Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om det sydafrikanska skolväsendet bygger på teorierom det individuella lärandet. Undersökningen genomförs med tre metoder, en textanalys avläroplanen, intervjuer av lärare i Sydafrika och observationer av undervisning i ensydafrikansk skola. Resultatet är att det finns vissa spår av individuellt lärande i läroplanen,hos lärarnas svar och i viss undervisning. I diskussionen kommer jag fram till att även om detfinns frön av individuellt lärande i den sydafrikanska skolan så är det inte tillräckligt för attsäga att hela det sydafrikanska skolväsendet bygger på tankar om det individuella lärandet.Nyckelord: Individuellt lärande, Lärstilar, Revised National Curriculum StatementGrades R-9, Sydafrika. / The purpose of this essay is to investigate whether or not the South African school systempredicates upon theories of individual learning. The investigation is carried out using threemethods, a textual analysis of the Curriculum, interviews with South African teachers andclassroom observations. The resulat is that there are some traits of individual learning in thecurriculum, in the answers of the teachers and in some of the education. In my conclusivediscussion I find that even if there are some traces of individual learning in the South Africanschool system it is not enough to say that the South African school system predicates upontheories of individual learning.

Masters in Public Administration - MPA / Within the field of secondary education in South Africa there is currently a major crisis over learners’ poor academic achievement. This is a challenge to all roleplayers,especially the high failure and drop-out rates in Grades 10 and 11. In this study the problem of grade progression and promotion in Outcomes- Based Education (OBE) in a mixed low, middle and working-class school is addressed. The main question arising from this problem concerns the high promotion and low retention rates at the school. The central focus in this thesis is the understanding of grade progression and promotion on the part of Grade 10 educators. Thus this study investigates the implementation of grade progression and promotion, through observation as to how the actual practices and methods of educators and their Senior Management Team influence this process. Furthermore, the consequences for Grade 10 learners of the practices associated with grade progression and promotion are examined. This includes an analysis of educators’ opinions and how their practices of grade progression and promotion have affected or disadvantaged the learning process.This research is conceptualized in the domain of social, post-structural and constructivist theory, which provides a meaningful framework to help understand and explain educators’ multiple perceptions in the classroom. The study starts by exploring whether a poor socio-economic environment has a direct influence on activities in schools. This study also examines whether a poor socio-economic environment contributes to a dysfunctional situation in the classroom and school environment, which unintentionally influences the grade progression and promotion sessions. In addition, the study investigates and determines whether there is a disjuncture between policy (theory) and implementation (practice) when conducting grade progression and promotion. A qualitative research method was used in this study and a qualitative ethnographic design, influenced by an interpretivist framework, was adopted. Qualitative ethnographic techniques, such as observations, interviews and documents, were employed to collect relevant information for this study. Data was analyzed by using thematic narrative analysis to answer the dissertation questions. Ethical conduct and procedures were strictly observed.The results show that the socio-economic environment contributed to a dysfunctional condition in the school, which had a negative impact upon, and influenced the learning experience of, both educators and learners. The evidence revealed that the actual practices of educators and the school’s Senior Management Team during progression and promotion meetings were influenced by their subjective perceptions, attitudes and opinions. From this, the conclusion was reached that the progression, promotion or retention of learners resulted in positioning and labelling in the classroom, which might eventually lead to low motivation, weak performances and dropping-out. The significance of this study lies in the practical and academic value it holds for educators and other stakeholders. The findings, implications and recommendations can be used as a guide to provide solutions to problems and barriers which occur during grade progression and promotion in schools, and may offer opportunities for further investigation or study.

Published Article / With the dawn of the new curriculum in this country, namely, Curriculum 2005 (C2005) in 1997, and the Revised National Curriculum Statement (RNCS) in 2002, which are the two major curriculum policy developments in South Africa (Ramsuran & Malcolm, 2006:515), it invited an assortment of reactions from the entire education fraternity. The most obvious and extensive critique of the curriculum was that of the Report of the Ministerial Review Committee, which was established to review it in 2000. The approach adopted in this study is to encompass both processes of initial introduction and the revision stages in its reference to the curriculum. This article however, reveals that despite these implementation challenges, the overwhelming majority (88%) of the teachers have not only begun to embrace it, but are also applying the OBE principles in their lessons.

Published Aticle / This article reports on the experiences of Mathematics educators during the implementation of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) in Grades 10 - 12. The study is contained in five different, but educationally related constructs addressing training, problem areas which challenge or appeal to Mathematics educators, lesson planning, assessment strategies and the effective integration of OBE in the teaching of Mathematics. A mixed methods design was used, with data being collected and collated using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The quantitative data employed descriptive data analysis, while the qualitative data was analysed by identifying differences and similarities. The study revealed that educators differed in terms of the problems they encountered with implementing the NCS in Mathematics. They agreed, however, that the implementation was successful and that it contributed to better teaching.

