Education, Training and Development - Higher Education and Training
The purpose of the Advanced Diploma in Technical and Vocational Teaching (AdvDip (TVT)) is to provide initial preparation for lecturers. It aims to build focused knowledge, skills and values required for lecturers' professional practice, and to lay the basis for continuing professional development through lifelong learning.
The qualification aims to improve the current teaching, learning, and assessment practices through the personal and professional development of lecturers. This entails enabling lecturers who can continuously reflect upon and improve teaching practice. The qualification also aims to develop in lecturers the ability to critically reflect on their teaching practices in an effort to enable systematic learning for others in the diverse South African contexts.
There is a dire need for higher education to develop lecturers who can contribute to the development of its people to become responsible, participatory, self-understanding, and reflective citizens who contribute to an emerging democracy. This Advanced Diploma qualification focuses on the types of learning associated with the acquisition, integration and application of knowledge for teaching purposes (Disciplinary Learning, Pedagogical Learning, Practical Learning, Fundamental Learning, and Situational Learning), which also form the basis of the curriculum for the qualification.
Graduates of the qualification will have the ability to critically reflect on their teaching practices in an effort to enable systematic learning for others in the diverse South African contexts. They will be able to construct learning contexts and to point to evidence of that learning and engage in professional Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) practice. Professional TVET practice includes a range of dispositions of critical inquiry, ethical engagement, persistence and motivation, and the capacity to act.
The purpose is to help lecturers be reflective of their practice and mindful of what it means to educate within a democracy. The qualification is designed in accordance with the Minimum Requirements for Lecturer Education Qualifications (MRTEQ), the Level Descriptors, and the Policy Framework for Lecturers in Technical and Vocational Education and Training. The qualification is specifically designed to meet the very specific educational needs of the region and the country.
The Advanced Diploma in Technical and Vocational Teaching serves as a professional 'capping' qualification for lecturers who have completed an appropriate 360- or 480-credit Bachelor's Degree or a Diploma qualification with modules relevant to teaching in TVET. This qualification aims to improve the current teaching, learning, and assessment practices through the personal and professional development of practicing and prospective Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college lecturers.
A dire need exists for higher education to develop TVET lecturers who can contribute to the development of its people to become responsible, participatory, self-understanding, and reflective citizens who can contribute to job creation and national development. The need for development of lecturers for the TVET sector is reflected in the Green and White Papers Republic of South Africa (RSA, 2012) in Post School education.
In the state's first draft of policy on TVET lecturer development released in 2008, the State acknowledged that the country lost its TVET lecturer education expertise, with the exception of a few pockets. The policy framework for TVET lecturers was published in 2013 and provided a qualification pathway, and universities were capacitated to offer such qualifications. The AdvDip (TVT) has been aligned with other qualifications for TVET lecturers, namely the Diploma (TVT), AdvDip (TVET), Postgraduate Diploma, and Bachelor of Education (Honours), to ensure vertical and horizontal articulation.
The qualification is aimed at TVET lecturers to provide an appropriate initial qualification to both those in the system without appropriate qualifications and those who intend to enter the TVET education profession. Together with the associated qualifications, the AdvDip (TVT) contributes towards the development of professional TVET education practitioners.
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