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‘They say we are crèche teachers’: Experiences of pre-service mathematics teachers taught through the medium of isiZulu

Pythagoras

 
 
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Title ‘They say we are crèche teachers’: Experiences of pre-service mathematics teachers taught through the medium of isiZulu
 
Creator van Laren, Linda Goba, Busisiwe
 
Subject Mathematics Education; Education; Mathematics numeracy education; postgraduate certificate in education; mother tongue instruction; higher education; isiZulu; foundation phase
Description Language of instruction, both in schools and higher education institutions (HEIs), is a contentious issue in South Africa. At our university in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa a language policy was approved in agreement with the Language Policy for Higher Education, recommending promotion of isiZulu as a medium of instruction for teaching and learning. In complying with this policy the School of Education of our university offered three education modules (Numeracy, Life Skills and Literacy) in the Foundation Phase (FP) Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) through the medium of isiZulu. Against this background we conducted a qualitative study with 16 FP PGCE pre-service teachers selected purposefully from the 2011 cohort who completed the FP numeracy education module in isiZulu. Participants were generally positive about their experiences of being taught in isiZulu, but highlighted challenges related to isiZulu as a medium of instruction for academic concept explanations, translation of teaching and learning materials, and the status of isiZulu as an instruction medium at a HEI.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
Contributor European Union and Department of Higher Education and Training
Date 2013-06-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Qualitative Case study
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/pythagoras.v34i1.216
 
Source Pythagoras; Vol 34, No 1 (2013); 8 pages 2223-7895 1012-2346
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage — — Age 22 to 35 years; Gender- Males and Females; Ethnicity- African
Rights Copyright (c) 2013 Linda van Laren, Busisiwe Goba https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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