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Success, failure and drop-out at university : a comparative, longitudinal study with special reference to the University of Durban-Westville
(University of the Western Cape, 1983)It has become a world trend that the opportunity for university education should be made available to all. The twentieth century witnessed the partial demolition of the barrier that retained higher education as the privilege ... -
Ideology and the training of history at colleges of education in South teachers Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1990)This dissertation is an attempt at locating the connections that there exist between ideolog and education. To this end I have looked at the training of History teachers at Colleges of Education under the Department of ... -
Implementing Educational Innovations: The case of the Secondary School Curriculum Diversification Programme in Lesotho
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)Between 1974 and 1982 the MOE introduced in two phases the diversification programme [SSCDP] which sought to establish practical subjects in the secondary school curriculum. This study examines the sustainability of ... -
Probleemstelling en terrreinafbakening
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)Een van rLie id.eale in terslBre on,1.errig is waarskynlik om akademiese :=elfwerksaamheid en onafhanklikheld by studente te bewerkstellig. Vir die student om tot akademiese self-werksaamtreid te ontwikkel is dit na my ... -
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 ... -
Promoting participatory teaching and learning in the senior primary classroom
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)Educational change is perhaps one of the most difficult processes that teachers might, experience in search of democratising their classroom practices. Being a traditional mathematics teacher who resorted to autocratic ... -
Demokratisering van die gesagsverhouding: 'n aksienavorsingprojek
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)This mini-thesis is about an action research project that started in my classroom in order to improve or change my teaching practice. I wanted to involve the pupils in classroom activities so as to promote pupil involvement. ... -
Die moomtlike spanning tussen die opvoedkundtge en die politieke verantwoordelikttede van die opvoeder
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)Die motivering vir die keuse van di6 onderwerp spruit uit die spanni-ng wat daar tussen hierdie twee verantwoordel-ikhede van die onderwyser binne die formele skoolopset bestaan. Hj-erdie spanning veroorsaak onsekerhej-d ... -
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 ... -
To move with a different view a critical review of physical education in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1996)The purpose of this study lies in its contribution to a critical analysis of physical education in South Africa and the provision of a framework aimed at its reconstruction, by pointing to the characteristics of a curriculum ... -
How is the organisational success of a school assessed by students, parents, staff and educational administration?: A case study of a high school in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)This study examines how the various stakeholder groups assess the degree of school organisational success. A review of the literature relating to organisational success and school administrative theory provides a theoretical ... -
Facilitating educational change: academic development in a university setting
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)ln this thesis my project is to examine the academic development programme (ADP) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) as a project of possibility mirrored against its basic premises and the practices which flowed ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Initiating a school based teacher appraisal process: A study in educational innovation in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)The culture of teaching in most South African schools is one of isolation and independence. Once individuals have qualified as teachers, there is a strong sense of getting on with the job of teaching, rather than beginning ... -
Education policy development in South Africa, 1994-1997
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)Black South Africans have been exposed to an unequal and divided education system. It has been expected that the basis for an equitable education system would be laid in the post apartheid period. In this thesis I have ... -
Identifying the problems and needs of beginner teachers in senior secondary schools in the Western Cape townships
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)The research study identifies the problems and needs of beginner teachers in senior secondary schools in the Western Cape townships. It identifies the kind of support that was received immediately before and after starting ... -
The induction and professional socialisation of beginner teachers in Cape Town schools
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)This study has its roots in my striving to become a competent teacher. Despite being armed with a teaching qualification, I found that I was ill-prepared for the rigours of the classroom and the broader school environment. ... -
Parental participation in school governing body in relation to employment of teachers
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)This study examines how and the extent to which parents participate in the decision making process in school governing bodies in relation to teacher employment. To determine the nature and extent of parental participation ...