Elaine Browne.pdf - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Elaine: So you think they must be more specific?
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V: The subject things, and, and, and music competitions and whatever. Bring back those things. At least it was
going somewhere. Doing it, knowing for a fact that I am going to master this up to a certain level. Just like
when I am playing soccer and I am going to get into EP and go to and rugby I am going to join EP and province
whatever.
Elaine: So you feel it should be specialized?
V: Yes, ja
(A teacher came into the room and they talk Xhosa for a few minutes and “U” left and came back after a while.)
V: If the Department of Education can supply us with enough resources it will be even better and each and
every learning step of Arts and Culture must be fabricated so that we can understand what is saying then. And it
must be continuous and for grade 4 and do this and this and stop here. And then the grade 6 teacher carry on
from where I left you must continue even to grade 9 and up to grade 12. Not a grade 6 teacher must come back
again to that I have done because may be I have skipped the other things. But if it is shortened for my learners,
for my kids, those specific things we will do it better. You know, even they can give you this book, most of the
things I haven’t done, I haven’t done, but I carry it every day. And you can take my Arts and Culture learners any
day.
Elaine: Anything you want to add?
T: What I would like to say I think this Arts and Culture, there must be a curriculum, a syllabus. There must be
syllabus for Arts and Culture. Another thing, there must be recom ... recommended books. Must just use one
book. One book for everybody. Another thing I want to say about Arts and Culture a, I don’t know whether the
Department of Education or whether it is the school that must be, at least a resource centre for Arts and Culture
at school. A resource centre you know where, the venue, the venue where we go and do Arts and Culture. It is
very important for the learners you know. The, the environment where they go and do Arts and Culture, it will
have something to do, where we will have the learners to learn or to like the subject. That is very important for
us.
Elaine: One last thing from you.
U: I said it all. All that we are going to do now it repeat ourselves.