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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 ...
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). ...
The synthesis,characterization and reactivity of diene and functionalized alkyl complexes of iron
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
This thesis deals with the synthesis, characterisation and reactivity of a number of diene and functionalized alkyl complexes of iron. Iron alkenyl complexes of the type [(Cp)(C02)Fe{(CH2)nCH=CH2] (n = 2-4, 6), were used ...
An investigation of Zimbabwe a-level chemistry teachers' epistemological beliefs, laboratory instructional practices and students' images of the nature of science
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)
This study set out to investigate the nature of A-level Chemistry teachers' science epistemological beliefs, the teachers' laboratory instructional practices and their students' images of science. Science epistemological ...