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The dental therapy curriculum : meeting needs and challenges for oral health care in South Africa.
(2011)
This study reviews the three-year Bachelor of Dental Therapy curriculum, which was introduced at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1980. The dental therapist was introduced to the health care system during the apartheid ...
Diverse school contexts and novice teachers' professional development.
(2013)
This study is an exploration of the influence of different school contexts on novice teachers’ professional development and learning. The study sought to understand and interpret how 1st year novice teachers who were exposed ...
Certain the curriculum ; uncertain the practice : palliative care in context.
(2012)
This study opens in a critical paradigm and explores the previously unheard experiences of caregivers who have been trained in and who practice palliative care in a context of rural African, isolated, profoundly impoverished ...
An analysis of teachers' methods of teaching numeracy skills in Standard 10 geography in three schools in Eastern Cape Province.
(1998)
This study aimed at investigating the methods used by teachers to assist the acquisition of numeracy skills by Standard 10 Geography learners. The problem of high failure rate in these skills was considered in terms of ...
A small-scale investigation of the extent to which the skill of mindmapping improves conceptual learning in history in standard 8.
(1997)
This study investigated, in a small-scale, the extent to which the skill of mind-mapping improves conceptual learning in history in Standard eight. The study was carried out using two Standard eight classes. Each class had ...
Gendered social relations among adolescents in a South African secondary school : the Greenvale case study.
(1999)
This dissertation incorporates a number of ethnographic case studies done within the qualitative paradigm from a feminist stance (Nielsen, 1995). It served to explore and understand the attributions and aspirations of ...
What are we learning? : a case of teacher learning in a South African school - post 1994.
(2010)
An understanding of teachers experiences of professional development activities and its contribution to their own professional learning in the context of change was composed by asking, “What are teachers learning and how ...
Exploring the schooling experience of migrant children from the Democratic Republic of Congo in South Africa.
(2010)
This study explores the schooling experiences in South Africa of migrant children from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Migration has been an area of interest within political, social and academic circles. In recent ...
A consideration of some aspects of general education in the universities of the United States of America.
(1963)
The three major fields of human knowledge are the
humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences.
An undergraduate, whose special interests lie in one of
these fields, should be able to understand his own ...
A report on some tests of standard 6 pupils' performance in general science at a KwaZulu-Natal secondary school, some possible contributory factors, and implications for teachers.
(1996)
This research made a diagnostic assessment of some aspects of pupil performance in General Science on entry to secondary school. This assessment included written content and skills assessment of all standard 6 pupils at a ...