Bemagtigingsopleiding vir kuns en kultuur-opvoeders : implementering van tradisionele Kaapse liedere

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research for this thesis was conducted because many educators in the South Africaneducation system are not equipped to teach Arts and Culture to primary and secondary learnersbecause of a lack of resources and skills.The researcher tries to determine whether traditional songs of the Cape could lay the foundationto understand the origin, functions and dynamics of a culture, as well as the capacity to usecreative arts- and cultural processes to develop one's self-image and promote spiritual well-being.The main aim of this study was to determine whether educators can be empowered by providingthem with the necessary skills to teach Arts and Culture by means of the integration andimplementation of traditional songs of the Cape in the classroom as resource materials whenplanning a curriculum. Arts and Culture educators were empowered to equip themselves to be ableto teach learners to understand, acknowledge and promote the arts and unknowncultural practicessuch as traditional songs of the Cape.The researcher based the component of the Empowerment Training she was responsible for on therequirements for Participatory Action Research: Awareness, Emancipation, A learning strategy forparticipants and the development of independence.The results of this thesis are based on two projects the researcher participated in. The main aimof the first project, Mother's Milk, Mother's Muse that was initiated by Professor Meki Nzewiof the University of Pretoria, was to collect traditional songs, games, legends and stories of theCape. These materials are available on CD and DVD and included in this thesis. These were thenused in the second project as resources to equip Arts and Culture educators with a variety ofskills, which include the teaching of songs, during the Advanced Certificate in Education (Arts andCulture) at the University of Stellenbosch, offered since 2005.This thesis is a compiliation of how Arts and Culture educators were empowered to use andimplement these materials in the learning area by the component in the ACE course for which theresearcher was responsible.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University