• Juxtaposing disadvantaged children’s insights on psychosocial help-seeking with those of service providers : lessons from South Africa and Pakistan 

  Haffejee, Sadiyya; Hassan, Sajida; Vostanis, Panos (Taylor and Francis, 2023-07-25)

  Children living in resource-constrained environments have high levels of unmet psychosocial needs. Through participatory focus groups, we juxtaposed the views of 55 children aged 7–10 years from resource-constrained ...
• Emerging adult resilience to the early stages of the COVID-pandemic : a systematic scoping review 

  Theron, Linda C.; Cockcroft, K.; Annalakshmi, N.; Rodgers, J.G.; Akinduyo, T.E.; Fouche, A. (Springer, 2023-09-12)

  Human resilience to COVID-19 related stressors remains a pressing concern following the aftereffects of the pandemic and in the face of probable future pandemics. In response, we systematically scoped the available ...
• The effect of life-design-based counselling on high school learners from resource-constrained communities 

  Jude, Che; Maree, J.G. (Kobus) (Education Association of South Africa, 2024-02)

  In the study reported on here we explored the influence of life-design counselling intervention on high school learners with career indecision who hail from resource-poor contexts in rural South Africa. Purposeful sampling ...
• Expert multistakeholder engagement informing content of advanced diploma in visual impairment studies 

  Manis, Maesala; Sefotho, Maximus Monaheng; Ferreira, Ronel (AOSIS, 2024-01)

  BACKGROUND : This study evaluates the interface between expert multistakeholder engagement and the development of Advanced Diploma in Visual Impairment Studies (VIS). Additionally, the study validates the content included ...
• Family values and social well-being : do motives for activities mediate? 

  Fadiji, Angelina Wilson; Khumalo, I.P. (Springer, 2023-02)

  This study explored the extent to which the relationship between family values and social well-being is explained by well-being orientations. We investigated whether hedonic and eudaimonic motives for activities mediate ...
• The dance of the positives and negatives of life : student wellbeing in the context of #FeesMustFall-related violence 

  Fadiji, Angelina Wilson; Luescher, T.; Morwe, K. (Stellenbosch University, 2023-05)

  Violence has become a regular occurrence in the context of the South African student movement. However, to date there are no studies that investigate student wellbeing in the context of student movement violence. How are ...
• Perceptions of academic resilience by senior phase learners and teachers from low socioeconomic schools 

  Mampane, Motlalepule Ruth (OpenED Network, 2023-03)

  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 ...
• Cognitive coping strategies that supported teacher resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic 

  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 ...
• Student resilience to COVID-19-related school disruptions : the value of historic school engagement 

  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 ...
• Teachers' perceptions of how attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder may influence learners' career choices 

  Maree, J.G. (Kobus); Warnock, Kayleigh (Stellenbosch University, 2023-08-31)

  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 ...
• 'n Belangstellingsverkenning : 'n loopbaanorienteringsperspektief 

  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 ...
• Self-debasing cognitive distortions as predictor of emotional disturbance among school bullying bystanders 

  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 ...
• The resilience of emerging adults in a stressed industrialised environment in Eswatini 

  Gama, Nombuso; Theron, Linda C. (Sage, 2023-10)

  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 ...
• Vocational education and training in South Africa : leaders' perceptions of a mentoring framework in a professional development programme 

  Prummer, Katharina; Human-Vogel, Salome; Pittich, Daniel (Emerald, 2024)

  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 ...
• Proposed solutions to anthropogenic climate change : a systematic literature review and a new way forward 

  Feigin, Svetlana V.; Wiebers, David O.; Lueddeke, George; Morand, Serge; Lee, Kelley; Knight, Andrew; Brainin, Michael; Feigin, Valery L.; Whitfort, Amanda; Marcum, James; Shackelford, Todd K.; Skerratt, Lee F.; Winkler, Andrea S. (Elsevier, 2023-10)

  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 ...
• Multisystemic resilience : learning from youth in stressed eEnvironments 

  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 ...
• Digital storytelling with South African youth : a critical reflection 

  Levine, Diane; Theron, Linda C. (Emerald, 2022-11)

  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 ...
• The association between family adversity and youth mental health outcomes 

  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 ...
• Academic and institutional readiness towards e-learning to inform policy and practice in an evolving post-school education sector 

  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 ...
• Flourishing communities: a new model to promote sustainable community leadership and transformation in semi-rural Kenya 

  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” ...

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