This study discusses the provision of vocational skills in Adult Basic Education and
Training (ABET) centres in the North West Province (NWP) of South Africa.
Currently, South Africa is engulfed with challenges of high unemployment rate,
skills shortages and poverty amongst the adult population. The standardisation of
the ABET system and the colonialism ideologies ·can be blamed for the current
poor state of ABET centres. A qualitative research method was used. The
qualitative research design was the best choice because it was concerned with
how the research respondents create meaning based on their understanding and
experiences about the provision of skills in the ABET centres. Two case studies
were used as the methodology to carry the research. Triangulation was used to
collect data. Structured interviews, focus group interviews, observations and
visuals were utilized to collect detailed data about vocational skills in the ABET
centres in the NWP. lnterpretivism research paradigm was used as an
epistemological position, to position me in the study. Critical theory was used to
frame the study. The use of critical theory enabled me to investigate the different
types of skills that were offered in the two ABET centres and the impact they have
in the socio economic development of the ABET learners. The use of critical
theory in this study enabled me to come up with alternatives of improving the
current programmes that are being offered in the ABET centres faced by ABET
learners need collective efforts from all the stake holders that are involved in the
designing of the ABET curriculum and learning programmes. ABET is
dysfunctional and it needs to be urgently overhauled. ABET learners depend on
the grants offered by the government. Facilitators are under prepared and
unprepared to teach the school subjects that they were currently responsible to
teach. ABET centres do not have physical building structures that belong to them,
this causes or poses a serious challenge in teaching and learning. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Comparative Education)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/24834 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Matlabe, Sizakele Mirriam |
| Contributors | Dzvimbo, Kuzvinetsa Peter |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (xiv, 210 leaves) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) |
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