The purpose of the study was to explore the implementation of the curriculum and assessment policy statements in the selected primary schools in Limpopo Province. An empirical investigation following qualitative approach was carried out to investigate the views of teachers from two primary schools in Capricorn District. Two curriculum advisors were interviewed as well as five teachers to find out their views and experiences on the CAPS training and implementation issues and challenges. The study confirms that teachers are not well prepared to meet the challenges of the CAPS. The time set aside for training is limited, the resources needed to support teachers and the implementation are inadequate and some of the trainers are not well prepared. The study recommends that the Department of Basic Education continues engaging with trainers, school management teams, teachers and learners and determine specific strategies, based on the school contexts, to improve the provision of training, resources and support to enable effective and efficient curriculum implementation. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / M. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)

The National Curriculum Statement argues that it takes all of the different components of the individual into account when attempting to educate each learner. It states that one of the goals of the National Curriculum Statement is to promote the “holistic development of learners”, and within this area to take each learner’s emotions into account. This is a bold statement that has many practical implications for the learner, the educator, and the lecturers in teacher training programmes. There appears to be very little guidance provided in the National Curriculum Statement or teacher training programmes with regards to how one should take the “holistic development of learners”, and specifically the emotions into account. For this reason, this research focuses on whether it is possible to prepare teachers to take the “whole child” into account, with particular reference to the emotional dimension of the learner. The research also focuses on whether educators in schools feel adequately prepared to look at the emotions, and what different factors come into play when attempting to look at the both the emotions and the “holistic development of learners”. In order to do this, the current research focuses on Life Orientation, since it appears to be the subject that is most able to deal with the cognitive, spiritual, physical social and emotional needs of the learners. With the purpose of achieving the abovementioned objectives, the researcher conducted a qualitative research study which involved the interviews of six Life Orientation Educators from six different public schools in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg; as well as three lecturers who lecture Life Orientation at the University of the Witwatersrand. The findings of this research report indicate that most of the educators and lecturers who participated in the research feel inadequately prepared to take the emotions, and the holistic development of learners, into account in the teaching /learning process. There are a number of reasons for this. First, many participants felt that both the emotions and holism are implied within the curriculum. However, the participants felt that there is not an explicit explanation for what these elements of the individual are. As a result of the lack of a coherent explanation of the different elements of the individual, the participants felt that it is difficult to teach the non-cognitive aspects of the individual. Second, because the emotions and holism are implicit rather than explicit, it was felt that there are no clear indications provided by the National Curriculum Statement, or in the Life Orientation courses or workshops on how it is possible to teach or assess the whole child, and the emotions specifically.

This Research Report critiques the English Home Language Literature setwork selection for the period 2009-2011 in terms of the National Curriculum Statement for English Home Language for Grades 10- 12 to establish whether there is consonance between policy and practice in this section of the syllabus and to determine whether the new national syllabus offers a traditional or a transformational approach to the subject. In order to do this, the National Curriculum Statement is analysed in terms of the principles and outcomes which it intends to be actualised in the study of English and selects those that seem applicable to literature studies. Questions are formulated encapsulating these principles and used as the tools to critique the new national literature syllabus both as regards its individual constituent parts and as regards the syllabus as a whole. A brief comparison between the current prescribed literature selection and setworks set from 1942 to the present day establishes whether the new syllabus has departed from old syllabus designs, whether it acknowledges the new target group of pupils in multiracial English Home Language classrooms by offering a revised, wider and more inclusive selection of novels, dramas, poems and other genres such as short stories, or whether it remains traditionally Anglocentric in conception. The conclusions reached are that although the setworks conform to the letter of the requirements set down in the NCS, the underlying spirit of transformation is not realised. The inclusion of some poets from Africa and South Africa is merely content addition to a Eurocentric core curriculum, a form of tokenism which does not reorientate the syllabus significantly or move it away from its traditional trajectory. The report suggests that literature of merit from both Africa and South Africa be included in every part of the syllabus so that it reflects in some degree the contributions that the continent makes to English literature, in this way including in its scope the interests and identities of the wide range of learners studying English Home Language in the South African context.

