Answer to Question #212740 in English for Thombie

Question

-Apply your understanding and explain how Africanisation is relating to early childhood education.

- List THREE (3) examples of how the concept of Africasation can be applied in a foundation phase classroom or lesson.

-Why are Western perspectives/theories dominant in South Africa's ECD?

- What message is Serpell (2008) trying to convey by writing "scientific" in inverted commas and with capital letter "S"

- Explain what was meant by Serpell in the sentence, "these theories are presented as Scientific".

Answer 1

Africanization relates to early childhood education because it involves infusing indigenous knowledge and African culture into teaching and learning process.

Ways in which the concept of africanization can applied in the foundation phase classroom or lesson include; teaching of the African culture in the foundation phase lesson, teaching of the African languages and infusing oral literature at the early stage of learning.

The western perspective is dominant in South Africa’s ECD because South African formal education borrows a lot from the European formal education.

Serpell uses inverted commas with capital ‘S’ because it is a proper noun.

Serpell mean that the theories are empirical and could be proven using scientific methods.