Life
Orientation in the Senior and Further Education and Training phases (called
Life Skills in the Intermediate Phase) is a compulsory school subject. The
purpose of this subject is to empower learners to achieve their full physical,
intellectual, personal, emotional and social potential. It is thus obvious that
it is a crucial subject to develop and support learners to become fully functional
individuals and responsible citizens of a democratic society, able to cope with
life and all the challenges it presents. Life
Orientation for South African teachers is a
comprehensive textbook on the subject of Life Orientation as stated in the curriculum
policy documents.
Life Orientation for South African teachers provides educators with in-depth knowledge as well as teaching skills to deal with the wide variety of themes within the subject. Besides a theoretical foundation there are case studies, reflective questions and activity boxes to assist with practical application of the topics covered in each chapter.
Contents
include the following:
• Human rights and values
• Religion studies in education
• Cultural diversity
• Lay counselling
• Behavioural issues: aggression and violence
• Healthy living
• Sexuality education
• Life skills
• Resilience
• Relationships
• Wellness through indigenous knowledge
• Child abuse
• Careers
• Study skills
• Pedagogical and assessment issues pertaining
to Life Orientation
Life Orientation for South African teachers is aimed at pre-service as well as postgraduate students in education.
Chapter
1 Introduction
SECTION A PEDAGOGICS OF LIFE ORIENTATION
Chapter
2 Pedagogy of Life Orientation/Life Skills
Chapter
3 Cooperative learning in the Life Orientation classroom
Chapter
4 Assessment in Life Orientation
SECTION B HUMAN RIGHTS/DEMOCRACY/CITIZENSHIP
Chapter
5 Human rights
Chapter
6 An introduction to the history and nature of human rights and democracy in
the South African Curriculum
Chapter
7 Democratic citizenship education for participatory democracy
Chapter
8 Teaching-learning for democracy and human rights in the Life Orientation
curriculum
Chapter
9 Teaching-learning for democracy and human rights in the Life Orientation
curriculum: experiential and dialogical learning methodologies
SECTION C DIVERSITY
Chapter
10 Religion in education: Life Orientation and Religion Studies
Chapter 11 Cultural diversity
SECTION D HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Chapter
12 Life skills
Chapter
13 Health promotion in South African schools
Chapter
14 Healthy living
Chapter
15 Physical education
Chapter
16 Relationships
Chapter
17 Sexuality education
Chapter
18 Promoting wellness through indigenous ways
Chapter
19 Behavioural issues: aggression and violence
Chapter
20 Child abuse
Chapter
21 Lay counselling
Chapter
22 Being a “turnaround teacher”: 1 teacher-learner partnerships towards
resilience
SECTION E CAREERS/STUDY SKILLS
Chapter
23 Careers and the world of work
Chapter
24 Study skills
Supplementary material available for this title includes:
• PowerPoint Templates for all chapters (these temapltes are outlines to assist you with your lectures)
• Jpegs of all figures and tables
• Suggested responses to questions in the textbook
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