Masters Degrees (Education Policy Studies)
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A hermeneutic inquiry of school improvement in an independent and public school
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: School improvement is one of the fields in education policy studies that enjoy a significant degree of academic debates. Given that most schools are still in the process of development, a school improvement ... -
The role of principals in cultivating a positive school culture.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-11-11)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study investigated the role of four principals in creating a positive school culture in their respective schools. The study adopted a qualitative case study approach, with data from document analysis, ... -
The 'place-attachment' practices of student residence leaders at their Stellenbosch University residences.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the immersion of 15 student leaders into their residences at Stellenbosch University. Concepts of place and agency form the theoretical underpinnings of this study. The investigation ... -
Exploring the curriculum implementation experiences of TVET college lecturers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Curriculum implementation at TVET colleges is not a simple process. College lecturers are implementing agents and have to receive, interpret, and make sense of the policy before they can implement it ... -
An exploration of teachers’ views on the implementation of the inclusive education policy in selected mainstream schools in the Oshana Region, Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates teachers’ views on the implementation of the inclusive education policy in selected mainstream schools in the Oshana region of Namibia. The research approach used in the study ... -
Grade Nine educators’ perspectives on and experiences of the Progression and Promotion Policy at a school
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is currently a major concern about learners’ poor academic achievement in South Africa. This is a challenge to all role players, especially in relation to the high failure and progressing rates in ... -
Die pedagogiese benadering van opvoeders met betrekking tot leerders se leer in 'n landelike skool in die Oos-Kaap
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Die fokus van hierdie studie is op die pedagogiese benadering van opvoeders met betrekking tot leerders se leer. Die studie vind plaas in ’n skool genaamd Zithulele Independent School. Dit is geleë ... -
Physical science teachers’ experiences of the junior secondary revised curriculum for grades 8 and 9, Oshikoto Region, Nambia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is interpretive, and it employs a hermeneutic method of inquiry that draws on the work of Gadamer’s theory of understanding and interpretation. It chronicles Physical Science teachers’ ... -
Governance and language policy in three schools in the Western Cape : opportunity for deliberative democracy?
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Accompanying the introduction of a new outcomes-based curriculum, were significant shifts towards decentralised school-based management, which are seen as critical to the democratisation of schools. At ... -
Values transformation : analysis of policies and culture at a selected school
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : This thesis explores values transformation, specifically focusing on the values of non-racialism and equality, as originally expounded upon within the Manifesto on Values, Education and Democracy (DoE, ... -
Learners experiences of the role of academic underachievement on the journey to identity development
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Research has shown that humanity undergoes different stages of development, and identity development in adolescence is one of these stages. In order to attain identity, this requires adolescents to ... -
Contemplative education as a response to the contradictions between neoliberalism and social justice in the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : South African educational policy after 1994, and in particular, the current Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), express a very ambitious and wide range of aims and goals, with some relating ... -
An analysis of democratic citizenship education in namibian primary education : implications for teaching and learning
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The Namibian education system has not made significant efforts to promote democratic citizenship ducation (DCE) in the country, due to unequal opportunities towards quality education. Therefore, this study ... -
A hermeneutic inquiry of high school principals’ roles as instructional leaders
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The prevailing poor academic performance in South African high schools, particularly in grade 12, appeals for a persistent examination of high school principals’ roles as instructional leaders. Mathematics ... -
The educational achievement routes of first generation students in a rural town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This thesis explores the unique educational achievement routes of selected ruralorigin first generation students (FGSs) in South Africa. The study aimed to understand the family-, social-, community-, ... -
Die impak van die ‘institusionele habitus’ van ’n werkersklasskool op die opvoedkundige wording van hul studente in ’n plattelandse dorp
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This study focuses on the impact of the institutional habitus of a working-class school in a rural town on the educational achievement of its students. The history of a country such as South Africa ... -
’n Ondersoek na die gereedheid van onderwysers vir die demokratiese aard van onderwys in die Wes-Kaap, Suid-Afrika
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : South Africa became a democracy in 1994, but without democrats, a democracy will be null and void. In order to become a country with proficient democrats, we need to understand what it means to be ... -
On the educational potential of happiness: an analysis of its implications for some rural farm schools in the West Coast education district
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This study explored the structural and conceptual notions underlying happiness and its concomitant link to education, in particular at rural farm schools in the West Coast District. The premise of my ... -
Departementshoofde in Wes-Kaapse skole: Die vestiging van rolle en verantwoordelikhede wat betref onderrig, leer, bestuur en leierskap
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : In this thesis I want to establish how head of departments define their role and responsibilities with regards to teaching, learning, management and leadership.The reader will also get some insight ... -
A philosophical analysis of continuing professional development of teachers in Namibian schools
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This study is fundamentally ontologically, epistemologically, and methodologically a philosophical research. It is grounded in the philosophy of education perspective, because it is aimed at the analysis ...
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