Jacobus G Maree
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4447359 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jacobus G Maree |
| NOMBRES | Jacobus G |
| APELLIDO | Maree |
| FIRMA | MAREE J G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9492-8445 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The effect of career construction counselling on high school students’ career decision-making difficulties and career adaptability
This study investigated the effect of career construction counselling as an intervention on addressing career decision-making difficulties and enhancing career adaptability of high school students in Tanzania. The study sample consisted of 66 Form Five students (Grade 11) drawn from two public high schools in Morogoro Municipality. An intervention group of 35 students received career construction counselling, while a comparison group of 31 studen…
Career construction counselling intervention to promote the sense of calling of a disadvantaged black woman
This article reports on how longitudinal counselling for career construction clarified and promoted the sense of calling of a black woman.Purposive sampling was used to select a woman wanting to promote her sense of calling to make a difference in the lives of vulnerable people.A longitudinal, eight-year, explanatory, and intrinsic case study design was adopted.The Maree Career Matrix (MCM) and the Career Interest Profile (CIP) were used to elici…
Nouvelles perspectives d’interventions pour concevoir sa vie en contexte d’Anthropocène
Depuis 2013, la Chaire UNESCO en orientation et en conseil tout au long de la vie, ainsi que son réseau UNITWIN créé en 2017, mènent des recherches, des formations et des interventions dans une perspective de conception de la vie afin d’aider les personnes à évoluer plus aisément dans un monde incertain. Cet article est une réflexion issue des travaux de la Chaire UNESCO qui vise à proposer une nouvelle perspective pour le conseil en orientation …
Performing artists’ career trajectory from a career construction perspective
The field of performing arts presents an often unpredictable area for career development. Yet many people are drawn to this field as their chosen career trajectory. This study examines the life-career experiences that shape performing artists' trajectories within the framework of career construction theory. Using a qualitative multiple case study design, data was generated by Career Interest Profiles (CIP), career construction interviews (CCI), l…
Integrating “old” truths and “new” evidence to address people's evolving career counselling needs
The article reflects on the current relevance and functionality of career counselling in South Africa and elsewhere, examining the link between career counselling waves, helping models, theoretical foundations, and interventions. An adapted qualitative systematic literature review was conducted to facilitate examination of people's evolving career counselling needs during changes in the workplace with a view to recommend strategies to innovate ca…
The influence of group career construction counselling on Tanzanian high school students’ career decision-making difficulties
This study examined the influence of a group career construction counselling intervention on the career decision-making difficulties of Tanzanian students. Convenience and purposive sampling were used to select 35 high school participants from a single public school in Tanzania. A qualitative approach was employed and an intrinsic single-case, descriptive, intervention career design was implemented. An eight-week career construction counselling i…
Effects of life design counselling on secondary students with career indecision in a resource-constrained community
This study examined the effects of life design counselling on secondary students with career indecision in a resource-constrained community. Non-probability, purposive sampling was utilized to select 91 secondary students from two schools (intervention group: N = 17, mean age: 18.00; SD = 1.06; comparison group: N = 74; mean age: 17.41; SD = 1.47). A mixed-methods intervention within a pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental design was employed. Da…
Using Integrative Career Construction Counselling to Promote Autobiographicity and Transform Tension into Intention and Action
This article reports on the use of integrative career counselling to promote autobiographical reasoning in a purposively sampled gifted 16-year-old female learner with moratorium career identity status. I implemented an explanatory, mixed-methods (QUALITATIVE-quantitative; uppercase denoting the bigger weighting given to the qualitative aspect) research design and used qualitative and quantitative career construction counselling techniques and me…
Managing the Covid-19 pandemic in South African Schools
This article reports on challenges faced today by the South African schooling system due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the emphasis on the public school system. Its aim is to show the extent and nature of these challenges and how they exacerbate existing challenges and impact the quality of post-matric study and tertiary education. A number of specific challenges are focused on such as large class sizes, physical distancing requirements, and the…
Counselling for career construction for an artistic child with career undecidedness
This article describes the influence of counselling for career construction on an artistic young girl with career undecidedness. Purposeful sampling was used to select a 14-year-old participant from young children who had sought counselling for career construction in a private practice context. An explanatory, instrumental, single case, intervention study design was implemented and a mixed-methods paradigm adopted as the research framework. Couns…
