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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820033803321

Autore

Chisholm Linda

Titolo

Teacher preparation in South Africa : history, policy and future directions / / Linda Chisholm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

United Kingdom : , : Emerald Publishing Limited, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78973-831-8

1-78743-694-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Collana

Emerald studies in teacher preparation in national and global contexts

Disciplina

370.710968

Soggetti

Teachers - Training of - South Africa

Education and state - South Africa

Education - History

History of education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part One: Chapter 1.  Early Forms of Teacher Preparation at the Cape -- Chapter 2. Teacher Preparation in Nineteenth-century South Africa: Colonial Dimensions -- Chapter 3. Industrialisation, War and the Rise of the Training Institute, 1890–1910 --  Part Two: Chapter 4. Union, Segregation and the Decline of the Pupil-teacher System, 1910–1920 -- Chapter 5. Consolidating Segregation: Regulating Access, 1920–1939 -- Chapter 6. Consolidating Segregation: Curriculum and Pedagogy -- Part Three: Chapter 7.  Apartheid and the Repositioning of Teacher Preparation -- Chapter 8. Teacher Preparation During ‘High’ Apartheid, 1959–1976 -- Chapter 9.  Expanding Provision in an Unravelling System: 1976–1990 -- Part Four: Chapter 10. Dismantling and Reconfiguring the System: 1994–2018 -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

South Africa's transition to democracy has seen massive changes in the field of teacher education aimed at integrating its previously raced and gendered character. This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and relational understanding of the patterns of teacher preparation supporting South Africa's unequal formal education



system. It shows how emerging patterns, policies and pedagogies were deeply entangled with the country's position within a broader international and colonial order as well as with dominant national political and economic social frameworks.Using rich archival and oral evidence, this book illuminates how successive policies restricted and enabled access to different institutions, while differentiated curricula prepared teachers to teach students intended to play different roles in a society marked by class, race and gender division. It explores the location and control of teacher provision for black and white teachers provided by mission societies and the state in colleges and universities. Post-apartheid governments sought to reverse entrenched racial legacies in education through closure of the colleges and incorporation of teacher preparation into universities, altered admission criteria and new curricula. These have resulted in new tensions which have arisen in relation to a world of competing pressures on universities and teachers. By shedding new light on these tensions from a historical perspective, this book will prove an invaluable resource for education leaders and researchers in the field of global and comparative education.