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van Jaarsveld, Leentjie; Mentz, P. J.; van der Walt, Johannes L. – Africa Education Review, 2016
Visionary leaders shape their actions and initiate transformation to reach a specific goal. To do so is critically important in South Africa, where the education system offers limited opportunities to manage a school in a manner that deviates from the prescribed norm. School leaders typically encounter barriers such as the inadequacy of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, School Administration, Leadership Effectiveness
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Kagoda, Alice Merab; Katabaro, Joviter – Africa Education Review, 2013
Teaching Practice is a learning process through which teacher trainees are exposed to a school environment during their internship. Time spent in the field ranges between eight and ten weeks and students are posted to different parts of the respective countries under study. The teacher trainers referred to as supervisors assume the role of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Educational Finance, Qualitative Research
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Nyoni, J. – Africa Education Review, 2012
This article reports on a critical meta-analysis of empirical studies done by human sciences researchers on the initial multicultural teacher education (IMTE) models in multicultural post-colonial transitional societies with reference to sub-Saharan African states in general and South Africa in particular. Using a critical post-positivist…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Meta Analysis, Synthesis, Multiracial Persons
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Mashava, Rumbidzai; Chingombe, Agrippa – Africa Education Review, 2013
Teaching Practice is presumed to be key to professionalization of teachers, although very little research has been done on its effectiveness. This article seeks to show the views of stakeholders on the effectiveness of Teaching Practice in Zimbabwean primary schools. A case study which is largely qualitative was found appropriate. A sample of 84…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Educational Quality, Educational Practices, Professionalism
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Steyn, G. M. – Africa Education Review, 2013
This study investigates a South African principal's view of implementing invitational education (IE) as an example of a professional development programme (PD) within a particular school setting. Two types of literature inform this study: leadership supportive of school development and the invitational education approach to teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Photography, Ethnography, Principals
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Mokiwa, S. A.; Phasha, T. N. – Africa Education Review, 2012
For students with visual impairments, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become an important means through which they can learn and access learning materials at various levels of education. However, their learning experiences in using such form of technologies have been rarely documented, thus suggests society's lack of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Learning Experience, Visual Impairments