Maasz, Johan Jacobus; Van der Riet, Sonika; Henriët, Marinique; Britz, Leanet; Graham, Marien Alet; Du Toit, Maria Neethling; Van der Linde, Jeannie(Sage, 2024)
Preachers are professional voice users (PVUs) who regularly experience high vocal demands, often leading to vocal difficulties or disorders. Research has established that this often occurs due to a lack of sufficient ...
This article argues for a conceptualisation of war poetry as a corporeal re-membering that encapsulates trauma as literary theme through the ‘poetic bodies’ construct. The ‘poetic bodies’ concept implies that literary ...
Li, Haibin; Mu, Guanglun Michael; Theron, Linda C.(Frontiers Media, 2023-10-26)
The past five decades have seen significant advancements in child and youth resilience research. However, there can be no room for complacency as the wellbeing of the next generation is continuously thwarted by “large-scale ...
Hermann, Uwe Peter; Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog(AfricaJournals, 2024)
Tourism higher education is an emerging discipline, more specifically tourism postgraduate
study. Within these tourism postgraduate qualifications, the module research methodology is a
common module. The tourism higher ...
Government sectors responsible for early childhood development (ECD) often have competing priorities and obligations which manifest through fragmentation, silo conflicts, and power dynamics, thus failing to implement ECD ...
Botes, Mignon; Swanepoel, De Wet; Graham, Marien Alet; Van der Linde, Jeannie(South African Medical Association, 2023-09)
BACKGROUND : Regular developmental surveillance using structured developmental screening tools is a proven way to effectively identify developmental delays and disabilities. Most screening tools are developed and standardised ...
Mudadigwa, Brighton(South African Chemical Institute, 2023)
The South African Physical Science curriculum is regarded as spiral in nature due to its progression of concepts across grades, and its coherence of ideas within grades. A spiral curriculum supports coherence and boosts ...
Nicolaou, Andrea Marisa; Eloff, Irma F.(Sage, 2024-01)
This study explores the utility of the I-poem methodology to investigate subjective well-being in children and adolescents with ADHD in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subjective well-being in this population ...
Tshabalala, Goodness Xolile; Nthontho, Maitumeleng Albertina(Education Association of South Africa, 2024-05)
In the study reported on here we explored the experiences of primary school principals in the implementation of educational policy change from an educational policy implementation (hereafter, EPI) theory perspective. With ...
Serakwane, Jane Mathukhwane; Herman, Chaya(University of Venda, 2022-02)
This article explores learner behaviour management practices of teachers in culturally diverse classrooms in a South African high school. The theoretical underpinnings of culturally responsive classroom management are used ...
Bester, Suzanne; Somo, Charity Mokgaetji(University of Venda, 2022-12)
Access to higher education institutions and success rates of students are high on the agenda of all higher education institutions in South Africa following the #FeesMustFall campaign that began in mid-October 2015 followed ...
Bhengu, Thamsanqa Thulani; Blose, Sibonelo(University of Venda, 2022-05)
Continuing learning is significant for teachers to keep up with the ever-changing demands and challenges associated with their work. As senior leaders in schools, whose key responsibility is to promote the education of ...
The study reported herein examined the influence of school contexts on leaders’ leadership practices in South Africa. To this end, deputy principals were put under the microscope to scrutinize the relationship between their ...
INTRODUCTION : The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship
between satisfaction with life and mathematics achievement among a nationally
representative sample of Grade 9 learners in South Africa.
METHODS ...
Bandeira, Monica; Graham, Marien Alet; Ebersohn, L. (Liesel)(Frontiers Media, 2023-08-17)
INTRODUCTION : Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are exposed to several
challenges and risk factors, linked to historical legacies. Sub-Saharan Africa has
one of the highest rates of poverty and inequality in the ...
BACKGROUND : Studies elsewhere show that benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) have protective mental health value. However, this protective value has never been investigated in an African context. Given the need to ...
INTRODUCTION : Increasingly person-centered care (PCC) is being recognized as an
important aspect of speech-language pathology and audiology (SLP/A) service
delivery. This study aimed to (i) identify preferences toward ...
This study investigates South African teachers’ attitudes in schools for learners with special educational needs specifically learners with severe intellectual disability (SID) using a quantitative and descriptive online ...
Mazibe, Ernest Nkosingiphile; Gaigher, Estelle; Coetzee, Corene(Modestum LTD, 2023)
This paper reports a case study that explored teachers’ dynamic pedagogical content knowledge
(PCK) across three big ideas of electrostatics namely the electrostatic force, electric field, and
electric field strength. ...
This paper discusses silent group Sandplay (SP) with early adolescents in circumstances of deprivation, neglect and trauma. SP offered in multiple layers of temenos in a children’s home environment provided a conducive ...