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

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  • The scholarship of university-community engagement : interrogating Boyer's model 
    Mtawa, Ntimi N.; Fongwa, Samuel N.; Wangenge-Ouma, Gerald (Elsevier, 2016-07)
    Albeit with different conceptualisations, the engagement between universities and external communi- ties continues to gain significant currency. While the emphasis has been on more socio-economic relevance in a period ...
  • School desegregation trends in Gauteng Province 
    Amsterdam, Christina E.N.; Nkomo, Mokubung O.; Weber, Everard (Unisa Press and Taylor & Francis, 2012-08-03)
    This study utilized 2003 to 2006 school enrollment data from the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) to examine school desegregation trends and interracial exposure among learners from different race groups. Descriptive ...
  • School financial management : insights for decision making in public primary schools 
    Aina, Adebunmi Yetunde; Bipath, Keshni (Education Association of South Africa, 2020-11)
    To realise the ideal of quality inclusive education, proper financial management is vital. Existing literature indicates that the mismanagement of school funds is largely due to principals and the school governing bodies ...
  • School governing bodies - the principal's burden or the light of his/her life? 
    Heystek, Jan (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2005)
    In this article I focus on the relationship between principals and school governing bodies in South Africa. Although the school governing body represents many role players, this article will focus mainly on the role and ...
  • School safety in rural schools : are schools as safe as we think they are? 
    Netshitahame, N.E.; Van Vollenhoven, Willem Johannes (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2002)
    In this study we explain the general legal principles that concern safety in schools and requirements with which schools should comply. Safety of learners, both physical and psychological, is researched as a phenomenon ...
  • Schools as legal persons : implications for religion in education 
    Nthontho, Maitumeleng Albertina (Education Association of South Africa, 2018-12)
    Implementation of religion policy in schools has provoked contradictions and contestations in South Africa and across the globe. Reports on costly and protracted court cases and legislative battles between schools and ...
  • Search and seizure of learners in schools in a constitutional democracy : a comparative analysis between South Africa and the United States 
    Joubert, Hendrika J. (Rika); Sughrue, Jennifer; Alexander, David M. (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2013)
    In hierdie artikel word die regsraamwerk wat die effektiewe bestuur van deursoeking en beslagleggingsaksies rig, gebruik om die reg van leerders op privaatheid in gevalle van onredelike deursoeking en beslaglegging van ...
  • Searching for balance but finding guilt : a story of academic mothers in South Africa 
    Pillay, Venitha (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2012)
    This article draws on the data from a larger ethnographic study which tracked the lives of three academics who had just become mothers. In it, I respond to the question I have repeatedly encountered, in a variety of ...
  • Setting standards and primary school teachers' experiences of the process 
    Scherman, Vanessa; Zimmerman, Lisa; Howie, Sarah J.; Bosker, Roel (Faculty of Education, University of the Free State (since April 2010) For older articles: Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, 2014-03)
    In South Africa, very few standard-setting exercises are carried out in education and, if they are, teachers are not involved in their execution. As a result, there is no clear understanding of what the standard is and how ...
  • Sexual harassment and violence in South African schools 
    Prinsloo, Izak J. (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2006-05)
    After 1994 several pieces of legislation were passed in South Africa to ensure equity in education and equal opportunities for all learners. Some shocking reports have indicated that sexual harassment of girls is a serious ...
  • Sexual harassment in elementary and secondary education : a comparative analysis of South Africa and the United States 
    Joubert, Hendrika J. (Rika); Thro, William E. (Thomson/West, 2008)
    South Africa has one of the highest rates of violence against women in the world. The South African Government regards the rape and sexual abuse of children as a grave concern. On a daily basis in schools across the nation, ...
  • Shrouds of silence : a case study of sexual abuse in schools in the Limpopo Province in South Africa 
    Masehela, Boledi Melita; Pillay, Venitha (Faculty of Education, University of the Free State (since April 2010) For older articles: Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, 2014)
    This study seeks to understand the reasons that allow a parent, a principal and a teacher to maintain silence when young girls under their care are sexually abused. Put another way, it attempts to explain what it is about ...
  • Social justice in education revisited 
    Nieuwenhuis, Jan; Nieuwenhuis, F.J. (Umeå University, 2010)
    Social justice is a primary concern of politicians and human rights practitioners, but has lost much of its currency as it has been elevated through philosophical debates to the level of an idealised or “imagined social ...
  • Social justice in education today 
    Nieuwenhuis, Jan (SUNMeDIA, 2011)
    Authors on social justice provide a specific lens through which social justice in education can be viewed. They construct an ideal that cannot be legislated or achieved by means of international conventions or declarations ...
  • Some aspects of education litigation since 1994 : of hope, concern and despair 
    Beckmann, Johan L.; Prinsloo, Justus G. (EASA, 2015-02)
    In this article we report on qualitative research in which we probed the opinions and views of a purposive sample of high-profile and influential role players in education about aspects of education litigation in South ...
  • South African standards for principals : connecting theory, policy, practice and context 
    Marishane, R.N. (Nylon) (Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2016)
    School improvement is admittedly the main business of school leadership. However, for such improvement to be sustained, a focus on the quality of school leadership is indispensable. To address the issue of leadership ...
  • South Africa’s approach to school safety : can it succeed? 
    Joubert, Hendrika J. (Rika) (School of Education and Development (SETD) of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2007)
    In 1999, the Department of Education announced the Tirisano-plan for enabling the development of a fully-functioning education and training system in South Africa. As a result of this plan the Safe Schools Project was ...
  • State interference in the governance of public schools 
    Prinsloo, Izak J. (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2006-08)
    The establishment of school governing bodies represents a significant decentralisation of power in the South African school system. Whilst such decentralisation could well be expected to mean an increase in democratic ...
  • The state of Humanities in post-apartheid South Africa – a quantitative story 
    Pillay, Venitha; Yu, K. (Unisa Press, 2010-07)
    This article depicts the state of Humanities in post-apartheid South Africa by examining HEMIS enrolment and graduation data from 1999 to 2007. It demonstrates that although the decline in student enrolment and graduation ...
  • The state's liability for damage or loss in connection with educational activity in public schools : recent minor judgments : education law update 
    Beckmann, Johan L. (Perspectives in education, 2006-06)
    Discusses two cases which dealt with the power of governing bodies to create educator posts in addition to posts on the official post establishment and the power of a public school acting through its governing body to buy ...