Tawanda Runhare's research while affiliated with University of Venda and other places

... Prior to COVID-19 school closures, South Africa had achieved near universal school enrollment, and secondary school attendance was at 90%, with notable gender parity (StatsSA, 2019;Shepherd and Mohohlwane, 2021). However, even before the pandemic, school completion rates remained poor; with approximately half of a given cohort entering grade 1 projected to not complete grade 12 and attain their National Senior Certificate/"Matric" (similar to a high school diploma), the majority of whom are from poor areas and vulnerable to numerous barriers to education (Weybright et al., 2017;Hall, 2018;StatsSA, 2019;Runhare et al., 2021). Despite completion of grade nine being compulsory in South Africa, in 2018 only 70% of adolescents aged 16-17 years attained their grade nine certificate, and 90.2% of 19-21 year olds, meaning around 60% of young South Africans effectively drop out of school, with no school-leaving qualification; there is considerable variation across provinces, household income quantiles and population groups (Hartnack, 2017;Hall, 2018;StatsSA, 2019). ...

... Like all other adolescents, pregnant female students face the same challenges as other students because they are students first and expectant mothers second. Unfortunately, pregnant female students are treated with hostility, stigma, and ridicule by both teachers and their peers, which reduces their motivation to learn [18]. These and other difficulties increase the likelihood of school dropout among this target group. ...

... There are contradictions in the literature, about how social relations are taught in schools, (Ebrahim, 2017). These possess psychological traits like shame, humiliation, and damaged self-worth, (Mathebula & Runhare, 2021). Special attention should be paid to these undesirable results. ...

... However, a study conducted by Nkabinde (2007) found that teachers failed to adopt available alternative methods to corporal punishment when disciplining learners because most of them still held that corporal punishment was the most suitable way of dealing with learners' ill-behaviour. A recent study by Mathebula et al. (2021) observed that corporal punishment or physical abuse of learners is still reported in South African schools. ...

... A study by Najoli et al., (2019) established that, forbidding of the cane undermined discipline in schools. The study found out that cases of indiscipline in schools were on the increase after corporal punishment was withdrawn. ...

... Overview Natural hazards can claim children's life or leave them deprived of their right to quality education and adversely affect their future development process (Bhebhe, Runhare, and Monobe 2019;Mudavanhu 2015). Some of the frequently occurring natural hazards and their adverse effects on school education are highlighted in the three subsequent sections. ...

... Ralph, Foster, Barar & Rocca, (2020) also explains that a teenage pregnancy victim may have unwillingly become pregnant after being coerced into sex by means of physical force, economic background or peer pressure. The father may be a schoolboy, a teacher, a man old However, studies by Tsebe (2010), Runhare and Vandeyar (2012) and Malahlela (2012) only highlights effects of teenage pregnancies on education and emotional strength of a child but not how counselling types are effective in managing the pregnancies. Therefore, it would be important to assess the effectiveness of counselling types in management of teenage pregnancies in secondary schools. ...

... From 1987, Zimbabwe operated as a one-party state. Consequently, ZANU-PF as the liberatory party was challenged in 2000 by the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (hereinafter MDC), which quickly gained support as it offered the majority disgruntled urban dwellers, working class and academia a political alternative (Dzimiri et al. 2014). In response ZANU-PF deployed its youth militias, veterans of the liberation war and the army to orchestrate violence against the MDC and its supporters. ...

... Educators are not well equipped with the necessary skills to provide sex education, which makes it difficult for the government to decide to introduce it. In South Africa, a lack of sex education from parents and at school hinders the academic achievement of girls who have become teen mothers (Mudau, Mutshaeni, & Runhare, 2015). Lack of parental support is also a major issue. ...

... Another concept that comes into focus with regard to the debate on Civic Education is what has been described by Runhare and Muvirimi (2017) as authentic Citizenship Education. By Authentic Citizenship Education or education for democracy the aim is to predispose and develop students' skills, attitudes, beliefs and values that will empower them to participate and remain engaged and involved in their society's culture, politics, governance and general democracy. ...