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Effects of dialogical argumentation instruction on grade 10 learners’ understanding of concepts of chemical equations
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study explored the dialogical argumentation instruction approach to determine whether it enhanced grade ten learners‟ understanding of the chemical equation concept. Toulmin‟s argumentation pattern and the contiguity ...
The Life Skills programme in the National Certificate Vocational (NCV) and 'employability' – a human capital development
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Scholars argue within a human capital perspective that generic employability skills such as critical thinking, computer literacy, independent thinking, problem solving, communication skills must be included in human capital ...
An investigation of academic writing at the University of Namibia : engendering an experiential, meaningful and critical pedagogy for English for academic purposes
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The study aims to investigate academic writing at the University of Namibia and intends to explore whether a critical, meaningful and experiential pedagogy in EAP that enhances voice and agency in English for Academic ...
The perceptions of intermediate phase educators about the implementation of stories for thinking in one Western Cape Education Department region
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
South Africa had a change in government and in education after the 1994 elections. A new curriculum was introduced and some of the underlying critical outcomes were to develop the learners to become critical thinkers. The ...
Early literacy development in IsiXhosa: Fostering grade 3 learners’ imagination and critical thinking through folktales
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This study investigated the use of folktales in enhancing literacy development among Grade 3 isiXhosa-speaking learners in one Western Cape primary school. It was inspired by my quest to explain the low literacy performance ...
The perceptions of Intermediate Phase educators about the implementation of Stories for Thinking in one Western Cape Education Department region.
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
South Africa had a change in government and in education after the 1994 elections. A new curriculum was introduced and some of the underlying critical outcomes were to develop the learners to become critical thinkers. The ...
Promoting participatory teaching and learning in the senior primary classroom
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)
Educational change is perhaps one of the most difficult processes that teachers might, experience in search of democratising their classroom practices. Being a traditional mathematics teacher who resorted to autocratic ...
An activity -based approach towards developing critical thinking in the Geography classroom
(University of the Western Cape, 1990)
This thesis deals with an attempt to employ the research methodology of action research to focus on classroom strategies involving a range
of resources, including indigenously generated ones, as a way of enhancing critical ...