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Martinez-Vargas, Carmen; Walker, Melanie; Mkwananzi, Faith – Educational Action Research, 2020
There is a gap in research on access to universities in South Africa. The research that exists focuses on quantitative methodologies, although some qualitative studies are now emerging. These research methodologies, although necessary and substantial for the development of equity measures and policies, might be less successful in their impact on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Higher Education, Student Empowerment
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Rule, Peter; Modipa, Taadi Ruth – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
Many adults with disabilities in South Africa never had a chance to attend school or dropped out at an early age because of poverty and discrimination. This article investigates the attitudes and experiences of adults with disabilities regarding education. It draws on an interactional model of disability and an embodied understanding of cognition…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Educational Attitudes
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Wood, Lesley – South African Journal of Education, 2012
Based on the existing literature on the positive relationship that exists between high instances of HIV infections and a high degree of gender injustices in southern Africa, there is clearly a need for HIV-prevention interventions, to focus on the need for changing the existing gender norms. Social change begins with change at the individual…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Action Research, Prevention, Gender Differences