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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 ...
An investigation of the different forms of bullying amongst grade 10 learners in South African schools: a case study of three schools in the Western Cape
(2013)
Bullying is rife at South African schools. Previous studies published in 2008 revealed the frequency of bullying amongst high school learners to be 36% in Cape Town and 41% at national level of the total number of high ...
Student politics and the funding of higher education in South Africa: the case of the University of the Western Cape, 1995-2005
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This dissertation examines various ways in which the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town, South Africa, confronted the paradoxical post-apartheid higher education policy of expansion of access to historically ...
Factors in the workplace environment that influence the transfer of learning in early childhood development learnership programmes in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The literature identifies the importance of teaching for transfer as one of the most important goals in education. According to Broad and Newstrom (1992) transfer is the “effective and continuing application of the knowledge ...
Stakeholders’ perspectives on the school counselling programme in Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The purpose of the study was to investigate the Namibian School Counselling Programme from the perspectives of selected stakeholders. The study focused on what the stakeholders consider to be the objectives of the Namibian ...
Cost-sharing in higher education financing in Zimbabwe, 1957- 2009
(2013)
Cost-sharing is neither a new subject nor a recent practice in the financing of students’ higher education in Zimbabwe. The practice of cost-sharing in Zimbabwe’s higher education dates back to the colonial period. Unlike ...
Exploring passion killing and its implications on the academic wellbeing of university students in Botswana and Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This study explored the consequences of passion killing (PK) on the academic wellbeing of undergraduates in Botswana and Namibia. The study is motivated by the alarming rate of intimate partner femicide popularly referred ...
Teaching reading in multilingual classes
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This qualitative study investigated the teaching of reading in Grade 3 multilingual classes in one school in the Western Cape. It focused on the teaching strategies employed by teachers in teaching reading, the challenges ...
The DR Congo English state examination: some fundamental validity issues
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
The test context is of paramount importance in language testing as it provides an understanding of the kind of tasks to be included in the test, how these tasks are executed by the test takers and how they can be efficiently ...
The contestation, ambiguities and dilemmas of curriculum development at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 1978-1992
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
The main problem being investigated is why there were such divergent views on the appropriate curriculum for ANC education-in-exile from within the ANC, and in the light of this contestation, what happened in reality to ...