The national educational ideal as a determinant of the educational systems of Bophuthatswana and Botswana / Neo Elliot Raikane

• Main Author: Raikane, Neo Elliot
• Language: en
• Published: Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education 2013
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8522

By way of introduction to this dissertation, the following issues were addressed: - The problem issue underlying the research is: * What is the origin of the national educational ideas of Popagano and Kagisano? * What is the content of the national educational ideals of Bophuthatswana and Botswana educational systems respectively? * What is the influence of the national educational ideals of Bophuthatswana and Botswana on their respective educational systems with regard to their educational policy, legislation execution and the school system? - Aims of the research The purpose of this study is: * to further the understanding of the educational systems of Bophuthatswnna and Botswana by determining the origin, content and influence of the national educational ideals as determinants of the two systems of education in question. * The purpose of this study is threefold: ** to determine and describe the origin of the national educational ideals of Popagano and Kagisano; ** to determine and describe the content of the national educational ideals of Popagano and Kagisano, and ** to determine the influence of the national educational ideals on the respective educational systems of the two countries concerned with regard to their educational policy, control, legislation, execution and the school systems. - Methods of research The following methods of research have been employed: general literature survey, personal interviews, interpretation of data, evaluation of data and writing up of findings. - Demarcation of the field of study This study is confined to the national educational ideal as a determinant of the educational systems of Bophuthatswana and Botswana. The other aspect of the demarcation of the field of study is based on the explanation of terms used in the title of this study, namely: the national educational ideal, determinant, educational system, and Bophuthatswana and Botswana. The theoretical structure and the determinants of the educational system have also been discussed in chapter 2. The four structural moments of the educational system are looked into under the theoretical structure of the system of education. The following are those structural moments of the educational system: • the religious structural moment, which refers to the ground motif of the community which is fundamental in all the systems of education of the world. This is the religious ground motif. • the temporal structural moment, which refers to the fact that educational systems of the world are time-bound. • the modal structural moment, which refers to the 15 modal aspects of reality in terms of Dooyeweerd and which exercise an influence on the structure and the content of the educational system. • the individual structural moment, which refers to the individual identity of all educational systems of the world and to the idea of the uncommonness of the common. All other relevant aspects of education have been discussed in this chapter. An exposition of the educational system of Bophuthatswana is given in Chapter 3. The primary aim in discussing this educational system was to provide the origin, content and influence of the national educational ideal of Popagano on the Bophuthiltswana system of education. Before coming to the exposition of the educational system of Bophuthatswana per se, the following issues which facilitate the understanding of an educational system were discussed: The general historical background of education in Bophuthatswana; from the era of traditional education, the mission era of education, education in Bophuthatswana after the establishment of the Union of South Africa, the Bantu Education era, the years before independence (195-1-1976), the Lokhela Commission of Education (April 1978) and the inception of the national educational ideal of Popagano. The exposition of the Bophuthatswana system of Cidiic.it on is divided into the following aspects; the contents of the National Educational ideal of Popagano and the influence of the national educational ideal of Popagano. In Chapter 4 the system of education of Botswana is outlined. Before coming to the actual exposition of the system of education in Botswana, it was necessary to look into the following matters: the origin of the national educational ideal of Kagisano. This included the following aspects: the general historical background of education in Botswana which reflects on the years of turmoil, traditional education in the pre-literate era, the mission era of education; education in Botswana after the establishment of the British Bechuanaland Protectorate, the first Education Act after Independence, the Botswana National Education Commission of April 1977 and the inception of the national educational ideal of Kagisano; the contents of the national educational ideal of Kagisano and the influence of the national educational ideal of Kagisano on the educational system of Botswana. Chapter 5 deals with conclusions, findings and recommendations. This implies that all issues raised in all other chapters are summarised and recommendations are also made. === Thesis (MEd)--PU vir CHO, 1987