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A comparison between the contexts learners in Grades 8, 9 and 10 prefer for mathematical literacy and gender
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)
For many years, there have been calls for the mathematics curriculum in South African schools to be made more meaningful and relevant to young people's everyday lives. Despite efforts to address this issue, there is a ...
Alternative assessment strategies within a context-based science teaching and learning approach in secondary schools in Swaziland
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The aim of this study was to use a case study approach to explore and describe how students and teachers perceived performance assessment and context-based assessment models that were used within a real world context ...
Ethno-regional disparities in primary schooling in Eritrea, 1992-2001
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
Eritreans have been subjected to limited and unequal education provision. throughout their hundred years of colonial history. It was expected that in post-independence Eritrea education provision would be equitably provided ...
Voice, disability and inclusion: a case study of biology learners with cerebral palsy
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
This study attempted to ascertain whether the under-representation of black, disadvantaged learners with cerebral palsy in biology and related careers is linked in any way to the method and content of teaching and learning ...
Using collaborative action research to improve classroom discipline: an action research study at a secondary school in the Boland
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
This study focused on improving the learners behaviour through classroom management and the implementation of human rights awareness as an intervention strategy. The purpose of the research was to prevent learners from ...
Response to multilingualism: Language support in a Western Cape primary school
(University of the Western Cape, 1996)
Multilingualism has always been a feature of South African Education. It is only in recent years that a particular form of linguistic diversity has become unmanageable for schools implementing the official English Afrikaans ...
Education policy development in South Africa, 1994-1997
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)
Black South Africans have been exposed to an unequal and divided education system. It has been expected that the basis for an equitable education system would be laid in the post apartheid period. In this thesis I have ...
Investigating leadership styles in tertiary institutions in Lesotho: comparing and contrasting practices
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The study investigated the leadership styles used in the Lesotho tertiary institutions. The research was undertaken at two institutions - Lerotholi Polytechnic and the National Teacher Training College. The population of ...
An investigation into the implementation of outcomes based education in the Western Cape Province
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)
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 ...