- Title
- Management of peer education programmes for poverty alleviation in selected Graaff-Reinet schools
- Creator
- Nqimfa, Nomalungelo Dorith
- Subject
- Poverty -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Economic development projects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Team learning approach in education -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Group work in education -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Peer teaching -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/42792
- Identifier
- vital:36692
- Description
- Poverty in Graaff-Reinet is rife and inhibits successful learning among learners in that area. Poverty is not confined to any one racial group in South Africa; however, it is concentrated in rural areas. The researcher identified Graaff-Reinet as an area of study because it is a developing rural town, wherein social-economic development opportunities are arising especially at Camdeboo Local Municipality. This research examined the imbalances of the past, particularly in the South African education system that still creates learning challenges for learners from disadvantaged communities. These challenges include a high rate of school dropouts and failure; violence; substance abuse; teenage pregnancies; and unemployment. This study investigates peer education programmes implemented as an intervention strategy aimed at increasing learners’ academic achievements and supporting healthy behaviours. The aim of the research was to evaluate how the management of peer education programmes might help reduce poverty and meet the social and economic challenges facing Graaff-Reinet by promoting sustainable livelihoods. The research also focussed on how relevant stakeholders and the community could assist in the management of a peer education programme. The researcher used a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods, as they were complementary and provided detailed data that led to a thorough analysis of the research topic. Thus, integrating qualitative and quantitative research meant that numerical data as well as theoretical data were gathered. This non-experimental research study included a variety of different methods that described the relationships between the variables included in the descriptive/historical research method, which described the characteristics of existing and past phenomena. Because of the restricted extent of the research, no empirical survey was conducted. The data were collected from relevant literature sources consisting of books, legislation documents and programmatic documents from the two schools of the study and the Camdeboo Local Municipality, using knowledgeable individuals in the field. The researcher analysed documents by using an inductive approach. Moreover, the researcher focused on all types of written material that could shed light on the management of peer education programmes in addressing social issues in schools in Graaff-Reinet. A number of theoretical criteria to deal with the research problems were identified from the available literature, from which conclusions were drawn and recommendations made.
- Format
- xvii, 95 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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