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Okoa Simile – Cogent Education, 2024
This paper explores the relationship between teachers and learners, particularly within Mathematics education, examining how language and discourse influence relationship dynamics. It acknowledges historical educational hierarchies where teachers exerted authority and students assumed passive roles. Through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teacher Student Relationship, African Languages, Student Motivation
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McKenna, Sioux; Hlengwa, Amanda; Quinn, Lynn; Vorster, Jo-Anne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Much academic development work, whether it be student, academic staff, institutional or curriculum development, is undertaken from an affirmative rather than a transformative approach (Luckett, L., and S. Shay. 2020. "Reframing the Curriculum: A Transformative Approach." "Critical Studies in Education" 61 (1): 50-65). To be…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Transformative Learning
Lewis, Priscilla – 1994
This article offers four explanations of why outcome-based education (OBE) has proven to be so controversial. First, OBE requires consideration of the central purposes of compulsory public education, on which there is sharp philosophical disagreement, and the outcome-defining process involves input from many groups with many different…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Debate, Educational Philosophy