Doctoral Degrees (Education Studies)
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Exploring teachers' experiences of lesson study for integrating information and communication technologies in teaching.
(2020)This study explored teachers' experiences of integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in teaching. Twelve (12) purposefully selected teachers from three different subject groups (Life Sciences, Economic ... -
Vocational education and training curriculum responsiveness to the learning needs of A1 farmers in post-2000 Zimbabwe.
(2019)The study explored vocational education and training curriculum responsiveness to the learning needs of smallholder farmers (commonly known as A1 farmers after the Fast Track Land Reform Programme) in Masvingo province of ... -
Discourse analysis of teacher and parent rhetoric about teachers’ work.
(2018)Teachers and the work they do are often at the heart of debates on education. The literature is proliferated with discussions of teacher professionalism, intensification of teachers’ work and teacher stress. This study is ... -
Muslim female teachers enacting leadership: a collaborative self-study.
(2020)As a Muslim female teacher and Head of Department, I worked together with three other Muslim female teachers to explore the challenges of and opportunities for enacting leadership in personal and professional spheres. I ... -
Mentoring novice teachers in learner behaviour support: a deputy principal’s self-study.
(2020)I am a deputy principal and seasoned teacher in a multicultural urban South African school. I observed the many challenges that novice teachers encounter with compassion, and I understood their anguish when battling to ... -
A collaborative framework for enhancing sustainable learning for learners with disruptive behaviour in a rural school context.
(2020)This study investigated how a collaborative framework could be utilised to enhance sustainable learning among learners with disruptive behaviour in a rural school context in Zimbabwe. The literature confirms that a ... -
Cultivating an integrated learning approach to early childhood mathematics: a teacher educator’s self-study.
(2020)To improve my practice as a newly appointed teacher educator at a South African university, I conducted a self-study project focused on exploring an integrated learning approach (ILA) in early childhood mathematics teacher ... -
Personal-professional identities: stories of teachers’ lived dilemmatic experiences in the context of school quintiles.
(2020)This study, Personal-professional identities: Stories of teachers’ lived dilemmatic experiences in the context of school quintiles, explored the identities and dilemmatic experiences of five teachers who each represented ... -
Being an adolescent orphan in the context of sexual violence: a participatory visual methodology study in and around a township secondary school in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2020)The study reported in this thesis examined the vulnerability and agency of a group of adolescent orphans in the context of sexual violence in and around a township secondary school. This qualitative study was located within ... -
Using music to teach communication to children aged three to four: a case of two urban ECD centres.
(2020)This qualitative case study focused on the use of music as a pedagogical medium to teach communication skills to children in the early childhood care and education (ECCE) phase (children aged three and four). The study was ... -
A comparative analysis of problem-solving procedures of a South Korean and a South African grade six mathematics textbook.
(2020)Mathematical tasks play a critical role in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Textbooks have been valued as an important tool in the teaching-learning process of Mathematics. This study aimed to analyse how ... -
Stakeholders’ lived experiences of the implementation of the external quality assurance system for higher education in Namibia.
(2021)Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are known as the custodians of the quality of Higher Education (HE), and to be primarily responsible for their Internal Quality Assurance (IQA). External Quality Assurance (EQA) is ... -
Teenage fathers: culture, sexuality and masculinity in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
(2020)This study examines teenagers’ experiences of fatherhood and how they understand their responsibilities and perform their roles as fathers. It is based on a qualitative study of 20 teenage fathers at two public high schools ... -
Investigation into drug dose practices and proportional reasoning in mathematics among medical students.
(2019)Multilingual preclinical South African medical students, receiving a developing quantitative literacy program, were studied. Their preparedness for drug dosage practices, aspects they found difficult, the underlying reasons, ... -
Gender regimes in the learning experiences of female engineering students: the case of a Mauritian higher education institution.
(2020)This study explores the influences of gender regimes in the learning experiences of female engineering students at a higher education institution in Mauritius. The feminist paradigm informs the problematisation and the ... -
Beyond schooling: primary school girls experiences of gender and sexual violence.
(2019)This ethnography explored primary school girls’ experiences of gender and sexual violence at Westhills Primary School. My key objectives were to understand the underlying factors that shaped my respondents’ experiences of ... -
Negotiating and regulating teenage sexuality in rural Zimbabwe: gender, culture and schooling.
(2019)In the context of HIV and AIDS, unwanted pregnancies and teenage girls’ vulnerability to gender inequalities and violence, there have been several efforts in Zimbabwe to address the triple scourge of disease, violence and ... -
Narratives of Black Vice Chancellors on becoming and being leaders of public universities in South Africa: contributory factors and challenges experienced.
(2020)South African universities have undergone significant transformation since the demise of apartheid and an important part of this transformation process is university leadership, both in who leads universities as well as ... -
Investigating technology integration in business education in Nigeria secondary schools: a critical analysis.
(2020)Secondary education is a vital part of a virtuous circle of economic growth within the context of a globalised knowledge economy. In Nigeria, the education that is offered at this level has different philosophies or what ... -
Educators enacting non-formal education policy: case of three schools in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe-an exploration.
(2019)The Zimbabwean school model for the enactment of teaching and learning of Non-Formal Education Policy (NFEP) programmes is a recent development. The policy mandated the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE), ...
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