Argument Analysis - The Role-players in South African Education - Essay Assessment Answer

Essay Assessment Task

Task 1: Argument Analysis – Short Essay

For this task, you will need to use your knowledge of argument structures and analysis, as well as of the various philosophical approaches you covered in Learning Units 1 and 2 and apply these to a real-life education scenario in the form of a short academic essay.

Task 2

The Role-players in South African Education – Long Essay For this task, you will need to use your command of the various conceptualisations of education, as well as the roles that teachers play within these different conceptions, as covered in Learning Unit 3. Additionally, you will need to combine this with some of the principles covered in Learning Units 1 and 2 to draw a conclusion regarding a hypothetical ‘ideal’ for the South African education context. With the circumstances around Michael Komape’s death as your reference point, write a formal essay (of between 800 and 1000 words) in which you offer your informed opinion regarding which role-player (or combination of role-players) you think is/are best suited to doing justice to the conceptualisation and control of education in South Africa. You need to:

• Discuss your informed view on the roles that the state, the parents, and the community should play in the provision of basic sanitation at the Mehlodumela Primary School that Michael Komape attended;
• Support your opinions with reference to (at minimum) the positions of Locke, Plato, Mill, Adeyemi and Adeyinka, and Gutmann;
• Discuss the effects that your selection of role-player/s might have on the roles of teachers in South African classrooms.