Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Education, Development, Leadership and Management) by Title
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Alternate systems of education (distance and virtual) : South African trends.
(2001)It has been well documented (Education and Training White Paper I,II and III) that one of the key challenges facing South African post apartheid education is the need to transform the educational sector that was ... -
An autoethnographic study of the person in the principal's office.
(2014-10-28)The role of a school principal is complex and multidimensional, and is pivotal to the success of an educational institution. It is widely recognised by researchers that the effectiveness of a principal depends on his or ... -
The changing dynamics of teacher learning : an exploration of teacher learning through the lens of assessment.
(2012)The National Curriculum Statement advocates a shift in focus with regards to the manner in which assessment and learning are conceptualized (Department of Education, 2002). Consequently, new forms of assessment that are ... -
Changing times, changing values : an alchemy of values education.
(2008)This study sought to explore what human values were being fostered by teachers at secondary schools within the context of the transformation that is occurring in South Africa and in education. Teachers from three different ... -
Communities of learning and action? : a case study of the human rights, democracy and development project, 1999-2005.
(2009)Enduring levels of illiteracy point to a long-term failure to address one of society's more solvable problems. The conditions giving rise to illiteracy are systemic and complex, but also deeply personal. Such conditions ... -
A comparative study of the use of microteaching and an analysis of factors which affect its use in one year postgraduate teacher training courses.
(1985)This thesis is concerned with a study of the use of microteaching in the one year postgraduate teacher training course. It consists of two national surveys using two types of questionnaire, an Organisation and an ... -
Constructions of childhood for and by children in two early childhood centres in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2006)This thesis examines the constructions of childhood by seven early childhood teachers and twenty young children (ten boys and ten girls) in two private early childhood centres catering for children below Grade R in urban ... -
Constructions of gender in the context of free primary education : a multi-site case study of three schools in Lesotho.
(2009)his thesis reports on a qualitative study of stakeholders’ constructions of gender in the context of the Free Primary Education policy in three primary schools in Lesotho. Through the lens of the social constructionist ... -
A critical appraisal of policy on educator post provisioning in public schools with particular reference to secondary schools in Kwazulu-Natal.
(2005)Historically, educator post provisioning in South African public schools has been a -
A critical study of aspects of the political, constitutional, administrative and professional development of Indian teacher education in South Africa with particular reference to the period 1965 to 1984.
(1985)This study deals with the administrative and curricular development of Indian teacher education in South Africa for the period 1860 - 1984. It is set against the background of developments in the education system for ... -
A critical study of some aspects of teacher training in the Commonwealth.
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A critique of school leadership : life histories of selected principals in Kwazulu-Natal.
(2007)The central aim of this study was to describe through qualitative inquiry how school principals have dealt with the post-1994 changes in school governance and the change in their leadership roles as leaders and professional ... -
Developing a doctoral identity : a narrative study in an autoethnographic frame.
(2009)The global interest in the production of advanced knowledge workers as one of the drivers of economic growth, has led to questions about the cost and length of time spent in doctoral study. As a result, the pedagogy of ... -
Distributed teacher leadership in South African schools : troubling the terrain.
(2010)This publication-based study aims to ‘trouble’ the terrain of teacher leadership – at the level of both theory and praxis, in the South African schooling context. The motivation for this study came from my increasing ... -
Dynamics of school-based violence : exploring school governing bodies in addressing violence in post-conflict South African school.
(2013)There is a growing and widespread problem of violence in South African schools which ultimately results in problems of governance and management. School violence manifests itself in many forms including discipline problems ... -
Education for rural medical practice.
(2010)In the context of a country and a continent that is largely rural, education for rural medical practice in Africa is relatively undocumented and poorly conceptualized. The arena of medical education in South Africa has ... -
An ethnographic exploration of the day to day texture of the school life of poor children.
(2014-11-07)This study is an ethnographic exploration into the daily school life of learners at a former ‘Model C’ primary school. The primary school, named Good Hope School for the purposes of this study, was chosen because of its ... -
An exploration of the curriculum in three early childhood centres in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa : a case study.
(2012)This thesis explores the childhood curriculum in three early childhood centres in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, through a case study approach. The research is located within a critical pedagogical perspective ... -
An exploration of women's transformation through distance learning in Kenya.
(2004)This research, An Exploration of Women's Transformation through Distance Learning in Kenya, applied Mezirow's theory of transformative learning to investigate how distance learning impacted on women's views about themselves ...
