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History of Education Quarterly

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Class and Color in South African Youth Policy: The Witwatersrand, 1886-1910.

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Chisholm, Linda – History of Education Quarterly, 1987

Traces history of the racially divided system of education in South Africa. Examines relationship between juvenile work and crime and introduction of free, compulsory schooling for Whites; explores the origins and aims of boys' clubs and hostels for unskilled White youth; and details emergence of the reformatory and industrial school for Black and…

Descriptors: African History, Delinquency, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education

"The Gospel of Work Does Not Save Souls": Conceptions of Industrial and Agricultural Education for Africans in the Cape Colony, 1890-1930

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Paterson, Andrew – History of Education Quarterly, 2005

This essay analyzes the contemporary understandings of, and the aims attributed to, "industrial" education for Africans which came to be strongly associated with "agricultural education" in the Cape Colony between 1890 and 1930. The author first sketches the early history of industrial education from the 1850s to show how this…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Education, Industrial Education, Educational History