Tuntufye S Mwamwenda
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 227864 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tuntufye S Mwamwenda |
| PRENOMES | Tuntufye S |
| SOBRENOME | Mwamwenda |
| ASSINATURA | MWAMWENDA T S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Transkei |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Teachers' Gender Stereotypes in South Africa
The study investigated Teachers' gender stereotypes in the Eastern Province of South Africa. Participants were 65 Junior Secondary school teachers (females= 40 and males = 25) who assembled together at a seminar organized by the Department of Education. They completed a ten-statement questionnaire on gender stereotypes that would apply to school boys and girls. Data were analysed by means for differences in proportions endorsing stereotypes in re…
Reaction Paper
The content of this abstract is a reaction to the various articles appearing in this special section of the Journal of Psychology in Africa with a focus on the Psychology of Poverty in African countries. The articles deal with the psychology of poverty from different perspectives, as they impact on African children, men and women. Some of the topics covered are focussed on poverty and education, poverty and employment, poverty and marital relatio…
Motives for Choosing a Career in Teaching
The study investigated motives for teaching career entry by students (n= 232, males= 103, females= 129, mean age 23) at a large South African university. Data were collected using a career motives survey differentiating extrinsic, intrinsic and altruistic motivators. Extrinsic motivators scored higher than intrinsic or altruistic motivators. The motives advanced for teaching were in alignment with those reported in similar research carried out in…
Community Psychology and Quality of Life in Tanzania
The purpose of this study was to explore the status of community psychology and its contribution to the quality of life in Tanzania. The study was based on both literature review and interviews. First, social responses to problems such as malaria, food insecurity, domestic violence, environmental changes, and HIV/AIDS are discussed. This is followed by a report on the results of five face-to-face interviews of individuals working in the fields of…
Brief Report Job satisfaction in salary and promotion for secondary school teachers in Eastern Cape, South Africa
The focus of this study was to examine the extent to which secondary school teachers are satisfied with their salaries and the way they are promoted. The analysis of data was carried out by the use of percentage and a chi-square. The majority of teachers were of the view that either their salaries were satisfactory (48%) or they were too low (52%). On the question of promotion, more teachers were of the view that the promotion process was not fai…
Three Educational and Moral Questions regarding Aids among South African Education Students
Two objectives were explored: the extent to which undergraduates supported the admission to school of children with HIV, whether HIV sufferers were to blame for their illness, and AIDS was direct punishment from God. While 93 of 164 respondents did not think AIDS was punishment from God and 105 did not support exclusion of school children with AIDS, 75 and 49 held the opposite views, respectively. There was no conclusive support for whether HIV c…
Sex Differences in Mathematics Performance Among African University Students
Sex Differences in Mathematics Performance Among African University Students
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Sex Differences in Mathematics Performance among African University Students
This research yielded sex differences for first-year undergraduate students (30 men, 43 women) in a mathematics course. Women scored lower than men, as is consistent with other research
Aids Awareness Among South African Students
Rated Satisfaction with Salary and Promotion by Secondary School Teachers in Transkei
Among 114 secondary school teachers there was no significant difference between the 55 who were satisfied with their salary and the 59 who were not, but the difference was significant between 37 who were satisfied with promotion and 73 who were not. There was no sex difference for either measure
Aids Awareness among South African Students
The present study explored reported awareness of AIDS among third-year majors in education. The 71 men and 93 women had a mean age of 24.7 yr. (SD = 4.7 yr.). Those who were aware outnumbered those who were not
Conservation Skills among Preschool Children in Umtata, South Africa
To 41 boys and 29 girls (M age = 5.2 yr.) in a South African preschool a test of conservation of liquid was given. Analysis showed conservation skills had not been acquired as only 5 children showed such skills and only one knew why
Prevalence of Domestic Violence Reported by a Sample of South African Undergraduates
The purpose of this study was to examine reports of wife battery by 81 male and 138 female Xhosa-speaking undergraduates in Transkei, South Africa among neighbours and relatives. Only 32 of 219 subjects admitted having witnessed such behaviour by their parents; 43 indicated that they approved wife battery; and 94 did not consider it a matter to be brought to the attention of police. For 136 it was not a sufficient reason for seeking divorce
Cheating Among University of Transkei Students
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Conservation Skills Among Preschool Children in Umtata, South Africa
Cheating among University of Transkei Students
