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The changing nature of academic development: exploring student perceptions and experiences of a learning skills programme in higher education
(2011)
In this paper, I focus on the issue of student perceptions and experiences of a 3rd generation academic development programme in higher education. I set out to explore the issue from two perspectives: firstly from the ...
An ethnographic study of the learning practices of grade 6 students in an urban township school in the Western Cape: a sociological perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
The study's main starting premises is that there is a disjuncture between the rich educational engagements of these students in their environmental space and how their learning practices are framed, informed and positioned ...
Teacher stress factors in the Metropole North, Circuit 6 of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2013)
The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of stress by teachers in the Metropole North, Circuit 6 of the Western Cape, South Africa, The study investigated factors causing teachers to experience stress as ...
An investigation of the different forms of bullying amongst grade 10 learners in South African schools: a case study of three schools in the Western Cape
(2013)
Bullying is rife at South African schools. Previous studies published in 2008 revealed the frequency of bullying amongst high school learners to be 36% in Cape Town and 41% at national level of the total number of high ...
Factors in the workplace environment that influence the transfer of learning in early childhood development learnership programmes in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The literature identifies the importance of teaching for transfer as one of the most important goals in education. According to Broad and Newstrom (1992) transfer is the “effective and continuing application of the knowledge ...
Cost-sharing in higher education financing in Zimbabwe, 1957- 2009
(2013)
Cost-sharing is neither a new subject nor a recent practice in the financing of students’ higher education in Zimbabwe. The practice of cost-sharing in Zimbabwe’s higher education dates back to the colonial period. Unlike ...
A capabilities analysis of teachers' perceptions of caps in a Cape Town low-income school community in the Western Cape Province
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Since the dawn of democracy, the South African government has set up different measures to
improve education in schools, inter alia the provision of funding, resources, feeding schemes
and the introduction and amendment ...
Teaching the principle of conservation of Mechanical Energy using a conceptual change approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the conceptual-change teaching strategy on the Principle of Conservation of Mechanical Energy in the absence of dissipative forces. Specifically, the study used ...
The DR Congo English state examination: some fundamental validity issues
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
The test context is of paramount importance in language testing as it provides an understanding of the kind of tasks to be included in the test, how these tasks are executed by the test takers and how they can be efficiently ...
Parental involvement at a School of Skills in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Parental involvement in their children’s schooling has been found to be an important factor with regard to children’s experience of schooling including their academic performance. This quantitative study focused on parental ...