Innovating and contextualising career counselling for young people during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article reports on how the changing career counselling needs of young people during the Covid-19 pandemic can be met. It is argued that innovative and contextualised career counselling that is in line with the basic principles of ‘best practice’ and draws on a life design–based framework offers a viable conceptual framework for this kind of endeavour. Such counselling can promote young people’s adaptability; enhance their employability; and …
Integrative career counselling for early career individuals
This article reports on integrative career counselling for early career individuals. This approach and intervention involve the elicitation and use of individuals’ multiple smaller career-life stories (qualitative assessment and intervention) and their scores on tests (quantitative assessment). The aim is to help them make important choices in their career-lives in collaboration with their career counsellors in rapidly changing times and work con…
Using career counselling with group life design principles to improve the employability of disadvantaged young adults
This article explores the effects of group life design counselling on unemployed young adults’ career adaptability skills. Purposive and criterion sampling were used to select 62 participants involved in a skills programme (mean age = 24.86 years, SD = 6.38 years). A quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test comparison group-design, embedded in an intervention framework, was used to gather data. Intervention occurred in the quasi-experimental group. …
Psychosocial well-being in adulthood in response to systemic barriers in kinship care as experienced during adolescence
This study reports on the experiences of Black adults who were raised in kinship care during adolescence and its influences on their psychosocial well-being in adulthood. An exploratory, descriptive, instrumental, multiple-case study approach was followed to facilitate retrospective investigation. Semi-structured, individual interviews were conducted to construct data. The sample comprised of 13 Black adults between the ages of 18 and 42 years. T…
Enhancing the sense of self of peer supporters using life design-related counselling
This article explores the possible effects of group-based life design-related counselling on the sense of self of female adolescent peer supporters. Convenience and purposive sampling were used to select 24 participants at a private school (mean age = 16.5 years; standard deviation = 6.4 months). A parallel interactive mixed-method design, embedded in an intervention framework, was used to gather data. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to co…
Psychological well-being of adolescents with physical disabilities in Zimbabwean inclusive community settings
The findings of this study should enable inclusive communities' policy-makers and researchers to better understand the psychological well-being of adolescents with physical disabilities living in inclusive communities
Assessment of the value of group-based counselling for career construction
This article reports on the change in the career adaptability of participants exposed to an intervention programme characterized by career and self-construction principles compared to the change in participants who participated in standard, traditional career counselling lessons. Convenience and purposive sampling were used to select two groups (experimental and comparison of Grade 11 learners). Intervention occurred in both experimental groups. …
Development of the Maree Career Matrix
In this article, the authors report on the development of an interest inventory (the Maree Career Matrix) for South Africans with a minimum of Grade 9 second language English or Afrikaans proficiency. The instrument was completed by 1106 learners in Grade 11 in the Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and North West provinces of South Africa. Rasch analysis was done; inter-category correlations, reliability coefficients, and differential item functioning values …
Life design counselling effects on the career adaptability of learners in a selective independent school setting
This collective case study applied life design counselling to augment the career adaptability of learners in a South African independent school setting. Five purposively selected learners attending Grade 11 (age range: 16–18) completed eight group-based life design counselling sessions. Data on their career adaptability pre- and post-intervention were gathered from sessional notes. The data were thematically analysed. Following the intervention t…
Research on life design in (South) Africa
No country, including South Africa, has been left untouched by the global economic meltdown in 2008 and fears that another financial meltdown could be imminent. This article reports on the emergence of career construction and life design in response to changes in the world of work. It explains the essence of career construction and life design and discusses their value in 21st century (South) Africa. It also discusses the re-emergence of adaptabi…
Constructing a Framework for the Use of Tests Within a Developing Nation’s School System
Interpretive participatory action research methods were used to assist the education community in Botswana, a developing nation, to identify a framework for the use of tests in the nation’s schools. User preferences for understanding important learner-related qualities through the use of tests were emphasized. Participant informants were educators and school counselors ( n = 1,221), learners ( n = 355), parents/guardians ( n = 162), and education…
