I believe that the election in 1994 of the first democratic government in South Africa has
presented a challenge to all South Africans in different ways. I believe that one of the
principal challenges that the 1994 ...
In this dissertation I examine of the role of graphic design in the struggle for social justice in South
Africa - with specific reference to the concept of human rights. I am motivated by an overwhelming
awareness that ...
This dissertation was researched in two main parts. The first enquiry was to establish whether the Afrikaner women practised any form of craft during their time of interment in the Anglo-Boer War concentration camps, during ...
In response to the alarmingly low literacy rates in South Africa and to improve reading instruction in schools, the National Department of Education introduced the National Reading Strategy (NRS) in primary schools in 2008. ...
The crux of my thesis is the study of the relationship of script and image in the work of contemporary arts. I chose to focus on three selected artists, i.e. myself, Celeste van der Merwe, a local South African male artist ...
South Africa’s dynamic post-Apartheid education climate is beset by a plethora of new policies designed to transform education. Our county’s educators are expected to be the alchemists of change to create the new and ...
This autoethnographic self study tracks my new ways of knowing in the various roles I play
from daughter (passive recipient) to curriculum designer (active analytical composer). It
retells my journey in the teaching ...
In adopting a critical realist approach, this study offers a view of the complex
social and contextual factors impacting on literacy acquisition and development
in primary education, which is thought to be its main ...
Social issues are a very real problem in South Africa. Violent protests in poorer
communities around South Africa indicate a need to better understand negative
social realities impacting on communities. This research ...
This thesis sets out to demonstrate the influences on the personality of a Black
African Male Educator – specifically mine - as I enquire: ―Why do I do things the
way I do?‖ and ―What has enabled me to meet, face and ...
This study, in adopting a phenomenological approach, provides an overview of the contextual realities surrounding language choice and usage as it impacts on the academic performance of English second language learners. ...
Outcomes-based education compelled South African teachers to make an important paradigm shift in education from a teacher-centred approach to a learner-centred approach. This paradigm shift in teaching and learning emphasised ...
The literacy levels in South African schools are alarmingly low. Educators are
challenged in diverse classrooms with multicultural and multilingual learners as they
are faced with the problems that these learners are ...
The abolition of apartheid in South Africa in the late 1980s and the advent of democracy in 1994 resulted in dramatic changes in the education system. Of great significance to this study is the freedom African parents were ...
This study is concerned with the choices parents of second language learners
make with regard to the schooling of their children in respect of medium of
instruction, and explores the reasons why parents choose to ...
In this critical reflective self study I have examined the Family Literacy Project (FLP) to determine the influences that contributed to the development of an approach to family literacy. This study responds to the ...
The aim of this research is to document and evaluate the Imvunge group of street
photographers in Durban with specific reference to the development of
photographic and business skills from 1999 to 2009. This study will ...
This research deals with the development of a model of interpreting services
for a newly merged multilingual University of Technology, the Durban
University of Technology. The rationale for the study was the urgent need ...
The purpose of this study was to explore the possibility of creating shop window displays
focussing on a South African identity in the Durban region. The impetus for the study
stemmed from the design of the Constitutional ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the current learning methods
that are typically used by special populations (an elderly subject group), and
to explore their general level of effectiveness. The primary ...