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Title Die eksplorering en beskrywing van graad een- leerders se ervaring van televisie programme: 'n basiese interpretivistiese kwalitatiewe studie by 'n Afrikaanse privaatskool aan die Wesrand.
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10210/235
Date 2008
Author(s) Keyter, Jenine May
Abstract As an educational psychologist working within a school and therapeutic context, I became aware of the need to utilise children's existing frame of reference and lived experiences to support barriers to learning and development. In my interaction with children I realised that television programmes and characters constitute a major part of their development and social context. The aim of this research was to explore the grade one learner's experience of television programmes and characters and to provide guidelines to educators and educational psychologists on the utilization of these programmes and characters to address children's diverse learning and developmental needs and provide relevant classroom and therapeutic practice. In this study I worked from an interpretive and constructivist research paradigm with a qualitative methodological paradigm, which aimed to provide a comprehensive description of the grade one learner's experience of television programmes and characters. A basic interpretivistic qualitative research design was selected. The theoretical base underpinning this study was Bronfenbrenner's bio-ecological theory of human development and in addition to this, a whole school approach, developmental psychology, learning theory and impact therapy was used. The participants in this study included twenty grade one learners from an Afrikaans Private School in the West Rand. Multiple methods of data collection were used and included observations, lesson presentations, focus group interviews and making and discussing a scrapbook. Three themes were established after data collection and analysis and were discussed as the findings of the study. A constant comparative method guided data analysis. The findings of the study were strongly guided by the children's identification with television characters that represented strength, authority and control, as well as beauty and humour. These findings provided guidelines to educators and educational psychologists on how they can utilise television programmes and characters as a medium to improve their classroom practice and therapeutic interventions. - Dr. E. Fritz
Subject(s) Television programs; Television programs for children; Social perception
Language afr
Type of publication Thesis
Repository Johannesburg - University of Johannesburg
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