Integrating South African Schools?

What’s Wrong with South African Schools?

Equity, Efficiency and the Development of South African Schools

Identifying the mechanisms for affecting the achievements of successful schools has become a major research focus in South Africa. Large scale descriptive studies have to date failed to make any progress towards this goal, largely because of a lack of data at the school and classroom levels. Small scale studies, on the other hand, which take these latter aspects as the principal focus for their...

Adolescent alcohol use in rural South African high schools.

OBJECTIVE To examine psychosocial correlates of lifetime alcohol use among adolescents in rural South African high schools. METHOD Questionnaires were administered to 1600 students from 20 randomly selected high schools in the Mankweng district within Limpopo province. Self-report data on alcohol use, demographic, environmental and psychosocial variables were collected. RESULTS About 22% of...

Teaching approaches in South African dental schools: direct restorative procedures.

INTRODUCTION Worldwide the use of amalgam has declined and mercury-containing products are banned in several countries. National and international opinions on amalgam were recently discussed in journals. According to surveys, significant time is spent on the teaching of amalgam in American, Canadian, Irish and United Kingdom Dental Schools. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To i) investigate the teaching a...

The development of ICT networks for South African schools

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are increasingly considered valuable tools in education, promoting the development of higher cognitive processes and allowing teachers and learners access to a plethora of information. This paper reports on two pilot studies conducted in South Africa in proto-typical previously disadvantaged schools and their surrounding communities. Each pilot ...