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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Educational Psychology) by Type "Mini Dissertation"
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The context of working and living in a care institution is accepted as challenging for all concerned, yet there is a dearth of studies into the stress experiences of caregivers. This study investigated caregivers’ stress ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The advent of text messaging as a popular and cheaper form of communication has offered a new research perspective on adolescent development. Erikson’s identity formation theory, the core tenets of existentialism, and the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Students in resource-scarce environments navigate through a multitude of barriers (Richter, 2007). The pathways that individuals travel through towards positive adaptation are far from fixed (Ungar, 2005a), but rather a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The visually impaired community forms a small but integral part of South Africa with the potential to contribute meaningfully to its infrastructure and society, yet blind learners still seem to struggle with computer ...
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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, 2014)The purpose of this study is to explore the processes of family resilience within a grandmother-headed household, caring for orphaned grandchildren, in a low socio-economic South African community. To do so, the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The field of wellbeing research with university students has grown exponentially in recent years. Within this field, studies on the wellbeing of students with disabilities have, however, been limited. The purpose of this ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The purpose of the study was to explore how mothers experience the support provided by the educational psychologist for their children with ADHD. The conceptual framework utilised for this study incorporated systems ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)No abstract available.
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Worldwide, the estimated prevalence of intellectual disability in developed countries is between 2% and 3% (Foskett, 2014). As a developing country, the South African Government show signs of taking the necessary steps in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The purpose of this study is to describe and explore the happiness, sense of coherence and resilience of rural teachers from a positive psychology framework where positive and healthy adaptation is emphasized. This study ...
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Parents' experiences of an intervention on parent support for children with colour vision deficiency (University of Pretoria, 2023)Despite a fairly high prevalence, Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD) is not currently deemed a visual impairment in South Africa, resulting in limited formal guidelines on how to support children with CVD – both at home and ...
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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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A retrospective study of pre-service teachers' experiences of social justice during service learning (University of Pretoria, 2014)The present study was inspired by Human-Vogel and Dippenaar’s (2013) research, which examined pre-service teachers’ commitment to community engagement in their second year of study. Human-Vogel and Dippenaar 2013 found ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The purpose of this study was to explore the role that the educational psychologist can play to support inclusion at school level in South Africa. The study aims to provide national, provincial and district support teams ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of a secondary school teacher from Gauteng who was a victim of learner cyber bullying. Cyber bullying of teachers is a relatively under researched ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The study contributes to existing, but limited research on the social and academic experiences of lesbian learners in South African secondary schools. A lesbian refers to a woman who is sexually attracted to the same gender ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)My secondary study is a sub-study of the Resilient Youth in Stressed Environment-Russia and South Africa (RYSE-RuSA) research project. The RYSE-RuSA project aims to identify the protective factors that enhance the capacity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The purpose of the study was to explore teachers’ experiences of teaching learners diagnosed with autism. In particular, information was obtained regarding the assets that learners with ASD have and how these assets can ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The purpose of this study was to gain insight into a teacher’s experience in implementing the asset-based approach to teach Life Orientation to a Grade 7 class. More specifically I explored expected and unexpected benefits ...
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