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The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Student Support and Development Services .ID Further Education and Training Colleges in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)
The Student Support and Development Services (SSDS) at Further Education and Training (FET) colleges represent a holistic and systemic approach to addressing barriers to learning and development. College SSDS are based on ...
Voice, disability and inclusion: A case study of biology learners with cerebral palsy
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
Concern has been raised that South Africa does not have a sufficient supply of scientists and engineers in the 21st century. Yet, the potential that resides in learners with cerebral palsy is often not recognised or realised ...
Factors affecting the implementation of inclusive education policy: A case study in one province in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)
After the democratic elections of 1994, the South African government embarked on radical reforms to the apartheid education system, which included the development of a policy that is committed to human rights and social ...
The effect of goal structures on intergroup relations in the classroom.
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)
This thesis investigated the effectiveness of cooperative learning, individualistic learning, competitive learning and traditional learning (control group) in promoting more positive intergroup relations in the classroom. ...
Support provision to schools in a context of HIV/AIDS, poverty and gender inequality
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The school environment presents a valuable opportunity for the identification, monitoring and support of children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS and poverty. Many children are caring for parents suffering from AIDS-related ...
The development and implementation of school governance policy in South African schools act (SASA) and the Western Cape provincial school education act (WCPSA)
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
This study was initiated while the researcher was still an educator at' a secondary school in Cape' Town, South Africa. This was the period of the mid-1990s soon after the first democratically elected government assumed ...
Understanding adult education: Case-studies of three University-based adult education certificate programmes.
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)
By the mid 1980s the Nationalist Party had sought to salvage almost four decades of apartheid policies that were based on white supremacy. In this regard it engaged in dual strategies of repression and reform. The state's ...
Processes and patterns of responsiveness to the world of work in higher education institutions
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The rationale for the topic flows out of education policy and societal pressures worldwide which are calling for an ever greater responsiveness from higher education to the workplace in the twenty-first century. Responsiveness ...
Border crossinga case study of selected scientific and traditional worldview presuppositions among Swaziland high school students
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)
This study investigated: l) the nature of worldviews presuppositions held by three groups of learners in Form IV classes in three high schools in Swaziland; 2) the nature of cognitive border crossing exhibited by the ...
The Development of a Reference Framework for Measuring Students' Understanding in a First Year Calculus Course
(UWC, 2003)
This thesis investigates the development of an instrument, a reference framework, for measuring students' understanding of mathematical concepts in a first year calculus course at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). ...