Educational Support for Pregnant and Parenting Schoolgirls in Rural South African School Settings

Autor/inn/en	Mathebula, Rifumuni Nancy; Runhare, Tawanda; Mafumo, Thinavhudzulo Norman
Titel	Educational Support for Pregnant and Parenting Schoolgirls in Rural South African School Settings
Quelle	In: Issues in Educational Research, 32 (2022) 2, S.593-612 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mathebula, Rifumuni Nancy) ORCID (Runhare, Tawanda)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-7155
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Pregnant Students; Pregnancy; Mothers; High Schools; Intervention; School Personnel; High School Teachers; High School Students; Educational Policy; Access to Education; Student Participation; Program Evaluation; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Studium mit Kind; Schwangerschaft; Mother; Mutter; High school; Oberschule; Schulpersonal; High schools; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Teenage pregnancy and motherhood are among the major causes of gender inequality in education in the contemporary global community. This study sought to examine the effectiveness of interventions in redressing the negative effects of schoolgirl pregnancy on teaching and learning at four high schools that experienced high rates of schoolgirl pregnancy in a rural setting in Limpopo Province, South Africa. A case study design and qualitative research methods were used to collect and process data. Purposive sampling was employed to select 20 members of the school governing body (SGB), 4 school management team (SMT) members, 8 pregnant-monitoring teachers, 8 class teachers and 8 schoolgirls who were either pregnant or parenting at the time of data collection. The main findings of the study were that pregnancy-monitoring teachers played roles that were beneficial to pregnant and parenting girls, there was a non-alignment between national policy and school guidelines on pregnant and parenting girls, and the four schools differed in the way they implemented national policy concerning schoolgirl pregnancy. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01