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The decolonisation of the curriculum project [PDF]

, 2019
This book is the result of a longitudinal research project (2016–2018) funded by the National Research Foundation and the Fuchs Foundation, and it disseminates original research.
Bailey, Roxanne, Mentz, Elsa, Sebotsa, Tswakae, Le Grange, Lesley, Bester, Susan, Golightly, Aubrey, Olivier, Jako, Potgieter, Erika, Petersen, Neal, Speight Vaughn, Melissa, Mdakane, Marry, White, Lounell, Dudu, Washington T., van der Westhuizen, Christo, van Wyk, Ben-Erik, Laubscher, Dorothy, Jagals, Divan, Havenga, Marietjie, van der Walt, Marthie, de Beer, Josef   +19 more
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Charting New Pathways: Unleashing the Potential of Self-Directed Learning and the Transformative Role of Teachers in Education

Education Sciences
This article explores the potential of self-directed learning (SDL) and teachers’ transformative role in promoting SDL within the educational landscape.
Annie Botha, Charlene du Toit-Brits, Jean Henry Blignaut   +2 more
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Productive Failure to Promote Deeper Self-Directed Learning in Coding and Robotics Education

Education Sciences
In a world characterized by unpredictable change, students in Computer Science education must be deeper self-directed learners who can take ownership of their learning and transfer knowledge and skills to new contexts.
Sukie van Zyl, Marietjie Havenga, Fotiene Avrakotos-King   +2 more
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Teaching for thinking: developing metacognitive and self-directed learning skills in foundation phase literacy

Cogent Education
The underperformance of South African learners in Literacy is frequently ascribed to the ineffective quality of teaching and learning in the Foundation Phase, where it is presumed that Grade 3 learners are to develop meaningful reading, writing, and ...
Hilary Hanser, Bernadette Geduld, Nothile Kunene, Magda Kloppers   +3 more
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“We Cannot Talk as a Family”: Complexities of Survivorship Communication Among Hispanic/Latino Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer, Parents, and Clinicians

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Young adult childhood cancer survivors (YA‐CCS) have an increased risk of treatment‐related health complications throughout their lives. Lifelong survivorship care is recommended, yet many YA‐CCS experience disruptions in care during pediatric‐to‐adult transitions and do not receive recommended survivorship care.
Kevin Shanchen Pu, Nicole Fernández‐Viña, Briana C. Martin‐Villa, Daniela Ramirez, Rebecca M. Lewinsohn, Mary Smith, Heidi Boynton, Lidia Schapira, Stephanie M. Smith   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching for autonomy: Grade 3 teachers’ strategies for self-directed learning in literacy

Frontiers in Education
Poor literacy performance in South Africa is often attributed to limited meaningful teaching and learning in the Foundation Phase, where Grade 3 learners are expected to achieve proficiency in reading and writing.
Bernadette Winefrede Geduld, Hilary Hanser, Nothile Kunene, Magda Kloppers   +3 more
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Modeling Teacher Supports Toward Self-Directed Language Learning Beyond the Classroom: Technology Acceptance and Technological Self-Efficacy as Mediators

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
This study explored the contributions of teacher supports toward students’ self-directed language learning beyond the classroom and investigated whether technology acceptance and technological self-efficacy could be the mediators between teacher supports
Xiaoquan Pan, Wei Chen
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Self-directed professional development used as intervention to enhance teachers’ curriculum as praxis

South African Journal of Education
School teachers must be prepared for ongoing, unpredictable and rapid changes in the world, therefore, they need specialised and general knowledge to be able to think independently and imaginatively.
Marisa Verster, Elsa Mentz , Charlene du Toit-Brits   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling stem cell differentiation related processes—A practical overview for biologists

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Stem cell differentiation is complex and difficult to control experimentally. This review introduces suitable computational modelling approaches that can support stem cell research, from mechanistic ODE and abstract models to multiscale and deep learning methods.
Ricco Zeegelaar, Xinqi Yan, Lucas F. Jansen Klomp, Stefano Schivo, Janine N. Post   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source