Magister Educationis - MEd (Comparative Education): Recent submissions
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Responsiveness and its institutionalisation in higher education
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This thesis proposes a typology of responsiveness in order to reduce interpretive ambiguity and to provide a framework which makes possible an assessment of the extent to which responsiveness is likely to be institutionalised ... -
The perceptions of intermediate phase educators about the implementation of stories for thinking in one Western Cape Education Department region
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)South Africa had a change in government and in education after the 1994 elections. A new curriculum was introduced and some of the underlying critical outcomes were to develop the learners to become critical thinkers. The ... -
Preferred contexts for mathematical literacy of Korean grade 8-10 learners
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)The twenty-first century society demands a high level of mathematical literacy. This drove Korean educators to evaluate their students using international mathematics tests such as TIMSS, PISA and IMO. In these tests, ... -
Teaching for democratic citizenship: a case study of one primary school in the Western Cape.
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This study highlighted the educators understanding of their role, the priorities that they deemed important and the practices they employed to promote in their learners the values and virtues fit for citizens of a democratic ... -
Protective factors that could foster resilience in first year students
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)Large numbers of students tend to experience failure and dropout in their first year at university. The fundamental aim of this research was to explore protective factors that could foster resilience amongst first year ... -
Decentralized health care services delivery in selected districts in Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)Decentralization of health services in Uganda, driven by the structural adjustment programme of the World Bank, was embraced by government as a means to change the health institutional structure and process delivery of ... -
The development of the teacher support team in assisting teachers of learners with special educational needs in one school in Khayelitsha
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)This research study explored the process in the development of the Teacher Support Team in assisting teachers of learners with special educational needs in the mainstream classroom. This research was conducted in the context ... -
Men's attitudes and responses to the Gender Equity Strategy at South African Nylon Spinner Polymer Plant (2002-2004): Implications for an education and training intervention
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This study investigated the attitudes and responses of male employees to the implemention of the Gender Equity Strategy and considered the implementation for the development of a gender education and training intervention. ... -
Impact of a partnership programme of African universities: A study of the perceptions of a group of white South African academics of their learning experiences
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)This research project was an in-depth case study, an investigation of a small sample of white South African male academics from the University of Cape Town who were part of the USHEPiA (University Science, Humanities, and ... -
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 ... -
Global student migration patterns reflect and strengthen the hegemony of English as a global lingua franca: A case study of Chinese students at three tertiary institutions in Cape Town in the period 2002-2004
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)The objective of this research paper was to examine how, through the prism of student migration patterns, the domination of the English language is extended and entrenched. Using the example of Chinese students in South ... -
The role of physical education in South African primary schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)This thesis argued that Physical Education is marginalised in the South African primary school education sector. Through this marginalisation, Physical Education has been reduced from having full subject status, to being ... -
Developing academic writing at the National University of Rwanda: a case study of first year economics and management
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)This aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which writing skills offered in the one-year intensive English course and in the 75 hour course of Speaking and Writing Skills, prepare students for academic writing ... -
The role of the principal in fostering the practice of democratic values in primary school
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This study attempted to determine the principal's role in fostering democratic values in schools, which will enable learners to participate meaningfully in society; as well as to suggest attainable recommendations to empower ... -
Effect of Vee-diagramming on grade 10 township learners understanding of some electrical concepts
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)This study was based on the Scientific and Technology Literacy Project study done between 1996 and 2001. It sought to determine whether Vee-diagramming could help enhance grade 10 township learners understanding of some ... -
Teacher support teams in primary schools, of the West Coast Winelands Education Management and Development Centre, Western Cape Education Department, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)The functioning of a teacher support team is an important aspect in improving quality of education, because it has as its purpose the enhancement of collaboration and support to educators and development of conditions for ... -
An analysis of the nature of parental involvement in school governance
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)The study is in response to the recently enacted South African Schools Act No. 84 of 1996 (SASA), which sees the legislated inclusion of parents in school governing bodies. The Act promotes four distinct representative ... -
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 ... -
A comparison between the contexts learners in grades 8, 9 and 10 prefer for mathematical literacy
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)The use of contexts in school mathematics is receiving much attention both nationally and internationally. This as well as the scarcity of research focusing on the topic stimulated me to research the contexts preferred by ... -
Objective teacher evaluation and democracy in a changing South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1992)In this minithesis I attempt to explain what could be meant by an objective and democratic teacher evaluation system. The central question which I address is whether the current South African teacher evaluation system could ...