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A School For 'In-Betweeners'

Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2018.

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Other Authors: Pienaaar, Marguerite
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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/68253 A School For 'In-Betweeners' Pienaaar, Marguerite lexi.kolatsis@gmail.com Kolatsis, Alexia Westbury In-between Learn-work FET College ABET College Socio-economic Solutionist Thinking Digital Communications Mat-building Flexibility Hertzberger Van Eyck UCTD Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-09 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2018. This dissertation, constituted from a juncture within our educational landscape, one that has particularly come to light under the banner of #FeesMustFall, postulates the role of an educational facility and its resultant typology. It explores an alternative education as being both didactic and economic. It is self-evident, that our current South African institutional models give a matrix of ‘what not to do’ through their existence as insular pockets within their respective urban fabrics. These institutions have abrasive urban interfaces that give little to the production of a socially conscious learning environment, especially not one in which the context and surrounding community is absorbed and considered. The search for a new typology thus lies in the in-between — the mediation between context and institution. This basic need exists as one of the highest expenditure items on the country’s budget, with South Africa spending a higher proportion of its budget on public education than both the United Kingdom and United States of America (Cohen, 2017). Despite this, there still remains fissures within our scarred educational landscape — ‘gaps’ that need to be filled. The implications of this skewed education system are still deeply prevalent. They are evidenced by retention rates as well as dropout rates recorded in high schools and universities. Nationally, a report released by Statistics South Africa (2016), places high school dropout rates at 44,6% of the population (Lehohla, 2016). In Gauteng, the rate is at 40,5%, just below the national average. Compounding this, in a report conducted by the Council on Higher Education: A proposal for undergraduate curriculum reform in South Africa, 2013, it is said that 55% of students across all institutions are estimated never to graduate (Council on Higher Education , 2013, p. 45). Compounding this is the interplay of school drop-outs — a phenomenon that plagues multiple communities throughout our context, particularly those with a history of injustices. It is these school leavers that this dissertation seeks to address. mi2025 Architecture MArch (Prof) Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities 2019-01-25T07:07:31Z 2019-01-25T07:07:31Z 2019 2018 Mini Dissertation Kolatsis, A 2018, A School For 'In-Betweeners', MArch (Prof) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68253> A2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68253 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 Westbury
In-between
Learn-work
FET College
ABET College
Socio-economic
Solutionist Thinking
Digital Communications
Mat-building
Flexibility
Hertzberger
Van Eyck
UCTD
Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04
Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-09
Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10
Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11
A School For 'In-Betweeners'
title A School For 'In-Betweeners'
title_full A School For 'In-Betweeners'
title_fullStr A School For 'In-Betweeners'
title_full_unstemmed A School For 'In-Betweeners'
title_short A School For 'In-Betweeners'
title_sort school for in betweeners
topic Westbury
In-between
Learn-work
FET College
ABET College
Socio-economic
Solutionist Thinking
Digital Communications
Mat-building
Flexibility
Hertzberger
Van Eyck
UCTD
Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04
Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-09
Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10
Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68253