This article reports on the perceptions of academic resilience of Grade 8 and Grade 9 learners and their teachers in low socioeconomic township schools. Learners from township schools experience many risk factors that can ...
Williams, Elisma; Ferreira, Ronel; Botha, Tanita(Education Association of South Africa, 2023-12)
Limited research focusing on the cognitive strategies that support the resilience of teachers in a world pandemic has been conducted. By employing a sequential explanatory mixed method research design, this study was ...
Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael; Holtge, Jan(Sage, 2023-04)
Does historic school engagement buffer the threats of disrupted schooling – such as those associated with the widespread COVID-19-related school closures – to school engagement equally for female and male high school ...
This article reports on teachers’ perceptions of how ADHD may influence learners’ career choices. Purposive selection was used to identify six high school teachers who cater specifically for learners with Attention-Defic ...
Van der Merwe, Charlotte(University of Pretoria, 1994)
The research has clarified the meaning of the concept career orientation and
explored the relation between career orientation and interests. This study has
shown that it is essential to plan a career and to guide according ...
Adewoye, Segun Emmanuel; Ndou, Nettie Nobukosi(Routledge, 2023)
The purpose of this study is to ascertain how the four domains of self-debasing cognitive distortions, namely personalisation, catastrophising, overgeneralisation and selective abstraction could predict or inform bullying ...
Transitioning to adulthood can be stressful, particularly when young people live in challenging contexts. One such context is Eswatini, a low-income African country challenged by structural violence. Still, how Swazi ...
PURPOSE : The South African vocational education and training (VET) sector is required by legislation to redefine postsecondary education, advance industrialisation and expand the job market to address unemployment in the ...
Humanity is now facing what may be the biggest challenge to its existence: irreversible climate change brought about by human activity. Our planet is in a state of emergency, and we only have a short window of time (7–8 ...
Theron, Linda C.; Murphy, Kathleen; Ungar, Michael(Sage, 2022-09)
Youth resilience is the product of multiple systems. Still, the biological, psychological, social, and environmental system factors that support youth resilience are incompletely understood. How these factors interact, and ...
PURPOSE : In this paper the authors share, and reflect critically on, the experience of using digital storytelling (DS) methods in a South African township. We interrogate the innovations prompted as we operationalized DS ...
Somefun, Oluwasey; Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael(Wiley, 2023-10)
BACKGROUND: The association between family adversity and young people's mental health outcomes in communities that experience economic instability has not been well explored in the South African context. Furthermore, the ...
Omidire, Margaret Funke; Aluko, Folake Ruth(University of the Free State, Faculty of Education, 2022-03)
Prior to the occurrence of the global COVID-19 pandemic, some
African higher education institutions had already adopted a hybridmode
for all their programmes, including distance education.
Policies and strategies were ...
Goodman, Michael L.; Theron, Linda C.; Seidel, Sarah; Elliott, Aleisha; Raimer-Goodman, Lauren; Keiser, Philip; Gitari, Stanley; Gatwiri, Christine(Wiley, 2023-05)
Communities often face numerous challenges and opportunities—situations that may be reduced to specific domains by researchers, policy makers and interventionists. This study informs and animates a new “flourishing community” ...
Pollution is harmful to human physical health and wellbeing. What is less well established is the relationship between adolescent mental health – a growing public health concern – and pollution. In response, we systematically ...
Anderson, Chad M.; Eloff, Irma F.; Kruger, Taneshka(BMC, 2022-04)
BACKGROUND : Although it is a preventable disease, malaria continues to present one of the major global health challenges. The disease is especially deadly to children under the age of 5 years. This is partly due to the ...
Holtge, Jan; Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael(Elsevier, 2022-01)
BACKGROUND : Adolescent depression can severely interfere with age-appropriate and lifetime development and functionality. Physical functioning in daily life (as a means of individual support) as well as social support ...
Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael; Holtge, Jan(Elsevier, 2022-04)
School engagement is associated with the resilience of adolescents living in stressed environments in sub-Saharan
Africa. Even so, there is scant understanding of the antecedents of African students’ school engagement. ...
The purpose of this descriptive case was to explore how mediated learning strategies were used in two purposefully selected educational psychological assessments. A deductive content analysis was used to analyse data that ...