Physical Geography for South African Schools

What’s Wrong with South African Schools?

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 ...

Identifying Spatial Competence Outcomes for South African Secondary Schools

The history of teaching geography and map use in South Africa is traced. Recent educational reform initiatives provide an opportunity to define specific learning outcomes for using local spatial information to address environmental issues relevant to the learner’s life experience. Learning material for improving spatial competence is being developed requiring the identification of specific lear...

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...