Creating effective teaching and learning spaces : shaping futures and envisioning unity in diversity and transformation /

The transformation of teaching methods and curricula to address a changing socioeconomic world and redress social and economic injustice is central to the success of higher education systems. While the chapters in this volume focus on southern Africa, "Creating Effective Teaching and Learning S...

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Other Authors: Sosibo, Zilungile Lungi (Editor), Ivala, Eunice N. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures and tables
  • Editors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dedication
  • Introduction
  • Foreword / Vuyokazi Nomlomo
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Summary of chapters
  • Theme 1: How institutions of higher education utilise teaching and learning spaces to promote multilingualism as a central element of the curriculum
  • Chapter 1 Language needs of grade R practitioners in linguistically diverse South African classrooms / Nomakhaya Mashiyi
  • Chapter 2 Bilingual instructional strategy in English first additional language in the further education and training writing classrooms / Nomalungelo Ngubane, Berrington Ntombela
  • Theme 2: The funding models used to make higher education accessible to students from diverse backgrounds, as well as how funding promotes sustainable teaching and learning environments for students
  • Chapter 3 Mapping higher education funding for teaching and learning in Ghana / Fredua Kwasi-Agyeman, Patricio Langa, Patrick Swanzy
  • Theme 3: The ways in which higher education institutions create effective learning environments and provide support systems for non-traditional students
  • Chapter 4 Understanding safe and inclusive learning spaces at a South African university / Nosisana Mkonto
  • Chapter 5 Key considerations for effective learning in rural multi grade classrooms / Mothofela Richard Msimanga
  • Chapter 6 Inequalities and marginalisation during COVID-19 lockdown: psycho-social effects on underprivileged university students / Zilungile Lungi Sosibo
  • Chapter 7 Mapping a model for peer assessment: narratives of academics in a South African teacher education institution / Vusi Msiza, Nosipho Mbatha, Thabile Zondi
  • Chapter 8 First-year students' expectations of university experiences: views of students from diverse schooling contexts / Subethra Pather, Emmanuel E. Esambe, Nosisana Mkonto
  • Chapter 9 Utilising opportunities and creating sustainable learning spaces through teacher professional development: case of western Cape Province / Lynne Johns, Zilungile Lungi Sosibo
  • Theme 4: Quality of university physical and online infrastructure utilised to provide conducive teaching and learning spaces for students Chapter 10 More than delivery: designing blended learning with and for academic staff / Daniela Gachago, Izak van Zyl, Faiq Waghid
  • Chapter 11 The possibility of including herders in Lesotho's education provision through the use of information and communication technologies / Selloane Piikoe, Sekitla Daniel Makhasane
  • Theme 5: The intersection of race, class and gender and how these factors affect teaching and learning spaces for students from diverse backgrounds
  • Chapter 12 'We don't deal with paper work; we do counselling': gender-based violence support services at a South African University / Sadhana Manik
  • Theme 6: How higher education institutions promote decolonisation of the university curriculum
  • Chapter 13 Curriculum and academic development in an era of transformation in South Africa / Emmanuel Ekale Esambe, Siyabulela Sabata, Thembinkosi Mtonjeni
  • Chapter 14 Re-thinking South African higher education calls for epistemic freedom: beyond the abyssal line and towards the Field of Knowledge / Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo
  • Chapter 15 Towards enablers of decolonisation of the curriculum in universities in South Africa / Ntokozo Lwandle, Addisalem Tebikew Yallew
  • Chapter 16 Teachers' views on knowledge progression in the development of the curriculum and assessment policy statement for life sciences / Florah Moleko Teane
  • Index