Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Education, Development, Leadership and Management) by Issue Date
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A critical study of some aspects of teacher training in the Commonwealth.
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Teacher education in South Africa : a critical study of selected aspects of its historical, curricular and administrative development.
(1971)This study, in a sense, mirrors the attitudes of the society in which it is based towards a fundamental pedagogical task, that of the preparation of its teachers, Almost throughout the Western world, the concept of elementary ... -
A comparative study of the use of microteaching and an analysis of factors which affect its use in one year postgraduate teacher training courses.
(1985)This thesis is concerned with a study of the use of microteaching in the one year postgraduate teacher training course. It consists of two national surveys using two types of questionnaire, an Organisation and an ... -
A critical study of aspects of the political, constitutional, administrative and professional development of Indian teacher education in South Africa with particular reference to the period 1965 to 1984.
(1985)This study deals with the administrative and curricular development of Indian teacher education in South Africa for the period 1860 - 1984. It is set against the background of developments in the education system for ... -
An investigation into the management of in-service education and training (INSET) in the Natal-KwaZulu region.
(1995)In any education system “no other single factor determines to such an extent the quality of education in a country as the quality of the corps of teachers, lecturers and instructors” (HSRC 198 : 180). This factor is of ... -
Non-formal education : assessment of need and development of a provision model.
(1996)The present debates over strategies to construct a non-racial democratic education system for South Africa concur that non-formal education is an indispensable complement of formal education. Formal education alone is not ... -
The role played by environmental education in the secondary school geography syllabus in a future South Africa.
(1997)The primary aim of this study is to attempt to examine the role to be played by Environmental Education (E.E.) in the secondary school Geography syllabus in a future South Africa. At the present time and since the commencement ... -
Power and identity in theory-practice relationships : an exploration of teachers' work through qualitative research.
(1997)This thesis provides two interwoven sets of detailed descriptions with narrative lines. The first relates to five case studies involving secondary school teachers in schools in and around Durban during 1993 and 1994. This ... -
Alternate systems of education (distance and virtual) : South African trends.
(2001)It has been well documented (Education and Training White Paper I,II and III) that one of the key challenges facing South African post apartheid education is the need to transform the educational sector that was ... -
Recognition of prior learning and assessment of adult learners : considerations for theory, policy and practice.
(2004)As part of the transformation agenda of education and training policy, the main thrust of Recognition and Prior Learning (RPL) in the South African policy context was to contribute to addressing social justice issues ... -
Literacy in the lives of domestic workers : investigating the impact of the adult English literacy curriculum on the lives of female adult learners.
(2004)This study draws on empirical evidence to examine theory on the critical question: "What is the impact of the English literacy curriculum on the lives of female adult learners?" I used the critical postmodernist and ... -
An exploration of women's transformation through distance learning in Kenya.
(2004)This research, An Exploration of Women's Transformation through Distance Learning in Kenya, applied Mezirow's theory of transformative learning to investigate how distance learning impacted on women's views about themselves ... -
Towards inclusive education : exploring policy, context and change through an ethnographic study in a rural context in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2005)This study is an ethnographic enquiry into the experiences of a school and its community as they interface with the implementation of the policy of educational inclusion in a pilot project in a rural school in KwaZulu-Natal, ... -
A critical appraisal of policy on educator post provisioning in public schools with particular reference to secondary schools in Kwazulu-Natal.
(2005)Historically, educator post provisioning in South African public schools has been a -
The relationship between academic performance, school culture and school leadership in historically disadvantaged African township secondary schools : implications for leadership.
(2005)The present government places tremendous faith in academic performance as a crucial tool for transforming the country's society. However, academic performance in the majority of historically disadvantaged schools is poor. ... -
Teacher learning in a community of practice : case study of teachers of economic and management sciences.
(2005)Conceptualising teacher learning in terms of participation in a teacher learning community is a relatively new phenomenon in South Africa. This study explores the usefulness of applying a social practice theory of learning ... -
Constructions of childhood for and by children in two early childhood centres in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2006)This thesis examines the constructions of childhood by seven early childhood teachers and twenty young children (ten boys and ten girls) in two private early childhood centres catering for children below Grade R in urban ... -
To lead or not to lead : principals' constructions of leadership in a climate of school transformation.
(2006)This dissertation assumed the style of the narrative to document how principals lead school transformation within the realm of a fledgling democracy after decades of apartheid rule. It zooms in to the school site to portray ... -
Policy and practice related constraints to increased female participation in education management in South Africa.
(2006)This thesis examines South African policies addressing gender inequality in education management, and interrogates whether or not these policies made a difference to the career route of women principals of secondary ...