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Influence of School Contexts on Leadership Practices: Putting Deputy Principals under the Microscope
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Direct linkSibonelo Blose – SAGE Open, 2024
The study reported herein examined the influence of school contexts on leaders' leadership practices in South Africa. To this end, deputy principals were put under the microscope to scrutinize the relationship between their leadership practices and the school contexts in which they operate. The narrative inquiry - a qualitative methodology - was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistant Principals, Leadership Styles, Context Effect
Download full textLinda Scott – South African Journal of Education, 2023
The first South African case of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in March 2020 escalated to the national lockdown by the end of March 2020. This caused serious repercussions for learners, as there is a lack of infrastructure in South Africa to support online teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Teresa Del Bianco; Georgia Lockwood Estrin; Julian Tillmann; Bethany F. Oakley; Daisy Crawley; Antonia San José Cáceres; Hannah Hayward; Mandy Potter; Wendy Mackay; Petrusa Smit; Carlie du Plessis; Lucy Brink; Priscilla Springer; Hein Odendaal; Tony Charman; Tobias Banaschewski; Simon Baron-Cohen; Sven Bölte; Mark Johnson; Declan Murphy; Jan Buitelaar; Eva Loth; Emily J. H. Jones – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Autistic individuals experience higher rates of externalising and internalising symptoms that may vary with environmental factors. However, there is limited research on variation across settings that may highlight common factors with globally generalisable effects. Data were taken from two cohorts: a multinational European sample (n = 764; 453…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Socioeconomic Influences, Mental Health
Lizl Steynberg; Jan P. Grundling; Marius Venter – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
Neoliberal ideology globally prioritises competition and productivity over staff well-being in higher education, leading to exploitative practices and heightened stress among academic faculty, culminating in what can be termed modern academic slavery. This study investigates the contemporary impact of neoliberalism on South African universities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Higher Education, College Faculty
Patricia Ferrante; Federico Williams; Felix Büchner; Svea Kiesewetter; Godfrey Chitsauko Muyambi; Chinaza Uleanya; Marie Utterberg Modén – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
The interplay of digital technologies and inequalities are increasingly discussed in contemporary research, mostly focusing on different forms of digital divides and often addressed as a "problem" that societies should face. Hence, digital education and its governance becomes a major arena for addressing inequalities. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Electronic Learning
Camryn Terblanche; Michelle Pascoe; Michal Harty – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2025
Communication partners are instrumental in the successful use and implementation of augmentative and alternative communication systems (AAC), especially in schools, but stakeholder views from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are not well represented in the literature. Focus group interviews with seven professionals and three caregivers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Barriers, Technology Uses in Education
Linus Bylund; Beniamin Knutsson; Jonas Lindberg – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Eco-Schools is the world's largest sustainable school program. Drawing on biopolitical theory and fieldwork conducted in Rwanda, South Africa, Sweden and Uganda, this article explores and compares how Eco-Schools is enacted in contexts marked by widely differing socio-economic living conditions. Attention is drawn to the biopolitical rationalities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education
Shirima, Catherine; Naudé, Luzelle; Esterhuyse, Karel – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2021
Global socio-economic trends in the world of work, especially in transitional societies like South Africa, confront adolescents with career challenges that require a clear sense of self. We explore the relationship between ego-identity and career aspiration, the moderating role of gender, and the mediating role of self-esteem among 336 Black…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Correlation, Occupational Aspiration, Career Development
Madimabe, Makhosi P.; Omodan, Bunmi I. – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2021
The study investigates the effects of e-learning as an alternative form of curriculum dissemination for rural Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college students. This study adopted connectivism theory, which enabled lecturers to reflect and adapt to how learning has changed and the accompanying implications of designing the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Rural Schools
Heystek, Jan – School Leadership & Management, 2022
The article explored the characteristics of principals as leaders in schools in deprived socio-economic contexts in South Africa. The qualitative research was conducted in four provinces; four schools per province were purposefully sampled, and in each school, individual interviews were conducted with the principal, one member of the school…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries
Magedi, Maboragane J.; Rakgogo, Tebogo J.; Mnguni, Onica S.; Segabutla, Madikwa H.; Kgwete, Lazarus – Transformation in Higher Education, 2023
Background: COVID-19 as a pandemic has sparked robust debates within the education sector about the need to save lives, save the academic year, ensure that no student is left behind while being cognisant of issues of culture, equity and social justice. Aim: The study explored the challenges faced by disabled students after the introduction of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Justice
Dhlamini, Joyce Phikisile; Molaodi, Vivian Thuso – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2021
Research reported in this article investigated the effectiveness of collaborative effort between schools to bridge the existing gaps that erupted during the outbreak of COVID-19. There are gaps in teaching and learning within the previously privileged institutions and the marginalised institutions in South Africa. Such gaps might have a negative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Institutional Cooperation
Dempster, Edith R. – Science & Education, 2020
The paper reports a study that used a Bernsteinian analysis in order to investigate the association between higher primary science curriculum and social equity in four contrasting socioeconomic contexts: British Columbia (Canada), Singapore, South Africa and Kenya. The official science curriculum of each jurisdiction was analysed in terms of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Socioeconomic Influences, Context Effect, Correlation
Tichaona Buzy Musikavanhu; Elizabeth Isabel Scheepers – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transition to online learning, with synchronous e-learning becoming a critical modality in higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide. This shift, while ensuring educational continuity, has unveiled numerous challenges, especially in developing nations where resources and infrastructure…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Barriers, College Students
van der Walt, Janke; Plastow, Nicola A.; Unger, Marianne – South African Journal of Education, 2020
A high prevalence of medical conditions affects the typical motor development of learners in the West Coast District of South Africa. Given the strong correlation between motor skill performance and academic achievement, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of motor skill impairment among Grade R learners (5-7-year olds) enrolled in public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychomotor Skills, Incidence, Public Schools
