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Twenty years ago, our research identified the centrality of teachers to educational change.
Twenty years ago, the Basic Concepts Programme was simply a doctoral research project exploring an important question
Reflections from the first two training sessions highlight participants' growing understanding of mediated learning and its application in everyday practice.
The most important learning begins long before children enter school.
Helping to build a comprehensive mediational teaching framework
20 July 2026
Basic Concepts Foundation Training Dates:

 
28 July 2026
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03 August 2026
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17 August 2026
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Teachers use questions that evoke thinking and inquiry, so that the learners are able to discover and experience for themselves.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015

It made me look at my teaching in a different way. I am excited to implement what I have learnt.

Metro Central Education District, March 2014
Metro Central Education District, March 2014

The BCP provides "tools" for higher-level learning.

Public Open Training, Cape Town (2014)

This is an excellent programme that can benefit any learner or educator.

Metro Central (2013): Training
Metro Central Education District

Basic Concepts are the building blocks on which cognition and perception is built.

Metro Central Training: WCED (February, 2015)

The Basic Concepts Programme is basically the same as Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development. It is a way of teaching… it gives individuals a way to structure their thinking and reasoning. 

Mitchell's Plain Primary School, November 2015