A foundation for foundation phase teacher education: making wise educational judgements

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dc.contributor.authorMurris, Karin
dc.contributor.authorVerbeek, Clare
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-18T06:37:56Z
dc.date.available2016-05-18T06:37:56Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.updated2016-05-17T14:01:03Z
dc.description.abstractWe start our paper with a critical exploration of the current 'back to basics' approach in South African foundation phase teacher education with its emphasis on strengthening the teaching of subject knowledge. We claim that such a proposal first demands an answer to the question 'what is foundational in foundation phase teaching?' We propose an answer in three stages. First we argue that teacher education should be concerned not only with schooling or qualification (knowledge, skills and dispositions) and socialisation, but, drawing on Gert Biesta's work, also with subjectification (educating the person towards the ability to make wise educational judgements). Secondly, these three aims of education lead to five core principles, and we finish by showing how these principles inform our storied, thinking and multimodal/semiotic curriculum. Our answer to our leading question is that pedagogical 'know-how' and views of 'child' and 'childhood' constitute the subject knowledge that is foundational in the foundation phase curriculum.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMurris, K., & Verbeek, C. (2014). A foundation for foundation phase teacher education: making wise educational judgements. <i>South African Journal of Childhood Education</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19704en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMurris, Karin, and Clare Verbeek "A foundation for foundation phase teacher education: making wise educational judgements." <i>South African Journal of Childhood Education</i> (2014) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19704en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMurris, K., & Verbeek, C. (2014). A foundation for foundation phase teacher education: Making wise educational judgements. South African Journal of Childhood Education, 4(2), 1-17.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2223-7674en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Murris, Karin AU - Verbeek, Clare AB - We start our paper with a critical exploration of the current 'back to basics' approach in South African foundation phase teacher education with its emphasis on strengthening the teaching of subject knowledge. We claim that such a proposal first demands an answer to the question 'what is foundational in foundation phase teaching?' We propose an answer in three stages. First we argue that teacher education should be concerned not only with schooling or qualification (knowledge, skills and dispositions) and socialisation, but, drawing on Gert Biesta's work, also with subjectification (educating the person towards the ability to make wise educational judgements). Secondly, these three aims of education lead to five core principles, and we finish by showing how these principles inform our storied, thinking and multimodal/semiotic curriculum. Our answer to our leading question is that pedagogical 'know-how' and views of 'child' and 'childhood' constitute the subject knowledge that is foundational in the foundation phase curriculum. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Journal of Childhood Education LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 SM - 2223-7674 T1 - A foundation for foundation phase teacher education: making wise educational judgements TI - A foundation for foundation phase teacher education: making wise educational judgements UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19704 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/19704
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/201
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMurris K, Verbeek C. A foundation for foundation phase teacher education: making wise educational judgements. South African Journal of Childhood Education. 2014; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19704.en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisherOASIS Publishingen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Educationen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_ZA
dc.sourceSouth African Journal of Childhood Educationen_ZA
dc.source.urihttp://www.sajch.org.za/index.php/SAJCH
dc.subject.otherteacher education
dc.subject.otherchildhood studies
dc.subject.otherfoundation phase teaching
dc.subject.otheraims of education
dc.subject.otherchild and childhood
dc.subject.othermaking wise educational judgements
dc.titleA foundation for foundation phase teacher education: making wise educational judgementsen_ZA
dc.typeJournal Articleen_ZA
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