Elaine Browne.pdf - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

M: You, you’ve got to hurry those children up because the next period ... a, a ...
N: Yes, a different class ..
M: You’ve got to get, you know ... It is a whole hassle en lat stan mar, ek gaan dit nie doen nie.
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O: Because, because when somebody comes into your class from somewhere else they expect you to be
prepared. It is nice to be prepared. I myself give workshops at the Teachers’ Centre. I am, you are prepared for
that workshop because that’s the only thing you’re doing for the day. So, you got your set, you got your paints
and squares cut out nicely for when the children come with their teacher. You can go ahead and do it. You
cannot do that because you got to jump from English to the next period. You’ve got to clean up and you’ve got
another subject and there’s no time to erase that again. Or otherwise you had to spend your whole day at home
preparing. And I’m sure we don’t want to do that all after hours. This was mostly negative but there are many
positives and we are missing out. We have a lot of talented children in our areas and because we do not have
specialized teachers, our children are falling with the crap. We know, I picked up a visual artist here. I picked up
a visual artist here in Helenvale over the years that we taught. And they are not interested in sport. So we know
children are not only interested in sport and there are those that are interested in other things. We do not cater
for them. And if we have a specialist we will, we will pick them up. And we will develop an art gallery. Just as we
enhance that cricketer and the rugby player. We will do it exactly the same.
M: And another thing too, like Mr O says um ... picking up those children. Some of those children are not
academically strong. And if you could pick up that child and you hand him the resources and you have a
specialized person, that child can really be boosted, his self esteem and whatever, you know. And you don’t
know where that child can go to. May be one of the artists, may be a South African artist, for the new era.
Elaine: Ja dan doen dit goed vir waar hy nie in akademies sterk is nie. Dan blom hy daarin ...
M: Now he sits there with his academic, the English, because we not, we can’t do this art because of the time,
the space, what have you. So we concentrate ma on this. And this poor child suffers and we don’t know what is
going on with this child. In the meantime this child is an artist.
O: A different outlet.
M: Our children don’t have enough outlets that is why they go on like they go on. Maar ‘n mens sit en train en
leer en leer too much.
O: Too much.
M: You should have seen them now with their LO: Conflict. But that one little ... they really did it so nicely.
Naderhand toe kom Elsa, toe vra sy vir my, wat se geraas is dit die? No, educated noise.
Elaine: So voel julle die workshops het gehelp?
N: I have never been to an Arts and Culture workshop. I go to the LLC workshops.