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Strategies to Support Rural-Based Schools in Teaching and Learning during COVID-19: The Case of the Maune Circuit in the Capricorn North District
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Masilo Lucas Mangena; Khashane Stephen Malatji – South African Journal of Education, 2024
With this study we investigated strategies to support rural-based schools in teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was conducted in 6 secondary schools in the Maune circuit, Capricorn North district of the Limpopo province, South Africa. A qualitative research approach using a case study research design was followed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Rural Education, COVID-19
Reimagining the Needs of Rural Schools: Teachers' and Parents' Experiences of Parental Involvement in School Activities
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Mbhiza, Hlamulo; Nkambule, Thabisile – Africa Education Review, 2022
The nature of the relationship between parents, teachers, and the school are continuously important because of teachers' changing social expectations. While formal education is traditionally viewed as the job of teachers, they cannot be expected to address all educational issues that are influenced by multifaceted social issues. We explore…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, Parent Participation, School Activities
Framing Sustainable Rural Learning Ecologies: A Case for Strength-Based Approaches
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Myende, Phumlani E.; Hlalele, Dipane – Africa Education Review, 2018
In this paper, we suggest strength-based approaches for the creation of sustainable rural learning ecologies. We have framed the creation of rural learning ecologies with appreciative inquiry (AI) as a framework and argue that it begins from understanding rurality from positive psychology. The premise within AI has been seen to be the shift from…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Sustainability, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Left behind in a Democratic Society: A Case of Some Farm School Primary Schoolteachers of Natural Science in South Africa
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Bantwini, Bongani D.; Feza, Nosisi N. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2017
This case study explores the plight of some farm schoolteachers in a school district in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa and their feelings of neglect in the new democratic society. Through interviews and a teaching observation analysis, this article focuses on five teachers and discusses resource and infrastructure challenges, lack of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Rural Education, Agricultural Occupations
Handbook of Research on Social Inequality and Education
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Wisdom, Sherrie, Ed.; Leavitt, Lynda, Ed.; Bice, Cynthia, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
In comparing one public school to another, discussions frequently include talk concerning the socio economics of a school or district, which then leads to talk about the advantages that one socioeconomic setting has over another. Educators tend to agree that low academic achievement frequently associated with a low socioeconomic status is a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Influences, Racial Discrimination, African American Students
Education for All: Experiences of Principals at Rural Secondary Schools in Mpumalanga Province
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Jooste, H.; White, C. J. – Africa Education Review, 2011
This article deals with the challenges in the implementation of education for all as experienced by principals in rural secondary schools in Mpumalanga. Interventions which have been implemented on national and provincial level to improve teaching and learning are not equally successful in schools countrywide. The central phenomenon of interest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Equal Education, Rural Schools