An investigation into the possible causes of the difference between the boys' and girls' drop-out rate in mathematics at the end of the junior secondary phase of education
- Authors: Oberholster, E J
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Mathematical ability , Gender , Mathematics teaching , Drop-out rate , Junior secondary
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1351 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001417
- Description: In the past two decades much research in the field of Mathematics in Education has dealt with boy- girl differences. In the 1960's sex differences in mathematical achievement played an important role in research. The results of more recent and better controlled studies seem to indicate that overall boy-girl differences in mathematical achievement are probably negligible at the Primary stage and exist at the Secondary stage principally in areas involving spatial visualization and problem solving.
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- Date Issued: 1986
An investigation into the present system of orientation for pupils entering high school under the jurisdiction of the Cape Education Department, leading to an orientation programme
- Authors: Heath, John Lionel Potgieter
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Education, Secondary -- South Africa Educational change -- South Africa Education and state -- South Africa Educational law and legislation -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1870 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004769
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- Date Issued: 1986
An investigation into the role of attitudes towards mathematics as a motivation for choosing vocational-technical secondary education
- Authors: Venter, Petrus Albertus
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: School children -- South Africa -- East London -- Attitudes Technical education -- South Africa -- East London Mathematical ability
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1831 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003813
- Description: From Introduction: As headmaster of a technical high school it is my responsibility to admit standard six pupils to this school. Often the refrain from parents is heard: "My son is weak in mathematics but good with his hands." These parents desperately seek a secondary education for their non-academic children. To what extent has the vicious circle of low achievement - negative attitude - lower achievement - despair already been established in these pupils as far as mathematics is concerned? How does this low self-concept in mathematics ability serve as a factor in deciding upon which career to follow, which type of high school to attend? Parents and the public at large seem to be ill-informed about the subjects offered at technical high schools. The mathematical character of these schools is especially undervalued. People often seem to think that the mathematics at a technical high school is easier than at other high schools. Furthermore, people do not realize that mathematics forms the cornerstone of any technical field of study. Failure in mathematics will inevitably lead to low marks or failure in technical subjects. It seems that many pupils who have already developed a defeatist attitude towards mathematics, seek entry into this type of high school. If so, then why? This study aims to elucidate the mathematical cognitive demands made by mathematically related subjects in a technical high school. At the same time possible relationships will be investigated between choice of type of high school (technical vs non-technical) and : i) attitudes to mathematics; ii) achievement in mathematics; iii) general academic achievement; iv) attitude to school. Pupils at standard five level have already established their attitudes towards subjects. For this study standard five boys from East London English and Afrikaans-speaking primary schools were involved. The reason why girls were not considered was to eliminate the variables of sex-related behaviours. Also, girls do not report in any large numbers for technical education as yet. The results of this study should be of use to those advising standard five pupils on their choice of type of high school. If satisfactory relationships are found between affective-cognitive variables and choice of high school, future researchers may use this towards the construction of a required profile for prospective pupils of technical high schools. There are of course, many other factors in the issue. Variables like social status, parents' own experiences, vested interests of academic high schools and many more are not considered in this study. It is conceded that any in-depth study into attitudes towards mathematics or into choice of type of high school is a many-faceted problem, the scope of which lies beyond this thesis. Suffice to admit that attitudes are complex dispositions resulting from the interactions between a number of affective, cognitive and psychomotor variables.
