Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Phase Teaching
Education, Training and Development - Schooling
Purpose and Rationale
Purpose
The purpose of the Bachelor of Education degree is to provide a well-rounded education that empowers graduates with integrated knowledge to demonstrate applied competence, commitment, and responsibility as academically and professionally qualified beginner teachers. It aims to align with the institution's mission of becoming an excellent, internationally recognized research-intensive university while also focusing on developing a community of diverse individuals based on tolerance, openness, and reason.
The curriculum plays a vital role in shaping learners and guiding them towards exhibiting the desired attributes of graduates from the Faculty of Education. Key aims of the program include:
- Provision of subject/discipline knowledge.
- Provision of pedagogical content knowledge.
- Fostering self-reflexivity and self-understanding for commitment to professional work ethics.
- Developing learners as active citizens who can respond to and initiate change.
- Developing competences to organize learning among diverse learners in various contexts.
Rationale
The Bachelor of Education program underwent re-design following the implementation of the Higher Education Qualifications Framework (HEQF) in 2009 and the Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications in 2011. The need to align with national directives and accreditation standards led to a review and re-curriculation of teacher education programs.
The essence of this re-curriculation was to move away from a sole focus on implementing the current curriculum towards educating professionals capable of interpreting, designing, and implementing curriculum effectively. The redesign aimed to address the complexities of education in South Africa and ensure that teacher education qualifications are conceptualized within a theoretical framework and curriculum perspective.
Outcomes
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria:
- Practical understanding of the "self" and interpersonal relationships is applied.
- Teaching and learning material that enhance learning are used.
- Teaching aids are used to assist learner's understanding of the content.
- Practical understanding of teaching and learning for the Senior and FET Phases in relation to educational theory and practice is applied.
- The dispositions and competences to organise learning among a diverse range of learners in diverse contexts are demonstrated.
- The pedagogy of reasoning and action is applied.
- An ability to identify, analyse and address complex problems in teaching and learning, using a range of routine and some advanced skills, conceptual and/or evidenced-based solutions and theory-driven arguments is applied.
- A coherent and critical understanding of the principles, scope, theories and epistemologies of teaching and learning in higher education are demonstrated.
- The core concepts, theories and principles of the discipline are identified, described and explained.
- The range and limits of applicability of the core concepts and principles are identified.
- The application of the core concepts and principles is demonstrated.
- Different curriculum models, linked to approaches of teaching are applied.
- Applied competence, commitment and responsibility as academically and professionally qualified teachers are demonstrated within diverse education contexts.
- Subject content knowledge in the specific electives is discussed.
- Appropriate pedagogical content knowledge is applied.
Qualification Details
- Type
- National First Degree
- NQF Level
- 07
- Min. Credits
- 520
- SAQA Source
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