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Education and Independence - Education in South Africa, 1658-1988 (Paperback)
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Education and Independence - Education in South Africa, 1658-1988 (Paperback)
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets
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Public education can be one of the most powerful tools at the
disposal of a government wanting to maintain power, as it is the
realm in which children are taught the social values and norms that
will sustain the culture when they become adults. In South Africa,
education was kept separate, unequal, and decidedly undemocratic,
and as Hlatshwayo explains, it was used specifically to preserve
and perpetuate inequality. In a work designed for historians and
education professionals alike, he examines the tumultuous and
highly politicized history of South African education and evaluates
the prospects for its hopefully nonracialized future. Hlatshwayo
begins with a look at the socioeconomic and political structure
(dating back as far as 1658) that allowed for South Africa's use of
education as a tool of hegemony and follows this with a critical
analysis of the educational system--its goals, objectives,
organizational structure, and resistance thereto. Finally, drawing
from the educational policy statements of the United Democratic
Front (UDF) and the African National Congress (ANC), he proposes a
democratic educational system for South Africa--something that, as
he makes clear in this provocative and challenging work, has been
an anathema for centuries to a government that had as its primary
goal the subjugation of the majority of its citizens. Using an
array of sociological and economic models, Hlatshwayo reveals the
ways in which a society's educational system and its struggle
toward freedom are inextricable.
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