Decolonising Schools in South Africa

This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa.

Autorentext

Pam Christie is Professor Emeritus in Education, University of Cape Town, and Honorary Professor, University of Queensland. She has worked extensively with schools, government departments, and NGOs in South Africa and Australia on topics such as educational change, leadership, school development, and teacher education.

Inhalt

1. The long reach of coloniality: setting the scene from a marginal place; 2. Schooling and inequality: rhythms of sameness and difference; 3. Colonialism, possession, and dispossession: the Karoo and its people; 4. Schooling in place and time: the Cape Colony in the 1800s; 5. Apartheid's local forms: municipality, school, and church in Carnarvon; 6. Ending apartheid: in the crucible of the old, the new is formed; 7. Preserving privilege in schooling: from the vantage point of Carnarvon; 8. Changing the hegemony of race in schooling: the task of decolonising; 9. The SKA comes to town: 'big science' and development; 10. Towards decolonising schooling: realising the impossible dream?; Index