Efficacy of outdoor adventure education in developing emotional intelligence during adolescence
This study was an efficacy evaluation of an outdoor adventure intervention to facilitate emotional intelligence (EI) among adolescents. A pre-post-test design was used. Participants were a convenience sample of 76 Grade 10 learners from a private high school for boys in a major South African city. They completed the Bar-On EQ-i:YV at pre-intervention, post-intervention and follow-up. The results indicated that participation in outdoor interventio…
Narrative counselling with a young engineer
This case study applied a narrative approach to develop the sense of self as a career resource for a young male engineer in his first working year. The participant client attended eight sessions lasting 60 to 90 minutes each over a period of five months. The case sessional data were thematically analysed. Following the intervention, the participant displayed career strengths of willingness to deal with challenges, enhanced adaptability strategies…
Career Counselling
This study reports the findings from exploratory career counselling with Italian undergraduate university students using the Career Interest Profile (CIP). The participants (n = 178, females = 51.69%; mean age 22.28, SD = 1.59 years) received elective career counselling on campus. The students completed the CIP and the Self-Directed Search (SDS). Data were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The CIP yielded satisfactory r…
The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence, Study Orientation in Mathematics and the Mathematics Achievement of the Middle Adolescent
This article describes the extent to which emotional intelligence and study orientation predict the mathematics achievement of middle adolescents. Altogether 435 learners in Grades 9 and 11 from three high schools in the Mafikeng region completed the Bar-On EQ-i: YVTM and the Study Orientation Questionnaire in Mathematics (SOM) (M age = 15.49; SD = 1.32). Stepwise regression showed that a combination of El facets (i.e., General mood, Adaptability…
Latest developments in career counselling in South Africa
Fundamental changes in the workplace across all countries in recent times call for a contemporary response from career counselling theorists and practitioners as well as researchers and clients. An approach is needed that will enable career counsellors to equip clients with the necessary skills to respond to these changes – a positive career counselling approach. The article focuses briefly on global developments in the field and, more particular…
The Cosatu Participatory Democratic Tradition and South Africa's New Parliament
COSATU, The Congress of South African Trade Unions, has a participatory democratic tradition on the shopfloor that dates back to the emergence of some of its constituent unions in the 1970s. In fact, an ethic developed among members that the unions ought to be democratic. By 1994, when South Africa underwent a major political transformation and the African National Congress came to power with the support of COSATU, the question arose whether the …
Research on life design in (South) Africa
No country, including South Africa, has been left untouched by the global economic meltdown in 2008 and fears that another financial meltdown could be imminent. This article reports on the emergence of career construction and life design in response to changes in the world of work. It explains the essence of career construction and life design and discusses their value in 21st century (South) Africa. It also discusses the re-emergence of adaptabi…
Development of a Study Orientation Questionnaire in Mathematics
The Study Orientation Questionnaire: mathematics was developed for use with all South African pupils in secondary schools in South Africa. The statistical properties of the questionnaire for a sample in which all children in Grades 8 to 11 in secondary schools in South Africa were represented, are briefly described. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire, as well as the intercorrelations between the fields, are demonstrated. Norm table…
Development of the Maree Career Matrix
In this article, the authors report on the development of an interest inventory (the Maree Career Matrix) for South Africans with a minimum of Grade 9 second language English or Afrikaans proficiency. The instrument was completed by 1106 learners in Grade 11 in the Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and North West provinces of South Africa. Rasch analysis was done; inter-category correlations, reliability coefficients, and differential item functioning values …
Integrative career counselling for early career individuals
This article reports on integrative career counselling for early career individuals. This approach and intervention involve the elicitation and use of individuals’ multiple smaller career-life stories (qualitative assessment and intervention) and their scores on tests (quantitative assessment). The aim is to help them make important choices in their career-lives in collaboration with their career counsellors in rapidly changing times and work con…
Enhancing the sense of self of peer supporters using life design-related counselling
This article explores the possible effects of group-based life design-related counselling on the sense of self of female adolescent peer supporters. Convenience and purposive sampling were used to select 24 participants at a private school (mean age = 16.5 years; standard deviation = 6.4 months). A parallel interactive mixed-method design, embedded in an intervention framework, was used to gather data. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to co…
Kritieke toestand van wiskunde-onderwys in swart skole in die Republiek van Suid-Afrika
