• Formation of academic identity of political science students at a South African higher education institution 

  Ashu, Gladys Manyi (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  Higher education institutions serve as crucibles for shaping students' identities. Despite much research on students' identity formation, studies in the discipline of political science are limited. This study delves into ...
• Teaching visually impaired learners through ICTs: lessons from teachers’ perceptions in a full-service school 

  Serero, Pule; Phala, Thembi; Mahlo, Dikeledi (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  An international shift towards inclusivity has prompted the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to teach Visually Impaired Learners (VILs) accommodated in Full-Service Schools (FSSs). This paper explores ...
• Factors inhibiting and enabling the implementation of inclusive education in selected South African primary schools 

  Ndlovu, S. M.; Makofane, I. B. (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  Inclusive Education (IE) can never be emphasised enough, as it transforms schools by ensuring all learners can learn in the same space regardless of their differences. However, research suggests that rural schools across ...
• Challenges faced by secondary school teachers in implementing inclusive education in Rakgwadi Circuit, Sekhukhune South 

  Ratau, M. J.; Motitswe, J. M. C. (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  Implementing inclusive education practices and principles remains a significant challenge in many South African secondary schools, particularly within the mainstream system. These challenges must be identified and ...
• Teachers' perspectives on formative assessment in physical sciences education 

  Ramaila, Sam; Mngomezulu, Halalisani; Ramnarain, Umesh; Dhurumraj, Thasmai (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  This study examined teachers' perspectives on the influence of formative assessment on Physical Sciences learners' academic achievement, attitudes, and self-regulation skills. Drawing from qualitative data, the research ...
• Voices of women in higher education : historical contexts and colonial legacies 

  Koopman, Karen J.; America, Carina G.; Moosa, Shaaista (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)
• Negotiating professional and personal selves : the experiences of black academic women in South African Higher Education Institutions : a conceptual reflection 

  Moodley, Colleen Gail (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching & Learning (APORTAL), 2025)

  This article explores the intricate landscape of higher education more specifically, South African higher education. It mainly focuses on the experiences of Black female academics since the end of apartheid in 1994. Despite ...
• Student activism and the decolonial discourse in South African higher education: analysis of the #feesmustfall documentary (2018) 

  Masvopo, D. T.; Muswede, T. (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  In the recent past, the South African higher education sector has encountered significant challenges, which have prompted civic and political contestations regarding access to quality education in the context of a complex ...
• An autoethnographic exploration of the experiences of a 'black' female employee and doctoral student in higher education 

  Paulse, Juliet (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  This autoethnographic paper explores the lived experiences of a ‘black’ female employee and doctoral student within higher education spaces in post-apartheid South Africa. Anchored by personal narratives and reflexive ...
• Deconstructing identity in pedagogy : an autoethnographic study of a female, millennial and disabled lecturer in South African higher education 

  Iyer, Leevina M. (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  The Higher Education sector in South Africa has undergone a significant socio-political and academic transformation since the inception of democracy in 1994. Such transformations largely focused on instilling values of ...
• Schooling experiences of learners from low socio-economic status background in Lesotho 

  Nyaphisi, M.; Mosia, P. A. (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  Efforts to provide inclusive education in Lesotho started in the late 1980s with the Policy Statement on Special Needs Education. They continued until 2018 when the Ministry enacted the Lesotho Inclusive Education Policy, ...
• How fish climb trees : illuminating the experiences of academic mothers in South Africa 

  Singh, Marcina (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  The title of this contribution emerged from the truism that academic mothers seem to do the impossible. Mothers spend a significant amount of time and energy on parenting, often exceeding the hours of a normal job. When ...
• Reflecting on female academics’ narratives on communication strategies in higher education institutions 

  Mabidi, Ndamulelo Innocentia (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  Higher education institutions across South Africa and globally have implemented various strategies to support female academics. These initiatives aim to address gender disparities by fostering mentorship, collaboration, ...
• Teachers’ views on support provided to implement CAPS guidelines to their teaching in South African schools 

  Molapo, Karabo (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  Teaching is amongst others informed by guidelines outlined in policy documents. In South African schools, teaching is informed by the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). However, measures to make teachers ...
• Sheroes, sivas, and other endangered species : black women in higher education 

  Rasmussen, Natalie D. (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  Because of their intersectional identities, African American women in the academy must navigate the many visible and invisible obstacles of racism and sexism. To do so, they might employ several coping mechanisms and ...
• Exploring teachers’ experiences on the implementation of inclusive education in Thabina Circuit mainstream schools 

  Moagi, Donald; Malatji, Khashane Stephen (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  This study aimed to explore teachers’ experiences with implementing inclusive education in mainstream schools in the Thabina circuit. The study employed a qualitative research approach with a case study design. An interpretive ...
• Blended learning instructional delivery: enhancing learning outcomes for first-year students in South Africa 

  Meyers, Angelo Fabian; Smith, Cornelia; Cekiso, Madoda (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  This study investigated the effectiveness of blended learning in enhancing instructional delivery and learning outcomes for first-year tertiary students in South Africa. This study employed convenience sampling by recuring ...
• Integration of project-based learning in secondary school commercial curriculum 

  Mathiba, Thema Adolph; Mamabolo, Joel (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  This paper proposes the integration of project-based learning in secondary school commercial curriculum delivery following the assertion that learners of commercial subjects lack the practical skills that are imperative ...
• Navigating between curriculum and sociocultural contestation: teaching sexual diversity in Namibian life skills classrooms 

  Brown, Anthony (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2025)

  In Namibia, the inclusion of non-heterosexuality and gender diversity in the school curricula remains a challenge. Drawing on critical and poststructuralist theories, this study explores Life Skills educators’ experiences ...
• Curriculum advisors’ reflections on phasing out Accounting in the Limpopo secondary schools : a case study of 10 districts in Limpopo Province 

  Thaba-Nkadimene, Kgomotlokoa; Tshiovhe, Takalani; Monobe, Ratau; Wadesango, Ongayi (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal (APORTAL), 2024)

  This study explored the phasing out of Accounting in Limpopo Secondary Schools in the wake of a disturbing and worrying trend of a decline of learners’ enrolment. In tandem with declining learners’ enrolment in Accounting, ...

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