Elaine Browne.pdf - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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T: I, I think learners can enjoy this Arts and Culture but what is lacking is that we don’t have that knowledge of
Arts and Culture and I think. I just teachers must ... must go under ... um I don’t know, let them ... I don’t want
to say they must go to school. They must go back to school. They go under certain training, certain in‐service
training, so that they can be able to get more knowledge about Arts and Culture so that they can be able to
teach learners these Arts and Culture the way it is supposed to be taught to them. You know. Another thing is, is
is resources. We don’t have resources. We don’t have a space for Arts and Culture because Arts and Culture
need a special class so thet learners must go there for Arts and Culture. Then ... Once they get in that class, may
be is, that class is special for Arts and Culture. Something can happen or change them you know and motivate
them. Those are the things we experience here at at our school.
Elaine: So where do you do Arts and Culture?
T: You just do the stuff in the class you know ...
U: Or outside if you’re supposed to run outside.
T: And, and when you say we must do the dance, there is not enough space in the class. The class is full.
U: And then if if Arts and Culture was, can be divided into sections. Let’s say this term, let’s do art, next term do
these dance, next term make music and so on. But not in the same quarter, dance and do re me in the same
quarter. Makes you miserable, you as the teacher. Because you are doing this ... Because you are doing the Arts.
Let say dance, they not even start to know that to learn that. What, what are they going to do, then say music.
We don’t have pianos, we don’t have everything that’s, instruments for the music in our schools.
T: In fact we don’t know music, even I, I don’t know music, I don’t know other teacher, I don’t know music.
U: I don’t speak of that basic thing that you know but implementing a little bit that you know. How do you do
that? (Speaking in Xhosa to the others) Only a little knowledge. So if you, if, if they can do workshops and this
workshops for instance ... If we are going to workshops, the teachers in our aid it takes two things. It takes a
day, or or from two to four. It takes so little a time then we would go there. We would be given and you come
with packs of things and that and you don’t even know where to start implementing that. We put those right
there (She shows with her hand to the top shelf of a cupboard nearby) and do what you are suppose to do or do
whatever or do what you are already doing. Like nobody will ever even come to see if, how are, are you going
through. How are you handling that you came herewith. So it is just like that.
Elaine: The information was not practical enough ...
U: When, when when I look at TV for instance this this feelings like High School Musicals or whatever. When
you look at those things you say: Auh, if I can get there, if I can only get that because when I see them I see, if, if
this one is doing music ... There is a little bit of dance there, this one is doing music, a little bit of drama there
and