Leerlinge uit alle rassegroepe ervaar van tyd tot tyd onderrig- en leerprobleme in wiskunde. Dit geld in 'n veel groter opsig vir swart leerlinge as vir leerlinge uit ander bevolkingsgroepe. Verskeie moontlike redes vir hierdie verskynsel kan geïdentifiseer word, waaronder die feit dat swart leerlinge histories gesproke 'n beduidende ekonomiese en sosiale agterstand ten opsigte van ander leerlinge het. Faktore wat swart leerlinge se leer en onder…
Kritieke toestand van wiskunde-onderwys in swart skole in die Republiek van Suid-Afrika
Leerlinge uit alle rassegroepe ervaar van tyd tot tyd onderrig- en leerprobleme in wiskunde. Dit geld in 'n veel groter opsig vir swart leerlinge as vir leerlinge uit ander bevolkingsgroepe. Verskeie moontlike redes vir hierdie verskynsel kan geïdentifiseer word, waaronder die feit dat swart leerlinge histories gesproke 'n beduidende ekonomiese en sosiale agterstand ten opsigte van ander leerlinge het. Faktore wat swart leerlinge se leer en onder…
Development of a Study Orientation Questionnaire in Mathematics
The Study Orientation Questionnaire: mathematics was developed for use with all South African pupils in secondary schools in South Africa. The statistical properties of the questionnaire for a sample in which all children in Grades 8 to 11 in secondary schools in South Africa were represented, are briefly described. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire, as well as the intercorrelations between the fields, are demonstrated. Norm table…
The Cosatu Participatory Democratic Tradition and South Africa's New Parliament
COSATU, The Congress of South African Trade Unions, has a participatory democratic tradition on the shopfloor that dates back to the emergence of some of its constituent unions in the 1970s. In fact, an ethic developed among members that the unions ought to be democratic. By 1994, when South Africa underwent a major political transformation and the African National Congress came to power with the support of COSATU, the question arose whether the …
Difference in Orientation towards Studying Mathematics of South African High School Students
The Study Orientation Questionnaire in Mathematics was developed as a diagnostic measure for teachers and counsellors to help students improve their orientation towards the study of mathematics and consequently achieve at a higher level. During the standardisation 60 students from all children in secondary schools in South Africa were administered the provisional questionnaire. Analysis showed students whose mother tongues were African languages …
Diverse Thinking-Style Preferences in a University Course in Mathematics
At the University of Pretoria during 1999 the thinking-style preferences of three groups of students (ns = 50, 31, and 13) taking a first course in calculus were assessed using the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument. Analysis affirmed diversity in thinking-style preferences among the students and that the groups' scores represent a composite range of such preferences. Clearly, teachers of mathematics should be aware of and accommodate this diver…
Career Practice Implications of Finalist Education Students' Personality Type Preference
The personality type of 116 finalist education students at the University of Pretoria was assessed over a two-year period, using the Jung Personality Questionnaire (JPQ). The main goal of this article is to establish the natural preferences of these students and to help them understand how their preferences relate to their career exploration. Students' type preferences and their specified career type according to typology literature are indicated…
Assessment of Thinking Style Preferences and Language Proficiency for South African Students Whose Native Languages Differ
Assessment of Thinking Style Preferences and Language Proficiency for South African Students whose Native Languages Differ
The language proficiency of first-year students at the University of Pretoria (56 men and 59 women, M age=19.40 yr., SD=.80, range from 18.00 to 20.70) was assessed by means of the English Language Skills Assessment. More than one-third of the students did not show proficiency at Grade 10, as expected. This language assessment was not correlated with academic achievement equally well for students in a group. The diversity of thinking style prefer…
Predicting Success among First-Year Engineering Students at the Rand Afrikaans University
160 first-year students in the Engineering Faculty at the Rand Afrikaans University completed the Study Orientation Questionnaire in Mathematics and the Senior Aptitude Test Advanced. 100 students who passed and 40 who failed the first year scored significantly differently on three subtests, Calculations, Study attitude in mathematics, and Problem-solving behaviour in mathematics. Step-wise linear regression showed a combination of three fields, …
Predicting Success Among First-Year Engineering Students at the Rand Afrikaans University
Determining Selection Criteria for South African Dentistry Students
The aim of this study was to determine selection criteria for prospective dentistry students at the University of Pretoria. A study of the relevant literature was undertaken, and experts at universities in South Africa and Britain were interviewed. A job analysis questionnaire was used to identify the relevant job requirements that could serve as selection criteria. Potential selection criteria that were identified include physical potential (e.g…
A Study Orientation Questionnaire in Mathematics for Use in a Tertiary Environment
