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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 ...
The qualities needed for effective school leadership in the disadvantaged area of Lavender Hill, Cape Town
(UWC, 1996)
The South African education system is currently at a maior crossroad. Apartheid education with its associate bureaucracy its curriculum and underlying assumptions is in a process of transformation. Amidst all I this, the ...
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 ...
Schema theory and problem-solving in biology
(University of the Western Cape, 1996)
There is ongoing research to understand why some students experience difficulty in solving problems. There is an equal concern over students that do arrive at correct solutions to problems, but who are unable to justify ...
A critical comparison of the role of education In the struggle for political, power within christian national education' volkskole' (1900-1910) and' people' s/ Education for people's power (1985-1989)
(University of the Western Cape, 1993)
This minithesis is concerned with the nature of resistance
education in South Africa. During the 1985-1989 period in
South Africa , the notion of People's Education for People's
Power enjoyed prominence on the national ...
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 ...
Participatory decision-making to democratize school, Governance: the role of the parent-teacher-student association
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)
This mini-thesis is an attempt to investigate how the Parent-
Teacher-Student Association of one high school goes about its aim of democratising school governance. It attempts to identify the influences and constraints ...
An epistemological critique of action research
(University of the Western cape, 1991)
Part Two investigates claims of action research authors Grundy,
Carr anrl Kemn1s ln respect of their clalm that actlon research
is a democratic form of research. I state this claim and draw
attention to the primacy, for ...
An activity -based approach towards developing critical thinking in the Geography classroom
(University of the Western Cape, 1990)
This thesis deals with an attempt to employ the research methodology of action research to focus on classroom strategies involving a range
of resources, including indigenously generated ones, as a way of enhancing critical ...
An analysis of the feasibility of incorporating production activities in school Mathematics
(University of the Western Cape, 1996)
I taught for fourteen years, as a secondary school mathematics teacher, at schools in disadvantaged communities in South Africa. During this period pupils' attitude towards school mathematics textbooks drew my attention, ...