- Title
- Mediating teaching and learning in Foundation Phase Grade 3 Life Skills classrooms: role and use of learning and teaching support materials
- Creator
- Nqabeni, Pelokazi
- Subject
- teaching strategies
- Date Issued
- 2017-04
- Date
- 2017-04
- Type
- Doctoral theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/9436
- Identifier
- vital:73535
- Description
- The study explored the role and use of learning and teaching support materials (LTSMs) to mediate teaching and learning in Life Skills Grade 3 classrooms of Dutywa District, in the province of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was prompted by a deep concern about the role and use of LTSMs to mediate teaching and learning in the Foundation Phase. While studies have been carried out on LTSMs in Foundation Phase, few studies have looked at the role and use of LTSMs to mediate teaching and learning in Life Skills Grade 3 classrooms. The study used a qualitative approach and is a multiple-case study of three purposively sampled schools from the rural areas. Teachers who participated in the study were Grade 3 teachers from the three schools. A pilot study was conducted in three schools with Foundation Phase, which were not used for the main study, for the purpose of validity and reliability. In this study, Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) was used as a framework to understand that actions are mediated by a complex network of socio-historical activities. I drew on the second generation of the activity theory, which has roots in Leontiev’s work on the Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), which provided both explanatory and analytical tools. I collected data using documents including journal entries, individual semi-structured interviews, and structured observations. The interviews were voice recorded with participant’s permission in order to present verbatim statements. In structured observations, I observed the role and use of LTSMs to mediate teaching and learning in Life Skills Grade 3 classrooms in the three selected schools. Content analysis guided the data analysis through themes derived from the subsidiary questions and coded for easy referencing. Data reporting took the form of thick description and verbatim quotations in line with the qualitative approach of the study. The study’s findings revealed non-availability of learning and teaching support materials in Life Skills subject. This suggests that intervention is needed by the Department of Education such as providing LTSMs which are essential in order to address the problem of not being used to mediate teaching and learning in classrooms. Language used in the role and use of learning and teaching support materials to mediate teaching and learning, lack of professional development, the effect of the non-examinable nature of Life Skills, and shortage and overcrowded classrooms were some of the aspects affecting the role and use of LTSMs to mediate teaching and learning in Life Skills Grade 3 classrooms. Based on the study findings, then I recommend that further research be conducted on strategies that could be employed to improve the role and use of LTSMs to mediate teaching and learning in Life Skills Grade 3 classrooms in a way that benefits learners. The Departmental officials including subject advisors, principals, teachers and learners should work together to improve the role and use of LTSMs to mediate teaching and learning in classrooms for quality education and to improve results in Foundation Phase. A model is proposed as the new knowledge for the existing literature on the role and use of LTSMs to mediate teaching and learning in classroom based on the theoretical framework and findings of this study.
- Description
- Thesis (D.Ed) -- Faculty of Education Sciences, 2017
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (267 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- Walter Sisulu University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Walter Sisulu University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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