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which cheating in academic work occurs at this university. 58 participants registered for a postgraduate diploma in education responded to a questionnaire on cheating. Some students admitted engaging in every behaviour; however, the percentage of students so engaged was much lower than those reported among British and American institutions of higher learning. This may partly be attributed…
Prevalence of Domestic Violence Reported by a Sample of South African Undergraduates
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African University Students' Responses to Questions on Interracial Marriage
The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes of African university students towards interracial marriage. On whether they would choose a black or white person for marriage and whether their parents would approve their marrying a white person, most respondents (first-year undergraduates, 76 women and 63 men) preferred marrying a black person and indicated their parents would oppose their marrying a white person. Such findings were no sur…
African University Students' Responses to Two Questions About Interracial Dating
Do African Husbands Own Their Wives
75 graduate students [43 women ( M age, 37.2 yr.) and 32 men ( M age, 36.5 yr.)] registered for educational psychology were administered a questionnaire in which they were asked to express their views on whether the payment of bridewealth aspect of the marriage contract implies that the wife is a husband's property. 87 and 84% of both men and women (89% of those married and 80% of those single) disagreed with the view that bridewealth signifies t…
Personality Types of Education Majors in South Africa
Using Tyrer's categories, 44% of 138 women and 81 men Education majors were classified as a Fussy type of personality described as reliable, conscientious, punctual, authority-oriented, and meticulous. Such expected traits of personality were thought befitting a teacher
African University Students' Responses to Questions on Interracial Marriage
African University Students' Responses to Two Questions about Interracial Dating
To examine the view of African university students (76 women, 63 men) toward interracial dating. There was an overwhelming preference for dating black men and women; however, the difference in mean preference for kissing either a black or white person was nonsignificant
Personality Types of Education Majors in South Africa
School Facilities and Pupils' Academic Achievement
(1987). School Facilities and Pupils' Academic Achievement. Comparative Education: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 225-235
Teacher characteristics and pupils' academic achievement in Botswana primary education
Education in Southern Africa
Africans' cognitive development and schooling
Quality education in black schools of South Africa
Occupational Aspirations of Secondary School Students in Transkei
One of the main problems of secondary school students is the choice and acquisition of a profession. Many investigations in an African context on this subject have been done (Cassiers, et al., 1980). Our purpose was to identify the choices and preferred subjects for secondary school students in Transkei. W e asked in classrooms 161 representative pupils (76 girls and 85 boys) to answer two questions: What would you like .to do when you complete s…
Theoretical and Empirical Link between Psychological Differentiation and Extraversion
This study examined a relationship between psychological differentiation and extraversion and possible sex differences in performance. A significant curvilinear relationship was observed for boys only. Boys were more field independent and extraverted than girls. Subjects were 192 (109 girls and 83 boys), students in Grades 11 and 12 from private and public schools in Oshawa and Ottawa, Canada. Their mean age was 17.4 yr. Psychological differentia…
Significance and Rationale for Education in Early Childhood in Africa
To examine the theoretical and empirical evidence in support of education in early childhood both in the West and in the Third World Countries a brief account is given of the present state of education during early childhood in Africa. Comparatively early childhood education in Africa leaves much to be desired. By alerting the public to the importance of early childhood education as observed in Western countries, African countries and other devel…
Transkeian Students' Locus of Control and Academic Achievement
Whether the locus of control of Transkeian students enrolled in a teachers' programme is related to their academic performance and whether there is a sex difference in locus of control were explored. There were 148 subjects (72 women and 76 men), with mean ages of 21.6 yr. for women and 23.3 yr. for men. Rotter's Locus of Control scale was given and scores students obtained on tests and a final examination in an educational psychology course were…
School Facilities and Pupils' Academic Achievement
(1987). School Facilities and Pupils' Academic Achievement. Comparative Education: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 225-235
Formal Operational Thought among African and Canadian College Students
The purpose of this study was to examine evidence for formal operational thought among Canadian and African college students, drawn from Edmonton, Canada and Umtata, Transkei, South African, who were tested on propositional and proportional reasoning. Both Canadian and African students surpassed the 75% criterion for propositional reasoning, whereas only Canadians attained the 50% success criterion on proportional reasoning. There was a cultural …
