Prospect and scope for traditional medicine in the South African Education support services

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dc.contributor.advisorSibaya, P.T
dc.contributor.authorZubane, Sibusiso Rolland
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-11T10:35:11Z
dc.date.available2011-08-11T10:35:11Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.descriptionDissertation submitted in fulfilment for the Degree of Master of Education in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Zululand, 2001.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis research study examined the prospect and scope for traditional medicine in the South African education support services. The first aim was to assess teachers' perceptions of the need for traditional medicine practices in the school. The second aim was to investigate the problems experienced by learners which require traditional medicine practices as solutions vvithin the school. The third aim was to determine the procedures that can be followed in order to provide traditional medicine to meet the learners' needs. The fourth aim was to provide certain guidelines regarding traditional medicine intervention vWthin a school. The fifth aim was to find whether teachers' perceptions of traditional medicine in schools are influenced by the teachers' characteristics. Lastly, to find out whether there is any agreement among ranks assigned by the respondents to: <job opportunities amenable to creation through the use of traditional medicine. ❖ Afflictions amenable to treatment by traditional medicine. A Likert scale was constructed to measure the areas indicated by the aforementioned aims of study. The quantifying instrument was administered to a representative sample of teachers. Sixty six completed questionnaires were analysed. The Chi-square Test and frequency distribution methods were used to analyse data. The important findings revealed that teachers endorsed scale items on positive rather than negative perceptions.en_US
dc.identifier.other263937
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/824
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectHealersen_US
dc.subjectTraditional medicineen_US
dc.titleProspect and scope for traditional medicine in the South African Education support servicesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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