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Title Acceptance of co-operative education practice by the academic staff at Technikon Southern Africa.
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2703
Date 2000
Author(s) Groenewald, T.; Strümpfer, D.J.W.; Lessing, B.C
Abstract Technikons advocate the practice of co-operative education, which is an educational strategy that integrates learning through productive work with the theoretical curriculum. However, only 35% of theTechnikon SA programmes have a compulsory experiential learning component. Grounded theory research was undertaken to determine some of the basic assumptions of Technikon SA's academic staff in this regard. Rather than starting out with a specific research problem, grounded theory explores an area of interest and allows what is relevant to emerge. Semi-structured interviews with four open-ended questions, were conducted with a stratified-random sample of 25 teaching staff at Technikon SA. It was found that, although there is some willing compliance and belief in co-operative education, it is not indicative of the organisational culture of Technikon SA.
Subject(s) Co-operative education; Educational strategy; Organisational culture; Technikon Southern Africa
Language en
Publisher Journal of Industrial Psychology
Type of publication Article
Rights Complies with the rights as specified by the publisher: http://www.sajip.co.za/ & Copyright University of Johannesburg
Identifier 27(3), 1-6.
Repository Johannesburg - University of Johannesburg
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