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Emil Weder High School in Genadendal : a case study in the concept of effective schooling
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/17452 Emil Weder High School in Genadendal : a case study in the concept of effective schooling De Waal, Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr Ashley, Michael Policy, Planning and Administration Education, Secondary - South Africa School management and organization High schools - South Africa Bibliography: p. 155-160. The Emil Weder High School is in the small rural town of Genadendal, which is situated about 150 kilometres south-east of Cape Town, near Caledon. While doing field work for the Education Foundation early in 1994, one of the schools I Weder High School. It was the last of visited was Emil six House of Representatives schools that I visited, and I immediately noticed a difference at Emil Weder, compared to the other schools. The school buildings and surrounding fields and gardens were very neat and well maintained, the students were neatly dressed and very polite· and the staff were far friendlier than we had previously encountered. My initial impressions of a well-run school were confirmed, when I found out that the school is achieving outstanding academic and extra-mural results. I naturally assumed that this was the norm at the school and was very surprised to find out that it was, in fact, a fairly new phenomenon and that as recently as 1990 the school had experienced student unrest, boycotts, vandalism, gang activities and very poor academic results (in 1990 only 48% of their matriculants passed). Yet, in 1991 the pass rate was 88%, in 1992 it was 100% and last year they had a 98,8% pass rate (one failure). The topic to be researched Based on the above information I developed the hypothesis that certain school-level policy changes had occurred at Emil Weder from 1990 onwards which had led to the establishment of a culture of learning at Emil Weder High School. The purpose of my study was to find out whether policies had in fact changed at the school, and to what extent these new policies could explain the dramatic improvement in Matriculation results at the school. The study was conducted in two distinct phases, one in March 1994 and the other in September 1994. The initial study formed part of the Education Foundation and served to give an overview of how the school operated at the time. The follow-up study took much longer as it involved conducting in-depth interviews with teachers, ex-students and parents. The study revealed that by adopting a multi-level approach to improving the school, with the achievement of better Matriculation results being the major area of focus, the school not only improved these results, but that the school also started achieving better outputs in other areas as well. 2016-03-04T16:36:35Z 2016-03-04T16:36:35Z 1995 Master Thesis Masters MEd http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17452 eng application/pdf Centre for Educational Research Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Emil Weder High School in Genadendal : a case study in the concept of effective schooling |
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| title_short | Emil Weder High School in Genadendal : a case study in the concept of effective schooling |
| title_sort | emil weder high school in genadendal a case study in the concept of effective schooling |
| topic | Policy, Planning and Administration Education, Secondary - South Africa School management and organization High schools - South Africa |
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