The Study Orientation Questionnaire in Mathematics Tertiary is being developed as a diagnostic measure for South African lecturers and counselors to help students improve their orientation toward the study of mathematics. In this pilot study subjects were freshman black students registered for the Five-year Study Programme in the School of Engineering at the University of Pretoria. During the first phase of the standardisation in 2000, 33 student…
A Study Orientation Questionnaire in Mathematics for Use in a Tertiary Environment
The Emotional Intelligence Profile of Academics in a Merger Setting
In the past perceived cognitive potential, more than any other factor, was viewed as a predictor for a stable life and future success. The concept of “emotional intelligence” (EI), however, provides a useful instrument to describe the intricate configuration of interrelated factors that play a role in predicting a person’s success in life. Using the merger between the former Pretoria Teacher’s Training College and the University of Pretoria as a …
Achievement in Mathematics in Grades 9 and 11 in Limpopo Province of South Africa
800 students in Grades 9 and 11 of schools in the Central Region of the Limpopo Province of South Africa completed the Study Orientation Questionnaire in Mathematics. Mean age in Grade 11 was 17.5 yr. (SD = 1.4) and in Grade 9 15.1 yr. (SD = 1.2). Intervention was aimed at teachers and students in this group. Teachers in the trained group received training in a problem-based approach to teaching and learning in mathematics and introduced these pr…
Mathematics Skills of Tswana-Speaking Learners in the North West Province of South Africa
Inadequate achievement in mathematics frequently occurs especially amongst black learners, and the problem is assuming critical proportions. Tswana learners in the Mafikeng area find themselves in an educational situation that does not always promote optimal actualisation of their personal potential. One possible outcome of this situation is inadequate achievement in mathematics. The aim of this study is, inter alia, the exploration of the Tswana…
The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Human Modeling Therapy given to a Youth with Bipolar Disorder
This article deals with the impact of emotional intelligence on human modeling therapy that is used as a point of departure. Human modeling therapy is a creative therapeutic technique during which something new is created from material that already exists. The possible relationship between emotional intelligence and creativity made human modeling and creativity a suitable form of therapy for the purposes of this study. The BarOn EQ-i: YVTM was us…
Exploring facilitation skills in transdisciplinary teamwork
This article describes the facilitation skills relevant to asset-based transdisciplinary team collaboration within an Early Childhood intervention social setting in rural KwaZulu-Natal. The authors describe the conceptual framework of the underlying study, the methodology and the findings, the facilitation skills that have been identified, and the attitudes, values, knowledge and complimentary approaches that were deemed necessary by the particip…
Measuring Emotional Intelligence in English and in the Native Language of Students in South Africa
Measuring Emotional Intelligence in English and in the Native Language of Students in South Africa
800 students in Grades 9 and 11 from schools in the Sekhukhuneland, Nebo, and Apel regions of the Limpopo Province of South Africa completed the English and the Pedi version of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory in 2004 after the test was translated into Pedi language. Although there was some consistency between the answers to the same item in the two languages, it was low in general. Nuance differences in meaning probably contributed to the…
Development of a Post-Modern Career Interest Questionnaire for South-African School Settings
The study explored the potential value and viability of an interest narrative (questionnaire) in terms of its psychometric properties and by comparing it with a commonly administered (positivist) career interest questionnaire. Participants were 159 boys and 183 girls, mean ages were 17.87 (males) and 17.41 (girls), SD (males) = 1.63, SD (females) = 1.70. In the first phase, four provinces were selected purposively: one urban and three rural or se…
A Pedi Translation of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory
The Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory was translated into Pedi, and then submitted to an expert in Pedi to check the language before being administered to 30 Grade 9 Pedi first-language students to identify potentially vague instructions and/or items. 800 students in Grades 9 and 11 in schools in the Sekhukhuneland, Nebo and Apel regions of the Limpopo Province of South Africa completed the English and Pedi versions of the inventory in 2004. Th…
Metacognition in the Learning of Mathematics in the Senior Phase
An investigation into metacognition in the learning of mathematics in the senior phase.3 South African learners' inadequate achievement in mathematics is a source of concern. This is especially the case since mathematics is regarded as a vital life skill in the postmodern, technologically sophisticated era. The concept “metacognition” is referred to both directly and indirectly in the Critical Outcomes4 in Curriculum 20055—most of the outcomes me…
How Children Experience the Assets that Support their Learning
The study, on which this article is based, explored the ways in which primary school children in an urban (city centre) setting experience the assets and resources that support their learning. The researchers used a qualitative phenomenological research design incorporating an interpretive and constructivist perspective. The study was conducted in a primary school in Tshwane, Gauteng province, South Africa. The participants were eight African fem…
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