Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Education Policy Studies) by Title
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A conceptual analysis of a reflexive democratic praxis related to higher education transformation in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central question of this thesis is whether education policy frameworks are sufficient to transform the higher education system in South Africa. I hold that higher education policy initiatives ... -
A conceptual analysis of transformation at three South African universities in relation to the national plan for higher education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores the notion of (higher) education transformation in relation to logically necessary conditions which guide the concept. These logically necessary conditions (constitutive ... -
Critical student agency in educational practice: a South African perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Violating students’ inalienable and unassailable rights to human dignity could be considered a concrete manifestation of how inequality is perpetuated within a society. By infringing upon human dignity, ... -
Critical theory and school governance : advancing an argument for democratic citizenship
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)In this dissertation I critically explore school governance in relation to a liberal conception of deliberative democracy incorporating an argument for democratic citizenship. The notion of decentralisation and representative ... -
A critical-hermeneutical inquiry of institutional culture in higher education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a conceptual analysis of “institutional culture” in higher education, especially because the concept has become a buzzword in higher education discourse in South Africa. The aim is ... -
A critical-hermeneutical inquiry of schools as learning organisations
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this critical-hermeneutical inquiry into schools as learning organisations I use the service provision model of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) as an exemplification of the concept of a ... -
Cultivating democratic citizenship education in schools :implications for educational leaders
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I critically explore educational leadership and management practices in relation to how current school principals lead and manage schools in a democratic society. The aim of this ... -
Democratic citizenship education and its implications for Kenyan higher education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Violence in Kenya undermines the role of Kenyan higher education in the transition to democratic practices. This dissertation analyses democratic citizenship education (DCE) and its implications for Kenyan ... -
Democratic citizenship education in Zimbabwe’s higher education system and its implications for teaching and learning
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This study sought to access the implications of democratic citizenship education for higher education in Zimbabwe between 1980 and 2015. Critical inquiry was used as the main research design and it was ... -
Demokratiese onderwys in Namibiese primêre skole : vlak of diep?
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: To make sure that democracy in a country such as Namibia with a relative young democracy develop and remain intact, citizens who committed themselves to democracy are needed. Education plays a central ... -
The development of an education management information system from a sensemaking perspective and the application of quantitative methods to analyse education data sets
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)Information is a necessary resource, produced by information systems and is a key building block to the management and decision-making in any organisation. The National Department of Education’s guidelines to establish ... -
Die vennootskapskonsep in skoolonderwys in die RSA
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The practice of partnership to the benefit of education is as old as education itself: Partners of education were involved in the most primitive societies. Partners are still of indispensable importance ... -
Discourses of learning, transition and agency amongst students who attended a Cape Town high school under apartheid
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This dissertation explores how a group of students who attended a Cape Town High School between 1968 and 1990 navigated their schooling space and acquired various skills, knowledge and understandings to ... -
Educational change : a support programme for educators in an inclusive school setting
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the movement towards inclusive education, demands that quality education for all present challenges for educator support to facilitate educational change in South Africa. The proposed link between ... -
Educators, praxis and hope : a philosophical analysis of post-apartheid teacher education policy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation argues that teacher education and development policy lacks an explicit philosophy of education and a responding pedagogy that would promote transformation. Through a conceptual analysis ... -
Eliciting pedagogical learning among teachers in a professional learning community
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This thesis is about teachers’ learning in a professional learning community (PLC) and responds to the question: How do the dialogical processes of a professional learning community capacitate teachers’ ... -
Enabling organisational knowledge through action learning : an epistemological study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Key words: Organisational knowledge, pluralistic epistemology, action learning, systems theory, structuration theory, organisational learning, knowledge management. In today's competitive environment ... -
Entrepreneurship leadership and creativity
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this masters thesis the nature and theory of entrepreneurship, leadership and creativity are discussed. The primary objectives were to identify the entrepreneur. The secondary objectives were to ... -
Environmental education for sustainable communities by adult practitioners in a black urban community
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Within the broad theoretical context provided by debates and policies on curriculum development and current approaches in adult and environmental education, this study attempted to improve my own practice ... -
Examining the potential of an ethics of care for inclusion of women in African higher education discourses
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation argues that women on the African continent experience moments of internal exclusion in higher education discourses. Although women are statistically represented in higher education ...
