TRIPLE E TRAINING HOLDINGS

CUSTOM MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT : a lifelong gift of education

Whether you're running your own business or managing a company, it's in everybody's best interests for you to develop your employees and look after their wellbeing. By developing skills, looking after your staff's well being, ensuring a diversified and representative workforce, you will be investing in your business. The right to literacy is one of the greatest gifts that any government can give its people, and custom materials development forms the basis of any good education program.

Literacy materials in all eleven languages are in place by a team of African language academics, linguists and practitioners.  Tasked with custom materials development, the materials have been  developed with both the learner and the teacher in mind,  ensuring that the cultures of the different language groups are mediated through the materials.

A wide and diverse range of publications are needed to cater for the ABET sector – the educators use educator handbooks, training manuals and lesson plans, while custom materials development towards learners includes course books, workbooks, readers, assessment packs, and writing cards etc.  ABET publications are predominantly produced in print because of issues of practicality and access.

The majority of ABET publications are written in English because large publishers fear the low sales and profit loss that comes with publishing in other African languages. ABET classes are mostly conducted in English, and most learners want to learn the language because it is viewed as a gateway to international communication and employment.

Custom materials development produces ABET publications in print, which not only meets the needs of the classroom context, but enables mobility of materials between the classroom and the homes of ABET learners, nevertheless, some ABET publications and educational materials are made digitally available. Custom materials development is about the appreciation books have brought to the many adults we have reached in South Africa, and Triple e has come a long way in creating and maintaining  effective literature distribution in a range of subjects to rural and urban communities.