期刊名称：International Online Journal of Educational Sciences
电子版ISSN：1309-2707
出版年度：2014
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：11-18
出版社：IOJES
摘要：A trace of the history of academic development practices reflect that such programmes have operated for a longtime as appendages to the mainstream curriculum. In line with the deficit theory, students in need of academic support havebeen identified and intervention programmes outside the mainstream curriculum were planned and implemented for suchstudents. Challenges of such conceptualisation and implementation of academic development programmes are numerous. Further,this concept paper advances the argument that academic development programmes should be an integral part of the mainstreamacademic curriculum in a university. This paper engages in a critical appraisal of the history of academic development practicesin universities. The advantages of academic development programmes embedded in the mainstream curriculum are discussedand a model for the conceptualization and implementation of such academic development programmes explained. In this paperthe researcher concludes that challenges of student diversity in universities in South Africa call for a re-consideration of academicdevelopment practices to make them more responsive to students' needs. The researcher recommends deliberate policies andplans to integrate academic development programmes in mainstream programmes in School/Faculties and departments
