tailieunhanh - Teacher Graduate Production in South Africa

The study serves as a foundation from which to launch further research on questions of teacher supply and teacher quality, such as the degree to which a bursary scheme, recently launched by the National Department of Education, will reinvigorate interest and participation in initial teacher education. | TEACHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA SERIES TEACHER GRADUATE PRODUCTION IN SOUTH AFRICA Free download from HSRC PRESS ANDREW PATERSON FABIAN ARENDS Koninkrijk CeffiSS der Nederlanden Free download from Published by HSRC Press Private Bag X9182 Cape Town 8000 South Africa First published 2009 ISBN soft cover 978-0-7969-2269-4 ISBN pdf 978-0-7969-2270-0 ISBN e-pub 978-0-7969-2297-7 2009 Human Sciences Research Council Copy-edited by Kathleen Sutton Typeset by Robin Taylor Cover by Fuel Design Printed by Distributed in Africa by Blue Weaver Tel 27 0 21 701 4477 Fax 27 0 21 701 7302 Distributed in Europe and the United Kingdom by Eurospan Distribution Services EDS Tel 44 0 20 7240 0856 Fax 44 0 20 7379 0609 Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group IPG Call toll-free 800 888 4741 Fax 1 312 337 5985 contents Free download from Tables and figures iv Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Executive summary xii Abbreviations and acronyms xx 1 Introduction I Key questions to be addressed 3 Structure of this monograph 4 2 Background and literature review 5 Literature on attraction to train as a teacher 5 Emphasis on functions of recruitment attrition and retention but neglect of attraction in the literature 8 Career decision-making processes and enrolment in teacher training 11 Teaching and the labour market 13 Changing labour-market conditions impact on who is prepared to become a teacher 14 Pathways of teachers from training to the labour market in South Africa 17 3 Data sources 2 1 Transformation in the higher education sector and analytic continuity 21 4 Analysis of data 25 Education enrolment 25 Education graduates 29 Graduation rate and throughput rate 33 Enrolments graduates and graduation rates with reference to population group 35 Gender distribution of enrolment graduates and graduation rate 42 Gender and population