ABSTRACT This study investigated the extent to which Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) was applied in grade 11 and 12 mathematics classrooms in secondary schools in the Gobabis area. It also sought to determine the types of contexts used and the underlying pedagogical strategies for the use of contexts as well as the factors that hindered the effective implementation of CTL of mathematics in grade 11 and 12 classrooms in the Gobabis secondary schools. Answers to the following questions ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to identify the challenges fourth grade learners encounter in reading English second language, with refer to six primary schools in Ohangwena region. The study specifically focused onchallenges that hamper learners in reading English second language, the learners’ abilities in phonological awareness, their knowledge of alphabet, and the reading instructional methods teachers’ use when teaching reading to English as a second language in Grade 4. The study used a...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the provision of Inclusive Education in Omusati Region. A quantitative research study was carried out and a random sampling procedure was used to select eleven schools. Twenty two (22) teachers and nineteen (19) education officers participated in this study. Two questionnaires consisting of open and closed ended questions were used to collect data for this study. The quantitative data was analysed using Statistics Package for Social Science (S...
ABSTRACT This school case study was undertaken to investigate the reading difficulties experienced by the Grade 3 learners of English as a Second Language in one primary school in the Khomas Education Region. The learners’ reading problems have been encountered by the researcher throughout her teaching career. The researcher was worried by two key issues: firstly, most of the primary school learners of English as a Second Language in Namibia have a problem in reading it and secondly, those...
ABSRACT The aim of this study was to investigate the Biology teachers’ perceptions of the importance of practical work in selected secondary schools in the Oshana Education Region. The study also sought to find out whether the selected secondary schools in the OER had all the necessary resources needed to conduct meaningful practical lessons in Biology. This study sought to answer the following research questions: 1. What are the Secondary School teachers’ perceptions of the importance o...
ABSTRACT This research study investigated teachers’ use of examiners’ reports in order to improve Biology instruction and the perceptions that teachers hold of these reports. The purpose of the study was to gain insight into teachers’ use of examiners’ comments during Biology instruction especially considering that similar comments seem to be repeated in examiners’ reports year after year. Biology teachers seem to ignore the examiners’ comments and therefore, the same comments as...
REPORT SUMMARY Zujung is located in the Tamale South Constituency and under the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly. It is located in the outskirts and southern part of the Metropolis and shares boundaries with Builpiela to the North-West and Lamashegu to the East. Recently, the incidence of early marriage has been very high in Ghana. The project therefore, was designed to explore the effects of child marriage on the young people and the Zujung community at large and finding ways to reducing the in...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to determine the knowledge, practices and attitudes that Home Economics teachers have on the learner-centred methods of teaching. The study addressed the following questions: a) what knowledge do Home Economics teachers have on the learner-centred approach to teaching? b) do Home Economics teachers’ use learner-centred methods of teaching in their classrooms? c) what are the Home Economics teachers' attitudes towards the use of the learner-centred methods...
ABSTRACT The academic performances among grade 10 learners become a matter of concern in Namibian schools since independence, despite deliberate effort made by the government. Many of the learners perform poorly in their grade 10 examinations, especially in the Onamutai circuit. This situation frustrates everybody and creates a blaming spirit among the Onamutai circuit stakeholders. The public have blamed educators for the failure of learners and the educators on the other hand, have blamed ...
ABSTRACT Ethnomathematics, deals with mathematics that is practiced within different tribal groups and is mainly influenced by the norms, beliefs, and the values that are important to these groups of people. The mathematical practices among the cultural set-ups normally include symbolic systems, spatial designs, practical construction techniques, calculation methods, measurement in time, space, and specific ways of reasoning, which can be translated into formal mathematical representations w...
In this study I will attempt to investigate the perceptions of Namibian Grade 10 learners in the Khomas Region on the importance of Life Skills Topics as proposed by the National Curriculum of the Ministry for Basic Education, Sport and Culture.
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine views of Board members on management of schools in the Caprivi Educational Region of Namibia. Through the provision of the Education Act of 2001, there was an establishment of School Boards comprising of parents, teachers and learners. The rationale for the establishment of School Boards was to address the inequalities and practices that occurred in the past. Previously parents, teachers and learners did not participate in school-based decisio...
ABSTRACT The study was an assessment of in-service training for school counsellors in Sagnarigu District. A mixed method design was used in the study. A population of sixteen people (Counsellors and Headmasters) was involved. Interview guide and questionnaire were the instruments for collecting data. School counsellors and Head Masters responded to the questionnaires while key informants were interviewed. The researcher personally administered the questionnaires and conducted the interviews. ...
INTRODUCTION Peer pressure is a phenomenon peculiar to the adolescent stage ( the teenage period).
In any school mapping exercise, certain factors should be taken into consideration. This article explains some of the factors.