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This prospective study was undertaken to determine the incidence of drug administration errors by anaesthetists at three tertiary South African hospitals. Hospitals A and C treat adults predominantly, whereas Hospital B is a paediatric hospital. Anaesthetists completed an anonymous study form for every anaesthetic performed over a six-month period. They were asked to indicate whether or not an error or near-miss had occurred and if so, the details thereof. A total of 30,412 anaesthetics were...
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This paper offers an interrogation of dance training methodologies used as a basis for dance education, training, and pedagogy by Flatfoot Dance as it operates in the African contemporary context of South Africa. Focus is placed on interrogating the dance education work, which uses dance as a methodology for life skills training around health, HIV/AIDS, and sexuality, and the more focused training of young dancers for a performance career. All of this is navigated in the postcolonial context...
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This study focused on understanding and explaining how teachers experience children in their classrooms who may have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The study was a qualitative study in which 17 teachers from three different schools in Gauteng, South Africa, were interviewed. Content theme analysis was conducted on the textual data. Findings from the study indicate that (1) the teachers kept children who might have ADHD busy with different activities in order to manage their...
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This think piece considers a range of theoretical and conceptual tools that may assist with the emergence of a research agenda for climate change in education. It considers the conditions that are created by climate change in and for southern African contexts, and then deliberates which contextually related theoretical tools may be useful to frame research questions for climate change education. I consider the educational research implications of adaptation practices, reflexive justice and...
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The research explores the practice of mathematics teaching in Malawian primary schools – such as its relevance, teacher’s mathematical knowledge, assessment practices and teaching styles in massive classes – as well as the context in which it takes place – including languages used, attitudes towards gender, ideas of the purpose of education, massive class sizes but high dropout rates. It also draws together the policy documentation related to all these issues, such as government policies,...
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The higher education quality assurance system with the core of educational evaluation certification is an important foundation to ensure the healthy development of higher education in the popular stage.This paper introduced the content and standards of external security system of the higher education quality in South Africa,including the project certification and coordination,institutional audit,quality promotion and capacity developing construction;focused on the outside assurance practice...
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This paper responds to the Marang Centre's narrative-systematic review of recent science education research in South Africa, and its power to inform policy and practice. This response explores the question to what extent the review findings would be different if a systematic review method would have been used instead. The following five stages of a reviewing process are used to structure a comparison: the identification of the review questions; the development of inclusion criteria; the...
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Drought concerns us when it compromises the long-term productivity and welfare of households. The same drought event, however, can affect households differently due to differences in portfolios of income-generating activities. A household’s response to a shock is a function of its unique, idiosyncratic income shock, but also of its relative costs of various coping strategies. For a household that has already drawn down a productive asset to critical levels, selling one more unit could come...
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Drought concerns us when it compromises the long-term productivity and welfare of households. The same drought event, however, can affect households differently due to differences in portfolios of income-generating activities. A household’s response to a shock is a function of its unique, idiosyncratic income shock, but also of its relative costs of various coping strategies. For a household that has already drawn down a productive asset to critical levels, selling one more unit could come...