Basic Education

Question 1

What is the undhr and what does it say about

Answer 1

United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

1. Everyone has a right to education, education will be free at the elementary and fundamental stages, elementary education is compulsory.
2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and ti the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms
3. Parents have the right to choose the type of education administered to their kids.

Question 2

What does the SA’n constitution say about education?

Answer 2

Everyone has the right time a basic education (including adult education) and to further education, which the state through reasonable measures must make progressively available and accessible.

Everyone had the right to receive it in their language of choice.

Can’t be discriminatory on the grounds of race

Question 3

Why is basic education so important?

Answer 3

Frees up other rights

Promotes social mobility
Promotes economic development
Enables human development - widens choices about who to be, self respect and
Political participation, increased job capacity to achieve goals

Question 4

Explain the Bantu education act.

Answer 4

The Bantu education act of 1953 separated POCs and set up separate education facilities.

Curriculum set on Bantu cultural heritage, retribalisation. They were prepared for specific non-skilled labour.

HW Verwoed said that it made snese because miney was being spent on education that blacks were unable to use.

Question 5

What is the Badic Education Laws Act?

Answer 5

The Basic Education Laws Act (BELA)

Mandated that grade R be the starting grade

Abandoned corporal punishment

School governing bodies to submit language policies for approval.

The department, after consulting the governing body has final authority to admit a learner ti a public school.

Question 6

Explain the South African schools act of 1996.

Answer 6

does African schools act of 1996 enabled autonomy within schools by empowering the governing body or SGB which is made up of learners teaches and parents and also gave the owners of fees sitting and hiring decisions to the schools themselves?