Browsing Research Articles (Education Management and Policy Studies) by Title

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  • Finding the best fit : the adaptation and translation of the Performance Indicators for Primary Schools for the South African context 
    Archer, Elizabeth; Scherman, Vanessa; Coe, Robert; Howie, Sarah J. (Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010-03)
    Reform and improvement are imperative in the current South African education system. Monitoring of school and learner achievement is an essential for establishing praxis for school improvement. Diversity of culture and ...
  • Freedom of expression and the survival of democracy : has the death knell sounded for democracy in South African schools? 
    Van Vollenhoven, Willem Johannes; Beckmann, Johan L.; Blignaut, Anita Seugnet (School of Education and Development (SETD) of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006-06)
    In this article we argue that the right to freedom of expression is viewed internationally as a core right in a democracy. Since critical thinking is a prerequisite for democracy, this skill needs to be developed in South ...
  • From equality of opportunity to equality of treatment as a value-based concern in education 
    Nieuwenhuis, Jan; Nieuwenhuis, F.J. (Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, 2004-09)
    The article argues that concepts, such as equality and values, are caught up in the quagmire of contestations about meanings and their use within educational contexts. The author argues that all concepts that describe an ...
  • From not-for-profit to profit-driven independent schools through the eyes of some of the stakeholders 
    Breedt, Me Ilze; Beckmann, Johan L.; Du Plessis, Andre (University of the Free State, Faculty of Education, 2021-12-06)
    This qualitative study sought to explore the experiences of stakeholders at independent schools during and after the transition from a not-profit governance approach to a for-profit governance approach after a change ...
  • Functional urban schools amid dysfunctional settings : lessons from South Africa 
    Mawdsley, Ralph D.; Bipath, Keshni; Mawdsley, James L. (SAGE, 2014-05)
    Similar to Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities, this research study is about a tale of two schools. The first type of school is a dysfunctional school. Dysfunctional schools are schools in a state of chaos (Shipengrower & Conway, ...
  • Globalization, capital market and economic development in Nigeria 
    Adediran, Olanrewaju Adewole; Adeyemo, Kolawole Samuel; Alade, Samson (Virtus Interpress, 2015)
    This article examines the economic integration caused by globalization and effect of capital market in Nigeria context. It establishes the type of relationship and level of significance of globalization and capital market ...
  • Going beyond Kirkpatrick’s training evaluation model : the role of workplace factors In distance learning transfer 
    Aluko, Folake Ruth; Shonubi, O. (Routledge, 2014)
    This article emanates from a longitudinal study of the impact of a distance education programme for teacher training on graduates’ job performance, in which the authors built on the findings of a previous pilot study. ...
  • Group leadership for effective contact sessions within the distance education setting 
    Mampane, Sharon Thabo (Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2015)
    The use of regular contact sessions, where groups of facilitators present lessons under professional guidance of a leader, has emerged as a popular mode of delivering education to distance education students in South Africa ...
  • Higher education and the challenges of skills production in the Philippines 
    Adeyemo, Kolawole Samuel; Sehoole, Molatlhegi Trevor Chika (Unisa Press, 2015)
    There has been a speedy increase in the number of higher education providers, including private higher education institutions in the Philippines. This proliferation of providers and institutional types has given rise to ...
  • Higher education funding, justice and equity - critical perspectives 
    Motala, S.; Oketch, M.; Wangenge-Ouma, Gerald; Nasutha, M. (Stellenbosch University, 2023-11)
    How governments choose to fund students in higher education (HE) is inextricably linked to the sector’s sustainability and efforts to achieve a just and equitable HE experience and outcomes for all students. The way funding ...
  • How inclusive education is understood by principals of independent schools 
    Gous, Jennifer Glenda; Eloff, Irma; Moen, Melanie Carmen (Routledge, 2014)
    Inclusive education has become a practice that has been adopted by many schools across the globe and most usually in first-world countries. As a whole-school system, it occurs less frequently in developing countries ...
  • How mergers shape the institutional curriculum : guest editorial 
    Jansen, Jonathan D. (South African Association of Research and Development in Higher Education, 2004)
    Reports on the curriculum effects of mergers in five case studies of higher education mergers that have recently unfolded in South Africa.
  • How primary school teachers experience education policy change in South Africa 
    Smit, Brigitte (Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, 2001-10)
    South Africa has been in a process of far-reaching restructuring and is still witnessing a plethora of many policies initiating and seeking educational change. Education policy for educational change only becomes reality ...
  • How safe are South African schools? 
    Prinsloo, Izak J. (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2005)
    After 1994, South Africa passed several pieces of legislation protecting the rights and safety of learners in South African schools. These Acts are all (to a larger or smaller extent) concerned with protecting the physical ...
  • How school governing bodies in South Africa understand and respond to HIV / AIDS 
    Van Vollenhoven, Willem Johannes (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2003)
    As the pandemic of HIV/AIDS increases daily and the epidemic in the Republic of South Africa is one of the worst in the world, causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS remain contested among political and medical elites in this ...
  • How school management committees monitor the implementation of universal primary education in Uganda 
    Mugabe, Robert (Scholarlink Research Institute, 2018)
    Involvement of the community in school management may not necessarily improve education service delivery in schools. The purpose of this study was to conduct an empirical study on the ascribed roles of SMCs in monitoring ...
  • How women in higher education negotiate work and home : a study of selected women at a university in South Africa 
    Bhana, Deevia; Pillay, Venitha (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2012)
    The Council for Higher Education notes the lack of women doing research in South African universities. Focusing on the experiences of South African women academics, this article highlights the ways in which inequitable ...
  • Human rights, juridical forms and the crisis of values in education 
    Keet, Andre (Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, 2010)
    Though critical of, but nonetheless employing Habermas' notion of systems and lifeworld (which forms part of his reconstructive theory of law), I argue that rights-related values in South Africa have taken on a juridical ...
  • Imagined power and abuse of administrative power in education in South Africa 
    Beckmann, Johan L.; Prinsloo, Justus G. (Juta Law, 2006)
    In this article we use the concept ‘‘imagined power’’, first used in the field of education law in South Africa by Hattingh J in the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie case,to facilitate a discussion of the abuse of administrative ...
  • The impact of university incorporation on college lecturers 
    Becker, L.R.; Beukes, Lukas D.; Botha, Antoinette; Botha, A.C.; Botha, Jan Jakobus; Botha, M.; Cloete, Dina J.; Cloete, Johann L.; Coetzee, Corene; De Beer, L.J.; De Bruin, D.J.; De Jager, Lizette J.; De Villiers, Johannes Jozua Rian; Du Toit, Cecilia Magdalena; Engelbrecht, Alta; Evans, Rinelle; Haupt, Maria Margaretha Catharina (Grietjie); Heyns, Danielle; Howatt, L.M.; Joubert, A.P.; Joubert, Ina; Niemann, A.C.; Phatudi, Nkidi Caroline; Randall, Elize; Rauscher, Willem Johannes; Rautenbach, W.C.; Scholtz, S.; Schultz, J.C.; Swart, Ronel; Van Aswegen, Hendrika Johanna; Van Heerden, Judith Cornelia (Judy); Van Vollenhoven, Willem Johannes; Van Wyk, Elmarie M.; Van Wyk, Johannes G.U.; Van der Walt, C.A.; Van der Westhuizen, Carol N.; Vermeulen, Dorette; Vorster, A. (Springer Verlag (Germany), 2004-09)
    In South Africa, recent government plans to change the institutional landscape of higher education have resulted in mergers of colleges into universities or technikons. The research reported in this article focuses solely ...