Decolonising schools in South Africa : the impossible dream? / Pam Christie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christie, Pam, author.

Series:

Routledge research on decoloniality and new postcolonialisms.

Routledge research on decoloniality and new postcolonialisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational change--South Africa.

Educational change.

Postcolonialism--South Africa.

Postcolonialism.

Decolonization--South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa. It examines theon the ground' history of colonialism from the vantage point of a small town in the Karoo region, showing how patterns of possession and dispossession have played out in the municipality and schools. Using the strong political and ontological critique of decoloniality theories, the book demonstrates the ways in which government interventions over many years have allowed colonial relations and the construction of racialised differences to linger in new forms, including unequal access to schooling. Written in an accessible style, the book considers how the dream of decolonial schooling might be realised, from the vantage point of research on the margins. This Karoo region also offers an interesting case study as the site where the world's largest radio telescope was recently located and highlights the contrasting logics of international big science' and local development needs. This book will be of interest to academics and scholars in the education field as well as to social geographers, sociologists, human geographers, historians and policy makers."

Contents:

The long reach of coloniality: setting the scene from a marginal place

Schooling and inequality: rhythms of sameness and difference

Colonialism, possession, and dispossession: the Karoo and its people

Schooling in place and time: the Cape Colony in the 1800s

Apartheid's local forms: municipality, school, and church in Carnarvon

Ending apartheid: in the crucible of the old, the new is formed

Preserving privilege in schooling: from the vantage point of Carnarvon

Changing the hegemony of race in schooling: the task of decolonising

The SKA comes to town: 'big science' and development

Towards decolonising schooling: realising the impossible dream?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781000075892

1000075893

9780367853624

0367853620

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367853624