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Theses and Dissertations (Educational Psychology): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Families that live in high risk areas in South Africa are faced with multiple stressors on a daily basis. Published research on family resilience has shown that families have the ability to thrive and adapt positively ...
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The role of spirituality and culture in the resilience of youths from families affected by drought (University of Pretoria, 2018)Drought exposure has put many families under immense pressure and stress, prompting them to use their own resources to cope. Existing research on resilience focuses predominantly on Western cultures, leaving gaps in our ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This research was conducted in collaboration with a multidisciplinary and multisectoral team, where researchers and partners actively engaged with communities from beginning to end, working together to answer questions, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The current study formed part of the NRF-funded UP/Fordham collaboration and was undertaken as part of the broader research project, focused on a health promotion intervention for 330 Grades 1 to 3 learners in two at-risk ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)South Africa ranks 24th out of 184 countries with regard to its premature birth rate. According to data published by the Howson, Kinney, and Lawn (2012), eight out of every hundred babies born in South Africa are born ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The current incidence of autism in South Africa is 1 :88 and is gradually increasing (Lindenberg, 2013). A number of South African schools that cater for learners with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) have also emerged ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The current study formed part of a broader research project called Resilient Youth in Stressed Environments (RYSE project), coordinated by a team of researchers from the University of Pretoria in Embalenhle, Secunda. As ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcome of a school-based health promotion intervention that was implemented in three primary schools in a resource-constrained community in Bronkhorstspruit, South Africa, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)My study is a sub-study of the Resilient Youth in Stressed Environments (RYSE) Project. RYSE aims to better understand the resilience of youth who live in environments that are stressed by the petrochemical industry and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Despite South Africa’s adequate legislation for protecting the right to education of people with disabilities, the National Development Plan (NDP) of 2012 found that there are still cases of this right being infringed. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Wellbeing Theory, also known as the positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and achievements (PERMA) model (Seligman, 2011), proposes that there are five pillars or pathways by which people can pursue ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)There are a limited psychological assessment tools that accommodate diversity in South Africa. The purpose of this study was to describe group-based career counselling assessment with young people in a rural school. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The overarching purpose of the present study was to examine school climate dimensions and organisational teacher commitment with the hope of understanding the functionality of schools taking cognisance of poor performance ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The purpose of this study is to gain insight into how parents from a low socio-economic environment perceive family resilience. The study aims to fill a current gap in family resilience literature using the perceptions of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1995)The creation of economically viable employment opportunities in the RSA depends on greater confidence in vocationally directed education as well as greater efficiency in utilizing non-formal mechanisms for the provision ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)In this study the researcher intends to explore the influence of life design counselling on the self-efficacy of a learner from an environment challenged by disadvantage. Learners and youth from environments challenged by ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The devastating unemployment rate in South-Africa has the biggest effect on young adults from socio-economically challenged backgrounds. This study used career counselling with life design principles to explore the growth ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Dynamic assessment has been presented in international literature as an assessment for use with second language learners due to its ability to mitigate the negative impact of limited language proficiency on a learner’s ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The purpose of the study was to understand school dropout in Zimbabwe from the perspectives of those with lived experiences of the phenomenon. As confirmed by literature, school dropout militates against efforts by schools ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions of key roleplayers on best practices for sustainable school-based vegetable gardens in a resource-constrained community in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, ...
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