Abstract
M.Ed. (Tertiary Didactics)
The purpose of this investigation was to determine how the practical component in the further professional training of teachers by distance teaching can be improved.
The deficiencies which are experienced can be ascribed, inter alia, to the fact that the relationship between the theoretical and the practical components are not clearly discernible to the teacher. On the basis of a study of literature and an empirical investigation of limited scope, it was determined that factors which obscure the forming of relationships can be present in the teacher as a learner, in the lecturer as a planner and presenter of the subject matter and in the curriculum at micro-level...