CPUT academic collaborates to produce Grade R teaching book
Grade R Teaching Diploma Co-ordinator, Dr Naseema Shaik, teamed up with academics from other tertiary institutions to write a book
Monday, 23 March 2015
A Foundation Phase lecturer in the Faculty of Education and the co-ordinator of the Grade R diploma course has been involved in writing a book on Grade R together with other academics from South African institutions.
Dr Naseema Shaik, who received her PHD in April of 2014, specializes in teaching Grade R and literacy in the Foundation Phase.
Shaik has contributed three chapters to the book, ‘Teaching Grade R’, which is published by Juta.
“I wrote one chapter on my own and its title is ‘Who is the Grade R teacher?’ In addition to this I wrote two chapters with other colleagues from other Higher Education institutions in South Africa,” she says.
“The title of the one chapter is ‘Perspectives on early childhood education’ and the other chapter is titled ‘Teaching and learning’.”
The book, which is available at local bookstores at just over R300 per copy, has a total of 14 chapters.
Eleven academics from seven institutions were involved in contributing towards ‘Teaching Grade R’.
This book advocates teaching and learning through play in Grade R and also highlights teaching and learning through participatory, child-centered approaches.
It is used by Grade R Teaching Diploma students, B ED: Foundation Phase students as well as Grade R teachers.
CPUT is the first and only university in the Western Cape that offers the Grade R Teaching Diploma when it introduced the course last year.
The diploma is offered on a part-time basis over four years.
Written by Kwanele Butana
Email: butanak@cput.ac.za
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