School-Based Programmes as a New Form of the Family for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Province of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As in many other parts of the world, South Africa is witnessing the emergence of new forms of the family that are replacing the traditional family where two adults of different gender fulfil socially constructed roles and responsibilities. The South African government has established a school-based programme to support Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in schools. The aim of this qualitative study was to determine the effectiveness of this programme within eThekwini Municipality in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal. The study found that the socioeconomic challenges associated with the escalating number of OVC are both structural and systemic with profound consequences. The school system fulfils the traditional role of the family by providing psychosocial care and support for OVC to build resilience; influencing family dynamics and calling for a re-think of the configuration and understanding of family. A conceptual framework is presented to foster a system which validates the school-based programme as a new form of the family for OVC. Ultimately, the changing function and structure of the family in contemporary society demonstrate that a paradigm shift is required to embrace the nexus between the school, family and community.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".