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The history of SASE

The Southern African Society for Education (SASE) was founded by academics in faculties of education of the first three historically black (only African) universities of the erstwhile apartheid South Africa way back in 1971.  The main objective of this initiative was to create an academic forum for academics in these institutions from which they could debate academic and professional issues that impacted on them and their clientele and the South African educational agenda of the time.  The institutions involved or founder members were:  the University of Fort Hare; the University of Zululand and the University of the North. Read more..>

PERCEIVED CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS OF TEACHER STRESS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF MASVINGO URBAN PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS.

By

DENHERE CHRISTMAS

MASVINGO STATE UNIVERSITY

Email:chridenhere2003@yahoo. co. uk

ABSTRACT

The study utilized the phenomenological approach to investigate the causal attributions of stress among Masvingo Urban Primary School teachers. A sample of ten teachers was used in the study, which yielded the results that:The teachers conceived their profession as stressful.

The teachers attributed psychological stress pervading their profession to, inter alia, poor salary (mean=5), over workload (mean=4), time pressure (mean=3.5), teaching large classes (mean=3), supervision (mean=2.5) and curriculum change (mean=2)

The implications of the results for education and further research are discussed.