8th Annual T&L Conference
Comparative Perspectives on Higher Education Systemic Change, Curriculum Reform, Quality Promotion and Professional Development
8th Annual Teaching & Learning Conference
Keynote Speakers
Please click on Keynote Video to watch each speakers' presentation.
Professor Gayatri Spivak
Professor William Pinar
Professor Sozinho Matsinhe
Professor Reitumetse Mabokela
Dr Langa Khumalo
Conference Presentations
Some of the presentations delivered at the conference are included below. If you presented at the Conference and would like to include your presentation in the table below, please contact the UTLO.
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| #1 O A Adebayo & R Mudaly | Exploring how Pre-Service Science Teachers Learn to Teach Environmental Education |
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#3 H Beckedahl, M Fruehauf, M Lindner, et al |
Testing the Development of Contextualized Geospatial Field Practice in Concept… |
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| #4 H Beckedahl, M Fruehauf, M Lindner, et al | Developing a Geo-systematic Spatial Perception for Interpretation and Representation of… | Download |
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#5 T Bojabotsheha, T Pitso & M Lebusa |
Framing Talk in Formal and Informal Entrepreneurship Programmes: Towards a radical, visible… |
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| #7 S Boloang, TJ Pitso & MJ Lebusa | Logistics UG students’ entrepreneurial intention: a case at one UoT | |
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#6 G Bokana |
The Projected Enrolment Growth, University Funding and a 20-year Quest for New Paradigms in Higher Education in SA |
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#9 V Bozalek, D Gachago & K Watters |
Power, democracy and care: Towards a normative framework for technology-enhanced-learning |
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#10 Z Bulbulia & B Van Niekerk |
Using Facebook to Enhance Students’ Engagement with Information Systems & Technology Courses |
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#11 D Caliskan |
Culture and Ideology: Education, ‘Habitus’ and Taste Formation and Turkish ELT students views on English Literature… |
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#13 L Coleman |
Curriculum decision making and the consequences for student assignment practice: the case of a vocational film… |
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#14 SJ Collings |
It’s Not About Being Black: Factors predicting progression rates among Humanities and Social Science students at a SA University |
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#15 MN Davids |
“Is he calling us racists?” The transformation discourse in a merged faculty of education |
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#20 P du Toit |
An autoethnograhic lens on lecturer professional development |
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| #21 TM Esterhuizen, S Chima & F Nkwanyana |
Evaluating the educational value of a short-course on basic biostatistics for… | Download |
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#24 S Glajchen, S Knight & T Dlungwane |
Building Medical Graduate Attributes from the First Year |
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#29 C Gwaindepi & TE Mabila |
Prevalence of Conversational Language in Students’ Descriptions of Graphical … |
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#30 A Harerimana & NG Mtshali |
Utilization of Internet as an Academic Tool among Undergraduate Nursing Students |
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#31 MS Herbert |
An overview of the extended curriculum programme physics module at the university of the Westen Cape… |
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#32 MS Herbert |
Students' experiences of the use of class room response systems in class discussion |
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#33 D Hlalele, D Manicom , J Preece & CT Tsotetsi |
Two university approaches to involving students in community engagement: A comparison of how… |
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#35 BN Ighalo |
Effects of Innovative Strategies on Tertiary Institution Lecturers’ Performance in Edo State, Nigeria |
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#39 UF Johnson & S Narsiah |
The Impact of Differences in Perception of At-Risk Students between Staff and Students of the… |
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#41 N Kaeane, T Pitso & M Lebusa |
Developing an Enabling Pedagogy for Fostering Engineering Undergraduates Entrepreneurial Orientation |
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#44 P Khaola, G Mokorotlo & P Monyolo |
Students’ Experiences of UG Business Research and… |
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#46 SB Khoza |
A lecturer’s reflective experiences on becoming a published scholar: Curriculum in Context |
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#49 RN Kizito |
Using blogs to enhance teaching assistant competence in undergraduate science teaching |
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#50 L Kok, M Lebusa & T Pitso |
Understanding Final-Year Labour Relations Perspectives on Creativity |
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| #51 KC Kong Ting Lun, CL Zhang & Y Ramma | Distributed leadership and staff’s effectiveness… | Download |
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#53 L Kunene, R Govender & JA Kwibuka |
Impact of Student Attendance on Performance for Commerce UG Students at UKZN… |
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#54 L Lazarus, R Sookrajh & KS Satyapal |
A historical perspective of anatomical pedagogy at UKZN |
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#56 P Lefoka, J Slabbert & A Clarke |
A Quest for Professionalism amongst Teacher Educators in the National University of Lesotho |
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#57 B Leibowitz & V Bozalek |
Re-envisioning SoTL: A Socially Just Pedagogical Perspective |
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#58 B Leibowitz, V Bozalek & P Siphuka |
The Professional Development of Academics with Regard to the Teaching Role – an Inter-institutional Investigation |
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#59 TE Mabila |
Trainee Teacher’s Attitudes towards the Teaching African Languages: Implications for Language Planning |
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#62 S Machingambi |
Towards an integrated Professional Development Agenda: The Case of MUT |
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#63 LS Magwaza, MB Young & S Munien |
Integrating Social media into the Pedagogical System of Higher Education |
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| #67 C Maphosa | Examining cultural factors affecting academic developers in performing staff development functions in three South African universities | Download |
