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" Between worlds : "
Linda Chisholm.
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BL
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855387
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Chisholm, Linda
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Between worlds : : German missionaries and the transition from mission to Bantu Education in South Africa /\ Linda Chisholm.
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| Publication Statement
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Johannesburg :: Wits University Press,, 2018.
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1 online resource (xxviii, 265 pages)
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177614175X
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: 1776141784
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: 9781776141753
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: 9781776141784
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9781776141746
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index.
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| Contents
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Transnational cooperation, Hermannsburgers and bantu education -- Burning Bethel in 1953 : changing educational practices and control -- Chiefs, missionaries, communities and the department of native education -- Negotiating the transfer to Bantu education in Natal -- Curriculum, language, textbooks and teachers -- Umpumulo : from teacher training college to theological seminary -- Transnationalism and black consciousness at Umpumulo Seminary -- Bophuthatswana's educational history and the Hermannsburgers -- Inkatha and the Hermannsburgers -- Transitions through the mission.
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The transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid era has highlighted questions about the past and the persistence of its influence in present-day South Africa. This is particularly so in education, where the past continues to play a decisive role in relation to inequality. Between Worlds: German Missionaries and the Transition from Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa scrutinises the experience of a hitherto unexplored German mission society, probing the complexities and paradoxes of social change in education. It raises challenging questions about the nature of mission education legacies. Linda Chisholm shows that the transition from mission to Bantu Education was far from seamless. Instead, past and present interpenetrated one another, with resistance and compliance cohabiting in a complex new social order. At the same time as missionaries complied with the new Bantu Education dictates, they sought to secure a role for themselves in the face of demands of local communities for secular state-controlled education. When the latter was implemented in a perverted form from the mid-1950s, one of its tools was textbooks in local languages developed by mission societies as part of a transnational project, with African participation. Introduced under the guise of expunging European control, Bantu Education merely served to reinforce such control. The response of local communities was an attempt to domesticate - and master - the 'foreign' body of the mission so as to create access to a larger world. This book focuses on the ensuing struggle, fought on many fronts, including medium of instruction and textbook content, with concomitant sub-texts relating to gender roles and sexuality. South Africa's educational history is to this day informed by networks of people and ideas crossing geographic and racial boundaries. The colonial legacy has inevitably involved cultural mixing and hybridisation - with, paradoxically, parallel pleas for purity. Chisholm explores how these ideas found expression in colliding and coalescing worlds, one African, the other European, caught between mission and apartheid education.
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Apartheid-- South Africa.
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Education-- South Africa-- History.
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Apartheid.
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Education.
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HISTORY-- Africa-- General.
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South Africa.
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370.968
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LA1536.C45 2017
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