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Perceptions of Early Childhood Development practitioners regarding professionalisation
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/65451 Perceptions of Early Childhood Development practitioners regarding professionalisation Bipath, Keshni gncube21@yahoo.com Ncube, Gugulethu UCTD Early Childhood Development Centre Early Childhood Early Childhood Development Uncertainty Reduction theory Education theses SDG-04 Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2017. Utilising a case study design in the Gauteng Province of South Africa, this study explores the perceptions of ECD practitioners regarding the professionalisation of the ECD sector. With a purposive sample of fifteen ECD practitioners teaching children aged between birth and four years this study sought to find out what is exactly happening in the sector regarding the birth of the new qualification for ECD teachers in the South African education system; which attempts to standardise a B.Ed. curriculum for new teachers in the ECD sector. Adopting the Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT) as a lens, the study revealed that the Government and the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) were not giving adequate support to the sector while parents viewed ECD centres as places of play and sleep rather than educational. The study concludes that the ECD sector is indispensable for the South African Education system to perform on par with other world countries and recommends that everyone; not only government; should come to the party to fix this challenge of the education system. dzm2026 Early Childhood Education MEd Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education 2018-07-13T06:44:30Z 2018-07-13T06:44:30Z 2018/04/25 2017 Dissertation Ncube, G 2017, Perceptions of Early Childhood Development practitioners regarding professionalisation, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65451> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65451 en � 2018 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 | UCTD Early Childhood Development Centre Early Childhood Early Childhood Development Uncertainty Reduction theory Education theses SDG-04 Perceptions of Early Childhood Development practitioners regarding professionalisation |
| title | Perceptions of Early Childhood Development practitioners regarding professionalisation |
| title_full | Perceptions of Early Childhood Development practitioners regarding professionalisation |
| title_fullStr | Perceptions of Early Childhood Development practitioners regarding professionalisation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceptions of Early Childhood Development practitioners regarding professionalisation |
| title_short | Perceptions of Early Childhood Development practitioners regarding professionalisation |
| title_sort | perceptions of early childhood development practitioners regarding professionalisation |
| topic | UCTD Early Childhood Development Centre Early Childhood Early Childhood Development Uncertainty Reduction theory Education theses SDG-04 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65451 |