Faculty of Education: Recent submissions
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An Historical Study of a Selection of the White Rhodesian Novel in English, 1890 TO 1994: Content and Character.
(2012-08-30)This thesis, whose materials were gathered through library and archival research, examines a selection of English novels written by white Rhodesians between 1890 and 1994. In the introductory chapter reasons are given for ... -
A Critical Analysis of the One Hundred Years of Growth and Development of Technical and Vocational Education Policy in Zimbabwe: 1890 - 1990
(2012-07-02)By the year 1990, Zimbabwe was experiencing strong socio-economic development challenges needing the critical attention of its policy makers. For example, the country’s 1992 population census revealed that unemployed ... -
A Critical Analysis of the One Hundred Years of Growth and Development of Technical and Vocational Education Policy in Zimbabwe: 1890 - 1990
(2012-07-02)By the year 1990, Zimbabwe was experiencing strong socio-economic development challenges needing the critical attention of its policy makers. For example, the country’s 1992 population census revealed that unemployed ... -
A comparison of preferences for real-life situations that could be used in school mathematics in three SADC countries
(Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society (SACHES), 2011-12)This article reports on a comparison of real-life situations which learners in three Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries would prefer to be used in school mathematics. The paper is based on data ... -
Learning Mathematics for Personal Understanding and Productions: A Viewpoint
(Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa (AMESA), 2010-12)In this paper we reflect on what makes mathematics more meaningful and more easily understood and thus enabling the learner to apply it to everyday situations in his/her life world. We identify personal – in relation to ... -
Delineating structural and ethical shades of sports administration in Zimbabwe: a case Study of Mashonaland Central's rural schools.
(University of Zimbabwe, Human Resource Research Centre, 2010-03-01)In this article I investigate the role of sports administration in the development of talent in rural Zimbabwe and the ethical challenges therein. I defend the thesis that sports administration is a key component of sport ... -
Post Independent Zimbabwe's new ‘O’ Level History Syllabus 2166: A crisis of expectations
(2010-09-07)This study is a qualitative, retrospective analysis of the new ‘O’ Level Zimbabwe History Syllabus 2166, whose checkered-history culminated in its replacement, in 2002, by the Syllabus 2167. It examined the innovation ... -
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Skills for Bachelor of Education Degree Students at the University of Zimbabwe: Implications for University Policy on a Computer Course for Undergraduate Student Teachers.
(Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research, 2008-11)The development of appropriate computer literacy skills within all school teachers for non-computing subjects has recently become a strong international challenge. This is in view of the increasing use of computers in ... -
School dropouts in Zimbabwe between 1980 and 2004: Implications for education and training policy twenty-five years after independence.
(Zimbabwe Bulletin of Teacher Education, 2007-09-01)This article analyses the problem of school dropouts in Zimbabwe during the period 1980 to 2004 with the aim of suggesting how the problem can be eliminated. The discussion is important in view of the fact that the country ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Student Achievement by School Type in Zimbabwean Secondary Schools
(University of Zimbabwe, Human Resources Research Centre, 1991-03)The purpose of this study was to determine statistical differences in levels of student performance in ZlC English and Mathematics between six secondary school types in Zimbabwe. 5293 Form 2 students who wrote ZlC ... -
Literature and Liberation....the Second Phase Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of Thorns
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Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions: An Attempt in the Feminist Tradition
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1994)This article discusses Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions as an attempt in the feminist tradition. It begins by examining the meanings of the words 'gender" 'female', 'feminist' and 'feminine' and then goes on to ... -
Patriotism and the Zimbabwean School Child
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Men and Women: Gender Issues in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and She No Longer Weeps
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The Difficulties of Teaching Poetry
(University of Zimbabwe, Department of Teacher Education, 1991-03)This article discusses the problems of teaching poetry in Zimbabwean secondary schools. It is based on a survey of teachers of English done in 1988. Their answers to questions asked do confirm that poetry teaching is ... -
Teacher Quality in Zimbabwe Secondary Schools
(University of Zimbabwe, Human Resources Research Centre, 1990-11)This paper presents results from a survey of secondary school teachers in government schools, church schools, and rural day schools about teacher variables that have a positive effect on student achievement. The evidence ... -
A Comparative Analysis of the Quality of Primary Education in Zimbabwe by School Type
(University of Zimbabwe, Human Resources Research Centre, 1991-11)This study investigates differences in the quality of primary education offered by five different school types. 6927, Grade 7 pupils who wrote national examinations in 86 schools in November 1990, their teachers and heads ... -
Teaching English in Zimbabwe Secondary Schools: The Importance of Preparation
(University of Zimbabwe, Human Resources Research Centre, 1991-11)This paper reports on a survey that was carried out in 1988 -1989 on the teaching of English in Zimbabwean secondary schools with special emphasis on the teachers' preparation for their lessons. First the school, teachers' ... -
Women in Mungoshi's Short Stories
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Gender Issues in Selected Shona Female-Authored Novels
(College Press, 2006)
