Research Catalog

Title

The right to learn : the struggle for education in South Africa / prepared for Sached by Pam Christie.

Author

Christie, Pam.

Publication

Braamfontein, South Africa : Ravan Press ; Johannesburg, South Africa : Sached Trust, [1985]

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Details

Additional Authors

Sached Trust.

Description

272 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Series Statement

A People's college book

Uniform Title

People's college book

Subject

• Education > South Africa > History
• Missions > South Africa > Educational work > History
• Education and state > South Africa > History
• Missions > Educational work > History. > South Africa
• Education
• Education and state
• Missions > Educational work
• Onderwijsstelsels
• South Africa

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

What's education about? -- Different opinions about education -- Different aims for education -- What do schools do? -- Schools and the wider society -- A short history -- Pre-colonial education -- Education up to 1800 -- British control after 1815 -- The trekker states -- Social and educational change: 1880-1940 -- Industrial growth and apartheid education -- The church and education -- Mission education before 1953 -- The response of the churches to Bantu education -- The 'open schools' movement -- Reading facts and figures -- Population -- Expenditure on education -- School enrolments -- Pupil-teacher ratios -- University enrolments -- The "hidden curriculum" -- The divided schooling system -- Government control -- The authority structures of schools -- Organization in school -- School and work -- Syllabuses, exams and certificates -- Teaching methods -- White education: the worldview of CNE -- Christian National Education -- The National Education Policy Act (1967) -- CNE programmes in white schools -- The government's response to De Lange -- Education, work and certificates -- Pt 1: Why do we work? -- The changing nature of work -- Capitalism -- Education under capitalism -- Work in capitalist societies -- Pt 2: Certificates and qualifications -- The meaning of 'certificates' and 'qualifications' Why have certificates? -- Certificates sort people out for jobs -- Political issues -- Dilemmas -- Another view -- Education on the job -- On the job training -- Why training? -- Dilemmas -- Trade union education -- Resistance in education -- Earliest resistance -- Resistance to mission schools after 1920 -- Opposition to the Bantu Education Act of 1953 -- Opposition from 1954 onwards -- Black consciousness and resistance -- June 1976 -- 1980 boycott -- Resistance in 1984 -- Alternatives -- Education and the wider society -- Aims of education in schools -- Education outside schools -- Education and social awareness -- Alternative programmes? -- Educational alternatives in South Africa -- The De Lange alternative -- Responses to De Lange -- Student demands.

ISBN

• 0869752863
• 9780869752869

LCCN

86146843

OCLC

• ocm13926045
• 13926045
• SCSB-1192648

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library