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- ItemOutcomes-based education as a social practice : transformative or not?(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-12) November, Ivan P.; Waghid, Yusef; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Education Policy Studies.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores whether Outcomes-based education (OBE) as currently being practised in South Africa is transformative or not. Put differently, the dissertation explores whether the critical outcomes of OBE can engender citizens who can function in a deep democratic 'space'. My contention is that the outcomes seem to be framed according to the tenets of instrumentality which erode peoples' self-independence and dialogical aspirations necessary to further democratise and transform the country's education system. Consequently, although the current critical outcomes have the possibility of engendering critical citizens, this dissertation argues that this kind of criticality is not enabling enough in order to cultivate persons who can function adequately in a deep democracy - one whereby people can deliberatively and imaginatively engage in a dialogical relationship. Therefore, it is argued that outcomes need to be framed commensurate with a democratic citizenship agenda which holds the promise of cultivating a critical mass which can function in a deep democratic dispensation on the basis of deliberation and imagination - a matter of reconceptualising the critical outcomes in a transformative manner.