Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Education Studies) by Title
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Academic intervention experiences of 'at-risk' students : a case of an undergraduate programme in a South African university.
(2014)The higher education landscape in South Africa has significantly changed upon attainment of democracy in 1994. Access to higher education has been increased for students from previously disadvantaged groups. However, access ... -
Academic use of smartphones among secondary school students.
(2018)This study explores the academic use of smartphones among secondary school students at Harare High School with the aim of contributing to new educational trends in Zimbabwe. It employs the interpretive paradigm and is ... -
Academic writing experiences and literacy development of engineering students at a South African university of technology.
(2023)This study drew on the Cultural Capital Theory and the Academic Literacy Model to explore the academic writing and literacy development experiences of Engineering students at a selected university of technology in South ... -
Access to schooling spaces for my child with Down Syndrome : an autoethnography.
(2014)As part of the Indian diaspora whose ancestors were indentured labourers brought to South Africa to work in the sugar plantation (Mishra, 1996) with little scope for education, I repeatedly heard the expression ‘the only ... -
Adolescent suicidal behaviour : a desperate cry for help.
(2007)There appears to be a need to demystify suicidal behaviour not just for the benefit of researchers and health workers but equally for parents, teachers and most importantly for adolescents themselves. The focus in this ... -
Adult education for community development : the case of Ugandan non-governmental organization.
(2014)A number of studies have explored the relationship between adult education and community development. These often do not provide in-depth accounts of how such relationships emerge and develop. The case study of Emesco ... -
An action research study of cooperative learning in a pre-service natural science course.
(1997)Cooperative learning (CL) research has gone through a series of phases representing different orientations of research. This inquiry uses action-research as a way of implementing cooperative learning in a pre-service science ... -
An analysis of boys’ and teachers’ experiences in a Grade 6 writing programme, using a positioning perspective.
(2019)Existing research shows that in South Africa there are reasons for concern regarding the achievements of a large proportion of Grade 6 learners in language learning. The impact of this poor language achievement affects ... -
An analysis of change in the management practices of school principals in the context of an external intervention from 1977 to 2000 : case study of the Imbewu project in the eastern Cape province.
(2008)This study focuses on a large-scale, foreign-funded education intervention, the Imbewu Project (IP). This project was funded by United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DfID) and was implemented in the ... -
An analysis of learners' engagement in mathematical task.
(1988)The present project is part of a larger research programme focussed on the analysis of change; one aspect being educational transformation and in particular an emphasis on the explication of the contentless processes (eg. ... -
An analysis of the construction of African consciousness in contemporary South African history textbooks.
(2014)This study is rooted in the move by the South African government at the turn of the 21st century to spearhead the conception of what then President Thabo Mbeki referred to as an African Renaissance. This move entailed ... -
An analysis of the portrayal of women in junior secondary school history textbooks in Malawi.
(2014)This study examines the portrayal of women in junior secondary school history textbooks in Malawi. It seeks to explore how women are portrayed and establishes reasons for the portrayal of women in particular ways in these ... -
An APOS analysis of the understanding of vector space concepts by Zimbabwean in-service Mathematics teachers.
(2018)University mathematics students often find the content of linear algebra difficult because of the abstract and highly theoretical nature of the subject as well as the formal logic required to carry out proofs. This study ... -
Archaeology of a language development non governmental organisation : excavating the identity of the English Language Educational Trust.
(2003)Any attempt at understanding the influences that impinge on teacher development in South Africa is incomplete without an exploration of the role of NGOs, particularly those alternative development agencies that were ... -
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 ... -
An asset-based approach to mitigating learner multiple vulnerabilities in Zimbabwean rural learning ecologies.
(2020)The escalating number of learners facing multiple vulnerabilities globally has resulted in the holistic caring for such learners becoming one of the major challenges faced by societies today. Currently, in Zimbabwe, the ... -
At the policy-practice interface : exploring technical vocational education and training lecturers' educational reform experiences.
(2016)This study investigated lived personal and professional educational reform experiences of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College lecturers at the policy-practice interface in the post-apartheid era. A ... -
An autoethnographic exploration of creative design practice: towards pedagogic implications.
(2018)I have lectured Jewellery Design at a University of Technology in South Africa for nearly 30 years now. My teaching practice has gradually adjusted over the years to suit the changing needs of the industry, the university ... -
The basis of legitimisation of mathematical literacy in South Africa.
(2015)This study is an exercise in knowledge production: the purpose is to present a theoretical language of the structure of participation in a conception of the knowledge domain of mathematical literacy – and in the associated ... -
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 ...