Tegniese onderwys op sekondêre skoolvlak vir Blankes in Suid–Afrika tot 1974

Abstract

This study is aimed at indicating the development of technical education at secondary level from 1925 to 1974. Attention is paid to the development of technical education as it is presented at full-time day-schools. For the purpose of this research, technical education is defined as: a preparatory study towards an apprenticeship or a further study in technology, while the value of general-formative education is continually stressed. Chapter 2 deals with the control and judicial foundations of technical education. This aspect is treated in three sub-sections namely: * technical education under provincial control before 1925: * technical education under control of the Union Department of Education and the Department of Education, Arts and Science (1925-1967) and * technical education, once more the responsibility of the provincial departments of education (1968-1974). Chapter 3 shows the composition of the curricula for technical schools during 1925-1974 and how it was adapted periodically to continually changing industrial circumstances. In an effort to provide educated technically trained manpower, pupils are educated in the more general scientific principles which are fundamental to each trade. The emphasis, however. did not only fall on the technological training. Since 1925 generally-formative education had already been offered at technical schools. Chapter 4 deals with the entrance requirements for, as well as the number of pupils in technical high schools. This chapter also tries to explain the manner in which pupils are affected by stipulations concerning compulsory education. chapter 5 deals with the financial implications concerning technical education. The financial burden has been the major factor which impeded the realistic development of technical education. It was also one of the most important factors which determined the place of technical schools in the South African school system. Attention is paid in Chapter 6 to the training of teachers for the technical schools and the training of personnel for the workshops at technical schools is stressed, as this kind of education is peculiar to the technical schools. Chapter 7 gives a short summary of the entire study.