Browsing Masters Degrees (Education, Development, Leadership and Management) by Title
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Gender and sexuality in the context of HIV and AIDS: sexual risk and sexual agency amongst coloured high school girls in Durban.
(2012)This qualitative study is an exploration of the sexual subjectivities of a group of Coloured high school girls aged 16-17. These girls emerge from both working and middle class backgrounds in the former Coloured suburb of ... -
Gender-related experiences of female school principals : a qualitative study of four schools in Umlazi North circuit.
(2012)The study sought to explore four female school principals’ management experiences and challenges that these females encounter in their management duties. It adopted a qualitative approach inquiry, and used semi-structured ... -
Going the extra mile : a case study of five teacher leaders in a deep rural primary school.
(2011)My study is aligned with the school context. In the school context, there is a formal leadership structure which ensures smooth running of the institution. The success of the school is reliant on the management and leadership ... -
Graduates' perceptions of an undergraduate optometry program at a tertiary institution : a qualitative study.
(2010)The aim of this study is to explore the views of recent optometry graduates, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, towards the professional education and training program they had experienced. The optometry program aims ... -
Grappling with large classes : experience of educators, heads of department and principals in three rural schools in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2009)The South African Education system has gone through much transformation and seen significant changes in the past decade in order to provide quality education and reformation. However, many under-resourced schools, such ... -
Growing social justice educators : how do we improve our practice as social justice educators?
(2006)In this study I am aiming to improve my practice as a Social Justice Educator of educator-students, basing my methodology primarily on Jean McNiff's (2002) approach to self-reflective action-research. The self-reflective ... -
Heads of departments' understandings of and their preparedness for their roles as curriculum managers : a case study of a rural primary school.
(2008)This study investigates Heads of Department’s (HoDs’) understandings of their roles as curriculum managers and their level of preparedness for instructional support and supervision to educators in the implementation of ... -
The heads of department’s instructional leadership role in mathematics teaching and learning in three South African secondary schools in Pinetown District.
(2017)The ever-changing curriculum policies in South Africa have posed challenges in terms of teaching and management strategies to be applied by teachers to meet the standards. At the forefront of these curriculum policy ... -
The history of adult education provision at Beatrice Street YMCA in Durban (1978-2003).
(2004)Among all the other files in my cabinet is one marked 'adult education'. It is a bulky file of documents dating back a number of years. It contains reports, articles and official documents both from NGOs and the Department ... -
A history of native education in Natal between 1835 and 1927.
(1927)This account of Native Education in Natal has been written to make available for the first time a mass of valuable information, which will, it is hoped, prove useful to Government Officials and leading Missionaries. For ... -
HIV/AIDS education in Butare-Ville secondary schools (Rwanda) : analyzing current pedagogic discourse using a Bernsteinian framework.
(2005)HIV/AIDS Education in Butare- Ville Secondary Schools (Rwanda): Analyzing current Pedagogic Discourse using a Bernsteinian framework. This thesis is concerned with the questions of "the what and how of HIV/AIDS school ... -
How do teachers position themselves within socially constructed discourses of disability and inclusion? A case study at a semi-rural township school in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2006)Since a democratic dispensation in South Africa in 1994, the country has been immersed in processes of social, economic, political, and educational transformation aimed at entrenching principles of social justice and ... -
How does globalisation affect the professional lives and work of office-based educators? : a case study of Pinetown district office in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2008)The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact that globalisation has on the professional roles and work of the office-based educators (subject advisors). It was conducted as a case study in one of the districts ... -
Identifying and meeting the development needs of novice teachers : experiences at one school in Durban.
(2009)This study explored the experiences in identifying and meeting the developmental needs of novice teachers at one primary school in Durban. The researcher’s assumption was that mentoring and teacher development are a norm ... -
Ideological influences in the national curriculum statements for the further education and training band.
(2006)Since it assumed power in 1994, the government of South Africa had to meet the challenges of changing an education system that was established along racial lines. OBE and Curriculum 2005 were adopted into the school system. ... -
The impact of a skills development programme on unemployed women : six life histories.
(2005)The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the skills development project which aims at developing income generating skills, impacts on the ability of unemployed women to generate income. Secondly, the researcher ... -
The impact of an alternative approach to teaching in thermodynamics II using spreadsheets - a case study.
(2011)Since South Africa’s newly formed democratically elected Government in 1994 the face of South African education has changed across the board involving a paradigm shift from a content-based teacher-centred curriculum to ... -
The impact of leadership and management styles of the principals of Catholic secondary schools on school discipline in Limpopo province.
(2003)The purposes of this study are to first investigate various leadership and management styles of Catholic secondary school principals and their impact on school discipline and secondly to determine whether there is a ... -
The impact of psychosocial deprivation on the scholastic performance of grade seven learners.
(2011)This research topic presents a discussion on psychosocial deprivation and how it impacts on learners academic performance. It is a case study guided by the following questions: To what extent does psychosocial deprivation ... -
The impact of quality assurance legislation on private higher education institutions.
(2002)Post apartheid South Africa saw the introduction of many policies and legislations that were to meet the goals of democracy, social redress, equity and development. One of the crucial legislations that guided the ...