Author:Druker, Belinda SusanDate:1996This research study presents an enquiry into adolescents' experience of the process of intergroup contact in South Africa, with a particular emphasis on the impact of such contact on adolescent identity development. A particular instance of ...Read more
Author:Hendry, JaneDate:1998A simplified cohort survival analysis was used to investigate the academic progression of first-time entering undergraduate students within four large bachelors' degree programmes at the University of Cape Town. The rates of graduation, ...Read more
Author:Prinsloo, Clive PeterDate:1995School effectiveness is a multi-faceted concept. One of the important factors leading to school effectiveness is the type of leadership provided by the principal. Through his/her leadership, the principal must create the conditions under which ...Read more
Author:Scholtz, Desireé LeonoraDate:1998Following the events of South Africa's democratisation in 1994, the country is undergoing transformation processes in virtually all spheres of life. Education is widely accepted as the one field where transformation is most needed. However ...Read more
Author:Mlambo, Phares Jona TaindisaDate:1995The aim of the investigation is to assess the extent to which various initiatives aimed at improving the status of a technical subject like Home Economics (H/E), have helped to transform the attitudes and perceptions of teachers and students ...Read more
Author:Mlambo-Ngcuka, PhumzileDate:2003This study focused on the identification of agricultural skills required to enable retrenched miners in OR Tambo District Municipality to engage in agriculture productively. This is set against the background of the history of mine labour ...Read more
Author:Davies, Jean-MarieDate:1995The primary aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of primary school teachers in ordinary classrooms towards learners with low to medium special educational needs, and to discover under what conditions, if any, they would be willing ...Read more
Author:Wallis, Jennifer MaryDate:1993The aim of the proposed study is to evaluate demographic factors and treatment characteristics contained in the historical records of those treated as in-patients at the Sonstraal Adolescent unit of Lentegeur Hospital, during the period 1986 ...Read more
Author:Millroy, WendyDate:1985Batteries of exercises requiring visualization in three dimensions were administered to more than 900 freshmen engineering students at the University of Cape Town in 1983, 1984 and 1985, and at the Cape Technikon in 1985. They were found to ...Read more
Author:De Waal, Jan Hendrik HofmeyrDate:1995The Emil Weder High School is in the small rural town of Genadendal, which is situated about 150 kilometres south-east of Cape Town, near Caledon. While doing field work for the Education Foundation early in 1994, one of the schools I Weder ...Read more
Author:Ralenkoane, Martin MakhubeDate:2005Teacher shortage in schools is the current subject of interest among academics worldwide. Prospects of teacher supply and demand have declared imminently high teacher shortage in the developing and developed world alike. Based on the theories ...Read more
Author:Gasant, Mogamad WaheebDate:1994Change, whether organisational or societal, presents a fertile environment for the development of conflict. The probability of organisational conflict occurring in schools in South Africa is heightened by the fact that the country is in the ...Read more