Examines the difficulties encountered in trying to empower teachers in a squatter community outside of Cape Town, South Africa, through the development of a critical pedagogy. Shows the sedimentation of the dominant class's ideology within the consciousness of oppressed communities. (DMM)

The South African education system is engaged in a cultural struggle to bring about equality. The agenda for the country is transformation and equity despite considerable barriers inherited from its past. Examines: identity formation and deconstruction in South Africa; a diversity of inequality; the Enlightenment versus the diversity episteme; and…

Interviewed white teachers in apartheid-era South Africa who taught in segregated schools for black students, all of whom believed that they were part of the fight against apartheid. Though they taught in segregated schools, they worked to facilitate students' political awareness and voice. These teachers were penalized socially and professionally…

This paper reviews postapartheid educational policy between the 1994 and 1999 elections. Its objective is to interrogate the different concerns, approaches, and implications of the various policies that have been formulated to fundamentally transform the legacy of the apartheid system. Five principal concerns are discussed: (1) the historical…

Athol Fugard, a white South African playwright/actor/director of international renown, has worked toward the establishment of an integrated, multiracial theater not associated with the white South African establishment. In his plays, Fugard has made racism and the ravaging effects of racial tension come alive as he presents aspects of these…

This curriculum unit is designed for secondary students in twentieth-century history and peace studies. The unit contains three activities from which students gain a better understanding of the dimensions of apartheid in South Africa. The activities are entitled: (1) "Racial Separation," an activity that gives students the opportunity to…

Examines the role of the state in South African university affairs during the apartheid era (1948-90). Suggests that interactions between the state and universities were more volatile than is generally portrayed in the literature and were especially so during the 1980s when the state struggled unsuccessfully to overcome popular challenges to White…

Reviews the recent history of South Africa and the dismantling of the apartheid system. Describes growing political and economic participation of Black Africans in South Africa. Includes suggestions for using this information in social studies classes. (CFR)

Presents the oral histories of three black educators who resisted apartheid and helped raise students' self-esteem despite the demeaning Bantu Education curriculum, experiencing multiple failures and successes in the era between the 1976 Soweto uprising and the end of apartheid in the early 1990s. All three resisted calls for "liberation…

Fundamental pedagogics, the Afrikaans philosophy of education, is an integral component of apartheid's ideological foundation, functioning both to justify and to legitimate separate educational systems. This article discusses this philosophy and the manner in which it manifests itself in teacher education and in the relationship between teacher…

Describes South African farm schools for Black children in the context of apartheid's peculiar racial capitalist relations. Discusses provision of schooling as a quasi-feudal act of benevolence by the White farm owner, and problems of limited access, overcrowding, broken attendance, and inadequate resources. Contains 36 references. (SV)

This project attempts to identify the major problems underlying education reform in South Africa and compares them with similar challenges facing the District of Columbia public education system. Narration for the slide program is based on interviews, formal and informal meetings, lectures, and briefings. Slides of various schools and communities…

Contends that recent changes in the South African school curriculum are intended to preserve racial separateness rather than to bring about an integrated society. Distinguishes between the concepts of "own" culture versus "common" culture in examining multiculturalism in South Africa. Provides a set of recommendations for…

This book is a collection of papers on the effects of public violence on children in South Africa. Section 1 of this report is an overview of the findings of South Africa's Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into the Effects of Public Violence on Children. Section 2 concentrates on assessing problems and intervening to relieve them. The following…

This curriculum unit is intended to help students understand the tremendous social and political changes in South Africa that have occurred with the ending of apartheid. The unit contains four modules: (1) "Segregation/Apartheid"; (2) "Effects of Apartheid"; (3) "Transitional Process from Apartheid to Democracy"; and…