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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 ...

Study showing that literate people have a different functional organization of the human brain and that learning the visual representation of language (and the ...

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 ...

Full version of an article published in a condensed form by The Conversation on 26 February 2018 as "South Africa’s reading crisis is a cognitive catastrophe".

Consolidating research and comparing practice: What funders need to know for meaningful engagement with literacy in South Africa. Research Brief.

Excellent overview of research and practice in South African literacy education in schools. It also looks at current state and NGO programme and project ...

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 ...

Lifewide learning for early reading development

A large scale study of the influence of the home and community literacy environments in Asia and Africa that found that a modest but consistent relationship ...