What challenges do foundation phase teachers experience when teaching writing in rural multigrade classes?

South African Journal of Childhood Education

 
 
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Title What challenges do foundation phase teachers experience when teaching writing in rural multigrade classes?
 
Creator Condy, Janet Blease, Bernita
 
Subject — rural, multigrade, writing, challenges, quintile, pedagogies —
Description A one-size-fits-all curriculum cannot address the issues faced by rural multigrade teachers and learners. In South Africa, despite government efforts to relieve adversity, poverty in rural areas is still rife and poor education still fails to lift people out of it (Joubert 2010). Equality is essential in ensuring that all South African children have access to quality education where they can learn in an environment free from bias and discrimination (Asmal 2001). Bronfenbrenner’s social ecological systems theory underpinned this study. The purpose of this research was to identify the challenges experienced by two foundation phase teachers in teaching writing. This research was a qualitative study embedded within an interpretive case study. The following factors became evident: poor socio-economic backgrounds, transport, parental illiteracy, and teacher challenges that include the following subthemes: reading problems, differentiated teaching, resources, the language of teaching and learning, and writing support from the Western Cape Education Department (WCED).
 
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Date 2014-12-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajce.v4i2.203
 
Source South African Journal of Childhood Education; Vol 4, No 2 (2014); 21 pages 2223-7682 2223-7674
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Janet Condy, Bernita Blease https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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