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Educators' Usage of different Disciplinary Measures as Alternatives to Corporal Punishment

Ngidi, David. (University of VendaUniversity of Venda, 2007)

This study investigated educators' usage of different disciplinary measures for learners' misconduct inside the classroom (level 1) as alternatives to corporal punishment. To this end, the Level 1 Disciplinary Action Scale ...
Black Educators' Resilience in T e a c h i n g As a Career

Ngidi, David P. (University of Venda: Journal of Educational Studies, 2009)

In tills study educators' resilience in teaching as a career was investigated The Experienced Teacher Survey (ETS) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) were used to determine the relationship between educators' ...
Educators' I m p l e m e n t a t i o n of A s s e s s m e n t in O u t c o m e s - b a s e d Education

Ngidi, David. P.; Ngidi, Thelma. Z. (University of VendaUniversity of Venda, 2010)

This study investigated educators' implementation of assessment in outcomes-based education. A quantitative research approach was used in a sun/ey of a sample of 303 participants. To this end, the Assessment in OBE Scale ...
EDUCATORS' A P P R O A C H E S TO CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Ngidi, David. P. (University Of Venda, 2010)

This study investigated educators' approaches to curriculum development. A quantitative research approach was used in a survey of a sample of 304 randomly selected participants. To this end. the Curriculum Orientation ...
Justification for skills transfer and validating a specific developed measuring instrument

Naong, Matsidiso Nehemia (African Journal of Business Management, 2010)

The dire skills shortage exacerbated by the “brain-drain” experienced in South Africa brought the debate around the importance of training across industries at the centre stage. South Africa as one of the strong emerging ...
Learner pregnancy – perceptions on its prevalence and the Child Support Grant (CSG) being the possible cause in South African secondary schools

Naong, Matsidiso Nehemia (Taylor & Francis: Journal of Youth Studies, 2011)

Learner pregnancy has recently become a thorn in the flesh for most schools in South Africa, and documentary evidence shows that its prevalence is greater amongst Black public schools than White schools. Within its ...
Challenges to parental involve-ment in school governance

Naong, Matsidiso; Morolong, Itumeleng (UFS: Acta Academica, 2011)

Many parents find it difficult to embrace their governance role within public schools, with the exception of those within elementary schools. Despite the intention of the South African Schools Act of 1996 to change this ...
School heads and mentors in cahoots? Challenges to teaching practice in Zimbabwean teacher education programmes

Makura, Alfred Henry; Zireva, Davison (Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2013)

Mentors and school heads play cardinal roles in teacher education programmes in most countries, including Zimbabwe. The side-effects of such symbiosis have not yet been investigated fully. This article used a qualitative ...
EFFICACY OF A BRIEF MEANING Centred intervention among young people in the Free State, South Africa

SOLOMON MAKOLA (Commonwealth Youth and Development, 2013)

The participants included 47 high school learners and 22 university students from South Africa (age range 14 to 28 years, females made up 63.2%, majority (55%) were Sesothospeaking). Data was collected on their sense of ...
The presentation of female characters in three of BM Khaketla's texts: A literary analysis

Phindane, Pule Alexis (South African Journal of African Languages, 2013)

Like most literature around the world, African literature initially portrayed women poorly. This is in accordance with Kalu’s (2001:14) observation that the role of women in society is constantly questioned and ‘for ...
Efficacy of a Sense of Meaning Intervention Amongst Managers at South African Institution of Higher Education

Makola, Solomon (Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2013)

The study evaluated the efficacy of a sense of meaning intervention with a sample of higher education managers. Participants were 14 members of the campus management committee of a university of technology, in South Africa ...
How Do We Manage? Determinants of Effective Leadership in High-Poverty Schools

Badenhorst, J.W.; Koalepe, L.J. (Journal of Social Science, 2014)

The paper focused on the challenges facing principals of high-poverty schools in an Education District in South Africa. It sought to determine how some schools in disadvantaged communities excel academically, despite the ...
Reading Skills Acquisition in English: A Comparison of Monolingualism and Bilingualism in Foundation Phase

Phindane, Pule (Journal Psychology, 2014)

This study is based on the findings from a study conducted to examine acquisition of reading skills of monolingual English and bilingual Sesotho-English third grade learners by evaluating their phonological and reading ...
The Interpretation of “Tlhahisoleseding” v/s “Tlhahisolesedi”

Phindane, Pule Alexis (International Journal of Educational Sciences, 2014)

This study seeks to question the continuous usage of the compound locative noun ‘tlhahisoleseding’ (information) as the basic noun. The paper argues that ‘tlhahisoleseding’ (information) is a locative noun (an adverb of ...
The Demise of Sesotho Language in the Democratic South Africa and its Impact on the Socio-cultural Development of the Speakers

Moeketsi, Victor Solomon Monare (Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2014)

The Constitution of South Africa provides for eleven official languages, and all of them have equal status, but Afrikaans and English are unfairly privileged over Black languages. This state of affairs has therefore resulted ...
The Effectiveness of a Meaning-Centred Intervention in Protecting the Well-Being HIV/AIDS Health Educators

Makola, Solomon (Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2014)

This study investigated whether teaching HIV/AIDS Health Educators about Viktor Frankl’s theory of finding meaning in life, results in a significant improvement in their psychological well-being. The participants were ...
Managing the Link between Academic Development and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Case of South African Universities

Makura, Alfred H.; Toni, Noluthando (International Journal of Educational Sciences, 2014)

The link between Academic Development (AD) and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in the South African Higher education quality context is as blurred as the conceptualisation of the terms. Academic development ...
Using Problem-Based Learning to Stimulate Entrepreneurial Awareness Among Senior African Undergraduate Students

Swart, Arthur James (Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2014)

Literature states that entrepreneurial awareness is required in countries where entrepreneurship is neither publicized nor acclaimed, which is currently the situation in South Africa. Entrepreneurial skills include the ...
The Interpretation of “Botlokotsebe” V/S “Bosenyi”

Phindane, Pule Alexis (Journal of Social Sciences, 2014)

The present paper is based on the findings from a study conducted to examine the interchangeable use of the concepts ‘botlokotsebe’ (mischief) and ‘bosenyi’ (crime) as an English equivalent term ‘crime’. This study is ...
Sense of meaning and study perseverance and completion: a brief report

Makola, Solomon (Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2014)

The study examines sense of meaning influences on study perseverance and course completion among students within a faculty of management sciences at a South African university (n = 40). Participants were selected for high ...

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