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Ruksana Osman

Researcher at University of the Witwatersrand

Publications -  48
Citations -  731

Ruksana Osman is an academic researcher from University of the Witwatersrand. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Teacher education. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 47 publications receiving 662 citations.

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Massification in higher education: large classes and student learning

TL;DR: The Opportunities and Challenges of Massification in Large Class Pedagogy as discussed by the authors is a special issue on large class pedagogy, which takes stock of the emerging literature on this subject.
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Codeswitching Among Multilingual Learners in Primary Schools in South Africa: An Exploratory Study.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the incidence of codeswitching in primary schools and examine the speakers' motivations for employing code-witching, using conversations in both formal (classroom) and informal (playground) situations.
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Positives and Negatives: Reconceptualising Gender Attributes within the Context of the Sex role Identity and Well-Being Literature: An Examination within the South African Context

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the extent to which individuals adopt both positive and negative sex-based traits and sex role identities and found that a significant proportion of the respondents adopted negative sex role identity.
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Service learning in teacher education : an institutional model for an emerging practice : research in higher education

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline Pollack's typology of institutional responses to service learning in the United States of America (USA) and review two case studies of service learning piloted in the Wits College of Education in 2001.