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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Western Cape Education Department"”.
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Teacher responses to rationalisation in the Western Cape Education Department : implications for administration planning and policy
… the process of transformation of South Africa's education system, interestingly, the term rationalisation is absent from the international literature. The high level of impact that the economics of education has in the provision of education presupposes that, in the "Global Village", world trends …
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Exploring employment equity in leadership positions in the public sector: a case study of the Western Cape Education department
… the public sector, using a case study of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED). A qualitative research approach, incorporating both exploratory and descriptive designs, was employed to gain insights into these dynamics. The participants consisted of public servants from four district …
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The perceptions of intermediate phase educators about the implementation of stories for thinking in one Western Cape Education Department region
South Africa had a change in government and in education after the 1994 elections. A new curriculum was introduced and some of the underlying critical outcomes were to develop the learners to become critical thinkers. The methodology by which to teach these outcomes was not clear. An intervention …
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The implementation of moderation of assessment policy at a school and district : a case study
… came into the forefront of policy discourse. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) introduced a Moderation Policy which was developmental in its approach of quality assurance of assessment...This study aimed to describe how the policy was understood and implemented at a school and a …
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Colour-conscious or colour-blind? : how a group of minority Xhosa learners experience and make sense of the "colour of race" in a predominantly coloured school in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town
… Coloured secondary school in Mitchells Plain, in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2004 and 2006. The South African Schools Act (1996) and the National Curriculum Policy document (2005), both underpinned by the Constitution of South Africa (1996), envision an education system free of any discrimination. …
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Understanding an education partnership : the case of get inset
This study focuses on one particular educational partnership i.e. the Partnership established to plan and manage GET inSET, a teacher in-service (Inset) project in the Western Cape. The Partners in this project were the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), four education Non Governmental …
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Exploring school dropout among males in the greater Cape Town area, South Africa
The unofficial state of education in South Africa is announced annually by means of the Grade 12 results, also known as the National Senior Certificate. As a result, little attention is given to the more than half or at least 500 000 South African learners who drop out of the school system …
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Arts and Culture focus Schools in the Western Cape: Insights into a music Program in low-income secondary schools
… at 10 low-income secondary schools in the Western Cape from 2005 to 2014. The motivation behind the initiative was to try to introduce and develop different kinds of skills and abilities at these schools. This was seen as a way of utilising the greater provision of vocational education in …
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n Kritiese ontleding van die jongste benaderings ten opsigte van die onderrig en evaluering van Afrikaanse letterkunde in die hoërskool
… by teachers (subject heads) of 19 schools in the Western Cape. This questionnaire represents a 10% sample of schools falling under the Western Cape Education Department, who offer Afrikaans as a first language HG subject in Grades 11 an 12. These 19 schools are representative of 12 types, i.e. …
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The impact of learner transport on Grade 3 learners' physiological, emotional and educational well-being: a case study of a rural primary school in the Cape Winelands, South Africa
… learners' well-being in a rural school in the Cape Winelands district of the Western Cape, South Africa. The study moves beyond this narrow frame of physical transport to include the physiological, emotional, and educational domains of learners' lives. The individuals' physiological, emotional …
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Teenage pregnancy and HIV/AIDS awareness in three high schools in the Western Cape
… study. Documentary analysis of the provincial, Western Cape Education Department (WCED) and National Department of Education (DBE) policy on HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancy assisted to interpret the phenomenon under investigation and its relationship to research, policy development and …
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Exploring the TPACK of Grade 9 mathematics teachers in the Western Cape of South Africa
The Department of Basic Education is striving towards improving the Grade 9 mathematics TIMSS results (Department of Basic Education, 2019). The use of technology in the mathematic classroom has shown to be able to transform mathematical education (Wiest, 2001) and, if implemented correctly in …
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Support provision to schools in a context of HIV/AIDS, poverty and gender inequality
… support is analysed within the context of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) transforming itself from a system focused on controlling schools to a system focused on supporting schools. The reflexive qualitative research approach was decided upon m order to describe and understand how, …
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An exploration of the interface between policy and practice
… area that the current study attempts to explore. Education Support Services (ESS) and particularly psychological service delivery as part of this service within the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), has seen several new policy proposals and documents during the period of 1994-1995 and the …
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School management and the development of professional learning communities : a comparative case study
… 6 Literacy and Numeracy tests results of the Western Cape Education Department were used as a benchmark to compare the achievement of the learners at the two schools. I chose a comparative case study approach which lends itself to an in-depth analysis of practices in two contexts. My study …
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Factors shaping pre-service teacher identities in a South African HIV/AIDS context: An examination of experience, knowledge and perceptions
… in 2007 (UNAIDS, 2008). South Africa's national education system has responded to the epidemic by introducing Life Skills HIV education across primary and secondary-level schools to promote HIV prevention, care and support among school learners. In particular, the Western Cape Education …
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Replicating a habitus: transplanting capital, habitus and doxa in a school start-up
… and face challenges accessing ‘quality’ education, which is largely only available at expensive, fee charging schools. Even if poorer learners do gain access to these schools, which are in the minority, they are not always optimally supported nor understood in terms of their challenges at …
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Exploring the need for a community liaison person in facilitating family and community involvement in schools in the Western Cape: a case study of schools in the Joe Slovo Park informal settlement
… and community involvement in schools in the Western Cape. A sample of sixteen participants consisting of five educators, four learners and four parents was drawn from two schools in the Joe Slovo Informal Settlement area. Furthermore, representatives of three NGOs were selected based on the …
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Parent and staff perceptions of services offered to young children with disabilities at special schools
… Six Special schools, under the auspices of the Western Cape Education Department and situated in the Cape Town Metropole, participated in the study. Questionnaires focused on the following themes: knowledge of disability, the nature and amount of contact enjoyed by staff and parents, the level …
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