Supporting Teaching Practice: A Manual for Supervisors and Mentors
The primary aim of this module is to empower teaching practice supervisors and school-based mentors to develop and implement appropriate mentoring programmes to support teaching practice placements in schools. However, as will be seen, the competences associated with mentoring can also be applied more widely. The learning guide of this module addresses four key questions as follows: * What... more
Addressing Diarrhea Through Public Health Action: The Case of an Informal Settlement in Sub-Saharan Africa
The case concerns an informal settlement with a high prevalence of diarrheal disease in sub-Saharan Africa, and the factors that feed into this situation. The learning aim is to apply a model for intervention – the Public Health Action Cycle, which is based on UNICEF’s Triple A Cycle for nutrition improvement. more
Primary Teacher's Diploma by Distance Learning (PTDDL), Module three: Numeracy
Educating Our Future, the National Education Policy document, states, “A fundamental aim of the curriculum for lower and middle basic classes is to enable pupils to read and write clearly, correctly and confidently in a Zambian language and in English, and to acquire basic numeracy and problem-solving skills.” What do we mean when we say a person is numerate? This module explores the... more
2012 African Health OER Network Impact Study
The current impact study follows on from two earlier evaluations of the project. A formative evaluation [1] of the Design Phase completed at the end of 2009 focused mainly on OER ‘take-up’ and production in the partner institutions (OER Africa 2009). This evaluation concluded that expectations and contractual targets had been met, or exceeded by an impressive margin, with project... more
Transforming Health Systems: Case studies of critical health system analyses to support reform
Over the years, the Health Economics Unit [1] (University of Cape Town) and Centre for Health Policy [2] (University of the Witwatersrand) have developed a range of training materials to strengthen critical analysis skills that can support health system reform. One of the case studies considers how national health accounts data can contribute to critically assessing existing health systems... more
Time to move beyond a brainless physiology
“Exercise is a complex behavior that is regulated by a complex system”. In this talk, Prof Noakes seeks to include the brain as a factor in exercise physiology. He starts with the classical teachings in exercise physiology and continues by looking at various models such as the A.V. Hill model and the peripheral model. According to Noakes, not enough people are looking at the bigger picture... more
Beyond the VO2 max: The role of self-belief in elite athletic performance
This lecture explores how success in sports ranging from extreme cold water swimming to World Cup rugby are linked by a common thread - the role of self-belief. In the past Prof. Tim Noakes was convinced that physiology could explain performance. After 38 years of studying the human body, he now believes that the mind, and the role of self-belief, are crucial factors in human athletic feats... more
Health and Human Rights Pamphlets
The Learning Network pamphlets have been developed using principles of popular education and are suited for use by academia and community organisations' with other members of civil society. A series of 7 pamphlets exploring different aspects of the Right to Health. These pamphlets are available in three languages: English, Xhosa and Afrikaans. more
Mathematics for Primary School Teachers. Unit 6: Size and Measurement
/Mathematics for Primary School Teachers/ has been digitally published by Saide, with the Wits School of Education. It is a revised version of a course originally written for the Bureau for In-service Teacher Development (Bited) at the then Johannesburg College of Education (now Wits School of Education). The course is for primary school teachers (Foundation and Intermediate Phase) and... more
Mathematics for Primary School Teachers. Unit 2: Numeration
/Mathematics for Primary School Teachers/ has been digitally published by Saide, with the Wits School of Education. It is a revised version of a course originally written for the Bureau for In-service Teacher Development (Bited) at the then Johannesburg College of Education (now Wits School of Education). The course is for primary school teachers (Foundation and Intermediate Phase) and... more