Many South African school children are known to travel fairly long distances to school each day, in pursuit of the best possible educational opportunities in a schooling system that is known to vary greatly in quality. ...

A Five-pillar conceptual framework -good social environment, focused instruction, well-trained and regularly supervised teachers, family background and language of learning and teaching- is used in this dissertation as a ...

This small-scale case study researches the importance of analysing the mathematics competencies assessed by a selection of tasks developed for a portfolio in Grade 9 during 2003. The tasks are analysed according to ...

This study investigated understanding of measurements by students in scientific activities that are experimentally based. The study focused on grade 12 high school learners in an urban South African School. The majority ...

This study is part of a larger national study, the Learners’ Perspectives Study. The main focus of this particular study is to explore, describe and explain learners’ perspectives regarding the incorporation of the everyday ...

Abstract All students are able to learn something about astronomy when they participate in a school visit to a site of informal learning such as a science centre. I examined how children from four schools experienced ...

This research examines the relationship between early literacy teachers’ conceptualisations of literacy and their classroom practices. It explores ways in which the political and educational changes in South Africa’s ...

When the new government took over in 1994, it had to transform health services in line with the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, ensuring the provision of equitable health services. In order to address the shortage ...

The study took the form of action research situated in a case study. The participants consisted of sixteen Grade 11 learners who attend a non-profit tutoring organisation called Ikamva Youth on Saturday mornings and ...

Many students fail the Fundamental Algorithmic Concepts course, in first year Computer Science at the University of the Witwatersrand. To obtain an understanding of why this occurs, the learning styles and learning approaches ...