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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Black Schools"”.
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Understanding teachers' authority in Black schools in chronic crisis
Black schooling has been plunged into deep crisis following persistent political and ideological assertiveness by users' against the intransigent State. Assertive practices in the State black secondary schools climaxed with the refusal by students to sit for examinations. Accompanying these …
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From Segregation To Integration: A Historical Study Of Music Education In The Colored School In Louisville, Mississippi Through 1970
What was music like, if it existed, in black schools before integration, and what happened to black music educators after integration? To properly address this, the history of segregation, major court rulings and other noteworthy attempts at integration, must be mentioned. This study reveals the …
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School Desegregation in Roanoke, Virginia: The Black Student Perspective
… to explore and document the perspectives of the Black students who were the first to desegregate Roanoke, Virginia, schools during the 1960-1961 school year. In September of 1960, nine Black students were chosen to desegregate formerly all-White schools in Roanoke. The stories of these students …
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Education for All: The Freedmen's Bureau Schools in Richmond and Petersburg, 1865 - 1870
… examines the development of Freedmen's Bureau schools in Central Virginia at the end of the Civil War. Under the watchful eye of Ralza Manly, Superintendent of the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau education division, establishing schools for freed slaves faced innumerable challenges ranging from …
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Something Better for Our Children: Black Organizing in the Chicago Public Schools, 1963--1971
This study examines the critical role of Black organizing for Chicago school reform in the 1960s, both in the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. During the Civil Rights era, there were organized efforts to push for integration of public schools to insure equality. Because of Mayor Richard J. …
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The investigation of some socio-educational factors contributing to high failure rate in matric in KwaZulu
… looks into the problem of failure in Matric in Black schools in KwaZulu. Some researchers have focused on causes for academic failure before. Some of these researchers are: Souper, (1976); Bryant, (1978); Havinghurst, (1979); Donald, (1980); Simons, (1980). Failure is rarely, if ever, …
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A History of Education for Black Students in Fairfax County Prior to 1954
… account of the educational developments for black students in Fairfax County, Virginia. The research will first address a brief history of education in Virginia. The second and third chapters will respectively address education for black students in the state and pre-Civil War education in …
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The evaluation of an in-service project for black primary school teachers in South Africa in the early 1980s
… purpose of upgrading underqualified teachers in black primary schools. INSET in South Africa lags far behind the rest of the world, particularly so in the black education systems and much of the current INSET activity is unlikely to achieve lasting and meaningful improvements in black schools. …
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Vocational orientation of a Black female adolescent in Natal and KwaZulu : a psychopedagogic perspective
… study was to determine the extent to which a Black female adolescent in KwaZulu and Natal is orientated with respect to the vocational world. The study was approached from a psychopedagogic perspective. Existing literature was studied. When the problem was stated it became apparent that …
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An investigation into the relevence and effectiveness of the Primary Teachers' Diploma (PTD) music syllabi
… the role played by Music in both rural and urban Black communities. This chapter also summarises the musical needs of black communities. Chapter 2 reviews the literature that deals with the teaching of Music in schools. This literature is then compared and contrasted with the prescribed Music …
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Narratives of Black Female Elementary School Teachers: Navigating the Normative Discourse of Whiteness
… research study illuminates the experiences of Black elementary school teachers as they navigate through whiteness on their identity journey. The purpose of this study was to examine the counter-narratives of identity by Black female elementary school teachers within the discourse of Whiteness …
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A pedagogic-didactic evaluation of discipline in Black secondary schools, with special reference to KwaZulu
… felt disturbed by the problem of discipline in Black secondary schools. This is explained in Chapter 1. The researcher,being aware of the fact that the issue of discipline is actually a multidisciplinary study, decided to look at it from a pedagogic-didactic perspective. Because of the …
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Towards the democratization of instructional leadership in South African schools: current trends and future possibilities.
… At school level, especially at historically black schools, there is also an increasing demand for meaningful involvement in the decision-making that affects school policy. Unfortunately educational leaders have generally not been empowered to make a meaningful contribution to the …
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Environmental education in secondary schools in metropolitan Durban : opportunities and constraints in the use of the natural environment
… investigate the current use of natural areas by schools and the relative importance of constraints upon fieldwork. It was found that, while most White schools made some formal use of natural areas, fewer Asian and Coloured schools did so, and fieldwork amongst Black schools was almost …
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Whiteness Interrupted: Examining the Impact of Racialized Space on White Racial Identity
… teachers from a hyper-segregated, predominantly black school district in Upstate New York. Contrary to the nearly ubiquitous notion that whites do not see or think of themselves in racialized terms, my interview respondents not only saw themselves as distinctly white, but they also spent a …
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The role of the principal in motivating his staff and pupils : a psychopedagogic perspective
… CounciIs (IMC's) must be established in all Black schools. These IMC's wi11 comprise the principal, deputy principal and heads of departments. All existing School Committees in Black schools must be replaced by Management Councils (MC's).
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The invitational attitude of teachers and the culture of teaching and learning
… the culture of teaching and learning at schools, viz. school related factors, factors in the family and living environment, societal factors and personal characteristics. A further literature study on the invitational attitude of teachers and its effect on the culture of teaching and …
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Voices of three African American female college presidents: A qualitative study of their journeys
… that have influenced society's perception of Black women. As a result, a tradition of negativity surrounds African American women in American society. It is these "negative perceptions and misinterpretation of African American women's behavior that found its way into colleges and universities" …
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A qualitative exploration of blackness among black South African university students
… The desegregation of tertiary education afforded Black students the opportunity to navigate different campuses with vast institutional origins and cultures. This qualitative study aimed to explore Black students' experiences of Blackness while navigating two university campuses in the Western …
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The management of ex-Department of Education and Training and ex-Model C schools in Cape Town: A description of policy and practice.
… understand the management used in four "ex-DET" schools, and four "ex-Model COl schools, now both termed pubic schools of Cape Town, South Africa. Part of the study questions whether South Africa's former apartheid laws, which resulted in Bantu education, still impacts on school management today. …
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