Socio-educational experiences of black accounting III students who dropped out of the University of Fort Hare in 2009

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dc.contributor.advisorMaxakato, Pamellaen
dc.contributor.authorMorrison, Renee Fionaen
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-14T01:44:43Z
dc.date.available2026-08-14T01:44:43Z
dc.date.issued2011en
dc.description.abstractIn South Africa there is an increasing concern regarding retention among Black students (who constitute the majority of the population) in general and in particular regarding the costs of student failure to both the students and for the institution. This thesis endeavours to obtain an understanding of the socio-educational experiences which led to Black Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting Students in 2009 dropping out of Accounting III at the University of Fort Hare. In a field in which much of the literature is quantitatively orientated, a phenomenological investigation offered a unique way of understanding the experiences of the students as it allowed their voices to be heard. Insights contained in the data were synthesised and integrated into a consistent description of the essential nature of the experience, the primary endeavour of the phenomenologist being to transform naïve experience into more explicitly detailed conceptual knowledge. The use of in-depth interviews with three students, all of whom had dropped out of Accounting III at UFH, allowed the researcher interaction on a personal level with people not viewed as experimental objects but as human subjects. The findings revealed that the students‘ social and educational background, together with the language of teaching and learning not being their mother tongue, caused students great difficulty. Interaction between lecturers and students and the subject content proved very challenging due to the language barrier. The introduction of General Accounting III in the same class as Accounting III in 2009 compounded the students‘ confusion and this ultimately led to students feeling demotivated. These findings contributed significantly to an understanding of why these three students dropped out of Accounting III in 2009, and at the same time provided an answer to the research question relating to how Black students who dropped out of the Accounting III programme in 2009, experienced the course.en
dc.format187 leaves; 30 cmen
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dc.identifier.citationMorrison, Renee Fiona. 2011en
dc.identifier.othervital:16200en
dc.identifier.otherhttp://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1013384en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/4733
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherUniversity of Fort Hareen
dc.publisherFaculty of Educationen
dc.rightsUniversity of Fort Hareen
dc.titleSocio-educational experiences of black accounting III students who dropped out of the University of Fort Hare in 2009en
dc.title.alternativeSocio-educational experiences of black accounting III students who dropped out of the University of Fort Hare in 2009en
dc.typeThesisen
dc.typeMastersen
dc.typeM Eden

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