The brave 'new' world of education : creating a unique professionalism

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Title:

Author:

Slabbert, Johannes A.

ISBN:

9780702177132

Personal Author:

Slabbert, Johannes A.

Publication Information:

Cape Town, South Africa : Juta, 2009.

Physical Description:

xiii, 178 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Abstract:

"The new Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) developed by researchers at the University of Pretoria has replaced the old Higher Education Diploma (HOD) teacher education programme. The programme was developed by Professors Johannes Slabbert, Dorothea de Kock and Annemarie Hattingh of the Department of Humanities Education.The book, based on more than a decades' research, explores the reasons why education needs to change radically and swiftly in order to face the challenges of the future. It also identifies what changes in education are needed and suggests how this required change can be implemented successfully in education and teacher education practice"--University of Pretoria website.

Subject Term:

Teachers -- Training of -- South Africa.

Educational change -- South Africa.

Thought and thinking.

Added Author:

De Kock, Dorothea M.

Hattingh, Annemarie.

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The significance of this book lies in its move away from traditional thinking about teacher education towards an authentic, holistic paradigm. It is in recognising the inseparability of mind, matter, spirit and life that education is identified as bringing forth of the world through the process of living itself (Maturana and Valera in The tree of knowledge). The authors propose that 'The secret of true education is not determined by the knowledge that learners acquire, it is determined primarily by how they acquire it. This requires a unique professionalism: That of facilitating learning - which is grounded in cultivating excellence in learning quality within on inescapable social, moral and ethical consciousness'