Facilitating Outcomes Based Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Trainers and FET College Lecturers
This guide supports FET College lecturers to make the shift from content-based, lecturer-centred, transmission teaching and learning to an outcomes-based, learner-centred, activity-based approach. It is intended to assist the FET lecturer to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to just be a “how to” manual of tips. Yet it is at the same time... more
Learners and Learning - Section Five: How Can Teachers Structure Learning?
This module discusses structured learning specifically methods that teacher can utilize in their learning programmes with the outcome of ensuring learners easily comprehend the subject matter. Referred to also as teaching with leaening in mind this module juxtaposes between teaching to remember and teaching to understand more
Using Media in Teaching: Learning Guide. Section Two - Developing a Media-Rich Outcomes-based Education
In Section Two, through a story of one teacher's attempt to teach in a learnercentred, activity-based manner, we will deepen your understanding of how media resources can be used to enrich outcomes-based education. We will teach through example rather than by telling. The section ends by demonstrating how you can develop higher-order learning by designing your outcomes-based lessons around ... more
Being a Teacher: Reading 15. Outcomes-based Education in the Context of Three Kinds of Knowledge
With all the talk of teaching towards the achievement of competency and skills in the wake of outcomes-based education in South Africa, it is easy to forget that these should not be taught in a vacuum, or to the exclusion of other forms of knowledge. In addition to knowing ‘how to’ do something, we also need to ‘know that’ (content knowledge) and know how to form a judgement about issues (values... more
Journal of Education
The*/ Journal of Education/* is an interdisciplinary publication of original research and writing on education. The journal aims to provide a forum for scholarly understanding of the field of education. A general focus of the journal is on curriculum. Curriculum is understood in a wide and interdisciplinary sense, encompassing curriculum theory, history, policy and development at all levels... more
Education as Change
This accredited journal publishes contributions from any field of education. While the emphasis is on empirical research, theoretical or methodological papers, review articles, short communications, book reviews and letters containing fair commentary on previously published articles will also be considered. Priority is given to articles that are relevant to Africa or that address cross-... more