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#68 H Mariaye, A Beesoondial, S Goburdhun, et al |
Adaptation or Isomorphism : Reading a Public Higher Education Institution In a Small Island State |
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| #69 N Mashiyi & R Kizito | An Appraisal of the De-centralised Professional Development Model Adopted by a South African University | Download |
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#72 AP Matthews |
Teaching Physics in isiZulu |
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#76 T Mkhize & L van Scheers |
E-Tutoring System/ Process at the UNISA as a Leading Open Distance Higher Learning Institution in South Africa |
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#77 BB Monnanyane, GM van Zyl & LM Khoza |
Engaging students through clicking |
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#79 T Moodley |
Curriculum Restructuring in Higher Education |
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#80 M Moshabela, N Moodley, L Campbell et al |
Social accountability in the transformation of medical curricula to meet the needs of health care systems… |
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#82 M Mtshali |
Online-supported learning, connectivism and case study pedagogy |
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#84 S Mukwembi (DTA) |
Graph theory, learning process and student performance |
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| #85 C Muraraneza & NG Mtshali | Research Supervision: Perceptions of Postgraduate Students at a Higher Education Institution in KwaZulu-Natal | Download |
| #86 C Muraraneza & NG Mtshali | Exploring perceptions of PG students on institutional support during research supervision process in selected university in… | Download |
| #87 M Murray | Examining the effectiveness of a bridging programme using a regression discontinuity design | Download |
| #91 J Naidoo | Exploring the Use of Technology in Mathematics Teaching within Higher Education | Download |
| #95 P Narismulu | The potential, challenges and resources for improving teaching and learning in English Studies and in tertiary education | Download |
| #97 T Ngwenya | Conceptions of Knowledge and University Typology in South Africa | Download |
| #98 M Nkosi | Exploring Education Studies Lecturers' and Students' Experiences of Using the Compulsory Textbook in a SA University | Download |
| #100 VU Nnadozie | Changes in institutional thinking as a tipping point for responsive reform in higher education | Download |
| #101 P Nyatanga, S Mukorera & C Ifeacho | The Effects of Absence on Student Performance: An econometric analysis | Download |
| #105 F Oosthuizen | Pharmacy students’ opinions towards active learning | Download |
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#106 V Paideya |
Understanding who attends first year Chemistry Supplemental Instruction and why? |
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#107 V Paideya & A Bengesai |
The Different faces of Academic Monitoring and Support at UKZN |
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#117 M. Quayle K. Durrheim, & A Wilkinson |
Different access to computer and internet resources introduces inequalities in outcomes for courses… |
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#118 J Ramdhani & L J Naidoo |
Social Representations of HIV/AIDS in a Higher Education Business Management Textbook: A critical discourse analysis |
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| #119 SS Ramklass | The Transition to blended learning: Piloting an e-learning research methods module for PG medical students | |
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#123 D V Robertson-Andersson, C Panos & M Maroun |
How can we facilitate both learning and research with ever increasing class sizes in a Life Sciences… |
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#124 A Ross |
The educational journey of rural origin health care professionals |
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#125 S Ruggunan |
Towards a Critical Management Studies Approach in Human Resources Management Education |
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| #126 S Sabata & D Scholtz | Agency as a form of discursive practice: The case of Curriculum Officer’s Forum at a UoT | Download |
| #129 GN Shava | Challenges of Achieving Quality Teacher Education: The case of secondary teacher education in Zimbabwe | Download |
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#130 Sibanda, S Donnelly & F Kwenda |
Modeling Factors Shaping Postgraduate Research Supervision in Higher Education |
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#132 B Simpson & N Ngcobo |
When numbers demand innovation:Use of audio-visual pedagogies for Social Work students |
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#134 V Singh, W Hugo & S Essack |
What does gravity, density and waves have to do with Pharmacy Education? |
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#135 A Singh-Pillay |
Towards Socially responsible Technology Education: A case study in a technology teacher education programme |
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#136 TE Sommerville, P Brysiewicz & FA Ruffin |
Problem-based learning as an exemplar of innovative constructivist learning |
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| #137 L Sosibo, E Ivala & D Gachago | Nostalgia, anxiety and gratification: Case study of staff in a merged higher education institution | |
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#144 N Toni, AH Makura |
Using Reflective Practice for a more Humane Higher Education |
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#145 KR Tsunga |
Learning Effective Study Skills |
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#146 T Twalo |
Sub-standard Teaching Material at Higher Education Institutions |
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#147 L Van Laren, C Mitchell, R Mudaly et al |
“Accessible, affordable, appealing and appropriate”: Pre-service science teachers’ views on… |
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#148 S van Putten, H Botha, B Mofolo-Mbokane et al |
The culture-rich mathematics class – maximising learning opportunities |
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#149 O Varma, V Naeck & H Mariaye |
Is a PhD dangerous? An institutional take on what guides professional development policy in… |
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| #150 JBS Zikhali, VS Singaram & F O’Brien | Students’ Learning Experiences in Second Year Augmented Economics | Download |
| #151 N Gopal & B Marimuthu | “You cannot study when you don’t feel safe” - Making every Learning space a safe space at student residences (A case study of UKZN) | Download |