Browsing by Author "Mkhize, Dumisani Ezra"

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    Impact of Discipline on Learner Performance
    (2002) Mkhize, Dumisani Ezra; Mkabela, N.Q.; Sibaya, D.C.
    The research examined the impact of discipline on learner performance in KwaZulu-Natal. This study made use of questionnaires and interviews to determine whether discipline has any impact on learner performance. On the basis of views from respondents, the study concluded that in the areas studies learner-performance is indeed influenced by discipline. Further than that, there was a high percentage of respondents who suggested that in restoring discipline in schools, societal background of learners must be taken into consideration.
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    Perceptions and practices of learner rights in South African" black schools
    (2008) Mkhize, Dumisani Ezra; Sibeko, N.J.; Mkabela, N.Q.
    The research examines the Perceptions and Practices of learner rights in the South African Black Schools. This study made use of Primary sources, Secondary sources and interviews to ascertain the perceptions and Practices of learner rights in South African Black schools. In this study we first embark on a retrospective probe into discourses of difference between educators and learners and argue that these discourses of difference tend to promote oppressive and dehumanizing social relationship between learners and educators. We further argue that the discourses of difference and power tend to naturalize and normalize Otherness as though it is naturally given rather than conceiving of it as socially constructed. The study thus highlights that the issue of learner rights in schools that is predicated on differential power relations between learners and educators can be resolved if co-operation between learners and educators could be forged.