Elaine Browne.pdf - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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all of a sudden I must be doing all those disciplines in the Arts and Culture. So it is no longer a joy. You must
actually see from the old syllabus a.. a.. new excitations what you can take out to to satisfy yourself so that the
children will at least know rhythm because children must know what rhythm are all about. The French time
names taa, ta‐te, pitch, the old Notepret of McLaghlan a.. a.. although we didn’t really like it. It was a lot of hard
work. Children still need it, they still need to be taught pitch you know. So in short the structure we had was
changed too soon. I think they should have left it and gradually include perhaps on African songs or other
culture in Africa or whatever to do justice to the equity they want. But I am not happy with the way it was done.
I don’t think proper consultation was done, we were just called to workshops and workshops how they want us
to do it, you see. So if I have to do it over I would take out all the old syllabi and tell them look this is now from
grade one to grade 12. There is structure can we please see what we can change to suite our country but in
heaven’s name, leave the tafa‐tefe’s and the the the McLaghlan. The play section of it. I don’t think it is coming
through and that is why our children and the teachers are sometimes confused, because we are doing emblems
in the Arts and Culture class. We are doing masks, not that I don’t like it but that is not my forte, I would like to
be behind that piano with my choir and ... my percussion groups, my body percussion. I, I work it in but not as
structured as what it’s been prescribed to us before. OK, and I hope we get back to a more structured South
African syllabi where one would walk in and know exactly what to do. Because every school is doing a different
thing, every school, you know.
K: Ek wil nie baie praat nie, want ek is baie moeg gewerk. Maar wat ek wil sê, ek voel nie baie gemaklik met Arts
and Culture om dit te onderrig nie. Eerste plek, ek kan nie musiek doen om te lees nie. Nou wat wat gebeur
wanneer ek kom by die musiek in die klas doen. Jy doen baie afskeepwerk en omdat ek nie kan musiek lees nie
doen ek dinge, wat die klas mee, dinge met die klas wat ek meer gemaklik mee is. Byvoorbeeld ek sal baie klem
lê op iets van so ‘n aard wat die kinders byvoorbeeld kan teken. So die basis van die Arts and Culture les gaan
meestal van so ‘n aard wees. Enne dans. Ek kan nie dans nie. Baie keer in musiek. Omdat ek nie baie betrokke
kan, baie kan betrokke raak by hierdie tipe van dinge nie. Ma die probleem is omdat ek nie musiek kan lees nie.
Dit kan ‘n problem raak as jy op sulke dinge klem lê waarmee jy ongemaklik is. So a.. a.. hulle sal mense moet in
kry maar wat, watte hm wat bevoeg is om al die kunste te onderrig. Net een ... net een spesialis wat in alles sal
kan onderrig. Ek lê net klem op een ding, byvoorbeeld, visual art, dans, maar musiek sal ek miskien net soos een
keer in die kwartaal doen, waar ek visual art elke week sal doen. Visual Art verstaan my. So, hulle moet miskien
ons kapasiteit a ... a ... hoe kan ek sê increase om om musiek a ... a ... aan te bied dan.
I: Because of the timetable, we don’t have much class switches. We have classes for art so then what we do
because of my experience in visual art and his experience in music I would ask him to assist me in music when it
is a certain aspect of music and I would assist him in his, visual art. I am sure there are many teachers who are
teaching Arts and Culture who hasn’t got experience of drama or any experience of dance any experience of
music ... and and ...
L: I don’t know. Dis nou die problem, Meneer, ek kan niks van daai goed doen nie, ma ek moet dit ma onderrig.
Plek, plek geniet ek dit, especially van dit by die dans kom. Ek is nie opgelei om dans te onderrignie, maar omdat
ek uh vir 8 jaar het ek liggaamlike oefening gegee en daar het ek, het ek geleer darem om dansies aan te leer,
kan ek nou ‘n dansie aanleer, ma nou kom die musiek, kuns en drama oe, sis, is ‘n sonde eintlik, is ‘n sonde dat