Introduction
According to Fiske & Ladd (2004), Most people have currently mistaken that that there existed no education before apartheid uprising. The situation poorly represents South Africans who were already having a definite educational system. First, right before 1948, the white dominion participated in an election that gave way for South Africans to have an equal share of education in the country. In contrast to the education system of white dominant that was mandatory for white settlers and incurred no charges in terms of school fees, South African educational system was considered as irregular system characterized by lack of resources, insufficient educational facilities and students failure to take part in national exams.
Task
While carrying out an analysis of the educational system in South Africa during pre-apartheid period, it is clear that the South African society’s engagements towards education were quite constrained within their cultures thus resulting into an educational system enriched by the customs and norms of the society (Fiske & Ladd, 2004). The education system of the white constituted teachers involved in constant training towards a specific subject of study whereas, South African education only focused on teaching students discipline and positive societal social roles. Due to the diversity of ethnicity, Afrikaans became the most common language adopted for intermediaries and in educational institutions.
Throughout the study of the above topics, attempts to ascertain previous educational system of South Africa was addressed by the questions bellow.
• Is culture and education important elements to South African education in past?
• What has been the impact of education to the society since then?
• What is the contrast between apartheid students and current students?
• What are the challenges experienced by pre-apartheid system of education in South Africa?
Process
Despite the fact that South African educational system has undergone a transition from its informal trend to its modern state, some of the practices carried in the past are still forming parcel to modern education system illustrates Fiske & Ladd (2004). The following tasks were critical to ascertain the relevance of the process
Use of groups – As part of the procedure to determine how best the society value their cultural aspects and social norms, an instructor allocated modern students in distinct groups where requested them to write a note about their understanding culture. Besides, social websites that illustrated cultural understanding and the need for social educations formed part of the study, but it remained a principle mandate of the instructor to issue unique numbers as a necessity during the evaluation process (Fiske & Ladd, 2004).
Cultural practice process - In order to validate the results achieved from various groups, there was call for an online analysis address possible transformational process that South African language have undergone from the past to its current state. With the aid of computer systems, different results received acted as preliminary results in the subsequent validations (Fiske & Ladd, 2004).
Technological aspect – With the transition from formal education to modern education, technology became an important element that improved literacy development. The use of computer systems were vital in enhancing how students acquired the use of international language apart from the original ethnic language thus encouraged self-esteem (Fiske & Ladd, 2004).
Evaluation
Evaluation processes were partly recorded in terms of performance and educational system transition rate. The grading system used was as shown below
• 80 % Distinction, the highest possible level of achievement
• 70% credit – Second possible rate of development
• 60% pass - Average rate of development
50% average – Non participatory or no attempt made
Conclusion
Conclusion
It was the final part of the web-quest; the participants were mostly concerned on issues that were vital to the development process of the education system before and after Apartheid in South Africa. The final analysis and conclusion concerning the impact of the transition process to the society were finally recorded.