The role of school leadership in the South African educational context has become incredibly complex and its effectiveness needs to be investigated. The roles of school principals are expanding as a consequence of the ...

Engineering science courses, such as Thermodynamics, are often seen as difficult, and students have difficulty understanding the concepts and solving the problems. In an effort to improve the situation, we developed a ...

Conflict frequently arises between the individual rights of individuals. In resolving such conflicts, the relevant rights have to be balanced in order to reach a just equilibrium (interpreted as parity). At school level, ...

The phenomenon of resilience among street children as a group of at-risk youth goes unnoticed, since they are not typically regarded as resilient. Street children are mostly categorised as vulnerable youth who need care ...

The state of community life in general, and of education in particular, in Africa south of the Sahara (henceforth also referred to as the sub-continent) seems to indicate that Africans have failed somewhat in their efforts ...

South Africa currently lacks HIV counselling interventions that are youth-specific and that meet the psychosocial needs of young people living with HIV/AIDS. Indigenous strategies and interventions need to be developed ...

Higher education, and by implication the academic profession as a core component thereof, fulfils an important function in twenty-first century society in terms of the establishment of a knowledge society. In Third World ...

Globally, considerable numbers of at-risk children continue to disengage from school by dropping out and adopting street life for various reasons. These children survive in environments that are devoid of resilience-promoting ...

Studies of resilience, or the process of adjusting well to major challenges commonly associated with negative outcomes, have proliferated in recent years. Despite the popularity of this research focus, there are suggestions ...