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Community adult education: empowering women, leadership and social action
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
This thesis explored the relationship between community adult education and social action. The study investigated how LEAD (Leadership Education for Action and Development), a non-governmental organisation based in the ...
Implementing lifelong learning at a Technikon in South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2001)
The nature of lifelong learning in the context of a South African technikon is the
investigation focus of this mini-thesis. It argues for the adoption of a holistic and
humanistic conceptualization to lifelong learning ...
Investigating and developing positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship among secondary school children in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)
It is a well known fact that the development of entrepreneurs will have a number of benefits for the economy of the country. In addition, entrepreneurship represents an important vehicle to address the challenges of job ...
Ubuntu-Botho, Education, Nationalism and Democracy
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)
This mini-thesis is concerned with the examination of whether Ubuntu-Botho (as taught in KwaZulu Homeland schools) can promote the development of democratic agents. I begin in Chapter 1 by providing a brief sketch of the ...
On errors in elementary differential calculus: a case study at a technikon
(University of the Western Cape, 1996)
The thesis sought to investigate the errors made in elementary differential calculus by students studying engineering at technikons. A sample of 45 first year students from a technikon's engineering faculty were interviewed ...
An investigation into the use of a computer algebra system for the teaching of introductory school calculus
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)
Mathematics education in South Africa is in a state of crisis.
One manifestation of this crisis is that students in the former
Department of Education and Training (DET), which catered for
blacks in the former Apartheid ...
The effect of vee diagramming on grade seven learners' understanding of force
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)
This study sought to determine grade seven science learners' conceptual understanding of force. A related aim was to determine the effectiveness of Vee diagramming in ameliorating the incorrect conceptions about force held ...