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Why can’t a teacher be more like a scientist? Science, Pseudoscience and the Art of Teaching

The article provides a useful examination of the distinction between science and pseudoscience, outlines the characteristics of good educational research and ...

Ending the Reading Wars: Reading acquisition from novice to expert

An exceedingly thorough and comprehensive up to date review of the science of learning to read, spanning from children’s earliest alphabetic skills through to ...

Foundation and Intermediate Phase B.Ed. programmes at selected South African universities: languages and literacies components

To inform the work of the Primary Teacher Education Project the Literacy Working Group conducted an audit of language and literacy teacher education at ten ...

The ITERP project – a collaboration between the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the Department of Basic Education (DBE), the Education ...

My fish died and I flushed him down the toilet”: Children disrupt preservice teachers’ understandings of “appropriate” picture books for young children

A study of the relationship between pre-service teachers’ conceptions of children and of picture books in the context of little material on picture books in ...

CITE-ITEL

CITE-TEL is a web-based resource, the Critical, Interactive, Transparent & Evolving literature review in Initial Teacher Education in Literacy, hosted by the ...

Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS)

This research study sought to examine the results of three interventions to improve teachers’ instructional practice – one with block training twice a year ...

Bringing literacy home. Family Literacy Conference Proceedings. 19 - 21 September 2005, Pietermaritzburg

Proceedings on this first national conference on family literacy in South Africa has some excellent papers that look into the near invisible world of family ...

Foundation Phase Matters: Language and Learning in South African Rural Classrooms

The study looks at teacher instructional practice, learner performance outcomes, and intervention process design. It was designed to help develop an ...

Article noting the contradiction between empirical research evidence backed up by the constitutional support for mother-tongue instruction with the current ...