Papers by Dr DAVISON MAKONDO
Education Quarterly Reviews, Dec 20, 2018
The Education Quarterly Reviews is an Open Access publication. It may be read, copied and distrib... more The Education Quarterly Reviews is an Open Access publication. It may be read, copied and distributed free of charge according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The Asian Institute of Research Education Quarterly Reviews is a peer-reviewed International Journal. The journal covers scholarly articles in the fields of education, linguistics, literature, educational theory, research, and methodologies, curriculum, elementary and secondary education, higher education, foreign language education, teaching and learning, teacher education, education of special groups, and other fields of study related to education. As the journal is Open Access, it ensures high visibility and the increase of citations for all research articles published. The Education Quarterly Reviews aims to facilitate scholarly work on recent theoretical and practical aspects of Education.
World Journal of Education, Oct 25, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of child abuse on the academic performan... more The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of child abuse on the academic performance of primary school learners in the Manzini Region of Swaziland. The study was qualitative in nature and utilised the phenomenological research design. The target population were the abused learners from the Manzini primary schools. Data were collected from 15 abused learners and their class teachers in four schools. The critical case purposive sampling method was used to select these schools. Thus, only those schools that had abused learners were selected.Semi-structured interviews focus group discussion and document analysis were used to collect data. The findings showed that a majority of the abused learners underperformed as a result of abuse andbecame suspiciousof every person around them and this had a negative bearing to their academic performance. Some became antisocial and adopted a misdirected rancorous attitude to everyone around them. Thus in the main, the study concludes that child abuse affects the academic performance of learners at primary school level. Based on the findings, the study recommends that the stakeholders; parents, school administrators and teachers included, should work hand-in-hand in handling abused learners in order to help them overcome their challenges and improve theiracademic performance and social life. In addition to that, the relevant ministries (Police, Child and Social Welfare and the Ministry of Education and Training) should assist in curbing child abuse at grassroots level.
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2017
Studies have revealed that for the past four years a huge number of the grade seven learners in t... more Studies have revealed that for the past four years a huge number of the grade seven learners in the Shiselweni region of Swaziland have performed extremely badly in the external examination compared to its counterparts, the Hhohho, Manzini and Lubombo regions. This study aims to investigate the perceptions of primary school teachers on the causes of high failure rate at grade seven level in the Shiselweni region of Swaziland. The study was qualitative with a phenomenological approach. Participants were 12 teachers representing grade seven teachers (n=6) and school principals (n=6). Data were collected through in-depth interviews, focus groups and documents analysis. The major research findings revealed that the causes of the high failure rate was not a single factor but a multiple of factors from the home environment, the school environment, the teachers, the pupils and as well as the parental factors. The findings of the study concluded that environmental factors, teacher factors, pupils factors and parental factors are the causes of high failure rate at Grade seven level in the Shiselweni region of Swaziland. It was recommended that the Ministry of Education should organise in-service workshop for teachers on the importance of educational policies. The teachers should be equipped with pedagogical competences to improve the academic performance of the pupils.
International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, May 2, 2017
The study sought to explore the prevalence and societal influence on drug and substance abuse amo... more The study sought to explore the prevalence and societal influence on drug and substance abuse among secondary school going teenagers in the Shiselweni region of Swaziland. Exploratory sequential mixed method research design was employed. Focus group discussions with 35 learners who were drug and substance abusers were selected using snowball sampling. In-depth interviews with four principals of the selected schools were done to generate qualitative data and these were selected using the criterion purposive sampling method. The generated qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis and were used to form items of a questionnaire given to 200 randomly selected students for quantitative data. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics, frequencies, mean and standard deviation. The study revealed that drug and substance abuse was prevalent among teenage learners and the society was encouraging drugs and substances abuse. A programme to deal with abuse problems was recommended.
