Ethical leadership by the senior managers within the South African Police Services in Grahamstown cluster
- Mafele, Khayakazi Innocentia
- Authors: Mafele, Khayakazi Innocentia
- Date: 2020-10
- Subjects: South African Police Service , Management -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/19870 , vital:43604
- Description: SAPS has an organisational form of ethics that guides the police officials’ behaviour which is SAPS code of conduct and all SAPS members are expected to adhere to this code of conduct. The code of conduct provides that “each of the SAPS members is bound to create a safe and secure environment for all the citizens of the Republic of South Africa” (SAPS code of conduct). Ethical leadership is becoming more relevant; ethical leadership is an idea that appears to be uncertain and includes many diverse elements. The literature proposes that ethical leadership should be perceived as a view that is enabling people to do the right thing more than preventing people from doing the wrong thing. Current SAPS leadership must be able to make sure that SAPS become the professional and respected police agency to the citizens of the Republic of South Africa. This study sought to investigate the use of ethical leadership by the senior managers within the South African Police Service in the Grahamstown cluster. The study also investigated some of the various causes of corrupt practices among senior managers which resulted in the unethical behaviour in the South African Police Service. In this study, the purposive sampling technique was used to choose the participants and the following participants were interviewed: One Colonel as a cluster commander, two full Colonels as station commanders, two Lt Colonels and two Captains from Grahamstown and Joza stations. The study made the following recommendation: Senior officials at SAPS need to go through a capacity building programme so as to assist them to deal with challenges of ethics. It is very important to increase the detection of and punishment of corrupt acts in order to deter all officers from engaging in corrupt acts. Accountability is needed by senior officials and therefore the Independent Investigation Directorate (IPID) needs to be given more constitutional powers to be able to investigate the police in South Africa in order to make disciplinary recommendations in respect of members of the SAPS resulting from investigations conducted by the directorate. The enforcement of disciplinary procedures as guided by the code of conduct should be promoted and sustained. , Thesis (MPA) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2021
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- Date Issued: 2020-10
- Authors: Mafele, Khayakazi Innocentia
- Date: 2020-10
- Subjects: South African Police Service , Management -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/19870 , vital:43604
- Description: SAPS has an organisational form of ethics that guides the police officials’ behaviour which is SAPS code of conduct and all SAPS members are expected to adhere to this code of conduct. The code of conduct provides that “each of the SAPS members is bound to create a safe and secure environment for all the citizens of the Republic of South Africa” (SAPS code of conduct). Ethical leadership is becoming more relevant; ethical leadership is an idea that appears to be uncertain and includes many diverse elements. The literature proposes that ethical leadership should be perceived as a view that is enabling people to do the right thing more than preventing people from doing the wrong thing. Current SAPS leadership must be able to make sure that SAPS become the professional and respected police agency to the citizens of the Republic of South Africa. This study sought to investigate the use of ethical leadership by the senior managers within the South African Police Service in the Grahamstown cluster. The study also investigated some of the various causes of corrupt practices among senior managers which resulted in the unethical behaviour in the South African Police Service. In this study, the purposive sampling technique was used to choose the participants and the following participants were interviewed: One Colonel as a cluster commander, two full Colonels as station commanders, two Lt Colonels and two Captains from Grahamstown and Joza stations. The study made the following recommendation: Senior officials at SAPS need to go through a capacity building programme so as to assist them to deal with challenges of ethics. It is very important to increase the detection of and punishment of corrupt acts in order to deter all officers from engaging in corrupt acts. Accountability is needed by senior officials and therefore the Independent Investigation Directorate (IPID) needs to be given more constitutional powers to be able to investigate the police in South Africa in order to make disciplinary recommendations in respect of members of the SAPS resulting from investigations conducted by the directorate. The enforcement of disciplinary procedures as guided by the code of conduct should be promoted and sustained. , Thesis (MPA) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2021
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- Date Issued: 2020-10
Parents’ involvement in education of their children: case study of two selected secondary schools in the Amathole West District
- Authors: Adelabu, O J
- Date: 2020-10
- Subjects: Education -- Parent participation , Parent-teacher relationships
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/19969 , vital:44857
