Perceived Reasons For High School Underachievement In Four Historically Separate South African School Systems

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
D. Donald ◽  
L. Green
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
South African ◽  
School Systems ◽  
South African School ◽  
Perceived Reasons

scholarly journals Building a robust athlete in the South African high school system

10.17159/2933 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
W Lombard
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
South African ◽  
School System ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Current System ◽  
High School Athletes ◽  
The South ◽  
School Sport ◽  
South African School ◽  
Modern Era

In the modern era of school sport, schools are faced with important decisions on how best to structure their programs to fit in the growing number of tournaments into the schools sports calendars. Furthermore, school sport has taken on a more professional and competitive feel, with the possibility of winning cash prizes as well as the live TV coverage of various tournaments it is plausible to believe that the pressure on coaches to win at this level has increased when compared to 10 years back.The intention of this article is not to disparage the South African school sport system but rather to create an understanding of best practice when considering high school athletes. As it has been the authors experience through working with numerous highs school athletes and presenting to various schools and educators on this topic that the current system or lack thereof is possibly not athlete-centered which may be detrimental to their development down the line.

scholarly journals Building a robust athlete in the South African high school system

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
W Lombard
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
South African ◽  
School System ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Current System ◽  
High School Athletes ◽  
The South ◽  
School Sport ◽  
South African School ◽  
Modern Era

In the modern era of school sport, schools are faced with important decisions on how best to structure their programs to fit in the growing number of tournaments into the schools sports calendars. Furthermore, school sport has taken on a more professional and competitive feel, with the possibility of winning cash prizes as well as the live TV coverage of various tournaments it is plausible to believe that the pressure on coaches to win at this level has increased when compared to 10 years back.The intention of this article is not to disparage the South African school sport system but rather to create an understanding of best practice when considering high school athletes. As it has been the authors experience through working with numerous highs school athletes and presenting to various schools and educators on this topic that the current system or lack thereof is possibly not athlete-centered which may be detrimental to their development down the line.

scholarly journals Injury incidence and characteristics in South African school first team rugby: A case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Tee ◽  
F Lebatie ◽  
K Till ◽  
B Jones
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
South African ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
Injury Incidence ◽  
School Competition ◽  
South African School ◽  
Training Habits

Background: Despite its apparent popularity, participation in the sport of rugby union is accompanied by a significant risk of injury. Concerned parties have recently questioned whether this risk is acceptable within school populations. This is difficult to assess within the South African schools’ population as no recent longitudinal injury studies exist.Objectives: To determine the training habits, rugby-related exposure and injury risk within a population of South African high school first team rugby players.Methods: Training and match exposure in both school and provincial competition were examined and the resultant injuries were longitudinally observed for the duration of a South African high school rugby season.Results: Match (79, 95%CI 52-105 injuries/1 000 h) and training (7, 95%CI 3-11 injuries /1000h) injury incidences were demonstrated to be greater than previously reported incidences in similar populations in England and Ireland. Weeks where players were exposed to both school and provincial competition (34, 95%CI 19-49 injuries /1 000 h) had significantly (p<0.05) greater injury incidences than during school competition alone (19, 95%CI 12-26 injuries /1 000 h).Conclusion: The injury risk demonstrated was greater than expected and represents reasons for concern. Possible reasons for the high injury incidence recorded may be the frequency of games played within the season, and the overlap of school and provincial competitions. It should be noted that these results were taken from one school over one season and might not be representative of the incidence of school rugby injuries overall. However, this research demonstrates the need for a multischool longitudinal study within South African schools rugby to determine the overall risk.

scholarly journals Gender factors associated with sexual abstinent behaviour of rural South African high school going youth in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Dlamini ◽  
M. Taylor ◽  
N. Mkhize ◽  
R. Huver ◽  
R. Sathiparsad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
High School ◽  
South African ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Kwazulu Natal

scholarly journals PURE POLITICKING! RACIALISED BLAME GAMES AND MORAL PANIC IN THE CASE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN HIGH SCHOOL

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-60
Author(s):  
MARTHINUS STANDER CONRADIE
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
South African ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
African Education ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black Politicians ◽  
South African Education ◽  
Practical Model ◽  
Insight Into

This study combines two discourse analytic frameworks, and explores the utility of this combination for unpacking journalistic opinions written in response to a polarising and racialised event in South African education: the Overvaal High School incident. It uncovers strategic constructions of racism within politicised blame games, in the context of Overvaal, and discloses how blame-assertion and blame-denial became implicated in framings of moral panic. Methodologically, this study relies on the concept race trouble, as well as a practical model of argumentation. In conjunction, these two approaches supply insight into both the calculated construction of racism, as well as the incorporation of these constructions into arguments aimed at rationalising blame-assertion and blame-denial. The results are interpreted within theorisations of moral panic. The findings showcase how arguments are produced to blame an individual politician for escalating racial antagonism around Overvaal, instead of offering a deeply historicised and contextualised account of the incident. Consequently, the arguments that shaped the opinion pieces, and the framing of racism involved in these arguments, ultimately obfuscate inquiry into structural determinants of racial inequity. Implicitly, this framing of racism and its incorporation into argumentation and blame games, produce a form of moral panic, in which South Africans racialised as white are construed as embattled by self-serving (black) politicians. Such politicians are vilified, or rendered as folk devils, and the results indicate how this process evades penetrating analyses of racialisation and its intersection with unequal education.  

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