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Direct linkJacobus S Wessels – Teaching Public Administration, 2024
Public administration managers are confronted with new and highly complex challenges emerging at a rapid rate. This situation requires a reimagining of public administration education to prepare public administration managers to capably deal with these challenges. While the Master of Public Administration (MPA) is globally used as vehicle for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration, Active Learning, Public Administration Education
Download full textMouton, Nelda; Malumbete, Phamela – South African Journal of Education, 2023
Monitoring and supporting teachers in the classroom, as well as the implementation of curriculum changes, pose problems in South Africa. This is due to an array of challenges such as a lack of resources, communication barriers within the Department of Basic Education (DBE) as well as a lack of proper infrastructure. In the research reported on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Consultants, Curriculum Evaluation
Pinkie Mabunda – Perspectives in Education, 2023
Worldwide, national educational authorities set curricular guidelines for schools to ensure implementation. Despite these measures, the translation of policies into school or classroom activities is rarely a smooth or complete process. South Africa has made significant and much-needed positive curriculum changes. However, effective curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Policy, Administrator Attitudes
Sakhiseni J. Yende – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: As the global landscape of education evolves with digital advancements, the feasibility of integrating digital music skills into primary school curricula has become a subject of exploration, South Africa is no exception. Aim: This study aims to conduct a content analysis of the existing scholarly writings to assess the feasibility of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary Schools, Music Education
Habib Noorbhai; Danica Sims; Nadia Hartman – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Health systems face complex challenges -- even more so in resource-constrained contexts such as South Africa. Alignment of local educational systems with national development goals is needed to strengthen health systems. The further disruption of COVID-19 to educational and health systems underscores the necessity to adapt our curricula and…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Staff Role, Electronic Learning, Employee Attitudes
Ramnund-Mansingh, Aradhana; Reddy, Nikita – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2021
South African higher education (HE) cannot be compared to any other country's HE systems due to the unique political landscape and structural narrative that it has undergone. Subsequent to the reorganisation of HEIs in 2004, a number of complexities arose. These included accessibility to education across race and the alignment of the South African…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alignment (Education), Employment Potential, College Students
Meda, Lawrence – Africa Education Review, 2020
Universities in South Africa came to a standstill in 2016 because of students' protests in the quest for a decolonised curriculum. The university of technology in South Africa under investigation was forced to close when students' demands for a decolonised curriculum intensified. The higher education institution (HEI) is now challenged to come up…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Student Attitudes, College Students, Foreign Countries
Sadiki, Lufuno; Steyn, Francois – Transformation in Higher Education, 2022
Background: For many years, the lived experiences, knowledge systems and histories of previously colonised people have been misinterpreted, removed and devalued in university teaching. The present curricula of African universities are predominantly Eurocentric and Criminology is no exception. In the wake of the #RhodesMustFall student protest…
Descriptors: Criminology, Foreign Countries, College Curriculum, Educational Change
Tarling, Isabel – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2023
Mathematics Education in South Africa continues to face complex, multifaceted challenges, but as data from this study show, there is reason for hope. The Western Cape Education Department recently implemented the Green Shoots Maths Curriculum Online (MCO) program in 500 of its primary schools. An ABC classification of affective, behavioural, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Learner Engagement, Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation
Lumadi, Mutendwahothe Walter – Education as Change, 2020
The discourse of equal education in the South African education system is polemical, and achieving its aim is a daunting task. The premise of this study affirms that fostering an equitable curriculum for all is essential for social cohesion. The achievement of greater equity through schooling is vital to society and national identity because the…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Integration, Foreign Countries, Social Justice
Salimpour, Saeed; Bartlett, Sophie; Fitzgerald, Michael T.; McKinnon, David H.; Cutts, K. Ross; James, C. Renee; Miller, Scott; Danaia, Lena; Hollow, Robert P.; Cabezon, Sergio; Faye, Michel; Tomita, Akihiko; Max, Charles; de Korte, Michael; Baudouin, Cyrille; Birkenbauma, Daina; Kallery, Maria; Anjos, Sara; Wu, Qixuan; Chu, Hye-eun; Slater, Eileen; Ortiz-Gil, Amelia – Research in Science Education, 2021
Astronomy is considered by many to be a gateway science owing to its ability to inspire curiosity in everyone irrespective of age, culture, or general inclination towards science. Currently, where there is a global push to get more students engaged in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, astronomy provides an invaluable conduit to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Science Curriculum
Madusise, Sylvia – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
Researchers have generally agreed that textbooks as a major conveyor of the curriculum play a dominant role in modern education scenes across different school subjects. The study analyzed a set of four learners' textbooks and their corresponding teachers' guides which are used as set books for teaching mathematics at Grade 9 level in South Africa.…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Mathematics Instruction, Textbooks, Textbook Evaluation
Makonye, Judah Paul – SAGE Open, 2017
This article investigates the tensions experienced by Zimbabwean immigrant teachers in teaching mathematics in South Africa. It explores their views on the South African mathematics curriculum and how they are treated at their work stations. The study is significant because thousands of Zimbabwean mathematics and science teachers recently moved to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Immigrants, Teacher Attitudes
Nthontho, Maitumeleng Albertina; Addai-Mununkum, Richardson – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021
Owing to the mixed-bag effects of religion on society, and particularly South Africa's history with religion as embedded in the oppression of and liberation from apartheid, a recent curricular review has seen the introduction of teaching about religion in the Life Orientation (LO) curriculum. From our standpoint as academics in Religion Education,…
Descriptors: Role of Religion, History, Religious Factors, Power Structure
Du Toit, Adri; Gaotlhobogwe, Michael – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2017
Following a transformation of experience-based handicraft education, Technology education was introduced in Botswana and South Africa in 1990 and 1998, respectively, with the intention of developing technologically literate societies, as well as to develop learners' skills for the world of work. Despite these optimistic intentions, limited…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Technology Education
