The CHE-HELTASA teaching awards committee is calling for applications for the National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards. In 2017 these awards are supported by a grant from the Department of Higher Education and Training. Universities are invited to nominate up to three individuals or teaching teams for these prestigious national awards. The awards provide an opportunity [...]
The 2016 National Teaching Excellence Award winners come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and institutional contexts. Common to them all is the ability to create environments in which their students can flourish as learners regardless of what or where they are learning. Given the very different levels of resourcing in this country and [...]
Transformative learning “involves transforming frames of reference through critical reflection of assumptions,validating contested beliefs through discourse,taking action on one’s reflective insight, and critically assessing it” Jack Mezirow (1997). […]
