Browsing Masters Degrees (Education Studies) by Title
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Barriers to academic achievement of first year African students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2005)The present study explores the barriers to academic achievement of first year African -
Being an art teacher : "an auto-ethnographic study of different educational moments in my life"
(2008)This auto-ethnographic research emerges from an historical account of my self-understandings, perceptions and intentions, constructed from a journal that was kept of my experiences during the various stages of my development ... -
Being HIV and AIDS affected : how it affects the school life of an African female adolescent learner in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2006)The HlV and AIDS pandemic has affected millions of people worldwide. In 2004, statistics released by UNAlDS revealed that the number of people infected with HIV and AIDS had reached 42 million worldwide. Much has been ... -
Below the surface : African learners' experiences of schooling in a predominantly Indian school in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2004)This research explores the experiences of African learners in a school in which they constitute the minority. The aim of the study is to investigate how African learners perceive of their day to day experiences in an ... -
A Bernsteinian description of the recontextualising process of the national curriculum statement from conceptualisation to realisation in the classroom.
(2006)The aim of this study is to describe the recontextualisation of the official pedagogical field, in the form of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS), in the Further Education and Training (FET) band. The study's focus ... -
Beyond data production : exploring the use of a digital archive in addressing HIV-related stigma with educators in two rural schools in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2009)This study outlines the use of a digital archive (a data set of staged HIV stigma photographs which were taken by Grade 8 and 9 learners) with educators in two rural schools in KwaZulu-Natal, exploring their views on ... -
Boys' narratives of violence in a technical high school in Chatsworth, Durban.
(2004)This thesis is an analysis of the way a small number of grade 12 boys understand violence and how they describe and locate it in the narratives of their own masculinity. Semi-structured interviews with grade 12 boys attending ... -
Boys, girls and the making of violence in a Pinetown secondary school : a case study of gender violence.
(2015)This study explores the gendered nature of school spaces and shows how violence is produced within these spaces. The conceptualisation of space employed in this study refers to social and physical spaces. Social spaces ... -
Bullying at a high school in KwaZulu-Natal : narratives of eight grade 10 learners.
(2015)This study sought to research bullying – a phenomenon which is seen as a major social problem that has a serious impact on the wellbeing of children and youth. The study contributes to the small body of research that has ... -
Bullying in and out of school : personal narratives of primary school learners.
(2014)The study emerges against a global and local backdrop of the prevalence of bullying in and out of schools. Growing incidents of bullying are a direct threat to the expectation that schools should be safe places for learners ... -
Burnout in special needs educators in Pietermaritzburg : associations with intentions to leave.
(2015)The concept of burnout emerged from pragmatic, social concerns and the conceptualisation of this construct developed in parallel to the development of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). While research has focused on ... -
Career awareness and school subject selection of black secondary school learners in a rural area.
(1998)This study explored the career awareness of learners in grade 9 and their selection of school subjects for their subsequent years of study in the secondary school. This was based in a remote rural setting with a sample ... -
Career decision-making the relationship between educational indecision and vocational indecision.
(1997)The present study investigates the relationship between educational and vocational indecision. It examines gender and cultural differences in relation to these two main variables. Three levels of educational and vocational ... -
Case studies of economics teaching in secondary schools.
(1998)The purpose of this research study was to establish the perceptions of economics teaching of two teachers of economics who were functioning in two contrasting contexts. The intention was to examine their practice and to ... -
A case study exploring how grade three learners with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder experience the support provided by their educators in an inclusive education context.
(2008)South Africa is a country with tremendous diversity. Previously, many learners who experienced barriers to learning and development were excluded from the education system, preventing them from meeting their educational ... -
A case study of Endleleni Adult Education Centre and how it relates to the community in Madadeni, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2016)Adult education contributes to poverty mitigation and enables members of the community to acquire knowledge and skills for development within their local communities. The White Paper for Post-Schooling Education and Training ... -
A case study of informal teacher learning in the foundation phase.
This study describes how two teachers in foundation phase learn informally in the workplace. It also aims to analyse the context within each school and evaluates to what extent the context supports teacher learning. A case ... -
A case study of integrated schooling within a co-educational high school in the Durban area.
(1994)Issues relating to racial integration in white schools in South Africa during the period 1976-1992 are explored within the South African (historical, social, political) context. The introduction by the state of alternative ... -
A case study of seven families who have tried alternative treatment to ritalin for children clinically diagnosed with ADHD.
(2005)The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of alternative treatment to Ritalin. -
Challenges and constraints : a case study of three teacher leaders in a township high school.
(2009)Many changes have occurred in the South African education field since 1994. New education policies came into existence that were aimed at shifting from the management practices, which have been traditionally top–down and ...
