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Current Research Projects

BARNARD JG & VIVIERS P. Seisoenale voorkoms van die profiel van Matie rugbyspelers.

BARNARD JG; DE KLERK D & JOUBERT J. The effect of a rehabilitation programme for COPD patients.

BITZER EM. Inquiring the curriculum in higher education: Affirmations and challenges. NRF Insentive Fund: R40 000. Book publication.

BITZER EM. Alternative models of postgraduate supervision. FINLO-award: R15 000. Investigate alternatives to 'apprenticeship' model of supervision.

BITZER EM. Student learning experiences and challenges in distance education. The project forms part of a larger research project to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of the distance education programmes offered by the Faculty of Education. The sub-project focuses on the learning needs and learning expectations of students and aims to articulate these needs and aims more clearly to the benefit of programme planners and teaching staff.

BITZER EM. Student outcomes assessment in higher education. A pilot study to investigate the possibilities of assessing the impact of college learning on the broader development of students. The study will simulate elements of longitudinal studies at the University of California, Los Angeles to determine the trends in student learning and student college behaviour over a number of years. The potential value of the study to university teaching staff, policy makers and planners will be pointed out.

CARL AE (PROJECT LEADER), MENKVELD H, REDDY CPS & THEART HL. Continuous assessment. The project on continuous assessment for the Inter-Mediate Phase is presented in collaboration with the CULeuven in Belgium, UP, Vista and the UFS. The aim is the development of skills and knowledge with regard to continuous assessment within an Outcomes Based education approach in educators in the Intermediate Phase. The project is sponsored by the Flemish Government, Belgium. The research is undertaken in selected schools in the Western Cape Education Department.

COLLAIR L & PEROLD M. The farm schools service learning project. Funding: The project receives funding from Foschini. The main objective of this project is for the Departement of Educational Psychology and the three farm schools to engage in a mutually beneficial service-learning partnership. The project aims to benefit the school communities by students who are being trained in the field of Educational Psychology, responding to the expressed needs of the schools for support to a range of barriers in teaching and learning. Students benefit from being granted the opportunity to practice their newly acquired skills in real life situations while under the supervision of their lecturers. A coordinator serves as the link person between the schools and the department and the role of the coordinator will be the research focus of the project.

DANIELS D. Indigenous knowledge systems grant. NRF Project # 11345
The purpose of this study is to investigate, analyse and describe life at the turn of the 20th century for the Strand's Muslim community. The focus is on women's involvement in community building. The study draws from the literature on women's development and feminist research. The value of this study lies in the cultural inventory that could be put in place about a dynamic thriving black community whose women were at the forefront of community development. We will be both collecting data to revise the history, as well as looking at a community process related to this research process. The community process would provide relevance beyond the community itself, as this research would generate some insight into a process that could be useful for other community change initiatives that use research as a tool for community change.

HEYSTEK J. Leadership and followership in the governing body. Toekenning deur Subkomitee A: R50 000. To understand what and why followers select or support leaders with specific reference to governing bodies in former white and black schools.

HEYSTEK J & MINNAAR L. School governance and leadership for sustainable quality education for all. Post doctoral fellowship: R160 000. To establish empirically the education and ability level of parent members of school governing bodies, particularly in no-fee schools situated in the Western Cape, to govern a school and to manage its finances effectively.

KAPP CA & BITZER EM. Training of adult educators for cultural tourism. A pilot study to explore the possibilities of training adult educators in order to enhance cultural tourism in South Africa. The pilot phase will be aimed at a sub-region of the Western Cape and be modelled along the lines of a similar project supported by the European Union in Sardinia, Italy.

LE CORDEUR MLA (US). Een van 10 genooide skrywers/taalkundiges wat deur die Taalkommissie van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns genooi is om deel te hê in navorsing om 'n elektroniese Afrikaanse Grammatika (e-AG) met 'n beskrywende en normerende funksie beskikbaar stel om sodoende 'n bydrae te lewer tot die Afrikaanse taalwetenskap.

LE CORDEUR MLA (US) & LE ROUX M (KunsteKaap). Navorsing met behulp van die Weskaapse Departement van Kuns en Kultuur (R25 000,00): Die 100 jaar-geskiedenis van die klopse tradisie van Wellington.

LE CORDEUR MLA (US) & VAN OORDT R (NWU). Navorsing met finansiële hulp van die Erfenisstigting R16 000,00, om 'n boek uit te bring oor die werklike ontstaan van Afrikaans 1652-2011.

LE GRANGE LLL. Researcher for project, Democracy, Higher Education and Citizenship (DHEC). Research Grant of R120 000 received from the University of Stellenbosch - Grant holder Prof Y Waghid.

LE GRANGE LLL. Research consultant to the Needs analysis on intellectual disability in Western Cape Province pilot project. University of Stellenbosch and Down Syndrome South Africa.

MACROBERT M; VILJOEN S & GROSS P. One story, many re-writes (working title). Very much in its planning stages, this research is intended to form my PhD and bring international collaboration on creative writing for and with children to South Africa. Prof Phillip Gross is one of Britain's foremost poets for adults and children, as well as a novelist for young readers and has pioneered writing in schools projects in the UK. At a recent conference in London he agreed to work with me if we can obtain sufficient funding. I intend to rework a traditional Southern Sotho folk tale into various forms for various readerships, working closely with young readers to produce a picture book, a book-length verse version and a novella for young readers. This forms part of an extension of my Masters research on the writing process and will draw in expertise from other local writers such as Dr Dorain Haarhoff and award winning children's writers Lesley Beake and Gcina Mhlope as wel as Prof Phillip Gross.

MENKVELD H & REDDY CPS. Action research on reflexive teaching practice involving BEd students. The aim is to evaluate the experiences of students of the Faculty of Education of the University of Stellenbosch during practice teaching, to design a short course on reflexive teaching practice as part of the module Teaching Practice, and to write at least two articles.

NEWMARK R. Intellectual disability quality lifespan development project. This project is funded by the National Research Foundation under Grant Number 2054408. Research Focus: