Foundation phase teacher provision by public higher education institutions in South Africa

South African Journal of Childhood Education

 
 
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Title Foundation phase teacher provision by public higher education institutions in South Africa
 
Creator Green, Whitfield
 
Subject — teacher supply and demand; foundation phase; teacher education; mother-tongue; African languages; early childhood education; higher education institutions —
Description The study reported in this paper investigated foundation phase teacher provision by the public universities in South Africa, with a view to carefully and accurately determine the extent to which foundation phase teacher provision matched national as well as provincial needs. The study draws on data obtained through a survey of teacher provision at the public higher education institutions (HEIs), conducted by the national Department of Education (DoE) in 2009, as well as from data relating to teacher education qualifications and programmes in the Higher Education Management Information System (HEMIS).The study confirmed perceptions that the number of new foundation phase teachers being produced by the public higher education institutions (HEIs) falls short of national and provincial needs, and that the provision of African language foundation phase teachers is particularly problematic, especially in the context of mother-tongue instruction in the early years.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor
Date 2011-12-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajce.v1i1.80
 
Source South African Journal of Childhood Education; Vol 1, No 1 (2011); 13 pages 2223-7682 2223-7674
 
Language eng
 
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https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/80/81
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2011 Whitfield Green https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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