Student Teachers

Educational research supervision at the farmhouse: Informal discussions about dissertation and thesis planning and writing

In the winter of 2018, a group of postgraduate students met at a house on the Magaliesberg mountainside. They had been invited for a research retreat week, where they could discuss aspects of their work with each other and with one of their professors, Elbie, who had joined them. Using some objects around the garden, …

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Service learning as methodology to teach about food security

Service-learning actively involves students in a range of experiences, which benefit the community, while also advancing the goals of a given curriculum. UJ’s first year intermediate phase education students did just that with a community engagement project that stretched over several weeks. This video shows how students taught Grade 4 learners of a local primary …

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Learning support pedagogy for children who struggle to develop the concepts underlying the operations of addition and subtraction of numbers: the ‘Calculia’ programme

Authors: Annemarie Fritz-Stratmann, Antje Ehlert and Gabriele Klüsener  The authors of this article argue that it is important for pre-service teachers to know about the psychology of learning mathematics (i.e. how children develop concepts) in order for them to be able to help children who encounter problems. Therefore, this article explores how a remedial programme, …

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Foundation phase teachers’ (limited) knowledge of geometry

Author: Luneta Kakoma Foundation phase teachers do not need to teach much mathematics, but what they teach is critical because children absorb their basic concepts of geometry at a very early age. Consequently, it is disturbing to find that many student teachers have not progressed beyond level 1 in Van Hiele’s ‘levels of geometric thought’ …

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Investigating Optimal Learning Moments in U.S. and Finnish Science Classes

Authors: Barbara Schneider, Joseph Krajcik, Jari Lavonen, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Michael Broda, Justina Spicer, Justin Bruner, Julia Moeller, Janna Linnansaari, Kalle Juuti, and Jaana Viljaranta Students who feel confident of meeting challenges are happy students – and when this situation is experienced in science classes, they are more likely to feel that science is important to …

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