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With all the talk of teaching towards the achievement of competency and skills in the wake of outcomes-based education in South Africa, it is easy to forget that these should not be taught in a vacuum, or to the exclusion of other forms of knowledge. In addition to knowing ‘how to’ do something, we also need to ‘know that’ (content knowledge) and know how to form a judgement about issues (values and dispositions). In this article, Mark Mason, one of the authors of this module, argues that it is vital to integrate all three forms of knowledge – propositional knowledge (‘knowing that’), procedural knowledge (‘knowing how’), and dispositional knowledge (knowing what our purpose is and whether it is good).

Disciplines:

• Education  / TeacherEd