Abstract
M.Ed. (Subject Didactics)
It is a well known fact that half the people of the world are
completely illiterate and only about a third are functionally
literate. Chapman and Czerniewska (1978:65) support this
statement by saying the United states of America needs to be
looked at. It is one of the world's most developed countries
and yet more than two per cent of persons older than fourteen
have not yet attained functional literacy. This factor
illustrates the tremendous education work that still lies
ahead of the school and other institutions of learning.
South Africa, like many other countries of the world, suffers
the same consequences in experiencing educational turmoil,
"extending from the classroom to the work-place. One of the
major reasons singled out was the implementation of the Bantu
Education Act of 1953 (Act 47/1953). The ideology thereof
being not to educate a Bantu on the same level as a white man.
As a result there was no relationship in curriculum content
pertaining to classroom and work-place. In view of this, Black
education has become a centre of concern for most race groups
in this country because of educational, social and economical
repercussions. This factor is well demonstrated in the report
of the main commission of the Human Sciences Research Council
on the investigation into education (1981 :108). It has shown
the need to provide an educational system which will enable
all members of the different population groups to acquire the
skills of basic literacy. This will pose a long term problem
for the State, as far as its economy is concerned.