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The Influence of a Multitasking Principal on Learner Performance in a Public School, a Dramatic Rendition
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Shamila Ramsookbhai – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This critical qualitative study focused on what are the factors that contribute to high learner performance at a public school in South Africa. Purposive sampling was used and the data was produced via interviews with the participants (the principal, ten teachers, five ex learners and two parents) as well as observations of various school…
Descriptors: Principals, High Achievement, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
Game of Schools: A Three-Act Play on Learner Performance in a Public School, a Dramatic Rendition
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Shamila Ramsookbhai – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This qualitative study located in a critical interpretivist paradigm focused on what are the factors that contribute to high learner performance at a public school in South Africa. The data was produced via interviews with the participants as well as observations of various school activities and documents. Artistic licence was used and the data…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
Insights into Persuasive Technology for M-Learning Using Activity Theory
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Sibanyoni, Nhlanhla A.; Alexander, Patricia M. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
In theory, educational applications that are engaging and motivating should easily persuade learners to use a mobile device for studying. Since this technology is already familiar to learners, mobile learning should be easily accessible; given a suitable m-learning application, learners could practice mathematics anytime or anywhere. LevelUp is an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
Thinking Academic Freedom
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Lange, Lis – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
This lecture argues that the politicisation and instrumentalisation of the university caused by neoliberal frames has as a result the depoliticisation of knowledge and of the academic as individual. This depoliticisation has turned academic freedom into a right to disengage not only from the political fight around these issues but also from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Faculty, Academic Freedom
Developing Global Standards Framework and Quality Integrated Models for Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education Programs
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Khampirat, Buratin; McRae, Norah – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
Cooperative and Work-integrated Education (CWIE) programs have been widely accepted as educational programs that can effectively connect what students are learning to the world of work through placements. Because a global quality standards framework could be a very valuable resource and guide to establishing, developing, and accrediting quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Work Experience Programs, Education Work Relationship
Curriculum: Context, Conflict and Change in Black South African Education.
Jansen, Jonathan D. – 1987
This curriculum analysis of black South African education considers conflict and change in historical, contemporary, and postapartheid contexts. Part 1, "The Historical Context," interprets curriculum evolution, beginning with the evangelical curriculum for slaves in 1658 and concluding with formalization of racism in the apartheid…
Descriptors: Black Education, Cultural Context, Culture Conflict, Curriculum Development