Abstract
The question addressed in this study relates to the
way in which media integration may figure in order to
make an impact on the need that exists for a parallel
and/or augmenting teaching modus.
Factors that have contributed to the existence of a
need for such a complementary model, may be found,
inter alia in the economical, political and social
tendencies that accompany changes in the country's
political dispensation.
A contributing factor is the astronomical number of
learners for whom a more affordable provision of education
must be created.
Particular reference is made to distance education as
a teaching rnodus to mainly accommodate the thousands
of secondary learners excluded from education as a result
of one or another kind of disruption.
Planners and curriculum developers should, in the new
education dispensation in South-Africa, pay attention
to the fact that mainly academically orientated syllabi
must make way for more occupationally directed
training that will probably, in all respects, be more
cost effective for the economy.
The aim of this study is to research the possibility
of creating new educational opportunities through
distance education. The objective is, to address in
particular, the crisis in the provision of secondary
education.
In conclusion it must be mentioned that it is of paramount
importance that the roll of media in education
should not be underestimated, particularly when one
is to work with learners who will struggle with
backlogs of great magnitude and where substituted
realities will be better than no example at all.
M. Ed.