Name: Tebogo
Surname: Thipe
Title of the assignment Assignment 02
Module code: Becoming a Teacher
(BTE2601)
Lectures Name: Mr. MX Majola
Assignment number: 02
Unique Number 629125
Due Date: 26 June 2020
Student Number 61062561
, Question 1
1.1 Discuss critical theory in the South African context. Your discussion should include the
following:
a) your understanding of critical theory
My understanding is that critical theory is used to offer best education for every learner
by the educational system to make people’s lives better when it comes to academics, and
learners must be treated fairly and equal to reap the benefits of better educations without
being biased and leaners come from different background culture and beliefs so the
teacher show apply different learning styles.
b) importance of critical theory to teachers
Critical theory is important because it provides resources to both critique an unequal
practice related to schooling and society, educators work hard to bring change to leaners
and communities that aim to improve equality.
c) Advantages Of Critical Theory
It could signal a move for leaners form being mainly users of knowledge in a
conjunction with others.
It could prompt you to become active agents in constructing new kinds of
knowledge relationship.
It should enable all those who participate in education to define and produce
knowledge accordingly to the social, historical and culture contexts in which they
find themselves
1.2 Describe five types of curricula.
Official, explicit intended curriculum – this is the prescribed curriculum, it is the blue
print for teaching and it is the plan fir intentions a single plan can be used for different
leaners even if its contexts differ.
Enacted curriculum as practice – this curriculum as it experienced, it also referred to as
the non-official and implicit curriculum as implemented by educator and what is actually
taught and learned.
Covert curriculum – this is teaching that is implicit but deliberate on the part of the
educator or school.
Hidden curriculum – this learning that is completely hidden from educators and learners
it is another form of implicit learning which educators did not intended and probably not
aware of.
Assessed curriculum – this refers to the knowledge and skills that are measured to
determine learner achievement, objective or learning outcomes are attained.
1.3 Discuss the social theory and the assumption that it holds with regard to teaching and
learning
also known as the cognitive development of child-centred teaching where teachers seek to
develop varied and stimulating learning environments from which children can derive challenging
Experienced the work of the cognitive psychologists contrast with behaviourism, which was
interested in stimulus and response rather than the mental processes in between approach to
psychology influenced the
Surname: Thipe
Title of the assignment Assignment 02
Module code: Becoming a Teacher
(BTE2601)
Lectures Name: Mr. MX Majola
Assignment number: 02
Unique Number 629125
Due Date: 26 June 2020
Student Number 61062561
, Question 1
1.1 Discuss critical theory in the South African context. Your discussion should include the
following:
a) your understanding of critical theory
My understanding is that critical theory is used to offer best education for every learner
by the educational system to make people’s lives better when it comes to academics, and
learners must be treated fairly and equal to reap the benefits of better educations without
being biased and leaners come from different background culture and beliefs so the
teacher show apply different learning styles.
b) importance of critical theory to teachers
Critical theory is important because it provides resources to both critique an unequal
practice related to schooling and society, educators work hard to bring change to leaners
and communities that aim to improve equality.
c) Advantages Of Critical Theory
It could signal a move for leaners form being mainly users of knowledge in a
conjunction with others.
It could prompt you to become active agents in constructing new kinds of
knowledge relationship.
It should enable all those who participate in education to define and produce
knowledge accordingly to the social, historical and culture contexts in which they
find themselves
1.2 Describe five types of curricula.
Official, explicit intended curriculum – this is the prescribed curriculum, it is the blue
print for teaching and it is the plan fir intentions a single plan can be used for different
leaners even if its contexts differ.
Enacted curriculum as practice – this curriculum as it experienced, it also referred to as
the non-official and implicit curriculum as implemented by educator and what is actually
taught and learned.
Covert curriculum – this is teaching that is implicit but deliberate on the part of the
educator or school.
Hidden curriculum – this learning that is completely hidden from educators and learners
it is another form of implicit learning which educators did not intended and probably not
aware of.
Assessed curriculum – this refers to the knowledge and skills that are measured to
determine learner achievement, objective or learning outcomes are attained.
1.3 Discuss the social theory and the assumption that it holds with regard to teaching and
learning
also known as the cognitive development of child-centred teaching where teachers seek to
develop varied and stimulating learning environments from which children can derive challenging
Experienced the work of the cognitive psychologists contrast with behaviourism, which was
interested in stimulus and response rather than the mental processes in between approach to
psychology influenced the
