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Teacher and learner experiences of violence in a cape flats school, Western Cape

Sitoyi, Zandisile Mawethu (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, ...

Teacher Development Mediation: A Cognition-based Reconsideration

Abel, Lydia (University of the Western Cape, 1997)

The research was prompted by two main issues prevalent in South African education in the last decade. These were particularly the critical state of the schooling system, especially in the educationally disadvantaged schools ...

Teacher educators' perceptions about possibilities and challenges of the merger between Namibian Higher Education institutions for improving teacher education

Vatuva gwaa-Uugwanga, Paulina Ndahambelela (University of the Western Cape, 2015)

The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of the teacher educators about the merger between the University of Namibia and Namibia’s former Colleges of Education with regards to the merger's capacity to improve ...

Teacher perceptions of factors influencing classroom management practices: A comparative case study of two public high schools in the Western Cape

Brown, Mark Jonathan (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 ...

Teacher perceptions of the role of a primary school principal in supporting their well-being: Learning from a South African public school in challenging conditions

Collett, Karen Suzette (2013)

This study is an investigation into teacher perceptions of the role of a primary school principal in supporting their well-being: learning from a South African public school in challenging conditions. As a grounded theory ...

Teacher stress factors in the Metropole North, Circuit 6 of the Western Cape, South Africa

Steenkamp, Peter John (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 ...

Teacher support teams in primary schools, of the West Coast Winelands Education Management and Development Centre, Western Cape Education Department, South Africa

Jafthas, Joan Agnes Ann (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 ...

Teachers' authority: Strategies for instilling discipline in a post-corporal punishment era

Egunlusi, Oluwatosin (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, ...

Teachers' perceptions of the algebra section of the prescribed Eritrean grade ten mathematics textbook

Tedla, Araia Hagos (University of the Western Cape, 2000)

I taught mathematics for thirteen years at different secondary schools of Eritrea . During this period I observed that students in secondary schools perform poorly in mathematics . In many workshops and departmental ...

Teachers' understanding of social justice in rural education schools in the Overberg education district in the Western Cape : a grounded theory approach

Sonn, Brenda Carol (University of the Western Cape, 2016)

Social justice is embedded in the South African constitution and various policy documents as an important concept and vision for a democratic South Africa. Yet, twenty two years after democracy, South African society ...

Teachers' understanding of the roles required to respond meaningfully to HIV and AIDS challenges in primary schools in the Western Cape

Wentzel, Andrew (University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This research proceeds via a mixed methods paradigm using both qualitative and quantitative methods in a case study research design. A conceptual framework of mutually interacting variables influencing each other and ...