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Can universities meet their mandate to be socially critical as well as constructive?
(HESA / Unisa Press, 2014)This article defends the claim that two conditions facilitate sustainable development, namely, a democratic citizenry, and social justice, and that in establishing these, the university is indispensable and ideally placed. ... -
The capability of national education systems to address ethnic diversity
(Scriber Editorial Systems, 2012)Modern societies have become much more complex in recent decades, also in terms of ethnic identities and differences. The question arose whether education systems were capable of addressing the needs of ethnic and other ... -
Caring principal leadership for the support of teachers leading committees for promotion of healthy school environments
(New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018)Caring lies at the heart of effective enhancement of healthy school environments and good school leadership. This is evidenced by health policies wherein principals are indirectly obliged to act ethically and morally. By ... -
Caring school leadership: a South African study
(Sage, 2014)The research pivoted on the question whether South African school principals fulfilled their caring role towards teachers. The aims of the study were threefold. First, to determine how principals rated their care-giving, ... -
Caring school leadership: a South African study
(SAGE, 2014)The research pivoted on the question whether South African school principals fulfilled their caring role towards teachers. The aims of the study were threefold. First, to determine how principals rated their care-giving, ... -
Carstens se raamwerk van Afrikaanse konjunksiemerkers: ? Akkurater en vollediger weergawe
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)For the past two decades, Carstens's framework of Afrikaans conjunction markers has been used as the standard classification for measuring the use of conjunction markers. His classification of compromise can be viewed as ... -
The case for an adapted community college model for South Africa to address the problem of NEETS
(UNISA Press, 2015)A serious problem in South Africa is the existence of 2.8 million people we can refer to as NEETs. This term refers to youths between the ages of 18 and 24 years who are neither in employment nor in education or training ... -
A case for multimodal training of electronic databases at a higher education institution
(The Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA), 2008) -
A challenged sympathetic system is associated with retinal vascular calibre in a black male cohort: the SABPA Study
(Intech, 2016)Sympathetic system hyperactivity and depression are related to cardiac remodelling in Black men. We investigated whether sympathetic system hyperactivity and depressive symptoms are related to retinal vascular dysregulation. ... -
Challenges and opportunities related to quality distance higher education in Zimbabwe
(UNISA Press, 2016)Zimbabwe has managed to respond to the movement in support of UNESCO'S lifelong learning concept and strategy that seeks to widen and deepen access to higher education through distance education initiatives. Despite the ... -
Challenges in teacher education in South Africa: do teacher educators and teachers effectively prepare student teachers to perform their roles as educators?
(Kamla Raj Enterprises, 2015)The Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications provides criteria for designing curricula for initial teacher education. This policy emphasizes that the roles that teachers have to fulfill should be interpreted ... -
Challenges in the integration of multimedia by History teachers in the North West provinces of South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Today's learners are born into a multimedia world and feel quite comfortable in an electronic learning environment. The high-quality sound, realistic colour images, graphics, narrations, real-time recordings and full motion ... -
Challenges to the vision and mission of lifelong learning in Sub–Saharan Africa
(KRE Publishers, 2014)Lifelong learning has become a fashionable term that is being mu ch talk ed about by politicians, occasional reviewers of development policies and academicians who are constantly exploring ways ... -
The changing roles of South African Natural Science teachers in an era of introducing a 'refined and repackaged' curriculum
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2014)The present paper investigates expected changing teacher roles in the implementation of a refined and repackaged Natural Sciences component of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) in South Africa. The ... -
Childhood overweight and obesity patterns in South Africa: a Review
(AFAHPER-SD, 2009)The prevalence of childhood obesity has been rapidly increasing over the last decade in both developed and developing countries. To combat the increasing prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in South Africa, it ... -
Christian philosophy of education in South Africa: the cultural-historical activity theory to the rescue?
(AOSIS, 2016)Parents' choice of schools for their children has become particularly problematic in the current circumstances because of the fact that most schools have become secular and hence cannot support Christian parents in their ... -
Classroom assessment of reading comprehension: how are preservice Foundation Phase teachers being prepared?
(University of Stellenbosch, 2011)A number of assessment studies in recent years have shown that the educational achievement of learners in South African schools is unacceptably poor. The Department of Education’s systemic evaluations, conducted in Grade ... -
Collaborated understandings of context-specific psychosocial challenges facing South African school learners: a participatory approach
(Faculty of Education, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa, 2016)South African teachers are not sufficiently equipped to address psychosocial challenges that they encounter in under-resourced contexts among learners at school, and which impact negatively on learning and teaching. In ... -
Collaborative partnerships to increase resilience among AIDS orphans: some unforeseen challenges and caveats
(Unisa Press, 2012)Previous research has attested to the power of metaphor-rich stories to enable resilience during individual therapy, but this has not been researched in a group context. We aimed to ascertain if the reading of brief stories ... -
'Collateral irony' and 'insular construction'– justifying single-meduim schools, equal access and quality education
(Juta Law, 2011)In Ermelo the Constitutional Court determined that the HoD has the power to withdraw any function of a school governing body (SGB), including the function to determine the school’s language policy, subject to the ...
