Browsing Masters Degrees (Education, Development, Leadership and Management) by Advisor "Dempster, Edith Roslyn."
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An evaluation of the impact of a life science module on teachers' scientific literacy.
(2003)The Advanced Certificate in Education Programme was launched in 2002 at the School of Education, Training and Development, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, in an attempt to upgrade and retrain science educators, ... -
An investigation into natural sciences educators' perceptions and practices of classroom assssment [sic] : a case study of the grade eight educators in the Pietermaritzburg region.
(2004)The aim of this study was to investigate Grade eight (8) Natural Science educators' assessment classroom practices and their perceptions about assessment. This study was based on the theory of a hierarchy of knowledge and ... -
An investigation into the attitudes of teachers and learners towards evolution, the conceptual changes that occur when learners are taught evolution, and the factors that influence this conceptual change.
(2012)Evolution is considered a controversial topic and has been met with much debate, concern and conflict in its inclusion in the school curriculum. The aim of his investigation was to determine what conceptual change ... -
A systemic functional linguistic analysis of the utterances of three Pietermaritzburg physical science educators.
(2011)In South Africa, Physical Sciences educators play a crucial role in contributing to equal life chances for Physical Sciences learners. This is because they have the opportunity to employ functional language features for ...