- Description: Parents’ involvement is a very important element that has an influence on children’s education. However, research has shown that parents’ involvement is the biggest challenge facing South African schools. The study sought to investigate parents’ involvement in the education of their children at secondary school in Amathole West District, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The study was underpinned by Epstein’s theory of parental involvement and the Ecological framework. A qualitative approach was adopted in this study which was located within an interpretivist paradigm and used a case study approach with a sample of 26 participants which includes (2 school principals, 6 educators, 6 parents and 12 learners) were selected conveniently, data was collected using focus group discussions, interviews and document analysis. The study revealed that although schools have employed various strategies to improve parental involvement in their children’s education, there are still challenges which inhibit the effectiveness of these strategies. The study also revealed that most parents are unable to get involved as expected by the school due to some challenges such as poverty, unemployment, educational background, distance and illiteracy. Consequently, the study recommended that parents must be more actively involved in the school and collaborate with their children’s teacher in order to bring out the best in their children. Furthermore, to ensure effective parents’ involvement, schools may have activities that can develop, improve and encourage parents’ involvement in such areas as parenting, communication, learning at home, volunteering, decision making and community collaboration. , Thesis (MEd) -- Faculty of Education, 2020
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- Date Issued: 2020-10
- Authors: Adelabu, O J
- Date: 2020-10
- Subjects: Education -- Parent participation , Parent-teacher relationships
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/19969 , vital:44857
- Description: Parents’ involvement is a very important element that has an influence on children’s education. However, research has shown that parents’ involvement is the biggest challenge facing South African schools. The study sought to investigate parents’ involvement in the education of their children at secondary school in Amathole West District, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The study was underpinned by Epstein’s theory of parental involvement and the Ecological framework. A qualitative approach was adopted in this study which was located within an interpretivist paradigm and used a case study approach with a sample of 26 participants which includes (2 school principals, 6 educators, 6 parents and 12 learners) were selected conveniently, data was collected using focus group discussions, interviews and document analysis. The study revealed that although schools have employed various strategies to improve parental involvement in their children’s education, there are still challenges which inhibit the effectiveness of these strategies. The study also revealed that most parents are unable to get involved as expected by the school due to some challenges such as poverty, unemployment, educational background, distance and illiteracy. Consequently, the study recommended that parents must be more actively involved in the school and collaborate with their children’s teacher in order to bring out the best in their children. Furthermore, to ensure effective parents’ involvement, schools may have activities that can develop, improve and encourage parents’ involvement in such areas as parenting, communication, learning at home, volunteering, decision making and community collaboration. , Thesis (MEd) -- Faculty of Education, 2020
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- Date Issued: 2020-10
The many faces of Beauty and the Beast: A feminist and new historicist approach
- Banks, Monique https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6887-7050
- Authors: Banks, Monique https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6887-7050
- Date: 2020-10
- Subjects: Fairy tales in literature , Women and literature
- Language: English
- Type: Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/23862 , vital:61068
- Description: The fairy tale tradition is saturated with tales from male writers, and very little attention has been placed on the tales written by women. The tales which have made their way into the public realm and have been shared and passed down for years and identified as ‘classics’ are those which embody patriarchal ideas and expectations of men and women. Seventeenth century France played an integral role in the development of the fairy tale realm. The context of the French Academy and French Salons allowed writers to share their tales. Popular writer, Charles Perrault, published his collection of tales during this time and they became popular throughout France and other parts of the world. His tales were used as educational tools and, hence, they shared particular messages with their readers. More specific to this research are the patriarchal ideas these tales shared with their readers. At the same time, a number of French women, acting in the salons, also penned and shared their unique tales. Unfortunately, these tales and their writers did not receive the same acceptance as Perrault’s tales in the seventeenth century. Furthermore, as time passed, women writers were still not given equal recognition to male writers. As their tales were, for the most part, ignored by the public, their messages and ideas about gender were not shared with readers and the public this made the fairy tale genre overly patriarchal and gendered in nature. Therefore, the study’s primary focus is to analyse the Beauty and the Beast tales written by women writers from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the twenty-first century. It is important to make these writers’ literature known in order to broaden the understanding of the