Webaccess in this way, the issue of what constitutes‘epistemological’ access still remains under researched in South Africa. This article uses an ethnographic study of students in a first year class at a historically black South African university in order to engage with the issue of epistemological access to the university in general and, Webhow critical these issues of access and success are in higher education in South Africa, one cannot overemphasise the importance of research that would allow for a better understanding of the issues. This was the motivation for this study in which I sought to understand the issues that impact epistemological access at the level of my classroom.
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WebProviding students with epistemological access is essentially the counterpart to physical and financial access. How students access these academic ways of knowing, is indeed a cause for concern. At the Durban University of Technology (DUT), compounding this precarious situation, most Hospitality Financial Management (HSFM101) students … WebEpistemological access (Boughey, 2005;Dhunpath & Vithal, 2012; Maphosa et al., 2014) has also dominated, becoming a cause for institutional anxiety as student retention and timeous graduation... is as is to
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Webor point of view, however, that does not mean that these necessarily automatically lead to particular views or perspectives. For example, one may think it would be antithetical for a black African-American to be a member of a white, conservative, right-wing, racist, supremacy group, and, equally, that such a WebApr 3, 2024 · Constructivism is ‘an approach to learning that holds that people actively construct or make their own knowledge and that reality is determined by the experiences of the learner’ (Elliott et al., 2000, p. 256). In elaborating on constructivists’ ideas, Arends (1998) states that constructivism believes in the personal construction of ... http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/sajce/v4n1/12.pdf on a a faire