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Theme 1: Education at home Theme 1: Education at home

A qualitative piece on the different experiences of individuals during this lockdown, particularly with regards to education.

Changing how literacy is taught: evidence on synthetic phonics Changing how literacy is taught: evidence on synthetic phonics

This is an evaluation study of the national change in education policy in England that saw a refocusing of teaching of reading around synthetic phonics. This was a low cost intervention that went through a pilot and then a national rollout. The study shows in particular how this change helped narrow the gap between disadvantaged and other learners.

Foundation Phase Matters: Language and Learning in South African Rural Classrooms Foundation Phase Matters: Language and Learning in South African Rural Classrooms

The study looks at teacher instructional practice, learner performance outcomes, and intervention process design. It was designed to help develop an instructional toolkit for Grades R to 3 in the Eastern Cape context. The report concludes with an identification and of the binding constraints in the system and presents proposals for key interventions that could contribute to the transformation of foundation phase instructional practice on a wider system scale.

Pitfalls and possibilities in literacy research. A review of South African literacy studies, 2004-2018 Pitfalls and possibilities in literacy research. A review of South African literacy studies, 2004-2018

This article evaluates South African research from two annotated bibliographies on reading in African languages at home language level (2004–2017) and South African research on teaching reading in English as a first additional language (2007–2018). It also aims to provide guidelines for addressing the weaknesses in this research. While this article is not intended to be a comprehensive guide, it would be useful to supervisors, postgraduate students and early career researchers currently undertaking, or planning to undertake, literacy research and to writing for publication.

Teaching and learning resources for use during the COVID-19 lockdown

The JET Researchers Bootcamp Research Thematic area 5 unlocks opportunity and mindset during the lockdown. They have compiled a list of teaching and learning materials currently available for teachers, learners, parents and caregivers in South Africa for use during and after the COVID-19 lockdown.

Freedom Day 2020: Build Education Back Better

A piece on freedom in education at this time in the history of our young democracy, drawing on the emerging insights from the research bootcamp currently underway on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in South Africa.

Freedom Day: "Build Education Back Better" Freedom Day: "Build Education Back Better"

Freedom in education at this time in the history of our young democracy: Inequality remains pervasive in the South African education system. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only shown the fault lines, but is deepening them at an alarming rate, and in a manner that may take many more years to undo. In this contribution, based on the emerging findings from our Research Bootcamp, we talk to the need to provide basic rights, as set out in the Freedom Charter, such as health, safety and nutrition, while we cast the net wider to consider aspects of data privacy, online learning and governance.

Jala Peo "Plant a Seed" released its Term 1 2020 Newsletter

The Jala Peo (“Plant the Seed”) Initiative is a vehicle for the promotion of nutrition education and school food and nutrition gardens active in 67 schools across three Provinces: the Free State, Limpopo and the Western Cape. The Initiative seeks to make sure every school has a thriving school food and nutrition garden and that all learners in South Africa understand how to produce and consume nutritious food. To do this, the Initiative has created Forums – multistakeholder partnerships of government departments, private sector, academia and NGOs to increase and direct investment and resources towards more effective agriculture and nutrition education.

[Podcast: Episode 7] Education in a time of crisis [Podcast: Episode 7] Education in a time of crisis

Given the socio-economic context, how effective is the South African education system in maintaining teaching and learning, and how can civil society help? 150 researchers under 12 themes, got together remotely to confront the barriers to learning in a pandemic.

#OpenupYourThinking: SADC* Researchers Challenge

As an educational research agency with a non-profit motive, JET Education Services, the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSA) and partners from the Global Challenge Research Fund’s Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures Project (South African node), as well as the Open Society Foundations (OSF), are collaborating on a new instance of the successful researchers “bootcamp” that took place in South Africa in April and May 2020.

Theme 10 Research Report: Lessons on How Countries Manage Schooling During and After Disasters Theme 10 Research Report: Lessons on How Countries Manage Schooling During and After Disasters

The study involves a review of literature on how education systems were managed during and after a disaster. Four cases were examined: natural disasters (tsunami and earthquake) in Indonesia and Haiti; civil conflicts in Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Libya and the Vuwani district in Limpopo, South Africa; a health pandemic (Ebola) in West Africa; and the COVID-19 education response globally and in South Africa. All four cases offer valuable insights and lessons for the education sector in South Africa when it comes to strategy, policy, planning and programming of responses for education continuity, preparation to exit the lockdown and for curriculum recovery.

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