The aim of this study is to describe the recontextualisation of the official pedagogical
field, in the form of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS), in the Further Education
and Training (FET) band. The study's focus concentrates specifically on the in-service
training programme devised by the KZN FET Directorate for teachers of Grade 10's in
2005, beginning with the creation of the FET curriculum statements at national level and
tracking the dissemination of this information to provincial level, then through regional
and district level and into the schools.
The researcher was able to analyse the documents created at national level, observe
and/or interview role-players at each level of the continuum: national, provincial,
regional, district and school (including parents of school-going teenagers). This evidence,
supplemented with video-recordings and posters produced at five different venues was
selectively described using Berasteinian terminology and his theoretical framework of the
pedagogic device.
Research findings in answer to the questions posed, viz. to what extent the social
transformation process was understood by the role-players in the process (concentrating
on English Home and First Additional Language teachers), indicate that in some cases
the official pedagogical field is carried over with minimal change, and in others it is
evident that careful monitoring and retraining may be the only means to concretise the
intended change in thinking in the minds of South Africa's teachers. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/1287 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Davey, Brenda G. |
| Contributors | Hugo, Wayne. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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