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An investigation into learner disposition and learner demonstrations of Bernstein's recognition and realisation rules.

The National Research Foundation has directed research to obtain information about

learners who are entering the FET phase of education and have completed nine years

of Outcomes Based Education. This study aims to ascertain whether learners (in the

micro-context of English Home Language - Grade 10) are performing according to

the Assessment Standards stipulated in the NCS 2003 and whether they are

demonstrating control of the recognition and realisation rules as discussed by

Bernstein that apply to poetic analysis. The learners' personal dispositions toward

teaching and learning at a city school in Pietermaritzburg have been analysed to find

out if there is any correlation between their personal dispositions and their control of

the recognition and realisation rules.

The project is a case study and the approach is interpretive. Bernstein's theory forms

the framework from which the model was structured and analysed. Instruments were

developed to measure the degree of control of recognition and realisation

demonstrated by ten, Grade 10 English Home Language learners. These learners also

completed questionnaires and in-depth interviews were conducted to explore the

dispositions of the learners. Results from the recognition and realisation tasks

(mainly qualitative with some quantitative support) were analysed and correlated with

the interpretation of the findings from the interviews and questionnaires.

It is hoped that the conclusions from this research will provide insight into how these

specific learners, who have only experienced Outcomes Based Education, will

perform in the FET phase of education. It is further hoped that the findings may shed

some light into the process of social transformation in South Africa and how, if given

the opportunity to do so, learners develop mastery of the elaborated code that enables

them to function successfully in society. In the words of Zonke (a learner in the

study), how a learner must 'get that light that shows them the way'. / Thesis (M.Ed.) - University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, [2007].

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/2141
Date January 2007
CreatorsHarding, Antoinette.
ContributorsHugo, Wayne.
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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