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  • Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams. Learning Guide: Unit 3 - Care for vulnerable learners

    In Unit 3 we place the spotlight on learners and investigate what we mean by vulnerable learners, what challenges they face, and why the school can be such a powerful and positive influence in their lives. We hope that deeper insight into the plight of vulnerable learners will motivate you and your management team to put in place simple information gathering system that enables you to... more

  • Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams. Learning Guide: Unit 2 - Schools as centres of care.

    In Unit 2 we start off by examining relevant policies and guidelines dealing with education issues relating to HIV and AIDS in the South African context and probe the reasons for the gap between policy and practice. We reflect on three case studies that show what some schools are doing to provide care and support for vulnerable learners. These scenarios act as a stimulus for creating a... more

  • Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams. Learning Guide: Unit 1 - How responsive are schools to the socio-economic challenges in South Africa today?

    In this first Unit we reflect on the role that schools are expected to play in society and what the impact is of socio-economic issues like HIV and AIDS, poverty and violence on schools. Are schools doing enough to respond constructively to these social challenges? Your first response may well be that the focus of the school must be on teaching and learning and that social issues must be... more

  • Creating a Caring School: Learning Guide Notes and References

    This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit. The guide is intended to assist school leadership and management to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to be just a 'how to' manual of tips. Yet the resource as a whole is at the same time intended to be relevant at all times to the context and practice of the... more

  • Creating a Caring School: Learning Guide Introduction

    This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit. The guide is intended to assist school leadership and management to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to be just a 'how to' manual of tips. Yet the resource as a whole is at the same time intended to be relevant at all times to the context and practice of the... more

  • Creating a Caring School: Learning Guide Cover

    This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit. The guide is intended to assist school leadership and management to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to be just a ?how to? manual of tips. Yet the resource as a whole is at the same time intended to be relevant at all times to the context and practice of the... more

  • Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams Learning Guide

    This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit. The guide is intended to assist school leadership and management to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to be just a 'how to' manual of tips. Yet the resource as a whole is at the same time intended to be relevant at all times to the context and practice of the... more

  • Creating People Centred Schools: Experiences of a school-based reform initiative

    This audiotape is linked to Creating People Centred Schools learning guide, but carries debates which could also be used in a free-standing way by anyone interested in school organization and change. more

  • Creating People Centred Schools: Schools as organization and Schools as community approaches

    This audiotape is linked to Creating People Centred Schools learning guide, but carries debates which could also be used in a free-standing way by anyone interested in school organization and change. more

  • Creating People Centred Schools: Taking account of traditional ways of learning in Africa

    This audiotape is linked to Creating People Centred Schools learning guide, but carries debates which could also be used in a free-standing way by anyone interested in school organization and change. more

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