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Fiona De Villiers

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Fiona De Villiers

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Every medium has its use

Fiona de Villiers reviewsUSING MEDIA IN TEACHING – LEARNING GUIDE by Carol Bertram, Peter Ranby, Mike Adendorff, Yvonne Reed, Nicky Roberts (Oxford University Press, R250)…

Escape into infinity

As author Peter Ackroyd points out, the most singular defining characteristic of humans has always been our ‘endless and inexhaustible curiosity”. Even as our first ancestors…

A work of excellence and wonder

My class mates and I grew up enduring this kind of torture in the form of geography textbooks. They were dense, grey and boring and crammed with facts that seemed completely…

Removing barriers to learning

In the right hands, the Catholic Institute’s Education Services handbook Together Now will be indispensable. Its focus is the implementation of inclusive education – a challenge…

Through the eyes of a child

At the Grahamstown festival in the Eastern Cape in July, an audience gathered in the pale late afternoon winter sunlight to watch a piece of street theatre. The self-confident…

Reviews – Make room for a little drama

<i>Theteacher</i> views <i>Drama with Children</i> which forms part of Oxford University Press’s successful <i>Resource Books for Teachers</i> series and is aimed at younger…

Proper values can stop bullies.

Around the world, bullying has always been part of the hidden curriculum at schools. Despite the strategies that have been developed to deal with this scourge, it continues to…

HIV/Aids: Listen, understand and act

It’s a fact that while many teachers are uncertain on how to deal with the subject of HIV/Aids in the classrooms, some learning materials on the subject are a real turn-off. The…