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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 Ohm's law in Grade 11 Physical Sciences using a Multiple Representations Approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the value of teaching Ohm's law in Grade 11 using a Multiple Representations Approach (MRA). The need to promote knowledge and skills in problem solving in Physical Sciences ...
A capabilities analysis of teachers' perceptions of caps in a Cape Town low-income school community in the Western Cape Province
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Since the dawn of democracy, the South African government has set up different measures to
improve education in schools, inter alia the provision of funding, resources, feeding schemes
and the introduction and amendment ...
Teaching the principle of conservation of Mechanical Energy using a conceptual change approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the conceptual-change teaching strategy on the Principle of Conservation of Mechanical Energy in the absence of dissipative forces. Specifically, the study used ...
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 ...
A case for mother tongue education?
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The question as to which language should be used as a medium of instruction in schools in multilingual societies is a controversial one. In South Africa, the question is often posed in binary terms: Should the medium of ...
Exploring grades 11 learners' scientific and indigenous worldviews of selected phenomena relative to traditional expository and argumentation instruction
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
In response to the emerging multicultural classrooms in South Africa, the amended National
Curriculum Statement (NCS) for grades R - 12, in the light of current curriculum policy and
the NCS (Grades 10 - 12), has proposed ...
A transformative approach to teaching adults in a culturally diverse context
(University of Western Cape, 2013)
The post-modem society is described as a society on the move, a phenomenon the
anthropologist, (Vigouroux, 2005) describes as 'flows'. These flows are mostly manifested
by people moving in and towards countries with ...