Teacher characteristics and pupils' academic achievement in Botswana primary education
Sequence of Transitivity, Conservation, and Class Inclusion in an African Culture
To examine the order in which transitivity, conservation, and class inclusion emerge from a non-Western cultural perspective, two studies were carried out in Gaborone, Botswana, and in Botswana as a whole, involving 659 children in Standards (Grades) 2 and 3. In both studies the predominant sequence of emergence was transitivity, conservation, and class inclusion; this finding supports the existence of a decalage of the three concepts in a non-We…
Job mobility for graduates in Botswana
Various reasons have been given concerning the need for job mobility as an essential aspect in a job career. Some of these reasons are: matching workers with the number of jobs available, increasing income, boosting status and achieving job satisfaction. In the present study, we examined job mobility among graduates from the University of Botswana in southern Africa. It was found that the number of job-changes was related to the number of years s…
Vocational training, in-service courses and higher education for graduates in Botswana
In this paper we provide a theoretical perspective of higher education and employment, of programmes offered in institutions of higher learning and of the relationship between higher education and participation in the labour force. We also discuss the role of vocational training following graduation and then go on to examine the opportunities available for graduates in Botswana with regard to vocational training, in-service courses and higher edu…
Africans and Canadians
Eysenck developed a theory and an inventory for classifying people along a continuum as extraverts to introverts. When examined cross-culturally, no difference in personality was noted between 98 black South Africans and 192 Canadians (mean age 22.4 yr. and 17.4 yr., respectively). Statistically significant sex differences were observed between women and men within both Canadian and South African samples
Psychological Aspects of Sex Differences in Moral Reasoning
Psychologists, such as Freud, Piaget, and Kohlberg, have indicated that there are sex differences in moral reasoning of men and women. Generally men's moral reasoning is more advanced than that of women. This is attributed to various factors such as culture and over-all child-rearing practices which include greater expectation of men than of women. Despite this conclusion, it is doubtful whether some assessments of women's moral reasoning are acc…
Africans and Canadians
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Cognitive Styles and Moral Reasoning
Graduate Students' Moral Reasoning
Kohlberg's theory of moral development states that there are six stages of moral development acquired during childhood and adulthood. To estimate the level of 10 graduate students' development a moral judgement interview, Form A, was administered. Most of this small sample (7 women and 3 men) reasoned at Stage 4, although there were some responses at Stage 6, which, however, were not sufficient for most of these students to sustain the level
Graduate Students' Moral Reasoning
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Cognitive Styles and Moral Reasoning
It was hypothesized that field-dependent persons would be reasoning at the conventional level, whereas field-independent persons would reason at the post-conventional level. Data from 7 female and 3 male graduate students in Canada supported the first hypothesis (8 field-independent vs 2 field-dependent scorers), but not the second one
Psychological Aspects of Sex Differences in Moral Reasoning
Africans' cognitive development and schooling
Studies on Attainment of Higher Moral Reasoning
Kohlberg identified six stages in the moral reasoning of children and adults and indicated that older persons are more likely to show higher stages. An examination of some literature through 1991 suggests improved moral reasoning can be attained by an awareness of cognitive dissonance in challenging one's moral concepts. Also, the higher the stage the more a person is likely to behave in keeping with universal principles of justice
Moral Development and Behavior
Black South Africans and Canadians on Neuroticism as a Dimension of Personality
This study was done to assess gender and cultural differences on neuroticism as a dimension of personality among both Canadians and Black South Africans. No statistically significant cross-cultural differences were observed. However, statistically significant gender differences emerged among both Canadian and African men and women, with the latter scoring higher on neuroticism than the former
Studies on Attainment of Higher Moral Reasoning
Culture, Environment
Cross-cultural studies have suggested cultural and environmental influences in cognitive development. Such differences have been described as value free and do not imply that one group is better than another. In this paper such a stance is challenged as unrealistic
Moral Development and Behavior
The study of moral development as well as the relation of moral development and behavior has been of great interest to many over the past half a century. While some studies have shown no association between one's moral development and behavior, some evidence indicates level of moral reasoning influences behavior. Over 16 selected studies postconventional principles of justice are likely to be more prosocial and law-abiding than those appropriate …
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