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Direct linkSheree Adams; Zaytoon Amod – Child Care in Practice, 2025
This qualitative research study sought to gain insight into the psychosocial experiences of foster parents providing care to orphans and vulnerable children within Cluster Foster Care schemes. The sample consisted of 12 foster mothers, sampled from a Cluster Foster Care scheme in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Using a self-developed semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Mothers, Parent Attitudes
Julie Shantone Rubbi Nunan – Perspectives in Education, 2025
Learners' challenging behaviour is a growing concern in primary schools. Reports reveal that many learners in South African primary schools are presenting with challenging behaviour - disrupting lessons, causing chaos, putting learners' and teachers' safety at risk, and interrupting school functionality. To understand this phenomenon, a systematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Behavior Problems
Download full textMichael Mbongiseni Buthelezi; Lusanda Ncisana; Mohammed Xolile Ntshangase – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2025
Food insecurity is one of the less researched problems that poses a challenge to schools in South Africa. This qualitative study seeks to holistically explore this problem as it adopts Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Vygotsky's sociocultural theory as the lenses of exploration. In addition to socio-cultural beliefs on food and academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hunger, Rural Schools, Academic Achievement
Teresa Del Bianco; Georgia Lockwood Estrin; Julian Tillmann; Bethany F. Oakley; Daisy Crawley; Antonia San José Cáceres; Hannah Hayward; Mandy Potter; Wendy Mackay; Petrusa Smit; Carlie du Plessis; Lucy Brink; Priscilla Springer; Hein Odendaal; Tony Charman; Tobias Banaschewski; Simon Baron-Cohen; Sven Bölte; Mark Johnson; Declan Murphy; Jan Buitelaar; Eva Loth; Emily J. H. Jones – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Autistic individuals experience higher rates of externalising and internalising symptoms that may vary with environmental factors. However, there is limited research on variation across settings that may highlight common factors with globally generalisable effects. Data were taken from two cohorts: a multinational European sample (n = 764; 453…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Socioeconomic Influences, Mental Health
Adigun, Olufemi Timothy; Chonco, D. S.; Kutame, A. P.; Kapueja, I. S. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2022
The abolition of corporal punishment (CP) in South African schools in 1996 has continued to generate heated debates among all concerned stakeholders in the educational sector. While some support the ban of corporal punishment, others have vehemently protested its abolishment. Unfortunately, irrespective of the line of debate, legislative…
Descriptors: Punishment, Discipline Policy, Discipline, Foreign Countries
Rubbi Nunan, Julie Shantone – Education and Society, 2023
Students' challenging behaviour is a persisting problem in some primary schools. In South African primary schools, however, students' challenging behaviour is mainly understood as disruptive classroom behaviour. To establish how primary schools experience this phenomenon, interviews were held with twenty-one participants, purposively selected from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Elementary School Students
Johannes L. van der Walt; Nico A. Broer; Nicholus Mollo; Kgale Mampane; Charl C. Wolhuter – Perspectives in Education, 2023
This is an educational-philosophical, more particularly, a societal-theoretical reflection on the "blame game" that is occasionally played between the parental home and the school with respect to the behaviour displayed by children in these societal relationships. After consulting the literature regarding this issue, and the findings of…
Descriptors: Discipline, Family Environment, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Motseke, Masilonyana – Africa Education Review, 2020
The management of ill-discipline among learners has become a serious challenge for teachers. This article reports on a study conducted to determine how teachers in the primary schools of the Matjhabeng Municipality, Free State, South Africa, manage ill-discipline among learners. A mixed method approach, which comprised a questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Punishment, Discipline Problems, Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques
Chantel Snyman; Chrizanne Van Eeden; Marita Heyns – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: Autism spectrum disorder is one of the most common disabilities in schools, with up to 50% of such children displaying behaviours that challenge, bringing about demanding teaching circumstances and a negative impact on educators' well-being. Strength-based interventions has not formally been used in autistic classrooms in South Africa…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Intervention
Masedi, Puleng A.; Pila-Nemutandani, Refilwe G.; Kolobe, Patricia S.; Tsabedze, Wandile F. – South African Journal of Education, 2023
Globally, mainstream teachers have been experiencing intense challenges of behavioural difficulties by learners in schools. For decades, scholars have intensified the relational impact of behaviour with regard to academic progression. However, there is limited knowledge on the experiences and coping strategies of teachers regarding these…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Adolescents, Coping
Rubbi Nunan, Julie Shantone; Ntombela, Sithabile – Education and Urban Society, 2022
Students' challenging behavior is impacting negatively on teachers' wellbeing worldwide. Currently, teaching for some teachers in South African primary schools has become exhausting and daunting to say the least. Teachers feel that they have had enough degradation and are not receiving the respect they, as professionals, deserve. Students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Elementary School Students
Christiaan Bezuidenhout; Melanie Moen – Perspectives in Education, 2024
Violent crimes and domestic violence are notoriously high in South Africa, which leaves many children defenceless to struggle with emotions such as loneliness and sadness. The healthy development and socialisation of children can be difficult in a society characterised by domestic tribulations, poverty, crime, single-parent homes, and absent…
Descriptors: Child Development, Violence, Poverty, Crime
Roelf Reyneke – Perspectives in Education, 2024
Unsafe and violent schools are a widespread problem in South Africa. This paper argues that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) contribute to this phenomenon. While various individual and community-level interventions to address ACEs have been reported on, the contribution of safe parks towards preventing school violence has not yet been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Safety, Violence, Parks
Julie Shantone Rubbi Nunan – Educational Practice and Theory, 2024
Teachers experience learner challenging behaviour in primary schools worldwide. In South Africa, learner behaviour is undermining teaching and learning and compromising safety in some primary schools. To understand teachers' experiences of learner challenging behaviour, a qualitative data-collection approach was applied. Data from 15 teachers from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Student Behavior
Rubbi Nunan, Julie Shantone – Journal of Education, 2022
South African primary school teachers struggle curtailing student behaviors, therefore impeding teaching and learning. To understand this phenomenon, 15 primary school teachers were interviewed. Findings reveal that students' negative family dynamics, displaced aggression, and social factors influenced challenging behavior. Social cognitive theory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
