Emerging Key Points from Literature on South African System of Education

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » INTRODUCTION An effective educational system revolves around its teachers and particularly around  school leadership. The quality of the teaching personnel recruited to man the teaching profession’s process is pivotal to a nation’s success...

BACKGROUND INFORMATION TO MUSIC EDUCATION IN ENGLAND, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND SOUTH AFRICA

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » INTRODUCTION The author of this thesis is a member of a group of 18 music educators, registered for Master's and Doctoral degrees, who have accepted the challenge of totally reconceptualising all facets of...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE INSTRUMENT A BRIEF SUMMARY

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Introduction The violoncello has existed for over 450 years. At first the violoncello was mainly used as a basso continuo instrument or as an accompanying instrument, but today the violoncello is recognised as...

EDUCATORS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » INTRODUCTION  This PhD study focused on understanding and explaining how educators understand and experience learners who may have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in their classrooms. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (referred to as ADHD),...

THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SENIOR EDUCATION MANAGER

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » DELIMITATIONS OF THE FIELD OF STUDY This research project notes that several studies have been made on in-service training and staff development with regard to the subject teacher, departmental head, deputy principal and...

Addressing the Teacher Educators’ Professional Needs through Self-Study Research

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Introduction In this chapter I take the opportunity to introduce the reader to the major motivation behind undertaking this particular research. The introduction is very important to me since as I engaged in...

Music as sign-system—a survey of scholarship

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Introduction Walter Thompson is a New York-based composer and saxophonist who derived the basic idea of using non-verbal signals for directing the course of a live ensemble performance in that city in the...

Review of the body of scholarship on the reasons for and means to achieve the goals of the Skills Development Act

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The skills revolution in SA since 1994 After the first democratic elections in South Africa in April 1994, it became a priority for the new government to transform and reform the education system...

HEORIES OF READING AND READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Introduction Academic reading is widely regarded as a major determining factor in academic achievement. In the United States, studies by Guthrie, Wigfield, Metsala and Cox (1999), Guthrie and Wigfield (2000), Janzen (2007), and...

Second language learning and affective variables

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » THE SETTING AND SOCIOCULTURAL BACKGROUND The Vhembe District (see Figure 1.1 below) is located in the north east of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Limpopo is one of the most rural and...