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Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24266 Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school Human-Vogel, Salome Nkomo, Mokubung O. dungoane@gmail.com Tabane, Ramodungoane James Assimilation Learners Race House of delegates Integration Social cohesion Desegregation Belonging Interactive qualitative analysis Diversity UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009. The first South African democratic general election of 1994 precipitated the eradication of South Africa’s separate and unequal education system. The presidential tenure of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela brought much hope that the majority of South Africans would not have thought possible. The new era carried, among other promises, the transformation of South African policies, to ensure that all South African children would have access to a school of their choice and that no child would be turned away from school on grounds of race, ethnicity, class and/ or religion. School desegregation has been one of the means of attaining social cohesion and ensuring that all learners have access to all South African schools. School desegregation can be said to have been taking place on at least five (5) or more (taking also to consideration that there are typologies of ethnic and/ or religion desegregations taking place) different levels or typologies. These typologies are equally important as the African-to-White school migrations that have been taking place in South Africa. Thus, using a case study, this thesis - Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school - contributes to the debates on social cohesion; desegregation and integration of the learning environment bestowed with diverse learner and teacher populations. It however traces the experiences of Black and Indian learners in a desegregated former House of Delegates school to determine the successes and possible challenges of ensuring social cohesion and racial integration at a school level. The study concludes that social cohesion and school integration is possible when the focus is learner-centered, the school environment is enabling and that feelings of belonging and integration are intertwined and it is challenging to achieve one without the other. Undertaken at a specific school context, this study does not claim that the findings are a trend in other schools although this cannot be ruled out in similar school and context. Learners in this study seemed not to be constrained by the racial classifications but defined and formed friendships along their likes, commonness, and future aspirations. Educational Psychology unrestricted 2013-09-06T17:00:43Z 2010-05-03 2013-09-06T17:00:43Z 2010-04-29 2009 2010-05-01 Thesis Tabane, RJ 2009, Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24266 > D10/280/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24266 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05012010-163911/ © 2009 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Assimilation Learners Race House of delegates Integration Social cohesion Desegregation Belonging Interactive qualitative analysis Diversity UCTD Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school |
| title | Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school |
| title_full | Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school |
| title_fullStr | Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school |
| title_short | Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school |
| title_sort | integration and learners feelings of belonging in a desegregated former house of delegates school |
| topic | Assimilation Learners Race House of delegates Integration Social cohesion Desegregation Belonging Interactive qualitative analysis Diversity UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24266 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05012010-163911/ |