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Peer reviewedEastmond, J. Nicholas; Nickel, Tom; du Plessis, Jacques; Smith, Linda D. – TechTrends, 2000
Describes an incremental approach to implementing a Web-based course in higher education based on experiences in South Africa and some in North America. Discusses gradually increasing faculty involvement; faculty support; departmental efforts; the use of email; distance education possibilities; and totally online courses. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Departments, Developing Nations, Distance Education
Peer reviewedPape, John – Comparative Education Review, 1998
Compares educational change in Zimbabwe and South Africa in the two years after those countries' first democratic elections. Although change in Zimbabwe was characterized by a rapid expansion of service in response to popular demand, South Africa has emphasized changes in policymaking processes with little change in the delivery of educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Democracy, Educational Change
van Rooyen, H. G. – International Journal of Environmental Education and Information, 1998
Addresses environmental education in the school curriculum in South Africa, most notably the rationale for including environmental education in formal education and recent developments in South Africa that may enhance this process. Emphasis is placed on the importance of environmental education in enhancing learners' skills and in enabling…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedCommon, Dianne L. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2000
Before 1994, South Africa had a complex education system, characterized by multiple, loosely connected bureaucracies; inequitable resource distribution; and concentrated, oligarchic power. The new government is striving to democratize education by dismantling and dismembering the old institution. Blacks and whites must cooperate to make it happen.…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Development
Direct linkde Waal, Esther; Theron, Tinie – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2003
This paper studies homeschooling as an alternative form of educational provision in South Africa and USA to determine what knowledge and experiences from research on homeschooling in the USA may be relevant to the South Africa situation. Homeschooling in the USA has a sound legal foundation and has become an acceptable educational alternative.…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Home Schooling, Foreign Countries, Emotional Development
Raju, J. – Education for Information, 2004
Literature on general education in higher education generally and in library and/or information science education and training specifically, is reviewed. Drawing from this review and from the findings of an empirical study conducted in South Africa, this article discusses curriculum development in LIS education and training in both the university…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Information Science Education, Higher Education, General Education
Download full textSymes, Colin, Ed. – 2000
This conference proceedings contains 65 presentations and 3 colloquiums from a conference that dealt with knowledge at work and knowledge that works and with how education can be successfully integrated into work and work into education. The papers are "Reading the Contexts of Complex Incidents of Adult Education Practice" (Apte);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Certification, Computer Mediated Communication
Transvaal Education Dept., Pretoria (South Africa). – 1989
This information guide is intended to assist principals and members of media committees in implementing the media policy of the Transvaal Education Department, this information guide was designed to be used in conjunction with the chapter on the education media service in the Manual for General School Organization (1986). Chapter 1 outlines…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Botha, P. M. C., Ed. – 1987
This report, containing seven articles, summarizes a series of evaluation studies. The first article, "The Shell Science and Mathematics Resource Centre in 1987," provides an overview of the Centre's mode and reflections about the achievements of the Centre during the three years of its operation. The second article, "The Curriculum…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Management Development
Reid-Smith, Edward R., Ed. – 1980
A collection of nine commissioned papers, one each from Scotland and South Africa and eight from Australia, address provisions for and problems with distance education for librarianship. Components and applications of directed private study in Scotland and the development, educational philosophy, methods, problems, and standards of correspondence…
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, External Degree Programs, Feasibility Studies, Foreign Countries
Horrell, Muriel, Comp.; And Others – 1975
Sections of this annual report deal with the following topics: political and constitutional developments--the white population group, the colored population group, the Indian group; political affairs of Africans; commission of inquiry into certain organizations and related matters; organizations concerned with race relations; the population of…
Descriptors: Activism, Educational Development, Educational Policy, Employment Patterns
Kraak, Andre, Ed. – 2000
This book examines the influence of a body of international literature on the development of post-apartheid policies in higher education and training and in science and technology. Know as the "Mode Two" knowledge debate, it refers to the emergence of a new mode of knowledge production which is taking shape outside of existing academic…
Descriptors: College Environment, Economic Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends
Lowe, Eugene Y., Jr., Ed. – 1999
The essays and commentaries in this volume on racial diversity and higher education are grouped into three parts. The first offers a broad perspective and an historical review of the complex history of the United States' effort to achieve racial diversity; the second notes empirical studies of the extent of racial disparities in academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Affirmative Action, College Admission
Peer reviewedAlberts, E. M.; Hugo, E. A. K. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1996
A study in the Vaal Triangle (South Africa) investigated the extent of Vaal Triangle Technikon students' participation in economic and social development activities on campus and within the surrounding community, identified community projects and development activities in which students might participate, and assessed student attitudes about…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Services, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedO'Donoghue, R. B.; NcNaught, C. – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Discusses a two-year action-research investigation of conceptual, evaluation and adoption tensions that led to a revised approach to environmental education and curriculum innovation. The study revealed how external support services and a sustained dialog around the prevailing science curriculum, local environment, and everyday classroom…
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Support, Curriculum Development, Economic Factors
