Introduction to Education

✍ Scribed by E. M. Lemmer, D. C. Badenhorst

• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 469
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Providing knowledge useful to professional teachers, this text also details recent changes to the education system within South Africa. It gives probing analyses of educational policy, restructuring, finance, management and the law. After defining the parameters of education and those practising it, the various authors examine historical, philosophical, transitional, cultural, curricular and international perspectives. Each chapter of the text is prefaced with a contextual introduction.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 8
1 Teachers and Teaching......Page 10
2 A Historical Overview of South African Education......Page 54
3 Philosophical Foundations in Education and their Significance for Teachers......Page 104
4 Schools in Transition......Page 146
5 Cultural Diversity and Schooling......Page 196
6 Human Development and Learning......Page 224
7 Curriculum Perspectives and Issues......Page 266
8 Teaching......Page 288
9 School Management......Page 336
10 Education Finance......Page 362
11 Education and the Law......Page 390
12 Education in International Context......Page 430
C......Page 460
D......Page 461
E......Page 462
I......Page 463
M......Page 464
P......Page 465
S......Page 466
U......Page 468
Z......Page 469