Learning to manage workplace stress as practiced by teachers at three under-resourced Western Cape High Schools

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dc.contributor.advisorHendricks, Mohamed Natheem
dc.contributor.authorAhrendse, Godfrey Charles Franklin John
dc.contributor.otherNULL
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Education
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-13T11:48:01Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-12T08:09:47Z
dc.date.available2010/02/11 01:17
dc.date.available2010/02/11
dc.date.available2014-02-13T11:48:01Z
dc.date.available2024-04-12T08:09:47Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.descriptionMagister Educationis - MEden_US
dc.description.abstractThe focus of the study is the teacher in the under-resourced schools in the townships of the Western Cape. The purpose is to discover how teachers learn to cope under adverse working conditions. In a systematic way, we try to uncover what workplace stress is, how it is defined and manifests itself. It also deals with the specific reasons why teachers in South Africa, and especially in poorer schools on the Cape Flats, suffer such heavy stress. A convenient way to examine issues of stress was to approach it from different angles or levels: the classroom level, the staff/relationship level, the organizational level and the Departmental (Governmental) level. At these levels the causes, manifestations and solutions to workplace stress were researched. A qualitative study was done to ascertain first hand from the experiences of affected teachers themselves, how they learnt to cope, how this learning came about and what the specific methods or strategies are which they employ to deal effectively with stress. The study concludes with a general summary of the most salient coping strategies that seem to work for most teachers. Recommendations to address stress at the four levels mentioned are finally made.en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/10547
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectWorkplace stressen_US
dc.subjectSources of stressen_US
dc.subjectRationalizationen_US
dc.subjectProgrammeen_US
dc.subjectStress reactionsen_US
dc.subjectCoping strategiesen_US
dc.subjectWorkplace learningen_US
dc.subjectExperiential learningen_US
dc.subjectOrganisational learningen_US
dc.subjectCommunity of Practiceen_US
dc.subjectInterpretivismen_US
dc.titleLearning to manage workplace stress as practiced by teachers at three under-resourced Western Cape High Schoolsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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