Teaching the “Native”

Behind the architecture of an unequal educational system If you are sitting in a South African school or university right now, you need to put aside 1948 and “Bantu Education” as a primary target of enquiry – these were little more than steps along a road that was already paved – and study when, where and how your institution came into being in the first place. This book joins the growing body of work (much of it by South African scholars) displacing the many mind-numbingly dull texts loaded with assumptions and logics that, in the case of South Africa, reify a simplified colonial explanation of the past. Generations of students, educators and policymakers have suffered enough through tedious though.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

198mm x 148mm

Pages:

308

ISBN-13:

978-0-7969-2514-5

Publish Year:

2016

Rights:

World Rights

Introduction

Why Anthropology?

Chapter I

Anthropology and Education

Some Theoretical Issues in Educational Historiography
Some Thoughts on Anthropology, Representation and History
Conclusion

Chapter II

The Bourgeois Turn: The Nursery of Milner’s Kindergarten

The Education of the British Working Class
Ireland: The Colonial Laboratory
apitalist Education Policy in Colonized Jamaica
Mixed Signals: The Bourgeois Veneer in Indian Education
Conclusion

Chapter III

South Africa Before 1900

Introduction
Cecil Rhodes as Context
Missionaries and “Peaceful Subjugation”

Chapter IV

Removing the Gloves in the New Century: The Education Debates

Introduction
Education and the Solution of the Crisis of African Labour
The Missions Fall in Line

Chapter V

The Two USAs

African-American Education in the Southern United States
Educational Foundations: Guiding Inequity
Exporting the Model

Chapter VI

Charles Templeman Loram: Forefather of Bantu Education

Introduction
A Critical Look at The Education of the South African Native
Conclusion

Chapter VII

The Alliance for Regress

Introduction
Pan-African Otherness: The Phelps-Stokes Commissions
The Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies
Modern Craniology: Intelligence Tests
Conclusion

Chapter VIII

Functionalism and the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures: Whoring for Empire

Malinowski Delivers His “Nig Lec.”
Conclusion

Chapter IX

Resistances: The Struggle for Education

Introduction
African Responses to Colonial Education
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Passion for Justice
Conclusion

Chapter X

Conclusions

Introduction
Clearing the Way for Apartheid: South Africa in the 1930s Legacies
Some Last Thoughts on Education and the Cultivation of Differenc

Bibliography

Index