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An Academic development model for university and technikon students : meeting the demands of the 21st century
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24441 An Academic development model for university and technikon students : meeting the demands of the 21st century Slabbert, Johannes A. Celliers, Mariana Education social aspects Labor supply effect of education on South Africa Education higher curricula South Africa UCTD Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2007. The demands of a rapidly changing future on learners of Higher Education Institutions who need to be effectively employed, necessitate that these institutions become responsive to the demands and challenges of the future world of work. Employers keep on emphasising that first entry employees not only lack basic skills when entering the world of work, but that they also have difficulty in coping with the accelerated nature of the changing future. In order to address this dilemma, this research firstly focussed on the current state of Academic Development programmes at universities and technikons in South Africa, because these programmes claim to address problems which learners and the institutions might have, such as the support of teaching policies and procedures, quality assurance and advisory services. The documenting of the current state of academic development (AD) revealed that AD of learners focusses on issues such as access, redress, academic performance and throughput. These endeavours constitute a model where remedial, supportive work is done in fragmented fashion, to enable learners to attain the necessary skills to cope with the demands of higher education. It was further indicated that by adopting this aim for AD, higher education is not proactively responsive to the needs of the future world of work, but rather reactive to the immediate needs of learners and institutions alike. They focus on better results in stead of lifetime employability. A causal action research phase followed to identify what the demands of the future are for man, and to assess the current state of academic development of learners against these demands. The conclusion is that these demands constitute a total paradigm shift and that higher education is not responsive to these challenges. In order for learners to pursue lifetime employability, a totally new, reengineering AD-model should therefore be constructed. It is concluded that only through maximising human potential, which can be attained through facilitating lifelong learning, will leamers be able to meet the challenging demands of the future world of work. This reengineering AD-model contains the guiding idea or purpose and vision of the model namely that it should maximise human potential. It contains the theory, methods and tools, represented in the development of intra-, inter- and supra-personal relationships through facilitating metal earning and cooperative learning, and it contains innovations for the infrastructure to encompass whole institutions. Recommendations for future research fall in two categories, namely the future as source of research, and future research still to be undertaken. In terms of the future as source of research, ongoing research is needed by researchers all over the world to determine what the future holds in store. Regarding the proposed AD-model, future research still needs to be undertaken with regard to the implementation and ongoing reengineering of the model. Curriculum Studies Unrestricted 2013-09-06T17:34:50Z 2007-01-22 2013-09-06T17:34:50Z 2000-05-01 2007-01-22 2007-01-22 Dissertation Celliers, M 2000, An academic development model for university and technikon students – meeting the demands of the 21st century, MEd dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24441 > H508/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24441 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01222007-090523/ © 2000, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Education social aspects Labor supply effect of education on South Africa Education higher curricula South Africa UCTD An Academic development model for university and technikon students : meeting the demands of the 21st century |
| title | An Academic development model for university and technikon students : meeting the demands of the 21st century |
| title_full | An Academic development model for university and technikon students : meeting the demands of the 21st century |
| title_fullStr | An Academic development model for university and technikon students : meeting the demands of the 21st century |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Academic development model for university and technikon students : meeting the demands of the 21st century |
| title_short | An Academic development model for university and technikon students : meeting the demands of the 21st century |
| title_sort | academic development model for university and technikon students meeting the demands of the 21st century |
| topic | Education social aspects Labor supply effect of education on South Africa Education higher curricula South Africa UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24441 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01222007-090523/ |