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Signification of African cultural identity, individual African identity and performance in Mathematics among some standard nine African pupils in Mangaung high schools
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
This study investigates how two groups of African pupils, namely the low and high performers in standard 9 mathematics classes in some high schools in Mangaung, construct meaning of their African cultural, individual African ...
Towards an Inclusive Democratic Educational Theory and Practice in South Africa: Mediating Individualism and Collectivism, Difference and Commonality
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
This thesis is concerned with the definition of an inclusive democratic educational theory and practice which mediates the assumed tension between individualism and collectivism, difference and equality, and liberty and ...
Authority in Schooling in post 1990 South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
I contextualise my argument in favour of a retrieval of authority in schooling by means of a brief discussion of each of the following :
(l) schooling in chaos, (2) reasons for the erosion of teacher authority due to the ...
Understanding effective primary school management: A Qualitative Study of Selected Schools in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
The SA Schools Act (1996, p. 2) acknowledges that the past system of education was based on segregation and racial inequality. Prior to 1994, at the national level, the Department of National Education (DNE) was responsible ...
A critique of the structural deterministic approach to education and the paradoxical struggles it spawned against Bantu education
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
The question which the mini thesis seeks to answer is:- To what extent did oppositional projects against Bantu Education advance the emancipatory process in the sphere of Education? The question has been prompted by the ...
The admission policies of ex-model C primary schools in Cape Town during 1998
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
ln the past all black learners were excluded from ex-Model C schools by Apartheid laws. ln the context of transformation, the South African Schools Act (1996) aims to equalize opportunities for learners from all racial and ...
Effects of exemplary teaching and learning materials on students performance in biology
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
This study sought to determine the effects of exemplary teaching and learning materials on students' participation and achievement in biology in Botswana science classrooms. In particular, it was concerned with examining ...
Does ethnic diversity feature as an issue in open schools?
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
There is more to the phrase "South African schools belong to all South African
children". While it sounds simple and true there is more to it in the case of the schools
which once excluded other race groups under the ...
AUTHORITY IN SCHOOLING IN POST 1990 SOUTH AFRICA
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
In Chapter One I explore Berlin's concepts of positive and negative freedom to (a) show that the concept freedom, is not transparent and (b) explain how divergent conceptions of freedom give rise to divergent conceptions ...
Does ethnic diversity feature as an issue in open schools?
(University of Western Cape, 1998)
There is more to the phrase "South African schools belong to all South African children". While it sounds simple and true there is more to it in the case of the schools which once excluded other race groups under the ...