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Educational Psychology: Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The purpose of this study was to explore and understand the resilience processes employed by families from a low socio-economic background living in a predominantly black township (Mamelodi). The study further aimed to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Research on the experiences of children raised in gay/lesbian parent families (GPLFs) has shown that the children often feel exposed and/or threatened by the societal heteronormativity they are faced with (Lubbe, 2007; ...
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HIV/AIDS infected mothers’ experience of a group intervention to enhance their children’s behavior (Education Association of South Africa, 2016-05)A secondary study was conducted within a broader National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded longitudinal study on resilience in South African mothers and children affected by HIV/AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired ...
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(Education Association of South Africa, 2016)This article explores the extent to which an intervention programme helped learners from two contrasting educational settings manage career-related transitions. Forty-two learners from two schools were selected, using ...
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(Polirom Publishing House, 2015)The study investigated the perceptions that caregivers working at children’s homes have regarding their roles/responsibilities. The aim was to obtain insight into their subjective experiences and realities. This qualitative ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2016-02)A great deal of research within science and engineering education revolves around academic success and retention of science and engineering students. It is well known that South Africa is experiencing, for various ...
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(Wiley, 2016-03)Career construction counseling for a mid-career Black man is examined. The author implemented a case study design and purposively selected the participant. The intervention and follow-up occurred over a period of 21 ...
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(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2015)The purpose of the present paper is to advance arguments that reflect on the researcher’s dilemma caused by tendencies to conflate metatheory and paradigm in the crafting of dissertations and theses. Philosophy as an ...
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(Routledge, 2016)Debates on the role of scientific knowledge to affect behaviour are continuing. The theory of planned behaviour suggests that behaviour is influenced by attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control and ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-09-30)In hierdie artikel word daar in die eerste plek gepoog om inheemse kennis as sosiale konstruk te verklaar, waarna die waarde daarvan vir die opvoedingspraktyk toegelig word. Inheemse kennis (IK) begrond dikwels leerders ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The purpose of this study was to explore indigenous pathways to well-being within rural adversity contexts of resource scarcity and high risk. Prior to conducting this study, initial, scientific, systematic evidence of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)South African families in semi-urban townships experience more significant stress than other families. Family resilience refers to the factors or processes within families that support them to be resilient before, during ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Within the present exploratory pilot study, the overarching aim was to explore the possibility of a relationship between academic commitment and resilience within the higher education context of the University of Pretoria. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study formed part of the indigenous pathways to resilience (IPR) project which aim was to contribute to an indigenous psychology knowledge base on resilience. The focus of this comparative case study was to add to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The purpose of my study is an exploration of the extent to which an intervention programme, based on career and self-construction, helps learners from diverse backgrounds manage career-related transitions. Two groups from ...
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(Wiley, 2015-11)In South Africa, careless implementation of child psychiatry‟s biomedical model of „mental disorder‟ could stigmatise children and youth who have been made vulnerable by the lingering effects of apartheid - poverty and ...
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(Routledge, 2015-05)This article uses a South African case study to argue that postcolonial, emerging economy societies in transition often contain schools characterised as high risk and high need. Such schools require teachers to adapt to ...
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(Routledge, 2015-08)“Telling stories and adding scores: Measuring resilience in young children affected by maternal HIV and AIDS”, demonstrates how a concurrent mixed method design assisted cross-cultural comparison and ecological descriptions ...
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(Unisa Press, 2015)Low throughput rates at schools and universities across South Africa are cause for great concern because of the resultant financial burden on the state; the increase in unemployment; and the inadequate delivery of ...
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(Sage, 2015-09)No country, including South Africa, has been left untouched by the global economic meltdown in 2008 and fears that another financial meltdown could be imminent. This article reports on the emergence of career construction ...
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