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The experiences of rural working mothers pursuing higher degrees at a South African University.
(2020)This research explored the experiences of rural working mothers pursuing postgraduate degrees at a South African university. The focus of the study was on the experiences of older women coming into higher education. After ... -
Exploring social and emotional learning in a grade 4 classroom: a teacher’s self-study.
(2020)I am a teacher at a primary school in South Africa. This thesis presents a self-study project exploring social and emotional learning in my personal history and my Grade 4 classroom. I wanted to discover ways of improving ... -
Assessing grade six second language learners: English home language teachers’ experiences.
(2022)Since the end of apartheid and the birth of a new democratic South Africa, learners of different races have been at liberty to attend any school of choice. With South Africa having eleven official languages, children attend ... -
Playful pedagogy in an under-resourced grade 1 classroom: a teacher’s self-study.
(2021)I am a teacher in a primary school in a semi-urban area, serving an isiZulu-speaking community. My study aimed to explore playful pedagogy as a valuable teaching and learning approach in an under-resourced Grade 1 classroom. ... -
Exploring children’s popular culture as a resource for English creative writing in an isiZulu-speaking Grade 6 class: a teacher’s self-study.
(2021)I am an isiZulu-speaking teacher in a primary school in a semi-rural area, serving an isiZulu-speaking community. The school uses English as a medium of instruction, and it is taught as a First Additional Language. My study ... -
Improving continuing professional teacher development in the Foundation Phase: a subject advisor’s self-study.
(2020)I am a subject advisor in the Foundation Phase (Grades R–3) in the Department of Education in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. For this study, the focus was on my practice and learning as a subject advisor concerning ... -
A case study of a training programme for educators and trainers within a non-profit organisation: participant and organisational experiences.
(2019)This qualitative single case study explored an international Non-Profit Organisation’s (NPO) planning, design and implementation of a Training Programme for Educators and Trainers (TPET) during the period 2009 – 2011. ... -
Experiences of NGO capacity building on microfinance: Zimbabwean life histories.
(2020)This qualitative study explored poor rural women’s experiences of the Internal Savings and Lending (ISaL) scheme promoted by CARE International in Zimbabwe. Data in this interpretivist, life history study were generated ... -
An exploration of teachers’ perspectives of teaching agricultural sciences in secondary schools in two districts of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2021)This thesis bestows the action research, which involves six teachers who participated in exploring teachers’ perspectives of teaching AGRIS in secondary schools in two districts of KwaZulu-Natal. The agricultural sciences ... -
Teachers’ experiences of integrating Jika iMfundo into curriculum and assessment policy statement in Mthonjaneni circuit.
(2020)The study presented a qualitative case study exploring teachers’ experiences in integrating Jika iMfundo into the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) in schools on Mthonjaneneni Circuit in KwaZulu-Natal. The ... -
Exploring the post school career/training and employment trajectories of students with special educational needs.
(2020)Youth with disabilities have a high rate of unemployment, are under employed or earn less than youth without disabilities. They encounter many barriers when seeking employment and this makes them half as likely as their ... -
Novice teachers and classroom management: exploring classroom disruptive behaviour forms and their management by novice teachers in a township secondary school.
(2021)Disruptive behaviours in schools have been an ongoing pandemic, especially in township schools. This study explored classroom disruptive behaviours forms and their management by novice teachers in a township secondary ... -
First-year female university residence students’ experiences and constructions of gender and sexuality in the context of gender-based violence in South Africa.
(2021)Entering university for the first time is a major change for first-year female students at university, especially for those who live in university residences. There is increasing evidence of gender-based violence (GBV) on ... -
School-based professional development initiatives for novice teacher development: experiences of heads of department in public primary schools.
(2021)This thesis presents an understanding of HoDs’ experiences in enacting school-based professional development of novice teachers in primary schools. As a novice teacher who encountered many professional and personal ... -
Pre-service teachers’ understandings of teaching measurement as mathematics component in foundation phase.
(2021)Teaching measurement as one of mathematical components in Foundation Phase classrooms is significant. Different studies conducted discovered that pre-service teachers should possess Mathematical Content Knowledge for the ... -
In pursuit of a critical (African) psychology pedagogy in a South African university: a critical self-study.
(2020)This thesis explores the under-researched nexus between critical psychology and critical pedagogy in the South Africa context. Adopting a self-study approach, it investigates how critical pedagogy might inform the pedagogical ... -
Teachers' experiences in teaching grade two immigrant primary school learners using IsiZulu as a language of instruction: a case study of three primary schools.
(2022)The study explored the experiences of teachers teaching immigrant learners using IsiZulu as the language of instruction. This study used qualitative methodology, guided by interpretive epistemology. It also employed an ... -
Health education promotion for sustainable learning in Zimbabwean rural ecologies.
(2021)Given the exponential growth of both communicable and non-communicable diseases in developing countries, Zimbabwean learners need to be health conscious, to develop positive behaviours, to desist from health threatening ... -
Exploring lecturers' experiences of e-learning resources in the teaching of history at universities in South Africa.
(2021)A call for 21st century teaching and learning places History among the critical disciplines of the century. In response to this call, the teaching and learning of History becomes critically placed in a trajectory discourse ... -
Employee motivation models on organisational performance in government primary teacher education colleges in Zimbabwe.
(2022)This thesis applied a mixed methods research approach to eleven employees (lecturers).These participants shared their perceptions on motivation levels of organisational performance in government primary teacher education ...
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