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Title: | Segregation, Science and Commissions of Enquiry: The Contestation over Native Education Policy in South Africa, 1930-1936 |
Author: | Krige, Sue |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 491-506 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | black education educational policy Education and Oral Traditions Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government Religion and Witchcraft |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637513 |
Abstract: | In the history of South African education, a clear but neglected theme in the period after the First World War was the desire of the mission churches to resist State control of their schools in terms of administration, appointment of staff and curriculum content. In the period 1930-1936, two State initiated commissions and a private secular education conference provided significant forums for debating and investigating solutions to the 'Native Problem': the 1932 Native Economic Commission (NEC), the 1935-1936 Interdepartmental Committee into Native Education (the Welsh Committee), and the New Education Fellowship (NEF) conference of 1934. All three forums set up the new sciences of anthropology and psychology in opposition to the older religious approaches to African education, attempting to silence the unauthorized political voices of amateurs such as missions and mission educated African leaders. Notes, ref., sum. |