Revisiting planning education at the University of Pretoria

Abstract

This article discusses the way in which the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria is using three sets of projects in which it has participated over the past twelve years in revising its planning curricula. These three projects, namely improving intergovernmental development planning; enhancing community-based planning, and presenting and participating in capacity-building and certificated short courses, are discussed, in conjunction with what faculty experienced and observed, and what lessons were learnt with regard to the Department’s planning curricula. This is followed by a discussion of the implications of the experiences and lessons learnt in the three projects for planning education on a more generic level.

Hierdie artikel bespreek die wyse waarop die Stads- en Streekbeplanningsdepartement aan die Universiteit van Pretoria drie stelle projekte waarin die Departement gedurende die laaste twaalf jare betrokke was, gebruik om sy beplanningskurrikulums te hersien. Die drie projekte, naamlik die verbetering van interregeringsontwikkelingsbeplanning; die versterking van gemeenskapsgebaseerde beplanning, en die aanbied en deelname in kapasiteitsbou en gesertifiseerde kortkursusse, word bespreek tesame met dit wat die lede van die Departement ervaar en gemerk het, en die lesse wat geleer is ten opsigte van die Departement se beplanningskurrikulums. Dit word gevolg deur ’n bespreking van die implikasies van die ervarings en die lesse geleer in die drie projekte vir beplanningsopleiding op ’n meer generiese vlak.

Ho ya kamoo Lefapha la Moralo wa Toropo le Lebatowa le sebedisang dikarolo tse tharo tsa tshebetso (diprojeke) le bileng la kena kateng ditabeng tsena dilemong tse mashome a mabedi tse fetileng, ho tadimeng hape moralo wa dikharikhulamo oo ho buisanweng ka wona. Ditshebetso tse tharo, e leng ho ntlafatsa moralo wa ntshetsopele o kopanetsweng le mmuso; ho matlafatsa moralo o theilweng hodima baahi; le ho fana le ho kenela ho bopeng bokgoni le dithuto tse kgutshwanyane tse fanang ka lengolo la dithuto ho buisanwa ka tsona, ha mmoho le ho re ke lefapha lefe le fetileng moo esitana le ho bona le hore ke dithuto dife tse ithutilweng malebana le moralo wa dikharikhulamo wa Lefapha. Taba ena e hlahlangwa ke mathata a tseo ho thulanweng le tsona le dithuto tseo di ithutilweng ditshebetsong tsena tse tharo tsa moralo wa thuto boemong ba kakaretso bo nammeng.