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Forcher-Mayr, Matthias; Mahlknecht, Sabine – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2020
Sprouting Entrepreneurs is a three-year teaching programme for rural primary and secondary schools that focuses on entrepreneurship in agriculture. It addresses the South African real-life challenges of food insecurity, youth unemployment and rural poverty from a classroom perspective, by linking agriculture, food and entrepreneurship as main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Entrepreneurship, Agricultural Education
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Lavhelani, N. Phellecy; Ndebele, Clever; Ravhuhali, Fhatuwani – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2020
The study sought to establish what academic support programmes, policies and systems were in place to support first entering students who were at risk of not succeeding with their studies at a historically disadvantaged rural based South African University. The study examined institutional frameworks for supporting at-risk students and systems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, College Students, Rural Schools
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Geduld, B. W.; Sikwanga, H. S. – Perspectives in Education, 2020
Teachers are expected to be self-directed and to instill in their learners the ability to self-regulate their own learning processes. There are however personal and contextual factors that promote or inhibit teachers' abilities to develop self-regulated learning skills. This study was conducted in two South African secondary township schools and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Self Management, Skill Development
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Chisango, Grasia; Marongwe, Newlin; Mtsi, Nomxolisi; Matyedi, Thembisile E. – Africa Education Review, 2020
There is an increasing global call to adopt information and communication technologies (ICTs) in teaching and learning. ICTs have become so essential that the South African government has introduced the e-education policy. ICTs are powerful enabling tools that play a significant role in the teaching and learning process. This article reports on a…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Technology Integration, Rural Schools, Secondary School Teachers
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Masango, Michack Mandla; Van Ryneveld, Linda; Graham, Marien Alet – Africa Education Review, 2020
The use of information and communications technology (ICT) is gradually increasing in South African schools. In the Gauteng province, the Department of Education has prioritised the provisioning of electronic textbooks (ebooks) to public schools since 2014. However, to this day, there seem to be multiple barriers that hamper the adoption and use…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Barriers, Rural Schools
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Stoner, Marie C. D.; Rucinski, Katherine B.; Edwards, Jessie K.; Selin, Amanda; Hughes, James P.; Wang, Jing; Agyei, Yaw; Gomez-Olive, F. Xavier; MacPhail, Catherine; Kahn, Kathleen; Pettifor, Audrey – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: Prevention of both school dropout and teen pregnancy represent clear public health priorities for South Africa, yet their complex and potentially cyclical relationship has not been fully explored. Objective: To further understand how this relationship operates, we analyzed data from a randomized trial of young women aged 13 to 20 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Dropout Prevention, Pregnancy
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Ngwenya, Jabulisile – South African Journal of Education, 2019
This paper explores teachers' experiences of providing feedback to accounting learners in a selected rural school in South Africa. In terms of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) for Accounting, assessment is viewed as an integral part of teaching and learning, with emphasis on continuous provision of feedback. Providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Rural Schools, Business Education
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Hlalele, Dipane – Africa Education Review, 2019
The purpose of the study was to explore rural university access programme students' experience of mathematics anxiety in academic settings. Mathematics anxiety has been found to have an adverse effect on students' confidence, motivation and achievement. The quantitative study was exploratory and descriptive in nature. The participants were 655…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Access to Education, Student Experience, Mathematics Anxiety
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Masoga, Mogomme Alpheus; Maoto, Rose Satsope – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Learners with disabilities are faced with unprecedented challenges in their pursuit of integration in the institutionalized higher education system in South Africa. The aim of this paper is to explore the recruitment and integration of students with disabilities (SWDs) at selected rural universities in South Africa in terms of facilities for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, College Students, Barriers
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Shambare, Brian; Simuja, Clement; Olayinka, Theodorio Adedayo – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2022
It is commonly accepted that learners gain better understanding of science concepts when they perform 'hands-on' experiments in the lab. However, the lack of lab infrastructure, particularly in most rural schools, negatively affects the teaching of science. With the increasing potential of ICT to education, virtual laboratories (VL) have emerged…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Science Instruction, Computer Simulation, Science Experiments
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Sikhwari, Tshimangadzo Daniel; Dama, Nkhangweleni Gloria; Gadisi, Azwitamisi Milton; Matodzi, Tshifhiwa Christinah – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2020
Lack of sufficient accommodation in many South African universities has forced many students to reside outside the campus and commute to attend classes as commuter students. Research indicates that living on campus is related to gains in social and personal competence. The level of competence gained may help students living on campus (resident…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Commuting Students, Rural Schools, Universities
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Runhare, Tawanda; Ouda, James Bill; Vele, Maria Tsumbedzo; Mudzielwana, Ndileleni – International Review of Education, 2021
The study presented in this article gathered and examined the views of key stakeholders in rural South African secondary schools on strategies for curbing learner dropout. The investigation, which employed a qualitative case study research model, sampled 20 secondary school learners aged 17-20 (11 female, 9 male), 20 youth aged 17-22 (11 female, 9…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Dropouts
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Dube, Bekithemba; Ndaba, Xolisile P. – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2021
This paper discusses using bricolage to mitigate the struggles faced by progressed learners in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Most progressed learners perform poorly in many subjects, especially sciences. Their struggle has stimulated the need to find ways to enhance their performance. Reinvented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Rural Schools
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Uleanya, Chinaza; Alex, Jogymol Kalariparampil – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic made many institutions of learning at various levels across the globe to shift from onsite to online teaching and learning activities. This was regardless of the level of preparation made available for the transition process. Meanwhile, students from rural institutions of learning are considered to have…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Rural Schools
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Walton, Elizabeth; Carrington, Suzanne; Saggers, Beth; Edwards, Chris; Kimani, Wacango – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Implementing inclusive education requires on-going commitment to teachers' professional learning. One way of implementing professional learning is to develop learning communities based on Lave and Wenger's ideas of situated learning and learning as social practice. Learning communities, drawing on models of Professional Learning Communities and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Models
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