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The Right to Learn: Struggle for Education in South Africa (A People's college book)

the struggle for education in South Africa

Plot

What's Education About? -- Different Opinions About Education -- Different Aims For Education -- What Do Schools Do? -- Schools And The Wider Society -- A Short History -- Pre-colonial Education -- Education Up To 1800 -- British Control After 1815 -- The Trekker States -- Social And Educational Change: 1880-1940 -- Industrial Growth And Apartheid Education -- The Church And Education -- Mission Education Before 1953 -- The Response Of The Churches To Bantu Education -- The 'open Schools' Movement -- Reading Facts And Figures -- Population -- Expenditure On Education -- School Enrolments -- Pupil-teacher Ratios -- University Enrolments -- The Hidden Curriculum -- The Divided Schooling System -- Government Control -- The Authority Structures Of Schools -- Organization In School -- School And Work -- Syllabuses, Exams And Certificates -- Teaching Methods -- White Education: The Worldview Of Cne -- Christian National Education -- The National Education Policy Act (1967) --^ Cne Programmes In White Schools -- The Government's Response To De Lange -- Education, Work And Certificates -- Pt 1: Why Do We Work? -- The Changing Nature Of Work -- Capitalism -- Education Under Capitalism -- Work In Capitalist Societies -- Pt 2: Certificates And Qualifications -- The Meaning Of 'certificates' And 'qualifications' Why Have Certificates? -- Certificates Sort People Out For Jobs -- Political Issues -- Dilemmas -- Another View -- Education On The Job -- On The Job Training -- Why Training? -- Dilemmas -- Trade Union Education -- Resistance In Education -- Earliest Resistance -- Resistance To Mission Schools After 1920 -- Opposition To The Bantu Education Act Of 1953 -- Opposition From 1954 Onwards -- Black Consciousness And Resistance -- June 1976 -- 1980 Boycott -- Resistance In 1984 -- Alternatives -- Education And The Wider Society -- Aims Of Education In Schools -- Education Outside Schools -- Education And Social Awareness -- Alternative Programmes? --^ Educational Alternatives In South Africa -- The De Lange Alternative -- Responses To De Lange -- Student Demands. Prepared For Sached By Pam Christie. Includes Bibliographies.