This research investigates the effects of child abuse on academic performance of primary school p... more This research investigates the effects of child abuse on academic performance of primary school pupils’ in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State. Specifically, the study tried to; identify the personal characteristics of pupils’ and teachers in public primary school in Kwande Local Government Area and investigate the effect of child abuse on pupils’ academic performance in primary school. In order to achieve these objectives, the following research questions were advanced; (i) what is the extent of the effect of child abuse on pupils’ assessment grades and academic performance?(ii) What is the extent of the effect of child abuse on pupils’ participation in class activities and academic performance? Two research hypotheses were also formulated in furtherance of the study; (i) Child abuse has no significant effects on pupils’ assessment grades and academic performance (ii) Child abuse has no significant effects on pupils’ participation in class activities and academic performanc...
UNESWA Journal of Education (UJOE), Oct 8, 2020
I declare that, 'The Effects of The Language of Instruction on the Performance of the Tsonga (Sha... more I declare that, 'The Effects of The Language of Instruction on the Performance of the Tsonga (Shangani) Speaking Grade Seven Pupils In Zimbabwe", hereby submitted to the University of Limpopo, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Psychology has not previously been submitted by me for a degree at this or any other university; that it is my work in design and execution, and that all material contained herein has been duly acknowledged. Makondo D Dr.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of occupational stress on the provision ... more The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of occupational stress on the provision of quality service in Manzini primary schools of Eswatini. The study was qualitative in nature and utilised the phenomenological research design. Data were collected from seven teachers, four principals and 16 learners in four primary schools using interviews, observations and document analysis. Findings from the study indicated that primary school teachers mainly conceptualized occupational stress as the emotional strain they suffered due to work related challenges. The study showed that teachers exhibited stress through absenteeism, headache, anger, and aggression directed learners and to other stakeholders. The study established that work related stress negatively interfered with the provision of quality service. Consequently, the participants reported that they were truant, vented their anger by being violence to the learners and were less committed to their professional responsibili...
World Journal of Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of child abuse on the academic performan... more The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of child abuse on the academic performance of primaryschool learners in the Manzini Region of Swaziland. The study was qualitative in nature and utilised thephenomenological research design. The target population were the abused learners from the Manzini primary schools.Data were collected from 15 abused learners and their class teachers in four schools. The critical case purposivesampling method was used to select these schools. Thus, only those schools that had abused learners wereselected.Semi-structured interviews focus group discussion and document analysis were used to collect data. Thefindings showed that a majority of the abused learners underperformed as a result of abuse andbecame suspiciousofevery person around them and this had a negative bearing to their academic performance. Some became antisocialand adopted a misdirected rancorous attitude to everyone around them. Thus in the main, the study concludes thatchild ...
This study was an endeavor to investigate the effects of the use of unfamiliar/foreign languages ... more This study was an endeavor to investigate the effects of the use of unfamiliar/foreign languages as mediums of instruction (English and Shona), to teach Tsonga (Shangani) speaking children in Chiredzi south district of Zimbabwe. Because of the nature of the study, quantitative methods were adopted to study the performance of the Tsonga (Shangani) language speaking learners in five purposively sampled schools. Two hundred and twenty two (222) learners participated in the study. The main aim of the researcher was to find out whether teaching learners in a foreign or unfamiliar language was a bridge or barrier to learning. In this case, the research did not only look at the effect of using English for instructional purposes, but also investigated how the so calledmajor or dominant indigenous languages which are used for instructional purposes in schools, affected the academic performance of Tsonga (Shangani) language speaking children in Chiredzi district of Zimbabwe. Data for this stu...
Education Quarterly Reviews, 2018
The Education Quarterly Reviews is an Open Access publication. It may be read, copied and distrib... more The Education Quarterly Reviews is an Open Access publication. It may be read, copied and distributed free of charge according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The Asian Institute of Research Education Quarterly Reviews is a peer-reviewed International Journal. The journal covers scholarly articles in the fields of education, linguistics, literature, educational theory, research, and methodologies, curriculum, elementary and secondary education, higher education, foreign language education, teaching and learning, teacher education, education of special groups, and other fields of study related to education. As the journal is Open Access, it ensures high visibility and the increase of citations for all research articles published. The Education Quarterly Reviews aims to facilitate scholarly work on recent theoretical and practical aspects of Education.
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