- Title
- Primary school teachers’ perceptions and experiences regarding the risk and protective factors impacting learner conduct
- Creator
- Mxhobo, Buhle Vuyo
- Subject
- LCSH
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSW
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/46446
- Identifier
- vital:39584
- Description
- Learners are interconnected with their families, schools and communities and can thus be affected risk or protective factorsthat occur in the community.Such factors could relate to lack of parent-to-learner relationships, poor teacher-to-learner relationships and/or violencewitnessedfrom the community.The purpose of this study was to gain anunderstanding of primary school teachers’ perceptions andexperiences regarding the riskand protective factors impactinglearner conduct. This study utiliseda qualitative approach. An explorative, descriptive andcontextual design wasfollowed. Semi-structured individual interviews wereimplemented. Thesampling technique used was non-probability, purposive sampling. Tesch’s model (in Creswell, 2009) wasfollowed for the data analysis process.The data led to identification of three themes, namely: risk and protective factorsimpacting learner conduct. Recommendations that preventrisk factors and promoteprotective factorswere identified.The researcher implemented Guba’s model (Krefting, 1991) for data verification. This study contributes to the social work knowledgein that it provides a deeper understanding of factors affecting learner contact.
- Format
- viii, 154 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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