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Teaching Astronomy at the University of South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

W.F. Wargau ,
B. Cunow  and
C.J.H. Schutte
W.F. Wargau
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of South Africa, P. O. Box 392, Pretoria 0001
B. Cunow
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of South Africa, P. O. Box 392, Pretoria 0001
C.J.H. Schutte
Affiliation:
Chief Executive Director: Science, Technology and Informatics, University of South Africa, P. O. Box 392, Pretoria 0001

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The University of South Africa celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Over this period it grew, becoming one of the largest tertiary distance education institutions and the largest university on the African continent.

South Africa always had a mixed racial population with each group having its own culture. This difference between people is further aggravated by differences in the level of “westernisation”. Furthermore, South Africa also suffers from an extreme urbanisation problem where on the one hand we find modern cities and on the other tribal groups. All these factors led to a differentiation of the population into a first world and third world component.

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Section Two
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 162: New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , 1998 , pp. 54 - 59
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