'n Struktuur vir doelstellings vir onderwysersopleiding

Inaugural lecture--Faculty of Education, Rand Afrikaans University, 6 August 1981@@In investigating more closely the origin, structure and nature of aims and objectives for the training of teachers able to educate and teach, the question arises: who should be responsible for the setting of such aims and objectives? Is it for example the task and the responsibility of the discipline of pedagogy, the government, departments of education, the teaching profession, the community or institutionalized society as final employer of the trained product, the training institution or even the individual teacher trainer? It would appear, however, that a single body or institution cannot bear the sole responsibility of singlehandedly setting such training aims and objectives. The culturally defined society, as represented by its full spectrum of institutions, being the bearers of the highest values of that community, embodies the origin of such conceptualizations of justifiable aims. It is the responsibility of the government as the educational authority to conceive overall aims for teacher training, taking these concepts, as well as the demands of the profession and the requirements set by the institutionalized society as the final employer of the trained product, and the findings and recommendations of curriculum specialists into account. The different cultural groups within the parameters of the society should be afforded the opportunity of transposing these over-all aims to suit the requirements of a particular cultural group and of its adaptation into particular aims and objectives for teacher training. These aims and objectives can then be further particularised into learning objectives which can be made operational and concrete in practical training situations and which will ensure the desired knowledge of content, skills and attitudes, required of well-trained and competent teachers.