- Title
- Examining the reasons for the exclusion of pregnant learners from school through the school governing body pregnancy policy
- Creator
- Bamidele, James Seidu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6641-0385
- Subject
- School board members
- Subject
- Pregnant teenagers
- Subject
- Human rights
- Date Issued
- 2017-07
- Date
- 2017-07
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/22979
- Identifier
- vital:53375
- Description
- Discrimination is a serious violation of human rights and it is strongly condemned by various legal instruments in South Africa. The South African Constitution (1996), Promotion of Administration Justice Act (2000) and Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act (2000) forbade discrimination and exclusion of pregnant learners from school. In spite of these legislative frameworks, School Governing Body (SGB) continues to exclude pregnant learners from school. SGB claimed that pregnant learners are harmful to other female learners and is becoming a significant barrier to girls’ education. Research shows that learners’ pregnancy is predominant in rural areas, apparently poses a threat to female education (Annual School Survey Report, 2010). The purpose of this dissertation is to establish that SGB lacks power to do so; however, their resistance to the law by excluding the pregnant learners from school is in conflict with the South African Constitution. This dissertation investigated an alternative instrument of legal remedy to reduce the problem of learners’ pregnancy rather than exclusion. The theoretical framework of this study is informed by Public Policy Theory (Ijeoma, 2010). Literatures and scholarly works on education law (Oosthuizen, 2015) and articles on Learners’ pregnancy shall be reviewed (Morell, Bhana & Shefer, 2012). The study followed qualitative research method which utilizes a transformative research paradigm that provides a collective voice for the participants. The data is collected through focused interview and open-ended questions, and subsequently analysed to establish that SGB lacks power to exclude a pregnant learner from school. Finally, the study reveals an alternative instrument of legal remedy to reduce the alarming number of pregnant learners rather than exclusion.
- Description
- Thesis (MEd) -- Faculty of Education, 2017
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (170 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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