I denna studie behandlas ämnet skönlitteratur i svenskundervisning. Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur lärare i årskurs 4–6 resonerar kring och använder sig av skönlitteratur i svenskundervisning för att främja elevers läsförmåga. Frågeställningarna är följande: Hur beskriver lärare syftet med skönlitteratur i svenskundervisningen relaterat till styrdokument? Hur ges elever enligt lärare möjlighet att utveckla sin läsförmåga i arbete med skönlitteratur i svenskundervisning? Och slutligen: Hur beskriver lärare sin användning av skönlitteratur i svenskundervisning sett till möjligheter och begränsningar? Studien har sin utgångspunkt i det sociokulturella perspektivet. Materialet samlades in genom en kvalitativ metod där semistrukturerade intervjuer användes. Analys av material gjordes genom kodning för att finna mönster i deltagarnas resonemang. Resultatet visar att lärare är trygga i sin användning av skönlitteratur relaterat till styrdokument och har främst två syften med skönlitteratur i svenskundervisning: att inspirera elever till att läsa samt att utveckla språklig förmåga. Lärare använder aktiviteterna högläsning, boksamtal och tystläsning för att utveckla elevers läsförmåga. Resultatet visar även att lärares inställning till och kunskaper om skönlitteratur både kan möjliggöra och, men även begränsa arbetet med skönlitteratur. / This study considers the topic of fiction in Swedish teaching. The aim of the study is to investigate how teachers in grade 4-6 reason about and use fiction in Swedish teaching to promote students' reading ability. This will be answered by following questions: How do teachers describe the purpose of fiction in Swedish teaching related to the National Curriculum? How are pupils, according to teachers, given the opportunity to develop their reading skills in their work with fiction in Swedish teaching? And finally: How do teachers describe their use of fiction in Swedish lessons as regards opportunities and limitations? The study is based on the sociocultural perspective. The data was collected through a qualitative method using semi structured interviews. Analysis of data was done by coding to find interesting patterns in the participants’ reasoning. The result shows that teachers are competent in their use of fiction related to the National Curriculum and mainly have two purposes when teaching fiction in the Swedish classroom: to inspire pupils to read and to develop their linguistic ability. Teachers use a variety of activities, such as reading aloud, book talk and quiet reading to develop pupils’ reading ability. The result also shows that teachers' attitude and knowledge of fiction enables but also can limits their work with fiction

No final da década de 1990 o Ministério da Educação publicou uma série de documentos denominados Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (1997, 1998 e 1999), com o objetivo de promover a implementação ou reorientação curricular no Brasil. Este trabalho teve como objetivos, compreender como os professores de Educação Física ressignificam suas práticas educativas face às proposições dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, bem como, desvelar suas apropriações sobre as concepções da área, objetivos do componente, conteúdos de ensino, orientações didáticas e formas de avaliação propostos nesses documentos. Para tanto, foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica sobre os temas relacionados à prática dos professores de Educação Física após a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases 9.394/96 e Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, na qual foi retomado o contexto de elaboração desses documentos oficiais, bem como, desvelou-se o processo pelo qual dialogaram com as concepções de ensino da Educação Física. Posteriormente, foi realizada a análise documental dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais 3º e 4º ciclos Educação Física, a qual indicou proposições diferenciadas para as práticas pedagógicas dos professores quando comparadas àquelas historicamente construídas na área. A partir daí, foram eleitas quatro categorias que fundamentaram uma investigação etnográfica com professores atuantes no Ensino Fundamental. Os dados obtidos apontam para uma nova configuração das práticas em Educação Física escolar que passou a considerar conteúdos eleitos da cultura corporal e serem desenvolvidos nos seus aspectos conceitual, procedimental e atitudinal. A modificação no entendimento de avaliação nessa área de conhecimento também foi um fator importante, pois os participantes acenaram para uma concepção formativa integrada ao processo de ensino e aprendizagem, fato que se distancia dos simples testes físicos para mensurar e classificar alunos segundo padrões de desenvolvimento motor. A interpretação dos resultados permite constatar que as concepções e práticas dos professores investigados se aproximam com as proposições dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, o que pode ser traduzido como influência desencadeada. / At the end of the 1990 decade the Board of Education published a sequence of documents named National Curriculum Parameters (1997, 1998 e 1999), with the objective of promoting the implementation and reorientation of the curriculum in Brazil. This research established as objectives, to understand how the Physical Education teachers perceive their education practice facing the propositions of the National Curriculum Parameters, and enlighten their appropriations about the conceptions of the area, objectives of the discipline, teaching content, and didactic orientations and ways of assessment proposed in these documents. Therefore, a bibliographic review was prepared about the themes related to the practice of Physical Education teachers after the Lei de Diretrizes e Bases 9.394/96 and National Curriculum Parameters in which the context of elaboration of the official documentation was recovered, and also enlightened the process in which the Physical Education conceptions discussed. Afterwards the analyses of the National Curriculum Parameters documentation 3rd and 4th cycles Physical Education, in which different propositions were suggested to the teachers pedagogical practice when compared with those historically constructed in the area. From there, four categories were elected which based an ethnographic investigation with teachers performing in Ensino Fundamental. The data obtained point out to a new configuration of the Scholar Physical Education which began to consider the elected contents of the corporal culture and developed toward its conceptual, procedural and attitudinal aspects. The modification of the understanding of assessment in this area of knowledge was also an important point, because the participants signal toward a formative conception integrated to the learning and teaching process, fact that move away the simple physical tests to measure and classify students according to the motor developmental patterns. The interpretation of the results allow us to verify that the conceptions and practices of the teachers investigated get closer with the propositions of the National Curriculum Parameters, which it can be translated as a triggered influence.

