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Education
The Yenza! sections on science education and
the Internet for teaching offer links
to additional educational resources.
South African
education departments
University of Cape Town
Staff contact details and research areas, departmental statistics, syllabus
information.
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/educate/
University of Durban-Westville
Basic information about staff and research in Education-related departments can be found
as follows:
Applied Curriculum Studies
http://pixie.udw.ac.za/UDW/homepages/appcurr.html
Curriculum Studies
http://pixie.udw.ac.za/UDW/homepages/curric.html
Foundations of Education
http://pixie.udw.ac.za/UDW/homepages/foundofe.html
University of the Free State
School of Education
Information about the departments of Comparative Education and Education Management, Curriculum Studies, Philosophy and the History of Education,
Psychology of Education, and Technological Education
http://www.uovs.ac.za/faculties/humanities/edu/
Research Institute for Educational Planning
(RIEP)
http://www.uovs.ac.za/faculties/humanities/edu/niob/default.htm
University of Natal
Faculty of Education (multi-campus)
Information about the Durban School of Education,
Department of Adult and Community
Education, the Pietermaritzburg School of Education,
Training and Development and the Pietermaritzburg Centre for Adult
Education:
http://www.edu.unp.ac.za/
University of the North
No content at present.
http://www.unorth.ac.za/Faculty/Education/faculty-edu.html
University of the North West
Mission
statement and information about departments and programmes in the Faculty
of Education.
http://www.uniwest.ac.za/Faculties/Education/education.htm
University of Port Elizabeth
Information about staff, courses and community outreach.
http://www.upe.ac.za/faculties/education/start.asp
Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education
The Faculty of Education's web site offers general information about the faculty,
staff, courses, and research:
http://www.puk.ac.za/educ/index.html
The Faculty of Education comprises three schools: the School of Teacher Education, the Graduate School, and the School of Non-Formal Education.
Within the School of Non-Formal Education are the centres for Education in Traffic Safety
(CENETS), and Improvement of Quality in
Education (CENTIQE)
University of Pretoria
Information about the Faculty of Education's three academic departments (Education Management & Policy
Studies, Teaching and Training Studies, and Educational Psychology);
research programmes and research and innovation centres:
http://www.up.ac.za/academic/education/departments.html
Rand Afrikaans University
Curriculum Studies
Detailed course information and link to the RAUTEC site (RAU
Centre for Technology Education and Community Development)
http://general.rau.ac.za/cur/edcur/curstud/index.html
Education Sciences
Basic course information, staff contact details and research areas.
http://general.rau.ac.za/cur/edcur/eduscie/default.htm
Rhodes University
Comprehensive staff and course information, along with information about the
Environmental
Education unit and MiST
(Mathematics, Information & Communication Technology, Science, Technology)
initiative:
http://www.rhodes.ac.za./academic/departments/education/
University of South Africa
The UNISA Faculty of Education entry point provides information staff and links to the
Faculty's four departments and six research units/institutes.
http://www.unisa.ac.za/faculty/edu/index.html
University of Stellenbosch
Standard staff and course information for the departments of Didactics, Education Policy Studies, Educational Psychology and Specialised Education and Human Movement Science.
Links to the centres and institutes attached to the Faculty.
http://www.sun.ac.za/education/
Vista University
Guide to courses of study offered by the Department of
Education at undergraduate level, students numbers and information about
staff at different campuses.
http://www.vista.ac.za/vista/academic/edu/index.htm
University of the Western Cape Faculty of Education
The site offers information about the departments of Didactics, Educational Psychology,
Philosophy of Education, and Comparative Education, course information, and links to other
education resources:
http://www.uwc.ac.za/education/
Education Policy Unit
http://www.epu.uwc.ac.za/
University of the Witwatersrand
Detailed information about the departments, divisions and units which make up the
faculty, including general education, adult education, physical education, and specialised education.
