"Beyond the syllabus": Morris Isaacson High School's struggle for human equality under the Apartheid education system, 1958–1990.
The Bantu Education system, which replaced missionary-run black schooling in the mid-1950s, expanded schooling to accommodate the basic economic needs of the South African economy but it was done as cheaply as possible. The state paid teachers' salaries and in return it expected obedience and confor...
| Publicado en: | Paedagogica Historica Vol. 57; no. 5; pp. 475 - 494 |
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