Orientador: Alonso Bezerra de Carvalho / Banca: Divino José da Silva / Banca: Maria Silvia Simões Bueno / Resumo: A filosofia nos leva em sua radicalidade ao questionamento do que à primeira vista parece pueril, como criança que frente ao "óbvio" pergunta: o que é isto?! Partindo do pensamento filosófico colocamos a questão: O que é o humanismo? Tocar na questão do humanismo é, ao mesmo tempo, tocar naquilo que confere humanidade ao homem. Como duvidar do homem? Como duvidar da possibilidade humana? Indagações que não fazem sentido para o senso comum - ainda. Nietzsche (1987) ao anunciar a "morte de deus" "abriu" o caminho para que depois Foucault (1966) anunciasse a "morte do homem" e consigo a negação do humanismo e do sujeito. As crises que abalam a estrutura da sociedade contemporânea: crise da família, crise da escola, crise da educação, entre outras, adquire a forma de uma fórmula comum: "crise do homem". Não afirmamos que a educação deva se alinhar ao humanismo ou ao anti-humanismo, mas questionamos a postura do legislador que, de antemão, ao afirmar um humanismo, estabelece "verdades" sem a necessidade de justificativas por se tratar de um assunto óbvio. Mas qual a "obviedade" do humanismo? Assim, a centralidade de nossa pesquisa, repousou sobre a inquietante questão: qual o sentido do humanismo para as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para o Ensino Médio? A volta ao texto das Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para o Ensino Médio na tentativa de delinear definições do humanismo e de conceitos próximos a ele, como pessoa humana, sujeito, formação moral foi necessária, bem como o estabelecimento de ligações entre o documento analisado com as Leis de Diretrizes e Bases Nº 9394/96 com a Constituição Federativa do Brasil (1988). Para em seguida percebemos, então, que, quando confrontado com o humanismo da tradição filosófica, via Existencialismo ateu sartreano, a hermenêutica do discurso do humanismo... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: La Philosophie nous amène à le radicalisme dans leur interrogatoire que, à première vue, sembler puéril, comme les enfants qui face à la 'évidente' question: qu'est-ce que c'est? sur la base de la philosophie de poser la question: qu'est-ce que l'humanisme? Portant sur la question de l'humanisme est à la fois, jouant dans ce qui donne à l'humanité de l'homme. comme l'ombre d'un doute l'homme? comme douter de la possibilité de l'homme? questions qui ne font pas de sens au sens commun - pour le moment. Nietzsche (1987) d'annoncer la «mort de Dieu' ouvert 'le chemin vers ce après Foucault (1966) a annoncé la mort de l'homme' et à la négation de l'humanisme et de l'objet. les crises qui minent la structure de la société contemporaine: la crise familiale, la crise scolaire, crise de l'éducation, entre autres, prend la forme d'une formule commune: «crise de l'humanité». ne pas dire que l'éducation doit être aligné sur celui de l'anti-humanisme ou humanitaire, mais la question de l'attitude du législateur qui, à l'avance, dire à un humanisme, en baisse de 'vérités' sans la nécessité de justifier parce que c'est une question de cours. mais ce que les 'évidence' de l'humanisme? ainsi, la centralité de notre recherche, reste préoccupante sur la question: quel est le sens de l'humanisme à la Curriculum Lignes Directrices pour l'Ecole Secondaire Nationale? Le texte renvoie à la commission nationale des lignes directrices pour la haute école dans une tentative de délimiter les définitions de l'humanisme et de concepts proches de lui, en tant qu'êtres humains, sous réserve, la formation morale est nécessaire, et l'établissement de liens entre le document discuté avec les lois d'orientations et de bases n ° 9394/96 de la Constitution du Brésil (1988). pour se rend alors compte alors que face à l'humanisme de la tradition philosophique, par le... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre