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Marisa Verster; Elsa Mentz; Charlene du Toit-Brits – South African Journal of Education, 2024
School teachers must be prepared for ongoing, unpredictable and rapid changes in the world, therefore, they need specialised and general knowledge to be able to think independently and imaginatively. The purpose with this article was thus to report on the effectiveness of a self-directed professional development (SDPD) intervention that guided…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Independent Study, Program Effectiveness, Grade 9
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Thabang Donald Mokoena; Gideon Petrus van Tonder – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to determine the impact of mentorship on the development of self-directedness among beginner teachers in their initial years of teaching. Design/methodology/approach: The researcher adopted a positivist paradigm to explore the situation of concern. Quantitative research was conducted, involving the collection and analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Mentors
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Jo-Anne Botha; Ingrid Potgieter – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2024
This study explores whether a range of socio-demographical factors predict adult learner self-directedness in the context of South African open and distance e-learning higher education (ODeLHE). We observe significant differences between socio-demographical groups in the sub-dimensions of the Adult Learner Self-Directedness Scale. The study…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Personal Autonomy, Distance Education, Higher Education