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A Journey into Understanding Gendered Experiences of Outdoor Adventure Education
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Blaine, Judith; Akhurst, Jacqui – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
Outdoor Adventure Education (OAE) is traditionally depicted as a hegemonic masculine domain. Thus, fundamental to any dialogue on gender in OAE is whether the outdoor experience reifies or disputes stereotypical gender roles. This study explores the influence of gender on the psychosocial outcomes and descriptions of gender-related influences on…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Differences
High School Learners' Perceptions of Value as Motivation to Choose Music as an Elective in Gauteng, South Africa
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Venter, Lauren; Panebianco, Clorinda – International Journal of Music Education, 2022
A growing concern is the low number of learners who choose to participate in music during their high school years. Extending previous research by McPherson and O'Neill, this study explored South African high school learners' motivation and value perceptions to continue with music as an elective in grade 10. A further objective was to understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 10, Student Attitudes
Factors Affecting Learner Motivation in Physical Science at a Public School in the Gauteng Province: The Teacher's Role
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Mashupye, Lilian; Schulze, Salomé – Africa Education Review, 2022
South Africa lags behind in terms of competing globally in science and technology. Thus, the purpose of the study was to investigate teacher factors that influenced learners' motivation to learn science in a secondary school. The study also aimed to determine whether significant differences in motivation regarding teacher influence existed among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Teacher Role, Student Motivation
Modelling Competencies of School Learners in the Beginning and Final Year of Secondary School Mathematics
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Julie, Cyril – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
A widely used instrument was implemented to ascertain the mathematical modelling competency displayed by a cohort of South African learners in grade 10 and grade 12 of the school mathematics programme in South Africa. The cohort comprised 471 grade 10 and 200 grade 12 learners from schools serving learners from low socio-economic status…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 10, Grade 12
Gender, Dialogue and Discursive Psychology: A Pilot Sexuality Intervention with South African High-School Learners
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Jearey-Graham, Nicola; Macleod, Catriona Ida – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2017
Good-quality sexuality education can be effective in reducing sexual health risks, but may also be disconnected from the lived realities of learners' lives and reinforce gendered stereotypes. In line with the trend towards "empowerment" in and through sexuality education, we implemented a pilot sexuality intervention with Grade 10…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Sexuality, Sex Education, Grade 10
"Learning the Basics": Young People's Engagement with Sexuality Education at Secondary Schools
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Adams Tucker, Leigh; George, Gavin; Reardon, Candice; Panday, Saadhna – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
School-based sexuality education remains a key response to the HIV epidemic. Drawing on findings from an ethnographic study, this study explores how young people engage with sexuality and HIV- and AIDS-related education as it is delivered through the Life Orientation (LO) learning area in South Africa, in order to understand the dynamics that…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Secondary School Students, Focus Groups, Grade 8