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The conversion of South African Indian secondary school libraries to media centres
Thesis (MA) -- Stellenbosch Univeresity, 1991.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/69421 The conversion of South African Indian secondary school libraries to media centres Govender, Dharmalingam Overduin, P. G. J. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Information Science. School libraries -- South Africa Instructional materials centers -- South Africa Teaching -- Aids and devices Dissertations -- Library and information science Thesis (MA) -- Stellenbosch Univeresity, 1991. Indian secondary school libraries in the Republic of South Africa have over the recent decades been subjected to pressures for change. The concept of library media centres at secondary schools have evolved from being housed in cupboards, classrooms, multi-purpose rooms, halls and other inadequate premises to spacious modern buildings specially designed to cater for the changing demands exerted by socio-political and technological demands. Teaching methods traditionally dominated by teacher-centred methodology gave way to pupil-centred education, where the pupil assumed a more active role in the teaching-learning process rather than being relegated to a passive receiver of information. These changes in the educative process have emanated from progressive philosophers and educationists who emphasised the importance of the pupil as a central figure in the learning process. The conventional school library was thus propelled from the periphery into the mainstream of the educative process where pupils could interact with a variety of learning resources (normally not always available within the classroom) at their individual pace and ability. The conventional school library proved ideal in accommodating the variety of learning resources both hardware and software (overhead projectors, slide projectors, cassette recorders etc., and transparencies, slides etc.) in addition to printed material in the conversion of school libraries to media centres. This study has focussed attention on several aspects of the school library media centre in the total teaching-learning process at Indian secondary schools. It provides a theoretical overview of aspects of the media centre programme and recommendations to improve the service output. Leisner’s Model has been used to depict several aspects of the functioning of the media centres viz inputs (personnel, materials, equipment, facilities), conversions (technical and service delivery output), outputs (range and level of user services provided). The media centre caters for both curricular and extra curricular activities. In the pursuit of information the importance of the media centre for recreational reading has not been diminished. The allocation of examination marks for media centre based research in the various subjects could promote the relevance of the media centre in the teaching-learning experience. The use of the media centre for the delivery of Library Resource Education lessons for all the classes restricts accessibility of the media centre to the larger school population. The provision of an additional teaching area could help to overcome this problem. The exodus of pupils at the end of each school day transforms the school environment to a veritable “cemetery”. Accessibility of the media centre after normal school hours, Saturdays and the school vacations could provide a possible additional dimension to the existing services provided by the media centre. Masters 2012-08-27T12:27:04Z 2012-08-27T12:27:04Z 1991 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/69421 en Stellenbosch University 202 pages : ill. application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | School libraries -- South Africa Instructional materials centers -- South Africa Teaching -- Aids and devices Dissertations -- Library and information science Govender, Dharmalingam The conversion of South African Indian secondary school libraries to media centres |
| title | The conversion of South African Indian secondary school libraries to media centres |
| title_full | The conversion of South African Indian secondary school libraries to media centres |
| title_fullStr | The conversion of South African Indian secondary school libraries to media centres |
| title_full_unstemmed | The conversion of South African Indian secondary school libraries to media centres |
| title_short | The conversion of South African Indian secondary school libraries to media centres |
| title_sort | conversion of south african indian secondary school libraries to media centres |
| topic | School libraries -- South Africa Instructional materials centers -- South Africa Teaching -- Aids and devices Dissertations -- Library and information science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/69421 |
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