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Bongani Nkambule; Bongi Mashiane-Nkabinde – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2025
The kernel of this paper was to investigate the state of intergenerational knowledge-sharing practices in a principals' professional learning community (PLC) at a selected South African education circuit. The paper was nested in a qualitative approach and the interpretivist paradigm. Deliberate and snowball sampling techniques were employed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
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Zamambo V. Mkhize – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2024
The South African government continues to work tirelessly to reverse the effects of apartheid by addressing social inequalities and transforming the higher education sector by dismantling structural, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal discrimination. The use of the lowercase "w" for white or whiteness in this article is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, Racism, Social Bias
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Lindelani Mnguni – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2025
This paper explores pre-service life sciences teachers' behavioral intentions toward integrating artificial intelligence into life sciences teaching. Despite the growing influence of AI in education, there is limited understanding of the factors affecting teachers' willingness to integrate AI into life sciences teaching. These factors could inform…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Biological Sciences
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Grobler, Anton; Rensburg, Mari Jansen van – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
A 'new' workplace landscape in the higher education sector leads to employees questioning their fit within the current organisation. This paper presents the findings of an organisational climate study within a South African Higher Education Institution and highlights multi-generational perspectives. The theoretical contribution of this paper is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Higher Education, Intention
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Brubacher, Michael R.; Silinda, Fortunate T. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Distance education students have less access to classmates as a social resource and may, therefore, rely more on family members for support. However, first-generation students, or students who are the first in their family to attend university, may lack the academic resources that family members can provide. Overall, first-generation students in…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Distance Education, Social Capital, At Risk Students
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Azionya, Caroline M.; Nhedzi, Abyshey – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2021
While literature reveals the positive perception of online learning, this study examines the issues caused by the digital divide for students at South African universities during the 2020 academic year. The study reveals the perceptions and experiences of university students from historically marginalised and privileged universities. This research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Access to Computers
Cilliers, Elizelle Juaneé; Pekelharing, Ruan – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2015
We are living in a time of incredible technology changes and technology is bringing all spatial elements closer together. In this sense, the increasing technological changes are impacting on our approach to society, to planning and to breaking new ground in terms of research and education. There is a rise of a new generation that is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Chigona, Agnes – Africa Education Review, 2015
The expectation in education today is that pre-service teachers should graduate from teacher education adequately prepared to teach with Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) that have potential to enhance curriculum delivery, hence improving quality of education. However, research shows that pre-service teachers are graduating from…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Preservice Teachers, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Napier, Diane Brook – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine features of the contemporary migrant and refugee flows across Africa northward to the Mediterranean and then to European countries (sometimes called the "new mass migration" and also migrant flows southward to South Africa. In addition, the purpose was to examine dimensions of response and…
Descriptors: Migration, Refugees, Social Problems, Education
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Wessels, P. L.; Steenkamp, L. P. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Generation Y students (born after 1982) have developed a different set of attitudes and aptitudes as a result of growing up in an IT and media-rich environment. This article has two objectives: firstly to discuss the learning styles preferred by generation Y students in order to identify the effect of these preferences on tertiary education in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Economics Education