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Research conducted in the Faculty of Education reflects the following areas of interest: education policy research, curriculum research, professional teacher education, adult education, science teaching, maths education, and the history of education in South Africa.
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An examination of teaching strategies employed to improve results in Grade 12 Physical Sciences by secondary schools in an education district in the Eastern Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The purpose of this study was to examine teaching strategies employed by teachers to improve Grade 12 results in Physical Sciences. Although the national Physical Sciences pass rate has increased, critics and analysts ... -
Crisis leadership at South African universities: An exploration of the effectiveness of the strategies and responses of university leadership teams to the #FeesMustFall (#FMF) protests at South African universities in 2015 and 2016
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The #FeesMustFall (#FMF) movement which began in 2015 and continued in 2016 was initially a call for free tuition, but soon grew to include substantial academic demands, quickly spiralling into violence and destruction ... -
A capability analysis of the working relationships between principals and chairpersons of school management committees in Lesotho
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)A larger number of schools in Lesotho are owned and controlled by churches whereas the government pays teachers’ salaries and provides school facilities through the national budget. It is through this partnership that the ... -
A reflective study of the factors that influence learner performance in physical sciences in an education district of the Eastern Cape Province
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This study was conducted in three rural high schools in the province of the Eastern Cape, South Africa whose physical sciences results were not consistent. The main issue in the research was that when schools’ results ... -
Examining the use of multiple representations to teach vectors in Grade 10 physical sciences
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The purpose of this paper was to examine the use of the multiple representation approach as a teaching strategy to improve learners understanding of vectors in Grade 10 Physical Sciences. The study also wanted to consider ... -
Exclusion by design: A constitutional analysis of admission policies and practices in selected Cape Town schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)School admission policies are powerful tools that can sometimes contain provisions that are in conflict with the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and other legislation and policies which regulate education in ... -
Making the transition from learning to read to reading to learn in Grade 4: Investigating the teaching of reading literacy in two Western Cape schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Drawing on the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study - PIRLS (Howie, et al., 2008), which highlights the reading literacy crisis in South African schools, this study investigated the literacy crisis in relation ... -
Workplace Learning: Understanding financial sector institutions as learning environments
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The objective of the research is to understand the learning affordances offered at Insure Company, a large financial sector institution in South Africa and to explore how employees exercise their agency in responding to ... -
Language transition and epistemic access: The teaching and learning of English as first additional language in the foundation phase
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)South Africa is a multicultural and multilingual country, with eleven official languages which include English, Afrikaans, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, IsiNdebele, Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi, TshiVenda and Xitsonga. While the nine ... -
Reading for understanding: An investigation into teachers’ reading comprehension strategies in Grade three isiXhosa Home Language classrooms in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Reading is one of the components of literacy that plays a crucial role in accessing knowledge. It develops the children’s mind and stimulates their understanding of the reading content and enables them to function and ... -
A case study of an existing mentoring programme for beginner teachers in a public school in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This study aimed to explore the nature and consequences of an existing mentoring programme aimed at assisting beginner teachers make the transition from university graduates to school practitioners. It addressed the broader ... -
Implementing an intentional teaching model to investigate grade 9 learners’ ways of working with rational algebraic fractions
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)In South Africa it is widely known that most learners struggle with mathematics. The results for mathematics are poor. The department of basic education offers a number of intervention programmes to assist learners in ... -
Implementing an intentional teaching model to investigate the algebraic reasoning of grade 9 mathematics learners
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This research has employed an intentional teaching model to investigate the algebraic reasoning of grade 9 learners from a low socio-economic background. It has also sought to study how learners engage with algebra to make ... -
An appraisal study of language usage and use for literacy in second language acquisition: An investigation into English textbooks used in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Since a number of studies on textbooks in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have shown that textbooks hold a major place in education (De Guzman, 2000; Oakes & Saunders, 2004), this study proposes to investigate the content ... -
Critical theory, transformative learning and mindfulness: A case study of a mindfulness training programme
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Mindfulness and the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programme is becoming increasingly popular in the Western world. These days, there are many institutes and organisations that support and promote mindfulness, ... -
Teacher perceptions of factors influencing classroom management practices: A comparative case study of two public high schools in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Teachers in schools located in disadvantaged areas are increasingly required to address poor learner behaviour, which makes teaching and the completion of the curriculum a great challenge to teachers. This raised the need ... -
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 ... -
Assessing student in English for academic purposes: The role of alternative assessment tools in writing instruction
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This study aims to investigate the assessment of students in the English for Academic Purposes course at the University of Namibia Language Centre. There has been increasing criticism of standardised test and examinations ... -
Intercultural peer group interactions, integration and student persistence between Nigerian students and students from other countries at a university in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)As a Nigerian, I became interested in investigating how Nigerian students, from different cultural backgrounds are able to integrate and persist in their academic programmes. I used Tinto‟s (1993) Longitudinal Model of ... -
Bridging the gap between school and university: a case study of the University of Namibia's Access Programme
(University of Cape Town, 2002)Without neglecting the broader scope of the phenomenon of student access, this study focuses mainly on student academic access. An Access Programme, initiated by the University of Namibia, is used as a case study in order ...
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