannah – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Families of autistic children from underserved populations participate in support services at lower rates than other families. To better understand possible reasons for this inequity, we reviewed qualitative studies examining parent-reported barriers and facilitators to accessing and participating in support services. A systematic search…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Services, Barriers