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An exploration of micro-teaching skills with digital technology (cell phone) in B.Ed. programmes at a Western Cape University
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Micro-teaching provides a framework for teachers’ professional development with emphasis on teach and re-teach cycle as a practical procedure for the development of micro-teaching skills. One fundamental element in this ...
Crisis leadership at South African universities: An exploration of the effectiveness of the strategies and responses of university leadership teams to the #FeesMustFall (#FMF) protests at South African universities in 2015 and 2016
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The #FeesMustFall (#FMF) movement which began in 2015 and continued in 2016 was
initially a call for free tuition, but soon grew to include substantial academic demands,
quickly spiralling into violence and destruction ...
Critical posthumanism in geomatics education: A storytelling intervention
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This study is located in engineering education at a South African university of technology,
and is theorised using relational ontologies such as critical posthumanism, feminist new
materialism and non-representational ...
Addressing the needs of underachieving students in an extended curriculum programme
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The purpose of this study is to determine the nature of support services offered to Extended Curriculum Programme students in a South African university. The primary goals of support services in higher education are to ...
Student politics and the funding of higher education in South Africa: the case of the University of the Western Cape, 1995-2005
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This dissertation examines various ways in which the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town, South Africa, confronted the paradoxical post-apartheid higher education policy of expansion of access to historically ...
Implementing lifelong learning at a Technikon in South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2001)
The nature of lifelong learning in the context of a South African technikon is the
investigation focus of this mini-thesis. It argues for the adoption of a holistic and
humanistic conceptualization to lifelong learning ...
Addressing the needs of underachieving students in an extended curriculum programme
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The purpose of this study is to determine the nature of support services offered to Extended Curriculum Programme students in a South African university. The primary goals of support services in higher education are to ...
An evaluation of a community-based interdisciplinary health promotion course in one South African University
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Health professionals worldwide are currently inadequately trained to address the health issues of communities, particularly in developing countries where there are major health disparities. This study argues for an alternative ...
Exploring first-year students’ voice and subjectivity in academic writing at a university in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Literacy development in South African higher education is increasingly challenged by several issues in dialogue and language of tuition. Despite the widening of access to South African universities, research shows that a ...
Investigating barriers to participation in adult learning among adult learners at a university in Southern Africa: A Chain-of-Response Model
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This study was prompted by the increase in the numbers of adult learners who registered for a Diploma in Secondary Education offered by a tertiary institution (university). The diploma is a one-year programme, offered over ...