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Chowdhury, P.; Rankhumise, M. P.; Simelane-Mnisi, S.; Mafa-Theledi, O. N. – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2020
Twenty-first century chemistry education researchers reported challenges in chemistry education pertaining to high school chemistry teaching-learning outcomes. Even though all studies intended to improve chemistry teaching-learning outcomes, unfortunately the impact of chemistry education research found not to be much encouraging. A few of these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science
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Wiebesiek-Pienaar, Lisa; Letsekha, Tebello; Meyiwa, Thenjiwe; Feni, Bukiwe – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
The National Curriculum Statement for Grades R-9 (NCS) (Department of Education, 2002) asks that Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) be valued in South African schools and classrooms. Teachers are urged to use context-specific and context-relevant forms of IK to teach content; and to incorporate IK methodologies into their teaching methods. Little…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Teaching Methods
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Jacobs, Lynette – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
The legacy of South Africa's destructive history is still evident in the different worlds in which South Africans live. Quality education is compromised by violence occurring in schools and role-players must face school violence and take steps to deal with it. This can only be done if school violence is deeply understood within the various school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Student Experience, Secondary School Students
Esterhuizen, Hendrik D.; Blignaut, A. Seugnet; Els, Christo J.; Ellis, Suria M. – Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2012
This paper addresses the affective human experiences in terms of the emotions of South African teacher-students while attaining computer competencies for teaching and learning, and for ODL. The full mixed method study investigated how computers contribute towards affective experiences of disadvantaged teacher-students. The purposive sample related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Attitudes
Mailula, Esrom M.; Laugksch, Rudiger C.; Aldridge, Jill M.; Fraser, Barry J. – 2003
This study examined secondary school teachers' perceptions of their school-level environment and its influence on implementation of outcomes-based education (OBE). Participating schools were in South Africa's Limpopo Province (one of its poorest rural provinces) and were implementing Curriculum 2005, a new outcomes-based approach to teaching and…
Descriptors: Cultural Relevance, Educational Environment, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
Mentz, Kobus – 2001
Rural schools in South Africa are often found on farms. These "farm schools" are usually erected by the farmer to educate the children of farm laborers. While officially public schools, farm schools are on private property and maintained through private funds. The history of farm schools is closely linked with the political history of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Black Education, Educational Change, Educational Environment