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Direct linkOwusu-Agyeman, Yaw – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
This article examines the experiences and perceptions of academics about student engagement and how their professional practice in a professional community enhances students' persistence and success in a university in South Africa. While previous research has widely focused on students' perception of how student engagement enhances student success…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, College Students, Foreign Countries, College Environment
Gururaj, Suchitra; Somers, Patricia; Fry, Jessica; Watson, Del; Cicero, Francesca; Morosini, Marilia; Zamora, Jennifer – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Social inclusion policy in higher education--also referenced as affirmative action, reservations, schedules, or antidiscrimination--has been used widely to promote equity and access for minority and historically discriminated subgroups who wish to participate in tertiary education. Inclusion is often protected de jure through a country's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Affirmative Action, Educational Policy
Mahlangu, Vimbi P. – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
This article investigates the activities of teacher unions in some Gauteng secondary schools in South Africa. The methods used in collecting data were questionnaires, interviews and a literature study of appropriate educational and labour law journals, books and newspapers. An interpretive paradigm was used in analysing the data. In this article,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Unions, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
Olsen, Sissel-Tove – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
This article presents a case study aimed at describing and exploring the needs for--and provision of--formal support in South African primary schools, examining, in particular, the significance of organisational development in addressing the needs of teachers. Educational projects are often focused on the needs of learners and learner well-being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
Hemson, David – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
The child has an elevated position within national policy in South Africa. This concern for children has been translated in varying degrees into policy, particularly in relation to child labour. Internationally there is concern that forms of child work should not impede the development of the child, particularly in health and education. Research…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Child Labor, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Coombe, Carol – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
The global spread of the HIV and AIDS pandemics will, for the next three generations at least, underline education access, quality and provision. Reforms within the sector will necessarily take account of the implications of this plague within national, provincial and local contexts. This article is based on several assumptions. The first is that…
Descriptors: Incidence, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Diseases, Foreign Countries
