Education

The impact education will have on the development of developing countries

For the purpose of our answer we look at South African education.

Education will have a positive impact on the development of South Africa as it will alleviate most of the issues that slows down development in our country. The above statement refers to:• The biggest issues that slow down the development of

education in South Africa are high rate of people infected/affected by HIV and Aids, poverty and unemployment . If we are able to achieve universal education there will be a decrease in the above problems .

• If everyone attends primary school they will acquire basic information about the HIV and Aids virus and will ,therefore , protect themselves and make wise decision concerning HIV/AIDS thus decreasing the increasing number of people infected by HIV and AIDS in our country.

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Further more education will do the following:

Decrease the unemployment rate

Increase our literacy rate

Decrease poverty

Decrease malnutrition in children: this is because

many of our schools provide food for learners.

Would there be a bigger impact for girls than boys?

According to research done by the South African

Education and Adolescent Development , education

will have a more larger impact on girls than boys the

reason being the gender approach to learning will help

empower girls and challenge gender-discrimination.

Models that already exist and are they successful

The state has made primary education compulsory, this has been successful.

State owned schools have the following models:• Free transport; this has been successful in many rural areas where schools are far from

villages.• Feeding schemes• Free schooling : about 200 000 children get access to this, it is a system where by

children do not pay school fees. • Free stationary and school uniforms, this has made schooling easy and affordable for

many children however not everyone has access to this.• Monitoring of learner attendance, this has not been successful.

Girls’ education is one of the main achievements of the post-apartheid education system, with girls and boys enrolling in school in almost equal numbers.

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Many children experience a broken journey through school,

interrupted by irregular attendance, absent teachers, teenage

pregnancy and school-related abuse and violence. South

Africa’s high levels of poverty continue to deny thousands of

children access to quality education. Around 27 per cent of

public schools do not have running water, 78 per cent are

without libraries and 78 per cent do not have computers.

There is limited provision for preschool and special education.

Cultural Barriers

As research shows, cultural barriers are seen in both South

Africa and Africa as a whole.

• Women are seen as people who are supposed to perform domestic tasks( house work) but this occurs mostly in the rural areas because most rural areas have not adapted to the 21st Century way of thinking .

• Many women or girls are expected to be house wives and undergo marriage at an early age. The number of males from rural areas outnumber the number of females in universities from rural areas.

Cultural barriers

In most cases women are thought to have an inferior mental and intellectual

capacity and that they cannot handle subjects such as Physics, Accounting or

Mathematics. However, in South Africa this is changing because most female

students are starting to take these subjects and are being empowered in this

way.

In South Africa most of the above mentioned cultural barriers are being dealt

with, with the various organisations that empower and offer opportunities to

bring success to women.

The clip below highlights Cultural Barriers of education as a whole Africa

The Facts About Girls' Education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQLmtMck9yM&feature=related

The first steps that need to be taken in order to accomplish this goal

The government needs to come up with a system whereby they can

monitor the spending of the money allocated to the department of

education. (This statement was backed up by National Planning Minister Trevor

Manuel: http://www.southafrica.info/about/education/ )

• We say this this because large amounts of money (can be seen in our national budget) is given to the department yet many children receive poor education. • An example of this can be seen by reading the article on the link

provided. • http://www.a24media.com/whatsyourstory/governance/south-african-pr

imary-education-at-risk-because-of-poor-governance

• The Department of Education is planning to monitor the school attendance since many kids register for school but are never present at times.

References

http://www.unicef.org/southafrica/education.html

http://planipolis.iiep.unesco.org/upload/South%20A

frica/South_Africa_MDG_midterm.pdf

Www.StatisticsSouthAfrica.co.za

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQLmtMck9yM

&feature=related

Primary Sources

Teachers