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- Date Issued: 1986
Aspects of musical education in Grahamstown, 1832-1950
- Authors: Sparrow, Marion Janet
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: School music -- South Africa -- Grahamstown School music -- Instruction and study -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Music -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- History
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2664 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004616
- Description: From Introduction: An investigation into aspects of musical education in Grahamstown cannot be isolated from the prevailing economic and social influences and must be seen within that setting. By the 1830's Grahamstown had developed from the frontier military post of 1812, to a settlement with an increasing population, aware of the importance of general education in raising standards and whose attention was concentrated in commerce, allied with agriculture, being a wool centre and a halting-place for traders conveying merchandise northwards, by ox-wagon and later also the chief centre of the ostrich industry. This development had gone on despite a succession of Frontier Wars, the last in 1878. A military presence was felt throughout the years of the nineteenth century and into the early years of the next, although from the late 1850's the chief military posts were in King William's Town and not in Grahamstown. The 1860's witnessed the important discovery of diamonds in South Africa, the first of which was identified by the famous Grahamstonian, Dr William G. Atherstone. This discovery, together with the discovery of gold to the north in the 1880's and the new railway line in that direction side-tracking Grahamstown, plus a slump in the ostrich industry, resulted in the economic decline of the town, but it then directed its energy and enterprise in another direction, education. The many small schools, which had sprung up during earlier decades, were superseded by newly established larger ones, initially for boys, but the 1870's in South Africa saw a revolution in the education of girls (similar to that of the 1850's in England), an occurrence which had an important bearing upon the founding of high schools for girls and Grahamstown was no exception in this respect. In South Africa, tertiary education for women was introduced soon after 1900 (as had occurred in England in the 1870's) and Grahamstown again kept apace. The years of the twentieth century brought about numerous advances in communication (motor cars, roads, aeroplanes, the radio and telephone), the invention of the gramophone, the appearance of "talkies" to replace silent films, the development of electricity as a source of power, great changes from peace to war, worldwide and financial stringency. In addition droughts plagued the farming community. All these influenced life in Grahamstown and education in general. The age of many scholastic institutions in Grahamstown became such, that they were receiving the sons and daughters and also grandsons and granddaughters of former pupils. This continuity played an important part in establishing traditions. Aspects of musical education during more than a century will be examined, firstly, in connection with each individual school and tertiary institution and secondly, by means of a survey. The newspapers, "Graham's Town Journal" and "Grocott's Penny Mail" - later "Grocott's Daily Mail", will be referred to as "IJournal" and "Grocott's", respectively.
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- Date Issued: 1986
Attempts to improve the teaching of English by Black teachers in selected areas of the Eastern Cape and the Transkei, through educational workshops and resource materials
- Authors: Ziskovsky, Lorraine
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Foreign speakers Education -- South Africa Teaching -- Aids and devices
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1410 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003060
- Description: This action research study covers the period November 1983 to August 1985, and is an ethnographic account of what started as a small-scale attempt to assist black teachers of English at the Standard 6, 7 and 8 level, in Grahamstown. During this period, the writer was employed by the South African Council for Higher Education's Grahamstown branch as a part- time English tutor of black and coloured teachers engaged in private study for the Joint Matriculation Board and UNISA. It was under Sached's aegis that the project started, with the writer holding the belief that poor matriculation examination results obtained by blacks were at least partially caused by poor English language communication skills. It was hoped that assistance to black teachers of English as a second language (ESL) at the chosen level (Standards 6, 7 and 8) would be of some help in freeing black students from the necessity of having to achieve academically and linguistically at the same time, in Standards 9 and 10.
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- Date Issued: 1986
Balapho abangcwele
- Authors: Zionists , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa City not specified f-sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298022 , vital:57656 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD097-10
- Description: Religious Music.
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- Date Issued: 1986
Banang ho hlahile Maru
- Authors: South Sotho Urban Zionist Church , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru lo
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/446157 , vital:74470 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC193a-13
- Description: Church song with drum, clapping and bell accompaniment
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- Date Issued: 1986
Bangan Nkosi
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mackay's Nek sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323350 , vital:60661 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD165A-11
- Description: Unaccompanied Church Hymn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Bangan Nkosi
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mackay's Nek sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323363 , vital:60662 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD165A-12
- Description: Church Hymn with drum accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Bawo Thuma mina
- Authors: Zion Apostolic Holy Church Congregation , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/299097 , vital:57777 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD099-16
- Description: Religious music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Bawo wethu
- Authors: Zion Apostolic Holy Church Congregation , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/299028 , vital:57770 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD099-10
- Description: Zionist Church Music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Bonke bagcwaliswa ngomoya oyingcwele
- Authors: Khanyisa Church Congregation , Manci, Paul, Father , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Cape Town sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/416323 , vital:71338 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC147a-03
- Description: Catholic mass hymn, accompanied by the uhadi.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Changes in pictorial construction and types of representation which formed the basis of modern art
- Authors: Collins, Anne Marie
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 Art, French -- 19th century Art, French -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MFA
- Identifier: vital:2475 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010579
- Description: The erosion of traditional French academic methods of picture-construction, and the eclipse of hierarchical subject-matter, ensured the emergence of a diversity of new painting styles in France by 1900 and the possibility of even more drastic departures from tradition in the 20th century, particularly in the work of Picasso, from 1900 to 1914.
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- Date Issued: 1986
Chibhudhu 1986
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his Timbila orchestra , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/97944 , vital:31513 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC060b-02
- Description: Traditional dance song played by Venancio Mbande with Timbila xylophone accompaniment
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- Date Issued: 1986
Chibhudhu 1986
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his Timbila orchestra , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Xylophone (Musical instruments) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98707 , vital:31612 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC071b-03
- Description: Traditional dance song played by Venancio Mbande with Timbila xylophone accompaniment
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- Date Issued: 1986
Chibhudhu 1986
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his Timbila xylophone orchestra group of 25 Chopi men with Timbila of Wildebeesfontein , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Xylophone (Musical instruments) , Drum (Musical instruments) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98599 , vital:31600 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC070a-02
- Description: Traditional dance song with Timbila xylophone, rattles and drum accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Colonisation theory and invasive biota : the Great Fish river, a case history
- Authors: Laurenson, Lawrie Jon Bain
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Biological invasions -- South Africa -- Great Fish River , Clarias gariepinus , Barbus aeneus , Freshwater ecology
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: vital:5338 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005905 , Biological invasions -- South Africa -- Great Fish River , Clarias gariepinus , Barbus aeneus , Freshwater ecology
- Description: Colonisation theory relative to introduced populations was examined with a view to determining the usefulness of theoretical concepts in the prediction of the success of an invasion by a species. To this end, the Great Fish River, with reference to species introduced by the Orange/Fish Tunnel, was used as a case history. It was concluded that theoretical descriptions of population growth, control and decline are useful only when considering individual ecosystems or species. The highly variable nature of species and environments nullifies attempts to simplify behavioural characteristics into a predictive framework. There is an abundance of terminology associated with introduced organisms and frequently many of these terms are used synonymously. Eleven terms have been defined in this thesis with a view to standardising terminology. Characteristics of species and environments which enhance their susceptibility to invasions by exotic ichthyofauna were discussed and summarised. Distribution data concerning exotic fish introduced into the Great Fish River by the Orange/Fish Tunnel has demonstrated that, with the exception of Clarias gariepinus, all remaining exotics have restricted distributions. Only Barbus aeneus appears to be extending its range down the drainage. Age, Growth, reproduction and condition data support the conclusion that, excluding B. aeneus and C. gariepinus, invasive species in the drainage are not performing well. Of the five invasive species (B. aeneus, Labeo capensis, L. umbratus, Gephyroglanis sclateri and Cyprinus carpio), only two have established populations (B. aeneus· and C. gariepinus). Labeo umbratus and C. carpio were present on the Great Fish River prior to the construction of the tunnel and populations of the species could not be distinguished. It was concluded that there is no evidence to suggest that exotic species introduced into the Great Fish River are having a deleterious effect on indigenous, endangered ichthyofauna. Monitoring of the drainage should be continued to ensure that a danger to indigenous species does not develop.
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- Date Issued: 1986
Competition and segmentation : an analysis of wage determination and labour adjustments in manufacturing industry
- Authors: McCartan, Patrick John
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Labour supply , Labour market , Competition , South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:927 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001453
- Description: The thesis itself proceeds according to the following outline. Chapter One is concerned with the neoclassical theory of the labour market. Three particular models are surveyed all of which attempt to explain wage differentials and labour adjustments within a competitive equilibrium framework. The basic model of the labour market which rests upon the marginal productivity theory of labour demand, the utility-maximising approach to labour supply and the competitive theory of market equilibrium is dealt with first.This is followed by an outline of human capital theory which emphasises the crucial role played by education and training in determining individual earnings . Finally, attention is focused on disequilibrium wage models of adjustment which account for wage dispersion in terms of the amount and quality of information available to transactors in the labour market.(Introduction, p. 3-4)
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- Date Issued: 1986
Conceptual difficulties in children's understanding of secondary school algebra in standards 6, 7, and 8 : (the application of the CSMS algebra test to a sample of South African school children)
- Authors: McMaster, David Jocelyn
- Date: 1986
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1355 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001421
- Description: The application of mathematical ways of thinking to nearly all the major fields of knowledge in recent times has increased the value of mathematics in society ... schools, therefore, are increasingly confronted with the task of developing to the maximum the mathematical abilities and interests of all its pupils with the view of meeting the needs of society. This includes an appreciation and understanding of the aesthetic and abstract qualities of mathematics as well as a knowledge of its utilitarian value in society. The question arises whether schools are achieving this? (Chapter 1, p. 3)
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- Date Issued: 1986
Dibongo 1986
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his Chopi Timbila xylophone orchestra players of Wildebeesfontein Mine , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music , Rattle (Musical instrument) , Drum (Musical instrument) , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/97989 , vital:31526 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC061b-01
- Description: Traditional dance song with Timbila xylophone, rattles and drum accompaniment
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- Date Issued: 1986