Browsing Masters Degrees (Education, Development, Leadership and Management) by Title
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Teacher stress : a study of high school teachers in the Northern Cape.
(2013-11-11)The purpose of this research was to establish what the major stressors of black High school teachers in the Kimberley Area, Northern Cape, were. At the same time the research had to establish whether gender and number of ... -
Teacher's experiences of a learning styles approach to curriculum implementation : Dunn and Done?.
(2014)Critical times demand daring teachers, creative responses and innovative approaches. Teachers‘ experiences of curriculum implementation in schools are unavoidably dynamic and diverse daring innovation and change. The ... -
Teacher's management of learner discipline in a primary school in the Phoenix District.
(2012)This study set out to explore how teachers at a primary school in the Phoenix area in Durban manage discipline problems among learners. I employed a qualitative approach to collecting data. This facilitated meaning making ... -
Teachers teaching in adversarial conditions : a narrative inquiry.
(2011)This study explores the concepts of adversity, the facets of adversity and the nature of adversity and how teachers cope under these adversarial conditions. Adversity is a phenomenon that is challenging to grasp yet it ... -
Teachers teaching multi-grade classes in a rural setting.
(2011)This study aims to explore the experiences of teaching foundation phase multi-grade classes in rural settings. I am interested in understanding how teachers teach multi-grade classes so that I am able to make sense of the ... -
Teachers' and parents' perceptions of their relationship : a case study of two secondary schools in Ubombo circuit, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2004)Parent-teacher relationship and support to children are essential for effective education to be functional. Sound parent-teacher relationships influence teaching and learning. Hence it was evident from literature ... -
Teachers' implicit mental models of learners' cognitive and moral development with reference to the inclusion of learners in the governing bodies of schools.
(1998)This study set out to investigate teachers' mental models of learners' cognitive and moral development, with reference to the inclusion of learners in the governing bodies of schools. Strauss' (1996), concept of implicit ... -
Teachers' knowledge and practices of teaching and integrating language structures and conventions in the intermediate phase : isiZulu home language CAPS curriculum.
(2015-06-10)This dissertation is concerned with the teaching of Language Structures and Conventions (LS & C). It was undertaken in the current context of curriculum change and innovation from the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) ... -
Teachers' understanding and experiences of curriculum change-related professional development.
This study focused on Curriculum change-related professional development of teachers. The aim was to find out teachers’ understanding and experiences of Curriculum change-related professional development. Since the advent ... -
Teachers' understanding and use of assessment in the context of outcomes-based education : a case study of a Hammersdale farm school.
(2003)This study investigates the nature and extent of teacher's understanding of assessment in the context of an outcomes-based education system at a Hammersdale Farm School. The study also investigates the nature of assessment ... -
Teaching across the curriculum - narratives of teachers' experiences in the primary school.
(2011)There have been some fundamental changes to the education system within post apartheid South Africa. Firstly, in the primary school there are some teachers who were trained as specialist teachers before 1994, and some ... -
Teaching for social justice within the language curriculum : embedded assumptions and pedagogical practices of a secondary school teacher.
(2012)This study was located within the critical research paradigm. It examined the ways a secondary teacher of English Home Language conceptualised and interpreted social justice imperatives in the English Home Language Curriculum ... -
Teaching legal writing in a South African context : an evaluation of the work of student tutors in assisting with the development of legal writing skills in first year law students at one South African law school.
(2001)In this study, an analysis and an evaluation of the feedback comments made by fourth year law students on legal writing assignments of first year law students is made. The purpose is to formulate a sense of the student ... -
A team-based approach to leading and managing a rural primary school.
(2011)The aim of this study is to explore a team-based approach to leading and managing a rural primary school. A requirement in a team-based approach to make quality decisions and improvements in the school, comes from people ... -
Teenage pregnancy : young mothers in grade twelve : shh ... there are mothers amongst us.
(2005)My interest in teenage pregnancy began when I discovered pregnant girls in my class. Upon discussion with other educators in my school, I discovered that there were many pregnant girls in school. Thus began a journey in ... -
Theory versus practice of inclusive education : an exploration of teacher development in selected affluent high schools in greater Durban.
(2012)Despite a national and international focus on the effective implementation of inclusive education, there remains a discrepancy between the desire to provide inclusive education and the realities of providing such an ... -
Thriving instructional leadership practices and functions in challenging contexts : lessons from two Nigerian principals.
(2016)The purpose of this study is to account for instructional leadership practices and functions of principals that succeed in challenging contexts and to know how these principals demonstrated these behaviours and functions ... -
"Towards improved praxis" : a case study of the certificate in education (participatory development)
(2006)This study set out to provide an understanding of the Certificate in Education programme, CE (PD), in terms of various stakeholder perspectives and its historical development. Through the use of case study method the study ... -
Tracer study of teacher education graduates.
(1997)In the years since the Bantu Education Act of 1954, and other race-based legislation which introduced apartheid education into South African schools, it was widely believed that the majority of black school teachers were ... -
Tracing the use of pedagogical content knowledge in Grade 6 mathematics classrooms in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2010)The aim of this study was to explore the concept of pedagogical content knowledge, or PCK, and its use in the practice of teaching. Teacher knowledge is a significant factor in determining learner gains in all school ...