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dc.contributor.authorBrijlall, Deonarain-
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-21T07:07:42Z-
dc.date.available2016-06-21T07:07:42Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationBrijlall, D. 2015. Exploring the Gurteen Knowledge Café approach as an innovative teaching for learning strategy with first-year engineering students. Groupwork .24(3) : 26-45.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10321/1561-
dc.description.abstractThis study explored a learning approach based on the Gurteen Knowledge Café to encourage collaborative learning in a first-year Mathematics module. The rationale for carrying out this exploration was to empower students to become active, responsible and critical learners. The study was carried out with 32 first-year Electrical Engineering students at a South African university of technology, who were divided into five groups and engaged in mathematics tasks structured in the form of activity sheets and the general pedagogy was guided by social constructivism. Written responses, classroom activity observations and questionnaires contributed to the data. The activities involved five tasks on hyperbolic functions in preparation for first-year Calculus. Findings emanating from the data analysis indicated that this approach to collaborative learning provided positive attributes which aided effective Mathematics learning and learning in general.en_US
dc.format.extent20 pen_US
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dc.publisherPKP Publishingen_US
dc.subjectCollaborative learningen_US
dc.subjectConstructivismen_US
dc.subjectHyperbolic functionsen_US
dc.subjectGurteen Knowledge Cafeen_US
dc.subjectInductionen_US
dc.subjectGroupworken_US
dc.titleExploring the Gurteen Knowledge Café approach as an innovative teaching for learning strategy with first-year engineering studentsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.publisher.urihttp://journals.whitingbirch.net/index.php/GPWK/article/view/787/860en_US
dc.dut-rims.pubnumDUT-004847en_US
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