http://www.wits.ac.za/fac/education/edfac.htm
Education Policy Unit
http://www.wits.ac.za/fac/education/epu.htm
University of Zululand
Basic information about courses and modules in the following areas:
Foundation and Intermediate Education
http://www2.uzulu.ac.za/UZ/programs/findProg.php?f=E&d=EI
Foundations of Education
http://www2.uzulu.ac.za/UZ/programs/findProg.php?f=E&d=EF
Interdepartmental Education
http://www2.uzulu.ac.za/UZ/programs/findProg.php?f=E&d=ED
Border Technikon
School of Education and Secretarial Studies
http://www.bortech.ac.za/Academic/EduSec/ES%20Index.htm
Free State Technikon
The site offers information about courses in the Department
of Teachers’ Education:
http://www.tofs.ac.za/tofs/academic/human/teacher/index.asp
Technikon Natal
Basic information about the Higher Diploma in
Education courses:
http://www.ntech.ac.za/ac.za/education.htm
Port Elizabeth Technikon
The Port Elizabeth Tech's home page provides information
about permanent staff, qualifications offered, faculty notice board and
career opportunities:
http://www.petech.ac.za/education/
Technikon Pretoria
The Department of Teacher Training provides information about courses from diploma to
doctoral level:
http://local.techpta.ac.za/study/academic/faculties/
information_sciences/departments/teacher_training/index.htm
South
African professional associations
South African Association for Research and
Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE)
SAARDHE is "a national
association which strives to promote contact between educationists in
higher education from all sectors of the South African society and further
afield. The SAARDHE web site provides information about the organization,
the monthly SAARDHE newsletter, abstracts from the South African Journal
of Higher Education (SAJHE) and information about forthcoming events:
http://www.saardhe.ac.za/
Education Association of South Africa
(EASA)
Online newsletter, membership and conference information, South African
Journal of Education (SAJE) abstracts.
http://www.easa.ac.za/
Education research methodology textbooks
The Yenza! research section contains an annotated list of research
methodology texts in use in South African higher education.
http://www.nrf.ac.za/yenza/research/edu.htm
Miscellaneous South
African resources
National Department of Education
http://education.pwv.gov.za/
Council on Higher Education
http://education.pwv.gov.za/che/
SAUVCA: Matriculation Board
http://www.sauvca.org.za/mb/
Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET)
http://www.hsrc.ac.za/chet/chet.html
Education Policy Unit
The EPU home page provides
general information about the EPUs, links to the EPUs at the Universities of Natal and the
Witwatersrand, and to full-text articles in the EPU Quarterly Review of Education and
Training in South Africa:
http://www.sn.apc.org/sangonet/education/epu/
SchoolNet SA
SchoolNet "is an organization established
in November 1997 to assist all South Africans in preparing for the information society. It
is an agency drawing on the strengths of people and organizations who share the common
vision of implementing ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) into
schools." The SchoolNet site provides general information about the project, links to
regional school networks, a list of South African schools on the Internet, and an overview
of online teaching and learning resources:
http://www.school.za/
Sunday Times
The Sunday Times online education section offers resources relating to
pre-primary, primary and high school education, including a selection of
lesson plans.
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/education/
Joint Education Trust (JET)
The Joint Education Trust is a partnership between major private sector
companies community-based organizations. The JET site offers information
about JET projects, publications and upcoming events:
http://www.jet.org.za/
The NRF's database of Professional Associations
offers listings of a number of associations for education professionals:
http://www.hsrc.ac.za/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=society.txt&id=
SOCIET&pass=SOCIET&OK=OK
Among the South African sites providing useful information relating to
Outcomes-Based Education and the National Qualifications Framework are:
Rhodes
University (Article by Chrissey Boughey)
http://www.ru.ac.za/academic/adc/obe.htm
Shuter & Shooter's "OBE
Explained" Page
http://www.shuter.co.za/obe_explained/obe.htm
South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA)
http://www.saqa.org.za/
International
collections of resources
ERIC
database (Educational Resources Information Centre)
A US government-funded
information system "that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses,
associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and
products on a broad range of education-related issues."
http://ericir.syr.edu/
ERIC
also offers a full text
Internet library which provide access to over 250 "of the best full-text books,
reports, journal articles, newsletter articles and papers on the Internet that address
educational measurement, evaluation and learning theory."
http://ericae.net/ftlib.htm
Ultibase
Ultibase is a set of online resources for tertiary educators aimed at
improving the quality of teaching and learning in higher education. Includes
an online journal.
http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/
Deliberations provides excellent links
on teaching and learning issues in higher education:
http://www.lgu.ac.uk:80/deliberations/
The UK Centre for Applied Research in Education is
another useful site for researchers interested in education and related disciplines:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/care/
The issue of teaching and research has always been a contentious issue in Higher
Education. But increasingly, qualitative research methods like action research have
challenged the parameters of the research activity. The following link to an article on
"teachers as researchers" at the CARE site
may be of interest to all researchers in Higher Education:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/care/research/tar.html
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Education
http://vlib.org/Education.html
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