Abstract SPAULL, Nicholas; PRETORIUS, Elizabeth and MOHOHLWANE, Nompumelelo.
Investigating the comprehension iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early-grade …

In education, as in other fields, there are often significant gaps between research knowledge
and current policy and practice. While there are many reasons for this gap, one that stands …

It is acknowledged that educational inequalities persist in South Africa 25 years after the
advent of democracy in 1994, but the debate about the causes and solutions to poor …

This closing chapter offers both a generative synthesis (what do we now know?) as well as a
catalytic synthesis (what is to be done?) of the research contributions to this book on …

In the heat of the decolonisation struggles of the 2000s, there has been little space or
tolerance for conceptual criticism of this important moment in global history. Using the South …

ABSTRACT Random Controlled Trials (RCTs) have become one of the most sought-after
approaches to impact evaluations of large-scale educational interventions in developed and …

Using a critical race theoretical lens, we examine how South African secondary mathematics
teachers of Black students characterised their preparation in the post-apartheid era, how …

ABSTRACT In South Africa there has been one curriculum change followed by three
successive revisions during the period 1994-2012. Some of the most important changes …

What teachers know about a subject that they teach and how well informed they are about
the effective ways to teach it can affect the performance of learners in their classes. The aim …

The 4IR has become an overarching framework within which education systems, including
teacher education, are operating. Contingent upon the ideology of neo-liberalism, the 4IR …