fairy tale genre as multi-faceted. Studying the characters, their behaviours and the gendered relationships within each tale provides a deeper understanding of women writers throughout the centuries. Analysing the social context in which each tale was written, along with each tale, presents a sense of how each woman writer continued and/or rejected the gendered ideas of her society. It also provides a picture of the timeline of women’s writing from the earlier centuries until today. To conclude, this study reflects an interesting movement in the fairy tale literature published by women. More recent tales produce more dynamic and empowered characters, who act outside of patriarchal limitations. The Beauty character of more recent tales, for instance, is given more of an independent role than her predecessors are. Ritchie’s female character is placed in a realistic setting and lives with both the ‘Beast’ and his mother, with her courage and bravery emphasising a new position for the female character. She becomes more and more aware of her position as an object to be traded in Carter’s tales and Block’s Beauty and craves the freedom and independence she feels outside of her father’s household, flourishing in the life of a beast. Flinn’s female character steps out of the box of physical beauty and represents a more normalised character. In modern times, the developments between each tale reflect that the ideas of gender are becoming more varied and fluid than earlier societies. The feminism and new historicist analysis of the traditional and remake Beauty and the Beast tales, therefore, highlights particular developments in fairy tale literature, together with shedding a brighter light on fairy tales written by women writers. , Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2020
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- Date Issued: 2020-10
- Authors: Banks, Monique https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6887-7050
- Date: 2020-10
- Subjects: Fairy tales in literature , Women and literature
- Language: English
- Type: Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/23862 , vital:61068
- Description: The fairy tale tradition is saturated with tales from male writers, and very little attention has been placed on the tales written by women. The tales which have made their way into the public realm and have been shared and passed down for years and identified as ‘classics’ are those which embody patriarchal ideas and expectations of men and women. Seventeenth century France played an integral role in the development of the fairy tale realm. The context of the French Academy and French Salons allowed writers to share their tales. Popular writer, Charles Perrault, published his collection of tales during this time and they became popular throughout France and other parts of the world. His tales were used as educational tools and, hence, they shared particular messages with their readers. More specific to this research are the patriarchal ideas these tales shared with their readers. At the same time, a number of French women, acting in the salons, also penned and shared their unique tales. Unfortunately, these tales and their writers did not receive the same acceptance as Perrault’s tales in the seventeenth century. Furthermore, as time passed, women writers were still not given equal recognition to male writers. As their tales were, for the most part, ignored by the public, their messages and ideas about gender were not shared with readers and the public this made the fairy tale genre overly patriarchal and gendered in nature. Therefore, the study’s primary focus is to analyse the Beauty and the Beast tales written by women writers from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the twenty-first century. It is important to make these writers’ literature known in order to broaden the understanding of the fairy tale genre as multi-faceted. Studying the characters, their behaviours and the gendered relationships within each tale provides a deeper understanding of women writers throughout the centuries. Analysing the social context in which each tale was written, along with each tale, presents a sense of how each woman writer continued and/or rejected the gendered ideas of her society. It also provides a picture of the timeline of women’s writing from the earlier centuries until today. To conclude, this study reflects an interesting movement in the fairy tale literature published by women. More recent tales produce more dynamic and empowered characters, who act outside of patriarchal limitations. The Beauty character of more recent tales, for instance, is given more of an independent role than her predecessors are. Ritchie’s female character is placed in a realistic setting and lives with both the ‘Beast’ and his mother, with her courage and bravery emphasising a new position for the female character. She becomes more and more aware of her position as an object to be traded in Carter’s tales and Block’s Beauty and craves the freedom and independence she feels outside of her father’s household, flourishing in the life of a beast. Flinn’s female character steps out of the box of physical beauty and represents a more normalised character. In modern times, the developments between each tale reflect that the ideas of gender are becoming more varied and fluid than earlier societies. The feminism and new historicist analysis of the traditional and remake Beauty and the Beast tales, therefore, highlights particular developments in fairy tale literature, together with shedding a brighter light on fairy tales written by women writers. , Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2020
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- Date Issued: 2020-10
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