Merging identities : a narrative inquiry into educators' experiences of the merging process of further education and training (FET) colleges in South Africa and the extent to which the merger has impacted on their identity development.

Description

The Further Education and Training (FET) sector in general and the public Further
Education colleges specifically are in a state of perpetual transition. The merger as an
attempt at restructuring and transforming public Further Education and Training
colleges presents many challenges to its educators. This narrative inquiry explores
four educators' subjective experiences of the merging process with a view to
attempting to understand the effect this process may have had on their identity
development and/ or the renegotiation of their social identities. The researcher who is
also the quality manager at a FET college, is presented with the opportunity to reflect
critically on her own experiences and identity development while actively engaging
with other participants' narratives about their experiences of the merging process. A
strong perception of the college as an oppressive environment emerged from the
findings. The merger was evidently a catalyst for the different levels of awareness,
introspection and renegotiation of participants' identities. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.

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1. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3160

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Theses--Education.

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/3160
Date	January 2009
Creators	Pillay, Thavanayagee.
Contributors	D'amant, Antoinette.
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Thesis