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Educators’ perceptions of barriers to learning in a Correctional Centre in the Western Cape region
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
In South Africa and elsewhere all correctional centres offer educational programmes today with
the aim of rehabilitating offenders by giving them the opportunity to further their studies and
to develop vocational skills. ...
Parental involvement at a school of skills in the university of 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 ...
Teacher and learner experiences of violence in a cape flats school, Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This study aimed to ascertain in what ways violence and crime influence the teaching and learning programme in schools in a disadvantaged community. The context is a primary school in an informal settlement in Samora Machel, ...
Exploring teachers' perceptions of parental involvement via the capability approach: A case of a low income school community.
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Parental involvement in low-income school communities in the Western Cape, South Africa, has
received little attention irrespective of its significance to learner outcomes. This study explores
parental involvement with ...
Capability sets of teachers with regards to the implementation of the curriculum and policy statement in a no-fee school community in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Since the onset of democracy in 1994, education in South Africa has undergone many
developments and changes due to curriculum innovations and interventions. For more than two
decades, the government has been seeking to ...
Political prisoner education through sport on Robben Island: 1960-1990
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This research was motivated by my interest in the sport and the systems of provision
of the education on Robben Island. The problem that gave rise to the study was to
determine how political prisoners were able to organise ...
Factors influencing the implementation of a grade R school readiness learning support programme in two previously disadvantaged primary schools in the Cape Town metropole
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This study investigated the factors that impacted positively or militated against the implementation of a
learning support programme (ISP) in grade R classes at two primary schools located in the same poor
socio-economic ...
Psychosocial barriers to participation in adult learning and education: Applying a PsychoSocial Interaction Model
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Adult learners’ perception of factors that are internal to their perceived control of their lives
can be challenging to overcome when making a decision to participate in learning. There are
complex relationships between ...
Teachers' authority: Strategies for instilling discipline in a post-corporal punishment era
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This research explores the relationship between authority and discipline in South African schools. During apartheid, corporal punishment was used as an authoritarian mode of discipline. The new democratic Constitution, ...
Mentoring and the preparedness of first-time primary school teachers - A study of a non-governmental Joint Mentorship Project (JMP)
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
When a first-time teacher graduate and start working in a school, the first-time teacher is
expected to adapt and adjust to the demands of a daily teaching programme (Carter & Francis,
2001). This can be overwhelming by ...