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Objective teacher evaluation and democracy in a changing South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1992)In this minithesis I attempt to explain what could be meant by an objective and democratic teacher evaluation system. The central question which I address is whether the current South African teacher evaluation system could ... -
Occupational therapy graduates’ conceptualisations of occupational justice in community service practice in South Africa: a uwc case study
(2013)The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify ways in which the University of the Western Cape (UWC) occupational therapy (OT) curriculum could be developed to prepare its graduates to advance occupational justice ... -
Parental Choice in South African High Schools: An urban Cape Town Case Study
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)This study examines how families judge and choose high schools. The review of literature relating to school choice provides a theoretical framework for the study. The review includes an international perspective including ... -
Parental involvement at a school of skills in the university of the Western Cape.
(University of the Western cape, 2019)Parental involvement in their children’s schooling has been found to be an important factor with regard to children’s experience of schooling including their academic performance. This quantitative study focused on ... -
Parental involvement at a school of skills in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Parental involvement in their children’s schooling has been found to be an important factor with regard to children’s experience of schooling including their academic performance. This quantitative study focused on parental ... -
Parental involvement at a school of skills in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Parental involvement in their children’s schooling has been found to be an important factor with regard to children’s experience of schooling including their academic performance. This quantitative study focused on parental ... -
Parental involvement at a School of Skills in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Parental involvement in their children’s schooling has been found to be an important factor with regard to children’s experience of schooling including their academic performance. This quantitative study focused on parental ... -
Parental involvement in the education of learners on farm schools in the Citrusdal area
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This research focused on parental involvement in the rural farm area in Citrusdal to examine the nature and characteristics of farm worker parents' involvement in their children' education. This study followed a mixed ... -
Parental involvement in the governance of secondary school in Eritrea: Current trends and future possibilities
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)This study was designed to investigate the current policies and practices of secondary school governance in Eritrea. There is a basic need to investigate the nature of parental involvement in school governance, particularly ... -
Parents' and educators' perceptions of factors influencing high rate of academic failure of learners in Clarke Estate Primary Schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)The purpose of this study was to investigate parents' and ducators' perceptions of factors influencing high rate of academic failure of learners in Clarke Estate primary schools. A quantitative, descriptive study design ... -
Participation and barriers to participation in adult learning at a community college in the Western Cape: A chain-of-response model
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This study investigates “why adults participate in learning activities” and “what barriers deter adults from participating in learning activities.” Learning activities can include informal learning initiatives and formal ... -
The pastoral role and primary school teachers’ identity in the Western Cape: a multiple case study
(2012)After South Africa became a democratic country in 1994, the South African education ministry devised curriculum changes at a national level that would reflect an equal education structure for all South Africans. Curriculum ... -
Peer group interaction, academic integration and persistence in a foundation programme at a university in the Western Cape
(UWC, 2020)This research paper is based on an investigation of the factors that enabled final year students to persist in a four-year degree programme (Foundation Programme). This study is important given that students who generally ... -
Perceived deterrents to participation in compensatory education educationally disadvantaged adult South Africans
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)South African society is regulated by inequality and discrimination based on race. Fundamental human rights and privileges have been extended only to a small sector of the population. The majority of South African citizens ... -
Perceived experiences that grade seven learners have in learning algebra
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This thesis investigates grade seven learners perceived experiences in learning algebra.Things that learners do and say during algebra lessons and about algebra were investigated. The study was done at one of the previously ... -
The perceptions of intermediate phase educators about the implementation of stories for thinking in one Western Cape Education Department region
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)South Africa had a change in government and in education after the 1994 elections. A new curriculum was introduced and some of the underlying critical outcomes were to develop the learners to become critical thinkers. The ... -
A Phenomenological investigation into selected grade seven teachers’ integration of democratic values into their ems lessons
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Schools played an important role during apartheid in shaping the mindsets of learners. In contemporary South Africa schools can now play a similar role in promoting democratic values in order to build a more just, humane ... -
"Political changes and access policies in Malagasy Higher Education since independence (1960-2008)"
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)The objective of this research was to investigate the relationships between the political change and the access policy changes in Madagascar since independence. In this study qualitative and quantitative data were used. ... -
Political prisoner education through sport on Robben Island: 1960-1990
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This research was motivated by my interest in the sport and the systems of provision of the education on Robben Island. The problem that gave rise to the study was to determine how political prisoners were able to organise ... -
Positioning : a linguistic ethnography of Cameroonian children in and out of South African primary school spaces
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This thesis traces the trajectories of a group of young Cameroonian learners as they engage in new social and educational spaces in two South African primary schools. Designed as a Linguistic Ethnography and using data ...
