Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship (Feb 1983)

Ideale vir die uitbouing van tegniese en beroepsonderwys in Suid-Afrika

  • W. L. Rautenbach

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/koers.v47i4.1036
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 47, no. 4

Abstract

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Problems emanating from the colonial structure, and which tend to reduce man to being a “human machine”, are discussed, and it is indicated that these tend to impinge on the status oj technical and professional education and lower it. From the demands the modern human-machine system makes one’s full capacity for being human, the author draws the conclusion that in technical and professional training human development has to be given primary consideration. A discussion of the problems surrounding cultural change and modernization in post-colonial set-ups indicates the fact that technical and professional education has a unique education task and opportunity in South Africa too.