Apartheid and Education: The Education of Black South Africans

524 Pages·1984·312.921 MB·English

by  Peter Kallaway, University of Cape Town Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town Education Policy Unit

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The Education of Black South Africans
Edited by Peter Kallaway
Published in association with
the Education Policy Unit and
Centre for African Studies
(University of Cape Town)
An Africa Perspective Project
JOHANNESBURG
RAVAN PRESS
Published by Ravan Press (Pty) Ltd.,
P O Box 31134, Braamfontein 2017, South Africa
© Copyright: The contributors
as listed on the contents page of this book
First published 1984
Typesetting: Sandy Parker
Cover Design: The Graphic Equalizer
Cover Painting: Ernest Ullmann
(Courtesy Jobannesburg Public Library)
ISBN 0 86975 256 1
Printed by Galvin and Sales (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town
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Contents
Contributors vzi: ,
Acknowledgements and Editor’s Note ix
Introduction
~ An Introduction to the Study of Education for Blacks in South
Africa 1
Peter Kallaway
Part One: The Origins of Black Education
- The Historical Foundations of the Schooling of Black South
Africans 45 e
Frank Molteno
Charles T Loram and the American Model for African Education
in South Africa 108
R Hunt Davis Jr
The Administration and Financing of African Education in South
Africa 1910-1953 127 b
R Hunt Davis Jr
_ Part Two: Apartheid and Education
" The Role of Fundamental Pedagogics in the Formulation of
Educational Policy in South Africa 139-
Penny Enslin
The Hearts and Minds of the People 148«
Lynn Maree
'y Bantu Education: Apartheid Ideology and Labour Repro-
duction 160
Pam Christie & Colin Collins
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Contents Vi1
Part Three: Education Beyond the Schools
African Educational Protest in South Africa: The American
School Movement in the Transkei in the 1920s 184
Robert Edgar
The Adult Night School Movements for Blacks on the Witwaters-
rand 1920-1980 192
Adrienne Bird
Upward All and Play the Game: The Girl Wayfarers’ Association in
the Transvaal 1925-1975 222
Deborah Gaitskell
The Parents’ School Boycott: Eastern Cape and East Rand
Townships, 1955 265
Tom Lodge
Part Four: The Current Crisis
The State and the Reproduction of Labour Power in South
Africa 296 -
Mervyn Hartwig & Rachel Sharp
" Capital, State and Educational Reform in South Africa 341
John Davies
Technicism and de Lange: Reflections on the Process of the HSRC
Investigation 371
Peter Buckland
" Redefining Skills: Black Education in South Africa in the
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1980s 387
Linda Chisholm
Part Five: Bibliography: The Education of Black South Africans
by Peter and Jackie Kallaway 411
Photographs Between pages 48 and 49
Between pages 114 and 115
On page 126
Between pages 204 and 205
Between pages 268 and 269
Between pages 302 and 303
Between pages 352 and 353
Contributors
Frank Molteno lectures in Sociology at the University of Cape
Town.
R Hunt Davis, Jr Director of the Centre of African Studies and
Professor of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., USA.
Penny Enslin lectures in Philosophy of Education at the University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Lynn Maree was a lecturer in Education at the London College of
Dance and Drama until 1981. She is now an Arts Administrator at
Jackson’s Lane Community Centre in London and continues to
lecture on a part-time basis.
Pam Christie lectured at Kelvin Grove College of Advanced
Education, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; presently at the
Department of Education, University of the Witwatersrand.
Cofin Collins lectures in Education at the University of Queens-
land, Brisbane, Australia.
Robert Edgar Assistant Professor in the African Studies and
Research Programme, Howard University, Washington, DC.
Adrienne Bird is a mathematics teacher in Hemel Hempstead,
England, and has recently completed an MEd degree at the
University of Manchester.
Deborah Gaitskell has recently completed her PhD at the School
of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and is a tutor
in the Extra-Mural Department, London University.
Tom Lodge lectures in the Politics Department, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Rachel Sharp lectures in Education at Macquarie University,
Sydney, Australia. She is the author of: Education and Social
Control: A Study of Progressive Primary Education (with A Green)
(London 1978), and Knowledge, Ideology and the Politics of
Scbo?ling: Towards a Marxist Analysis of Education (London
1980). ‘
Mervyn Hartwig lectures in the Department of History, Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia.
John Davies lectures in the Department of Education, University
of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Peter Buckland formerly at the Education Policy Unit, University
of Cape Town, now teaching in Bophuthatswana.
Linda Chisholm lectures in the Education Department, University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.