Independent Projects Trust
Our
Work With Schools
Since our early beginnings in April 1990, a substantial portion of our work has always been within the education sector. A history of this work can be found in our 2001 Ten Year Review. Over this time our work has constantly evolved with a continuous thread which involved the provision of information, training and facilitation around numerous issues such as.
- Mediation, conflict management and peace education,
- Co operative learning and participative school management,
- School safety and security
- HIV / Aids interventions.
One of our areas of special interest is whole school development and we have provided training, material and facilitation in order to assist schools in developing safe environments in which learning can occur. Over the last few years funding for work in schools has decreased substantially and we have reduced our work in this area. However we continue to strongly believe that Safe Schools are a pre requisite for a democratic and safe South Africa!
To this end we continue to host a Safe Schools Website.
You can also complete an online questionnaire to measure your School Safety Rating.
In the past projects have included:
CASS
- Community Alliance for Safe Schools
Schools Management Training (which includes
Schools
Management Briefings)
Character Building in Schools Project Teenagers
Action Aids Project Schools
Trauma Action Group Children
Against BullyingIPT Publications and Research Articles
Protect
Your School from Violence & Crime: Guidelines* 'These Guidelines are in Adobe Acrobat format'
Protecting
Your School from Violence & Crime : 1999/2000An evaluation of a one year pilot project conducted in three schools in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Protecting
Your School from Violence & Crime : 2000/2001An evaluation of the second phase of a pilot project designed to measure the impact on a greater range of schools in a variety of areas (in PDF format)
Other publications which may be of interest are also available:
Curriculum
2005 - Changes in the Education System
Doing
the Right Thing - IPT, Effective Schools and Education for Democracy
Children
at Risk: The Security Situation in Durban Schools
An
Audit of Crime and Violence in Durban Schools 1998
A Literature Review of Interventions and Programmes dealing with Youth
Violence in Urban Schools in South Africa July 1999
Crimes
I have seen : Article
The
Impact of Violence on High School Learners in the Durban Area
The
Strengths Perspective : Family Resource Centres as a medium for Crime
Prevention and Reduction in Schools
Several archival issues of insight @ ipt,
a previous web based publication, have also focussed on issues within
the education sector. Education Resources and Training
Material
Peace Begins
With Me : Training Aid
Conflict Busters
: A Conflict Resolving Pocket Book
All
* Marked articles are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
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