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'Not only a teacher, but an ambassador': Facilitating HIV/AIDS educators to take action
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: LesleyA WoodThis article describes how South African educators were facilitated to adopt the role of HIV/AIDS 'ambassadors' within their circles of influence by participating in a two-year course for an Advanced Certificate in Education for HIV/AIDS in Teaching (ACE-HAT) qualification. It... -
Youth as research fieldworkers in a context of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Dennis Francis --- School of Social Science Education, South Africa Crispin Hemson --- School of Social Science Education, South AfricaWhat are the strengths and limitations of using out-of-school youths as researchers in a study of the relationships among young people of the same group? While youth-to-youth research approaches have increased in both popularity and practice, our understanding of the... -
Building a teaching praxis in Anthropology: critical pedagogy in action
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Joy Owen --- Department of Anthropology,The following paper reflects on a course entitled ‘Power and Wealth’ that I developed and have been teaching since 2004. I consider the course in light of my own understanding of critical pedagogy as informed by Paulo Freire and Ira... -
Things Fall Apart and the Pedagogy of Adichie’s Single Story
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Eve Eisenberg --- English Department, USAThis essay undertakes a critical examination of the epistemological and pedagogical risks and rewards of teaching Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in American secondary schools. I consider these issues from several different viewpoints. Recent research suggests that American students receive... -
South Africa’s pedagogical transformation for participation in the global knowledge economy: Is it a panacea for modern development?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Tlou Ramoroka --- Department of Development Planning and Management, South Africa Johannes Tsheola --- Department of Development Planning and Management, South Africa Mokoko Sebola --- Department of Public Administration, South AfricaThe advent of computer and Internet technologies has brought continuous and rapid transformations in technology specifically for global and national development purposes. Additionally, computer and the Internet technologies are the basis for so called the ‘e’ phenomenon such as ‘e-communication,... -
Trash, teaching and the city: the “Big Hole Counter Narrative” project and the “Urban Anthropology: Research Methods and Fieldwork” course at Sol Plaatje University
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Carina Truyts --- School of Humanities, South AfricaThis essay reflects on an anthropology course developed at one of the two “post-apartheid” universities in South Africa. The course included collaborating with artists and a local dance/ performance troupe. It culminated in a film by Francois Knoetze (featuring collaborators),... -
A reflection on “Trash, teaching and the city”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ziyanda Majombozi --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaThis is a commentary on Carina Truyts’s photo essay entitled “Trash, Teaching and the City: The ‘Big Hole Counter Narrative’ project and the ‘Urban Anthropology: Research Methods and Fieldwork’ Course at Sol Plaatje University.” -
Management Education: Unique Challenges Presented by the African Continent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Benson Honig --- McMaster University DeGroote School of Business, Canada Nico Carsten Hjortsø --- Department of Food and Resource Economics, DenmarkBusiness and management education worldwide continues to be a very popular field of study. Unfortunately, much of African management education is simply repackaged material designed by professionals and scholars in advanced economies. This special issue highlights both the theoretical and... -
African indigenous games: Using Bame Nsamenang’s Africentric thoughts to reflect on our heritage, pedagogy, and practice in a global village
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Godfrey Ejuu --- Early Childhood Education, UgandaAs we go global and begin to make early childhood practices universal, certain aspects of communities remain fixed in deep realms of their everyday living and can only be accessed by those who believe in it. Believing in it requires... -
Learning with letters: epistolary pedagogy in anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand during the Covid-19 pandemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Zimitri Erasmus --- , South AfricaThis article is about the use of long-form letters in the pandemic-pedagogical practice of a third-year undergraduate and writing-intensive course titled “‘Race’ and What it Means to be Human” and offered in anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand in... -
Reflection on students’ use of English and isiXhosa in meaning-making at a higher education institution
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Zameka Paula Sijadu --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaTranslanguaging has emerged as an effective pedagogical method in various educational settings where the language of instruction differs from the students’ native languages. In this article, I explore the use of English and isiXhosa in teaching and learning for meaning-making... -
Do higher education institutes lay a foundation for sustainability education? Perspectives from tourism and hospitality undergraduates
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Janith Iddawala --- NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka Mohamed Shaja Mohamed Musthaffa --- NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka Chandima Gayan Yapa --- Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) Business School, Sri LankaEducation for sustainable development has transformed from a discretionary to an essential element of consideration in higher education institutes. Nonetheless, limited attempts have been made to uncover the effectiveness and importance of such efforts in research scholarship, particularly in the... -
Timely teaching in higher education: A note on being present in existential matters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Helene Torsteinson --- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NorwayThis is a note on being present in existential matters. The article poses and responds to questions of teaching in relation to time and draws on classic and contemporary thoughts from the Continental pedagogical tradition and existential philosophy. In a... -
Exploring the integration of indigenous languages into teaching and learning practices at primary schools in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mousin Omarsaib --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Muvhulawa Matumba --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Patricia Badenhorst --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Ghulam Masudh Mohamed --- Durban University of Technology, South AfricaThis systematic literature review explores the integration of indigenous languages (ILs) into teaching and learning practices at primary schools in South Africa. The authors examine the current state and preparedness of teachers in integrating ILs to enhance learning. The PRISMA... -
The philosophy of Ubuntu in the classroom
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Fairhope Gumede --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThis paper discusses the ways in which the Ubuntu philosophy can be infused in the classroom through teachers creating a positive learning environment that promotes interconnectedness, community, and selflessness. Further, the paper suggests that Ubuntu pedagogy is a transformative teaching...