Elaine Browne.pdf - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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J: Ons doen nie kuns op die tafeltjie nie, daar is ‘n tekort aan meubelment en die Departement verskaf dit nie. I
want to emphasize, I want to emphasize that they are not supplying us with furniture or chairs whatever. They
are not supplying it.
I: I cannot remember of having heard in the last 10 years of a school having received a piano.
J: Hulle stem ook nie meer ons klaviere nie, they don’t tune our piano’s anymore. They used to do it regularly.
We have to pay for that as well, because I cannot play with a piano that is not tuned properly and emphasize
pitch, it can be semitone, a tone out, while you, it can be a song in G Major and then your key various, you see.
So all things are challenges to principals actually because the teacher who play will say so, when are you going
to tune the piano? Oh I can’t teach like this you know. I can’t do this aspect because I don’t have the space for
it. It is raining outside, my room is too small. The weather must not stop you.
Elaine: Wil jy dalk iets sê oor assessering?
L: Nee die assessering is net so ‘n problem, om te asseseer. Da is te veel aspekte wat ‘n mens moet assesseer.
En nou omdat hulle so baie goed wil hê, nou kom jy miskien nie by dinge uit wat jy graag wil doen, of moet doen
nie. Asssessering is te veel, vreeslik te veel.
K: Wat basies nou, jy weet gebeur het. Hulle het byvoorbeeld‘n case study dan jy jouself het nie die idée om so
iets aan te pak nie. Jy jouself het nie die knowledge om a ...
Elaine: Jy voel hulle gee nie vir jou die metode nie?
J: Die learning material van die guide motiveer nie genoeg om ‘n case study te doen in die klas nie.
I: You go to a workshop, they sketch a scenario and they want you as a group totally, it’s the first time you hear
of this scenario, you must work out and then they say, well that looks right. You know they can’t give you....
there’s no right or wrong answer. Now the children come up with something that you don’t agree with but you
must remember there’s no right or wrong answer. They can do that if they want to.
J: Or they give, they do give books at the workshops and we do get our free copies but in extensive exercises;
teachers come and say I‘ve got 5 books here, but what I wanted is not actually in this book. Can we go to
Pickwick and buy books just to cover this one aspect, and the budget unfortunately has to accommodate that
too, otherwise they gonna say, sir I asked you, I could do the aspect because you people did not buy the books,
you know. You didn’t require these things when you had the syllabus for the subjects. It was an additional
source if you wanted it from the public library but you were not compelled to go and buy, you know. Uhm ...
these books, but now we are actually compelled you know. It is actually sad, and I sometimes wonder, my
father paid for three years for me to be at college to spesialise in a subject that but am not really doing justice
to, you know. The only help is to help Mr. X and only help from his side was paid from his side to help me. So,
you know we are in the process of helping each other to get somewhere.