- Title
- Effects of frequent changes in curriculum on effective teaching and learning for creating safe, caring and child-friendly schools : a South African case study
- Creator
- Makwarela, Mawela Convince
- Subject
- School discipline--South Africa School violence--South Africa School management and organization--South Africa
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- Education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/15594
- Identifier
- vital:40481
- Description
- South Africa‟s government strategy for Child Protection Programmes is the pre-requisite that plans to articulate its work on school learner protection as a distinct area of programmatic intervention. Hence, this study explores an assessment of the implementation of DoE and UNICEF guidelines for creating safe, caring and child-friendly schools. A sequential mixed method approach was used in this study; both questionnaires and interviews were used. The design allows using both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods to elicit implicit and explicit information from the same case through pattern-matching; a technique linking several pieces when a holistic and in-depth investigation is required. The sample of the study consisted of 24 school principals, 24 HoDs, 24 SGB members, 24 educators, 24 educators‟ union members and 24 learners who were conveniently selected from 24 secondary schools across Vhembe District. Survey data were obtained from school principals, HoDs, SGB members, educators, educators‟ union members and learners regarding the ways and degree to which participants are involved in school incidents, decision-making processes, and their own experiences regarding safe, caring and child-friendly schools. In terms of data analysis, validation indicates concurrent and construct validity obtained by combining participant‟s responses from interviews and self-report questionnaires based on experiences of incidents from their schools. Statistically significant results point the way to validating the approaches taken as best practices. The findings reveals among others that the factors contributing to learner aggression include family factors, environmental factors and school-related factors, whilst the most common forms of learner incidents in schools are verbal violence, physical violence and bullying. The results also indicate that a safe school climate is not enough for learners to speak freely and report unwanted sexual experiences. The study concludes with the role that the school, parents and the Department of Education can play in addressing learner problems in schools.
- Format
- 257 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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