With the new technological advances on the eve of the end of the 19th century, a multitude of
intrinsic and extrinsic instructional media became available to both teachers and pupils. For
effective use of the available instructional media it became increasingly necessary to become
both audio and visually literate in order to interpret and understand messages from audio-visual
materials/instructional media. This, however, confronted teachers with the urge to become more
acquainted with the ways of how to address media selection and integration in a proper way.
History as a subject taught at school lends itself to the application of instructional media in a
variety of forms. Since the selection of the appropriate or the available media for the teach•
ing situation is no easy task, a literature study was undertaken with the purpose of identifying
factors that become apparent from media selection models and that need to be considered
when instructional media are selected for the teaching of history. Apart from the prob•
lem of the lack of an instructional media selection model designed specifically for history
teaching, it was possible to propose suitable guidelines based on research findings for the
selection of instructional media for history teaching.
As far as the empirical research contained in chapter three is concerned, a questionnaire
has been developed to determine to what extent history teachers in the present school
situation use instructional media, and whether the media available is used effectively. A random
sample of fifty (50) schools in the northern region of the Free State was used. Teachers with
three years or more experience were asked to complete the questionnaire. An evaluation of the
situation was created from the results. One of the most important findings was that a limited
number of teachers received training in the effective use of instructional media, or in instructional media science. It appears that the choice of instructional media is considered no easy
task by them.
Chapter four is devoted to the practical application of instructional media in the teaching of
history at the junior secondary level. There lessons have been prepared according to the model
that has been developed in this project, which contain aspects of the new outcomes based on
education. During the process a selection of media has also been made, ranging from what
would be applicable in a school that is fairly adequately equipped with media, to schools that are only partially equipped with media.
The study is concluded with a synthesis of all the findings as set out in chapters one through four, where the applicable guidelines for the teaching of history are confirmed. / Thesis (MEd (Vakdidaktiek))--PU vir CHO, 1997
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NWUBOLOKA1/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/9330 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Molwantwa, Flora Majweng |
| Publisher | Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education |
| Source Sets | North-West University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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