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Nuria Cadete; Shaun Ruggunan – SAGE Open, 2024
Higher education institutions (HEIs) globally heavily depend on the resilience of academic staff members to achieve excellence in teaching and learning. The extant scholarly work on resilience seems to take the relationship between workplace environmental factors (WEFs) and the adverse experiences of resilience among women academics for granted.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Faculty, Higher Education
Care, Esther; Kim, Helyn; Anderson, Kate; Gustafsson-Wright, Emily – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2017
The Skills for a Changing World project presents evidence of a movement of education systems globally toward a more explicit focus on a broad range of skills that our 21st century society needs and demands. This movement can be seen in the vision and mission statements of education systems as well as through their curricula. Although clearly…
Descriptors: Skills, Educational Needs, Skill Analysis, Skill Development
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Helleve, Arnfinn; Flisher, Alan J.; Onya, Hans; Mukoma, Wanjiru; Klepp, Knut-Inge – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2011
In this paper we explore the perceived desirable characteristics of South African Life Orientation teachers for teaching sexuality and HIV/AIDS. We also investigate the extent to which these characteristics can be understood as parts of a role script for teaching HIV/AIDS and sexuality. Data were collected from teachers who taught Grade Eight and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Discipline, Sexuality, Social Work
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Ramnarain, U.; Molefe, P. – Africa Education Review, 2012
A high failure rate at first year physics is often attributed to the lack of readiness of high school students to pursue such studies. This research explores this issue and reports on the perceptions of five physics lecturers at a South African university on the preparedness of high school students for first year physics. Qualitative data was…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Physics, Semi Structured Interviews, Qualitative Research
Ng, Eugenia M. W., Ed. – Information Science Reference, 2010
With the advent of new technologies, more convenient and effective ways of learning are being adopted. However, despite the growing advancements there remains a lack of literature in applications of using these technology teaching approaches. This book offers in-depth analysis of new technologies in blended learning that promote creativity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Action Research, Distance Education
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Schulze, Salomé; Steyn, Trudie – South African Journal of Education, 2007
We identify current stressors in the professional lives of South African secondary school educators. The study was exploratory, using a questionnaire, which listed 19 possible causes of stress and was completed by 987 educators from all racial groups and provinces in the country. South African educators in general currently experience the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Stress Variables, Negative Attitudes