Content of Literacy Programmes Versus Information Needs of Identified Communities in South Africa: A Case Study

By:
Me. Suzan Sophie Thembekwayo
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Prior to 1994 focus in South Africa Education was mainly on content based-education where the emphasis was on memorising the contents and emphasizing of product learning. After 1994 a paradigm shift took place where Outcomes based-education was introduced which changed the face of South Africa education from a content-based education to outcome-based education. Competency-based education became the major focus. The question addressed is whether the focus on outcome-based education has not rendered the content of different literacy learning materials for basic literacy training inappropriate. Two predominantly Afrikaans communities of Onverwacht and Damonsville were used to determine their information needs to address the contents of literacy programmes. The South African constitution (Act 108 of 1996;section 29(1)states: "Everyone has the right to a basic education and to further education, which the state,through reasonable measures must make progressively available and accessible(Naicker,1999).


Keywords: Literacy Programmes, Content-Based Education, Outcomes-Based Education, Information Needs, Content Analysis
Stream: Adult, Vocational, Tertiary and Professional Learning
Presentation Type: 30 minute Paper Presentation in English
Paper: Content of Literacy Programmes Versus Information Needs of Identified Communities in South Africa

Me. Suzan Sophie Thembekwayo

Lecturer, Department of Afrikaans Media and Culture
Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa

Lecturer in the department of Afrikaans Media and Culture. Lecturing Media Literacy,Afrikaans and Literacy Studies(Honours level). A head of Residence Madelief at the university of Pretoria. A motivational speaker especially on preparing the Grade12 for life at tertiary level. In the process of completing PhD in Adult Education at the University of Limpopo. Busy writting a book based on the folklores told in Tswana to be translated into Afrikaans and English. Presenting a paper at conference for ACUHO to be hosted in Pretoria in May 2007 entitled "Double-room sharing a pain or a gain for students involved".

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