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A conceptual analysis of a reflexive democratic praxis related to higher education transformation in South Africa

Waghid, Yusef (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 ...
Critical theory and school governance : advancing an argument for democratic citizenship

Adams, Faried (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

Jacobs, Anthea Hydi Maxine (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

Beukes, Cecil Joseph (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

Galloway, Greta Marie Mandy (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 ...
The development of an education management information system from a sensemaking perspective and the application of quantitative methods to analyse education data sets

Van Wyk, Christoffel (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 ...
Examining the potential of an ethics of care for inclusion of women in African higher education discourses

Shanyanana, Rachel Ndinelao (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 ...
Exploring the(in)commensurability between the lived experiences of Muslim women and cosmopolitanism : implications for democratic citizenship education and Islamic education

Davids, Nuraan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Impressions and perceptions about Islām, particularly in a world where much of what is known about Islām has emerged from after the tragic devastation of the Twin Towers in New York, are creating huge ...
n Geïntegreerde bevoegdheidsgebaseerde model vir die ontwikkeling van menslike hulpbronne in 'n gesondheidsorganisasie : 'n onderwys- en opleidingsperspektief

Esterhuyse, M. B.(Maria Barbara) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The problem that lead to this study is whether the view of the personnel in the utilisation review centre in the organisation with reference to the management of human resources as well as their work ...
The identities and practices of school administrative clerks in selected schools in the Western Cape

Bayat, Abdullah (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: School administrative clerks are a category of educational worker that is normally overlooked by those doing research on schools. These workers are also ubiquitously underappreciated in school discourses. ...
Intercultural understanding in global education communities : tracing intercultural education in a pre-service teacher training program at the University of Stellenbosch

Noble, Nicole C. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The world is at a rapid pace being confronted with the need to shift national education policies that reflect basic human rights, with equity and fairness to the forefront. Along side of this herald are ...
Is a liberal conception of university autonomy relevant to higher education in Africa?

Divala, Joseph Jinja Karlos (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-12)

The dissertation investigates whether liberal conceptions of autonomy are relevant to higher education in African. And if they are relevant, the dissertation further examines the extent to which liberal conceptions of ...
Managing racial integration in South African public schools : in defense of democratic action

Mafumo, Thinavhudzulo Norman (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores the lack of racial integration in public schools in South Africa. The main argument of this study defends a deliberative conception of racial integration that builds on previous, ...
A philosophical exploration of democratic participation in school governance in selected South African black schools in the Eastern Cape Province

Mabovula, Nonceba Nolundi (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-12)

Since the dawn of democracy in South Africa in 1994, the South African Education System embarked on an all important democratisation process. In schools, this included attempts to dismantle the concentration of powers ...
School principals' experiences of the decentralisation policy in Zimbabwe

Masuku, Elisa (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The decentralisation of power in education is part of a global process that has become part of the education reform policies of most countries. Decentralisation, which is typified by the redistribution ...
Die selfgeskoolde habitus van jeugdiges op 'n plattelandse dorp

Joorst, Jerome (2013-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a post apartheid South African educational environment, learners’ academic achievement is generally seen as a barometer of the quality of education in schools. The low academic performance of black ...
The significance of the concept "Ubuntu" for educational management and leadership during democratic transformation in South Africa

Msengana, Nontobeko Winnie (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)

At the heart of this thesis is to debate and address the procedures of the past imbalances and inequalities in South Africa focusing on industrialization and Ubuntu worldviews. During industrialization, life changed for ...
Teacher responses to education policy reforms : case studies of in-service processes in the Western Cape Province of South Africa

Reddy, Christopher Paul Samuel (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In South Africa the transformation process in education has placed tremendous pressure on teachers, redefining roles, functions and imposing new levels of accountability on education professionals. This ...
Teachers, assessment and outcomes-based education: a philosophical enquiry

Slamat, Jerome Albert (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The core question that is addressed in this dissertation is: “How can we think differently about education in order to transcend the predicament that outcomes-based assessment poses for teachers and the ...
Die verwerkliking van die neoliberale diskoerse in die leierskappraktyke van plattelandse skoolhoofde

Spies, Jacobus Johannes (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study offers an analysis of the realization of the neoliberal discourses in the leadership practices of rural school headmasters. It is a Bourdieuian study of leadership in the rural context in ...