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Capacity building for educators of adults in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia

McKay, Veronica; Romm, Norma R.A. (ADEA/UNESCO, 2009-10-15)

This chapter examines adult educator development in terms of initial and in-service training and conditions of work in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. It considers existing modes for building the capacity of ...
Reviewing the Transformative Paradigm: A Critical Systemic and Relational (Indigenous) Lens

Romm, Norma R. A. (Springer, 2015-10-15)

In this article I re-examine the tenets of the transformative paradigm as explained by Mertens in various publications. Mertens suggests that the transformative paradigm (as she names it) encapsulates the positions of ...
Academic-practitioner collaboration with communities towards social and ecological transformation

Romm, Norma R. A.; Arko-Achemfuor, Akwasi; Serolong, Lesego (De Gruyter, 2019-12-15)

In this article we offer a discussion around our academic-practitioner involvements with one another and with a targeted community, in relation to a particular project. In the title of the article, we have hyphenated ...
Reflections on a Post-Qualitative Inquiry With Children/Young People: Exploring and Furthering a Performative Research Ethics

Romm, Norma R.A. (Institute for Qualitative Research and Center for Digital Systems (Free University of Berlin), 2020-01-02)

In this article I discuss a number of ethical issues surrounding the USA-commissioned Belmont report (NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS OF BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH, 1979), using as one of ...
Eliciting Children’s/Young People’s (Group) Engagement with Scenarios as Participatory Research Practice for Exploring and Extending Responses to Climate Change

Romm, Norma R.A. (Dergi Park Academic, 2020-03-05)

In this article I provide an account of my use (in a particular context) of a ‘post qualitative inquiry’ approach, with my recognition that ways of approaching issues to be explored with participants, and the method of ...
Duoethnographic Storying Around Involvements in, and Extension of the Meanings of, Engaged Qualitative Research

Tlale, Lloyd Daniel Nkoli; Romm, Norma R.A. (Institut für Qualitative Forschung, 2019)

In this article we discuss the duoethnographical approach we adopted to extend/deepen our interpretations of ourselves as academic researchers attempting to practise engaged research with participants in the field. We take, ...
Systemic Thinking and Practice Toward Facilitating Inclusive Education: Reflections on a Case of Co-Generated Knowledge and Action in South Africa

Romm, Norma R.A.; Tlale, Lloyd Daniel Nkoli (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature, 2017)

This article offers our reflections around a case of facilitating systemic thinking and practice in which the first author of the article (Tlale) interacted with research participants/participant researchers with the ...
Active and accountable social inquiry : implications and examples

Romm, Norma R. A. (Participatory Educational Research, 2014-12-31)

This article is based on my inaugural lecture that I delivered at the University of South Africa on 6 November 2013. The topic of the inaugural lecture was “active and accountable social inquiry” In the inaugural address ...
Conducting Focus Groups in Terms of an Appreciation of Indigenous Ways of Knowing

Romm, Norma (Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2015-01-01)

In this article I consider some examples of conducting focus groups in South Africa with school teachers in a manner which takes into account indigenous ways of knowing. Indigenous knowing (within various indigenous ...
Exploration of transformative paradigm with pragmatic twist to contribute to educational change

Romm, Norma R.A. (Ijonte Journal, 2014-04-30)

In this paper I consider the contours of a transformative research paradigm with pragmatic twist. I offer an account of various ways of activating transformative paradigmatic intentions to contribute to social justice. I ...
Causes and Effects of Staff Turnover in the Academic Development Centre: A Case of a Historically Black University in South Africa

Chabaya, Owence; Tshephe, Geoffrey Pinagase; Molotsi, Matshidiso Mercy (MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy, 2014-06)

The high turnover of staff is unhealthy for the smooth running of institutions since it affects the growth, profitability and customer satisfaction whenever it occurs in the workplace. However, some employers see the ...
Enhancing distance learning via computer-based hubs in correctional environment: The UNISA experience

Johnson, Lineo R (African Academic Research Forum, 2017)
Cultural and social uses of orality and functional literacy: A narrative approach

Johnson, Lineo R (AOSIS, 2016)

Lesotho’s educational system and development are largely influenced by missionaries and colonisers who taught the three ‘Rs’ (reading, writing and numeracy skills) to the Basotho. Most of those enlightened Basotho were ...
Enhancing learning through technology: Is there something new?

Tshephe G; Dichaba MM (African Academic Research Forum, 2016)
Cultural hegemony in open distance learning: Does it really matter?

Pitsoe V; Dichaba MM (MCSER Publishing, 2013)
Reconnoitering the Stimulus of Environmental Education in reducing imporper solid waste disposal: A case of St Marcia School in the Mkhondo Village in Mpumalanga in South Africa

Msezane, Sikhulile Bonginkosi; Mudau, Awelani V. (Journal of HUman Ecology, Kamla Raj, 2014)

The paper reports on the exploration of Environmental Education as a stimulus in sustaining land resources which can be degraded by improper solid waste disposal. It is an empirical qualitative case study wherein data was ...
Reimagining UNISA's open distance learning through the lens of culturally relevant pedagogy

Pitsoe V; Dichaba, Mpho (MCSER Publishing, 2014)
The effectiveness of adult basic education and training programmes: An exploratory study of adult educators from 2002 - 2012

Johnson, LR; Quan-Baffour, KP (© 2016 AESS Publications. All Rights Reserved, 2016)

The University of South Africa (UNISA) celebrated its 140th birthday in 2013. Various schools and departments in the University are taking stock of how they evolved and developed during the post-centenary era. Since 1995, ...
Real-life experiences during teaching and learning: Three South African teachers' narratives

Van der Berg, Geesje; Dichaba, Mpho (MCSER Publishing, 2013)

The purpose of this study was to investigate how teachers’ real-life experiences, during teaching and learning, in three aspects of their lives, namely as school learners, as tertiary students and as teachers, influenced ...
Are we heading in the right direction? Assessing University community engagement dimensions of a South African higher education institution

Nkoana, Elvis Modikela; Dichaba, M. M. (African Academic Research Forum, 2016)

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