Research

Research interests of School of Education staff

Click on the links to be directed to the publications of staff members:

Complexity science and diversity

Curriculum studies; sociology of knowledge; education policy

Mathematics education: second chance maths

History education: contemporary history (especially the ways in which totalitarian regimes are remembered/narrated in a pedagogical setting) and oral and popular history; history teacher education and primary and secondary history teaching

Language education: language and literacy, identity/subjectivity and learning and race, class and gender in schooling; literacy as situated social practice

Science education: scientific literacy, the public understanding of science and the development and training of science teachers; thinking and learning skills in science

Sociocultural and activity theory, learning and cognition

Primary schooling, classroom teaching and learning and cognitive development

Annual Research Report of the School of Education

The most recent report

Maths and Science Education Project

Occasional Papers of the Fourth Education Students’ Regional Research Conference held at the UCT School of Education (2004):

Editorial

Lynn Coleman: Assessment As An Interpretative Act - The Personal Reflections Of A Technikon Lecturer.

Sofie M.M.A. Geschier: “I Need You To Accept My Word!” Narrating Trauma Across Generations In The District Six Museum And The Cape Town Holocaust Centre.

Clare Alborough Houston: Designing social identities: A case study of a primary school theatrical performance by Zulu children in an English, ex-model C school.

Sigi Howes: A School's Response to Political and Philosophical Changes in the 19th Century. A case study of the `Tot Nut van het Algemeen' School Cape Town 1804 – 1870.

(Downloadable .pdf files)