University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Learning in the World. Umthato 4: Lahla, Bumba: South Africa's Curriculum Change in Context
The current umthamo focuses on curriculum change in South Africa. The main aim here is provide educators with an opportunity to look critically at the curriculum change process in South Africa. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Learning in the World. Umthato 3: What is Curriculum?
There are a number of ways of looking at curriculum and the issues central to thinking about curriculum and what and how learners should learn. In lo mthamo, we will ask you to look at curriculum by examining what you do in your classroom. You will also look at curriculum by reading about syllabi, and by analysing part of a textbook. You will have an opportunity to think about the kinds of... more
Learners and Learning: Section Six. Talking about theory
In this module we have explored how people learn and then drawn some lessons from this understanding about how we can teach to maximize learning. We have deliberately not taken you through a series of famous educational theorists. Instead we have tried to use their ideas in action. In this section we will look more closely at how both famous theorists and teachers make sense of their ideas... more
