Bridging the digital divide : a South African perspective on minimally invasive education

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dc.contributor.advisor Cronje, Johannes Christoffel en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Furstenburg, Elizabeth Agnes en
dc.date.accessioned 2013-09-07T03:41:36Z
dc.date.available 2006-02-01 en
dc.date.available 2013-09-07T03:41:36Z
dc.date.created 2005-08-01 en
dc.date.issued 2007-02-01 en
dc.date.submitted 2006-01-31 en
dc.description Dissertation (MEd (Computer Assisted Education))--University of Pretoria, 2007. en
dc.description.abstract Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have brought many opportunities to South Africa and also challenges, such as narrowing the gap, known as the digital divide, between those who have (the “haves”) and those who do not have (the “have-nots”) access to ICTs. The majority of South Africans living in developing areas throughout South Africa do not have access to computers and are mostly computer illiterate. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) launched their Digital Doorway project across South Africa to evaluate the feasibility of an alternative computer training method following a minimally invasive educational approach. Within the scope of the CSIR’s project, this research study endeavoured to explore to what extent and how the children had obtained computer skills, without the guidance of a facilitator, during the Digital Doorway project launched in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. A qualitative research methodology was adopted for the study. During the course of this research project, it was not possible to determine whether the children obtained any initial or additional computer skills, since the children were mostly unable to use the computers due to the malfunctioning thereof. The findings of this study coincide with authoritative literature on the topic which points out that real ICT access entails more than merely installing hardware and software. en
dc.description.availability unrestricted en
dc.description.department Curriculum Studies en
dc.identifier.citation Furstenburg, E 2005, Bridging the digital divide : a South African perspective on minimally invasive education, MEd dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26180 > en
dc.identifier.upetdurl http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01312006-122408/ en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26180
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2005, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. en
dc.subject Minimally invasive education en
dc.subject Computer literacy en
dc.subject Information and communication technologies (ICTs) en
dc.subject Computer training en
dc.subject Digital divide en
dc.subject “hole-in-the-wall” experiment en
dc.subject Computers kills en
dc.subject Digital doorway en
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.title Bridging the digital divide : a South African perspective on minimally invasive education en
dc.type Dissertation en


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