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Ethical Leadership in Schools: A Qualitative Case Study of Perspectives from Six South African Principals
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Celumusa Bethuel Hlongwane; Thamsanqa Thulani Bhengu – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
This paper explores the perspectives of six contextually different primary and secondary school principals regarding the complexities, contradictions and benefits of ethical leadership practices. Underpinned by the interpretive research paradigm and chaos theory, a qualitative case study design was adopted to guide data generation. We used…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Leadership Styles, Elementary Secondary Education
'I Don't Really Know Where I Stand Because I Don't Know if I Took Something Away from Her': Moral Injury in South African Speech-Language Therapists and Audiologists Due to Patient Death and Dying
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Nagdee, Nabeelah; Manuel de Andrade, Victor – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Speech-language therapists and audiologists (SLT&As) may encounter difficulties when confronted with patient death and dying, which may conflict with their moral beliefs and result in moral injury. Furthermore, South African SLT&As practice in a country with a high mortality rate, which may add to the complexity of their…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Foreign Countries, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel
WhatsApp's Potential to Broaden Online Teaching and Learning: Perceptions of Undergraduate Students from One South African University
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Yu, Ke; Motlhabane, Monicah Gao – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2022
Aim/Purpose: Social media platforms have been increasingly incorporated into teaching and learning. However, studies using mixed methods to explore WhatsApp's potential to broaden online teaching and learning remain limited. Background: This study reports the experiences and perspectives of undergraduate students in terms of their WhatsApp usage…
Descriptors: Social Media, Online Courses, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Integrating Cooperative Learning into the Combined Blended Learning Design Model: Implications for Students' Intrinsic Motivation
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Bosch, Chantelle; Mentz, Elsa; Reitsma, Gerda Marie – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2019
Extensive research has been done on the implementation of cooperative learning (CL) in a face-to-face classroom. However, only a few studies could be found on the implementation of CL in a blended learning environment. The implementation of CL in such an environment is a challenging goal for facilitators. It requires a commitment to change and the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Preservice Teachers' Beliefs and Intentions about Integrating Mathematics Teaching and Learning ICTs in Their Classrooms
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Ndlovu, Mdutshekelwa; Ramdhany, Viren; Spangenberg, Erica D.; Govender, Rajendran – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice teachers' (PSTs') beliefs about their intentions to integrate information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their future mathematics classrooms. The main research objective was to examine the extent to which PSTs' beliefs predicted their intentions to integrate ICTs in their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Intention
Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Intelligibility in Context Scale for South Africa
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Pascoe, Michelle; McLeod, Sharynne – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2016
The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) is a screening questionnaire that focuses on parents' perceptions of children's speech in different contexts. Originally developed in English, it has been translated into 60 languages and the validity and clinical utility of the scale has been documented in a range of countries. In South Africa, there are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Parent Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies
Democratic School Governing Bodies in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal: The First Elections. EPU Research Report.
McPherson, Gregory; Dlamini, Mbali – 1998
This document examines the implementation of the Schools Act, which established the democratic governing bodies and the school governance, capacity-building program in KwaZulu-Natal. It is based on a study that: (1) recorded the existence/nonexistence of governing bodies and compiled a profile of the average governing body based on a sample of…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education