Lessons learnt from teachers’ perspectives on mobile learning in South Africa with cultural and linguistic constraints
| dc.contributor.author | Jantjies, Mmaki | |
| dc.contributor.author | Joy, Mike | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-24T13:32:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-24T13:32:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | South Africa’s classrooms are characterised by a wide variety of cultural and linguistic differences, providing teachers with educational challenges, particularly in mathematics and science subjects. In response, various mobile learning systems have been developed and piloted in the North West and Gauteng Provinces of South Africa. A framework has been proposed to support the development of similar technologies to be used in multilingual contexts. This paper evaluates teachers’ perspectives on this framework using interviews with eight teachers from a mixture of urban and rural schools in various locations across the two provinces. The results of the study reflect the important roles that language and culture play in the technology needed to support learning in linguistically diverse schools. They highlight the challenges that teachers in schools face in diversely linguistic classrooms and how technology can be used to enhance such classrooms. | en_US |
| dc.description.accreditation | DHET | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jantjies, M. & Joy, M. (2016). Lessons learnt from teachers’ perspectives on mobile learning in South Africa with cultural and linguistic constraints. South African Journal of Education, 36(3): Art. # 1274 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0256-0100 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.15700/saje.v36n3a1274 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/3733 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | FALSE | |
| dc.publisher | University of Pretoria | en_US |
| dc.rights | The South African Journal of Education is an Open Access journal which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately after publication. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited. | |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
| dc.subject | Mobile learning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Schools | en_US |
| dc.subject | Setswana | en_US |
| dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
| dc.subject | Teachers | en_US |
| dc.title | Lessons learnt from teachers’ perspectives on mobile learning in South Africa with cultural and linguistic constraints | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |