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Exploring pre-service teachers’ reflective practice in the context of video-based lesson analysis

- Chikiwa, Samukeliso

Authors: Chikiwa, Samukeliso
Date: 2020-04-30
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: Academic theses , Doctoral theses , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/355357 , vital:64492
Description: This study explored the development of reflective practice in foundation phase pre-service teachers in the context of video-based lesson analysis at a university in South Africa. The study was conducted in the field of mathematics education, responding to the urgent need to equip pre-service South African teachers with the knowledge and skills for effective mathematics teaching. The research is foregrounded by the continuing poor performance of South African learners in mathematics at all levels of education in the country, which has been linked to the inadequate knowledge and skills of mathematics teachers. Pre-service teacher education is putting considerable effort into improving the preparation of mathematics teachers and developing their ability to reflect on their teaching practice is one of the strategies being employed for this purpose. Research has demonstrated the importance of reflective practice (RP) in both developing and extending teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching. This study therefore contributes to current research that supports the development of RP as a professional skill for promoting the acquisition of knowledge for teaching in pre-service teacher education. The study adopted a qualitative case study approach with two phases of data collection. In Phase 1 I collected and analysed three sets of 19 pre-service teachers’ written reflections to establish the nature of the reflections that they developed when analysing video-recorded mathematics lessons of experienced teachers’ practice. Phase 2 was conducted with four PSTs who reflected on video-recorded mathematics lessons of their own practice, and similarly sought to investigate the nature of the reflections they developed when reflecting on practice. The four PSTs wrote one set of reflections on their own lessons, went through three sessions of facilitator-guided reflections, then wrote another set of reflections to establish if the support provided in small group facilitator-guided sessions improved their reflections. Iterative content analysis was employed to analyse the PSTs’ written reflections, using an analytic tool that I developed for this purpose through merging Lee’s (2007) and Muir and Beswick’s (2007) levels of reflection frameworks. My model had four levels of reflection: description, explanation, suggestion and reflectivity. The names of each of the levels connect to the key indicator for that level. PSTs’ written reflections were coded and analysed according to these levels. The study found that PSTs’ initial reflections were mostly description of general classroom events with little reflection at the levels of explanation and suggestion, and an absence of reflectivity. Most reflections focused on general events in the lesson rather than mathematical events, even though the six lens framework they were given to guide their reflections prompted them to steer their attention towards mathematical events. The second and third sets of reflections, although mostly still at level 1, showed some shifts towards explanation and suggestion, although an increased focus on mathematical events though reflectivity was still largely absent. No PST reached the fourth level of reflectivity in Phase 1. However, in Phase 2, the PSTs’ reflections after the three small group facilitator-guided sessions included some evidence of reflectivity. The findings suggest the need for pre-service teacher educators to make a concerted effort to teach PSTs what reflection is and how to reflect on their practice. The findings also showed the need for small group facilitator-guided support in the development of PSTs’ reflective practice. , Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Education, Education, 2020
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Perceptions of African musical arts education in foundation and intermediate phases in government schools as seen through the South African academy since 2011: an exploration through meta-ethnography

- Chirombo, Ilana Elize Caroline

Authors: Chirombo, Ilana Elize Caroline
Date: 2023-10-13
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/425366 , vital:72233
Description: The aim of this study is twofold: first, to understand meta-ethnography as a tool of synthesis; second, to use this methodology to explore perceptions of African musical arts education in the Foundation and Intermediate Phases in government schools in South Africa after 2011. Meta-ethnography is a methodology used to synthesise qualitative material by means of seven distinct phases: getting started; deciding what is relevant to the initial interest; reading the studies; determining how they are related; translating the studies into one another; weaving them together into a synthesis; and expressing the synthesis. This study synthesises five articles discovered through a deep search of the literature. Through the process of synthesis, a narrative emerges that connects past prejudice in music education in South Africa to present day educational inequality, one that looks towards a future in which children’s agency is harnessed in the multicultural world we live in to teach music in a relevant, contextual way. The synthesis extracts perceptions on colonialism and apartheid; educational access; post-apartheid curricula; music education pedagogies; informal music making; children’s games and agency; into the classroom; and how to assess. These themes weave a clear perspective on African musical arts education, and a reciprocal synthesis of the views of the articles’ authors. This study finds meta-ethnography to be a rigorous, understandable methodological tool for qualitative synthesis, one which serves the purpose of researchers, no matter the depth of their engagement with the synthesis. , Thesis (MMus) -- Faculty of Humanities, Music and Musicology, 2023
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Date Issued: 2023-10-13

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It’s an African proverb: conceptualizing narratives through the use of African subject matter

- Chithambo, N'lamwai Luntha

Authors: Chithambo, N'lamwai Luntha
Date: 2023-10-13
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/425311 , vital:72228
Description: The research by practice is made up of three points of interest that aim to incorporate storytelling into the work with reference to the comic book genre. These points of interest are: experiences of mental health issues from a young man’s perspective, a unique autobiographical experience unpacking the young man’s mental health struggle and African oral traditions. These three points of interest work towards the goal of using African subject matter to uncover and present a meaningful narrative of a young man dealing with mental health problems and his father figure’s ongoing sit-down conversation with him. This mini-thesis breaks down the different components of the research by practice and analyses each component while drawing from various theorists and artists. The mini-thesis also builds up to the idea of using original African subject matter (e.g. African oral traditions, specifically African objects, subjects, and locations) as a means of cultivating a locus of African identity in the comic book industry. The research by practice intersects with this mini-thesis in that it acts as an example of how I visualise African subject matter being used in the theorising and creation of comic books. , Thesis (MFA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art, 2023
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Date Issued: 2023-10-13

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NUMSA Members: Support the dismissed 270 Karl Schmidt workers

- Congress of South African Trade Unions

Authors: Congress of South African Trade Unions
Date: 1990-06
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/106000 , vital:32592
Description: The German multi-national Karl Schmidt 1 dismissed 270 NUMSA members on 22nd July 1987. During May, three shop stewards were dismissed for calling a meeting on company premises. This meeting was held to get workers’ views on the 5-6 may stayaway called by progressive organisations in protest against the ‘white’ elections and the killings of SARHWU workers. After dismissing the shop stewards the company refused to reinstate them or agree to the arbitration of the dispute. The company refused NUMSA access to ballot its members for a legal strike after the expiry of the dispute resolving 30-day period. Instead, when workers elected a delegation to see management on 20 July 1987 to enquire about the situation, the company: 1. Brought the delegation before disciplinary hearings; 2. Fired a worker without a hearing on 21 July 1987; 3. Suspended a shop steward on the night- shift for six months on 21 July 1987; 4. Dismissed the entire nightshift on 21 July 1987 wh:(e workers were waiting in the canteen for management to address them; 5. Dismissed the entire dayshift on 22 July 1987 while workers were waiting for a report on the dismissal of the nightshift from the company. Karl Schmidt have always displayed racist, anti-union attitudes. Shop stewards have always been a particular target. During 1986 workers had to strike to get a shop steward reinstated after he was dismissed without a hearing
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Date Issued: 1990-06

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A programme for the Alliance

- Congress of South African Trade Unions

Authors: Congress of South African Trade Unions
Date: 1996-11
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105785 , vital:32568
Description: BACKGROUND TO THE ALLIANCE From Cosatu’s inception in 1985, the federation developed a close association with the Congress movement. Conditions in the country dictated the need to go beyond bread and butter issues to embrace national and class struggle. This perspective was formally endorsed with Cosatu’s adoption of the Freedom Charter in 1987. The 1987 Congress agreed Cosatu should build alliances with mass-based organisations with a track record of struggle and whose principles did not conflict with those of Cosatu. After the unbanning of the liberation movement, Cosatu’s 1991 Congress resolved that the Federation should join the ANC and SACP in alliance in place of Sactu, thus becoming part of the Tripartite Alliance as we know it today. It was understood that this Alliance , here put any information that you think is important but there is no field for it, if there isnt remove the field
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Date Issued: 1996-11

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Maternity Protection: discussion document 27-29 March 2012

- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

Authors: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Date: 2012
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: book , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68729 , vital:29309
Description: Developed with the support of Solidarity Center (AFL-CIO) South Africa We would like to thank the COSATU Affiliates and Provinces for their contribution towards the development of this booklet. Special appreciation goes to the members of the COSATU National Gender Coordinating Committee (NGCC) and National Office Bearers designated to gender for their unwavering support towards the production of this booklet. Also our special gratitude goes to the following organisations who contributed towards compiling and development of the booklet:- • Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) • Gina Barbieri Attorneys • Legal Resource Centre(LRC) • African Diaspora Women Workers Network(ADWWN) • South African Self Employed Women’s Association(SASEWA) • International Labour Organisation (ILO).
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Date Issued: 2012

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Employment Equity: an introductory workshop for trade unionists organised by the COSATU Education Department

- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

Authors: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Date: 1999-09
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/106134 , vital:32610
Description: This workshop is designed to give you a reliable introduction the Employment Equity Act. It is based on hard information and on ACTIVITIES or discussion exercises that will help you to understand how the Act works, who it covers, and what the implications are for trade unionists. Each of the Activities is complemented with information that will help you to understand the Act in more detail. Sections have been added to help you find further information, and to understand the terms that are used in the Act itself in a two day programme, you are not going to be an 'expert' on the Employment Equity Act, but we hope that you will feel more confident about using the Act, especially in ensuring that it is used to address a wide range of discriminatory practices at the workplace. As with most legislation, the more that you begin to use it, the more its strengths and weaknesses will emerge. It is very important that any weaknesses in the practical application of the Act are reported through your Union to the Federation. This will help the Federation to campaign for improvements in the legislation, and to close any loopholes that allow employers to avoid their responsibilities. All Labour Legislation, including the new Employment Equity Act should serve as a 'base-line' or minimum standard. Employer and Union observance of the minimum standards as laid down in law should be our starting point. Through collective bargaining and improved Union organisation, we aim to improve upon the standards set by the law, and increase the protection of our members. This is a real challenge. It is especially important for us all to recognise that as we enter into a period where employers are demanding more 'flexibility', the introduction of a new law to correct the legacy of imbalances left by apartheid at the workplace deserves our special attention. We hope this workshop is the first in a series of educational events that will cover this vital new area. The main aim of this workshop is to help you to understand the basic workings of the law, and how best it can be implemented. We also hope this programme encourages you to find out more about Employment Equity issues, and contribute positively to the struggle for the eradication of inequality. This pack is designed for a series of two-day introductory workshops that are being sponsored by COSATU in each region. A workshop of COSATU Educators held in September 1999 helped to assemble the material, and to test its appropriateness. As a result there are a considerable number of educators who can advise, and facilitate this workshop and who can be contacted via COSATU Education Department. We would also be very interested to hear how the pack has been used, and in particular how it can be improved to meet the needs of trade unionists who want to tackle discrimination using the tool of the Employment Equity Act, as well as other organisational means. If you use this pack, feedback would be most welcome.
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Date Issued: 1999-09

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Gender Policy: discussion document 27-29 March 2012

- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

Authors: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Date: 2012
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: book , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68759 , vital:29312
Description: The Gender policy draws together existing COSATU resolutions into a coherent document, while further enriching these resolutions. This document aims to combine the vision and principles that we aspire towards, with practical relations in the working workplace and economy, in trade unions and in broader society. The issue of gender equality has been on our agenda since the formation of COSATU. However, we require a policy framework to guide our struggles to transform gender relations in the current period. It is therefore important that we reflect on progress in taking forward the vision and programmes adopted on several Congresses since COSATU inception. In broad terms, progress to realise these resolutions has been uneven and varies between affiliates. COSATU and its affiliates are guided by a vision of a society free of sexism, racism, class exploitation, and other forms of oppression. We envisage a future where women participate equally in the economy and society without barriers, and where women are emancipated from all forms of oppression in the household, the workplace and in broader society. We have a vision of a trade union movement as a home for women workers. This policy document was debated and adopted and the National Gender Conference (held on 5-7 July 2000). It is tabled at Congress for discussion and adoption. Once it has been adopted by the Congress all affiliates will have to give expression to this broad framework in their own policies.
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Date Issued: 2012

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6th National Congress Resolutions

- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

Authors: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Date: 1996
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/106040 , vital:32596
Description: COSATU must intervene in affiliates where it has identified problems, where problems have been brought to its attention and / or has been requested to do so. The CEC should draw guidelines on how and under which circumstances the federation and its structures may intervene taking into account clauses 3.9 and 3.10 of the constitution. Such intervention should not undermine affiliates where such problems exist. COSATU leadership must be visible during major disputes between affiliates and employers and co-ordinate solidarity with workers involved in such disputes.
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Date Issued: 1996

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Sex work: discussion document 27-29 March 2012

- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

Authors: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Date: 2012
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: book , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68748 , vital:29311
Description: The aim of this paper is to resuscitate the debate on the need for decriminalization of sex work and ensure that COSATU and its affiliates further engage within structures, alliance, non -governmental organizations and with the Government in terms of the need for law reform and identify alternative policy framework. However, whatever outcome of the legal processes pertaining to sex work, should be abide by the spirit of the Constitution which is committed to advancing human rights and social justice. Sex work in South Africa is currently criminalised and is restricted by the Sexual Offences Act of 1957 (an un-amended apartheid-era law) which prohibits all activities associated with it. The criminal offences related to sex work include amongst them the keeping or participating in the management of a brothel, procuring someone to become a sex worker, soliciting or selling sex or living of the earnings of a sex worker. In 2007 through the Sexual Offences Act their clients were also criminalised In 2007, the Act was amended to criminalise buyers of sexual services too (SALRC 2009). We therefore argue that the existing laws on sex work are nothing but hypocrisy of the conservatives and elites. They do not improve the conditions of women; instead they worsen the miserable conditions that women in the sex trade already find themselves in. The missing fact is that sex work is a by-product of our patriarchal capitalist society-not something created by some “immoral prostitute” The current oppressive legislation on sex work has stimulated a lot of debates and has led to an upsurge in advocacy work by individuals and organizations around the need to either legalise or decriminalize sex work. Likewise, Cosatu as a key civil society player has also played a leading role in its endeavor to unite the working class and to defend workers from exploitation as well as finding workable solutions to the plight of the most vulnerable people in our society who find themselves with no choice but to engage in sex work. The sex industry is by nature exploitative and inherently dangerous. Women in the industry experience different degrees of abuse, coercion and violence, but all of them are harmed physically and psychologically. As a trade union movement, COSATU has an interest in the debate about sex work, from the point of view that sex work targets mainly the working class and the poor, predominantly black women. High levels of unemployment, poverty and gender inequality are key factors driving sex work. The global economic crisis has aggravated the situation for the poor majority through job losses, casualisation and ultimately increased feminization of poverty. Cosatu has already started some debates and campaigns aimed at devising ways of protecting sex workers through collective workers struggles. As such, the sex work discourse and campaign among Cosatu affiliates for decriminalization was tabled at the Federation’s 10th Congress though it was deferred because of contestation and opposition amongst delegates. However, affiliates had the responsibility to go back and make further consultations, sensitization with their structures and open up a discussion at the level of the COSATU Central Executive Committee. Indeed, it is high time that the debate on decriminalization should be concluded and that sex work be recognized as work as Arnott and Crago (2009) argue that: “The criminalisation of sex work has precluded the enforcement and protection of sex workers’ Labour rights. This disregard for sex workers as workers has left many of those employed in brothels in South Africa vulnerable to labor abuses such as withheld wages, arbitrary fines, restrictions on mobility, and confiscation of belongings including medication. Sex workers on the street or working in brothels and other agencies have no recourse if customers refuse to pay them’’1 The decriminalization of sex work should take the course of a rights- based approach which means that sex workers would be able to enjoy their basic human & labour rights and be protected against sexual harassment, violence, rape and unfair working conditions. By so doing, sex workers would be able to access non-discriminatory health care services, be more empowered and operate within the ambit of protective labour and occupational health & safety laws.
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Date Issued: 2012

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Resolutions Adopted by the Inaugural Central Committee Meeting - In Defence of our Jobs and for Job Creation

- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

Authors: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Date: 1998-06
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/106321 , vital:32631
Description: The 6th National Congress delegated to this Central Committee all socioeconomic resolutions. The powers of this Central Committee on socio-economic issues is therefore equal to those of the National Congress. This means it can change any socio-economic policy of the federation. Once policy is adopted by the Central Committee it can only be changed by the next National Congress in the year 2000. This document attempts to integrate the resolutions received from affiliates with the other policy positions of the federation as adopted at the previous policy conferences (1992 Economic Policy Conference, 1993 Health and Safety Conference, 1995 Health, Safety and Environment Conference, 1996 Living Wage Conference and May 1997 Policy Conference).
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Date Issued: 1998-06

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Draft resolution to the Central Committee, 22-25 June 1995 in defence of our jobs and for job creation

- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

Authors: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Date: 1998-05
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/106145 , vital:32609
Description: The 6th National Congress delegated to this Central Committee all socio-economic resolutions. The powers of this Central Committee on socio-economic issues is therefore equal to those of the National Congress. This means it can change any socio-economic policy of the federation. Once policy is adopted by the Central Committee it can only be changed by the next National Congress in the year 2000. This document attempts to integrate the resolutions received from affiliates with the other policy positions of the federation as adopted at the previous policy conferences (1992 Economic Policy Conference, 1993 Health and Safety Conference, 1995 Health, Safety and Environment Conference, 1996 Living Wage Conference and May 1997 Policy Conference). In addition we also used the socio-economic section of the September Commission, Secretariat Report to the 6th National Congress and Labour proposals on the Presidential Jobs Summit
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Date Issued: 1998-05

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Heroines of the struggle, Vol 1: women must claim their rights

- COSATU, Matlala, William

Authors: COSATU , Matlala, William
Date: 1990-06
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105203 , vital:32477
Description: The booklet serves as a commemoration to the heroines and veterans of the struggle. The brave women of the struggle, women who hold knife from its sharpest edge. Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression. The booklet is the product of COSATU Archives in partnership with Rosa Luxemburg. , The information is compiled by NANDIPAMITI (COSATU Archivist) pictures by William Matlala and COSATU Photo Archive
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Date Issued: 1990-06

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