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Herrero Romero, Rocio; Hall, James; Cluver, Lucie – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: Many adolescents in South Africa are exposed to multiple types of violence, socio-economic disadvantage, and low-quality education: all risk factors for educational outcomes including school delay (grade enrolment below that which is age-appropriate). Supportive teacher-student relationships are known to be associated with improved…
Descriptors: Violence, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, At Risk Students
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Berman, Kim – Teaching Artist Journal, 2012
In this article, the author discusses how art, politics, and life intersect in a South African community visual arts studio program that seeks to educate artists as change agents. Artist Proof Studio (APS) was founded in 1991 and responded to the challenge of building democracy in a postapartheid South Africa. It is a community art center in…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Democracy, Educationally Disadvantaged, Change Agents
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Zulu, Constance – South African Journal of Education, 2011
Post-matric students from under-resourced (historically disadvantaged) black high schools generally encounter difficulties in their academic work at university. The study reported here was intended to empower first year (post-matric) students from these schools with basic research skills in a bid to counteract the effects of their high school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Student Empowerment, Research Skills
Mayer, Louisa – 2002
This paper discusses the disadvantaged state of women in South Africa, including statistics that illustrate effects of their lack of status on their health and well being. It then focuses on the role in South Africa of the community library and information services in empowering especially women. Barriers experienced in information delivery to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Snyder, Patricia A., Ed.; Stone, Frank A., Ed. – 1972
These papers from the World Education Workshop on minority education present the question of minority education in its many guises around the world. Basic objectives of the workshop include bringing together people concerned with the polycultural and international dimensions in the preparation of professional educators, promoting recognition of a…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged