Sae3701 Assignment No 2

SAE3701 ASSIGNMENT NO 2 STUDEN NO Page 1 of 6 QUESTION 1 1. Aspects of Social life precolonial education embraced  Building of physical aptitude  Develop skills significantly to survive in a developing environment  Character building  Moral qualities  Prepare for responsibilities in an adult life. 2. Main aspects of socialisation in pre-colonial societies Main  Rules of interaction with others  Values and beliefs  Acquisition of cultural norms Primary agents of socialisation  Family What were children taught?  Hot to think, act and feel appropriately 3. Formal and informal learning in the pre-colonial context Formal  Transmitted through initiation rites.  Defined as the institutionalised, chronologically graded and hierarchically structured  Characteristics may be the initiation ritual. Informal  Transmitted through parents  Defined as the lifelong process to which everyone acquires and accumulate skills, knowledge and insights from daily experiences.  Characteristics refer to the contact individuals have with a variety of environmental influences. 4. Colonisation and missionary education change precolonial societies  African kingdoms were defeated by white conquest  Authority structure then changed  More blacks were drawn into wage labour  People’s attitudes towards education changed  Created new social groups. This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :20:03 GMT -05:00