South Africa's First Three Hundred Years of Schooling

It can quite safely be asserted that no broad analytic work exists which deals with the schooling of the rich variety of social and ethnic groups in the varied history of South Africa. At best, the very limited number of publications are either mainly concerned with describing White education in its administrative and organisational dimensions or, at worst, frighteningly quaint in their prejudicial accounts. The best of the former would be E. G. Malherbe's earlier work, Education in South Africa 1652-1927 and the worst of the latter genre would be E. G. Pells', Three Hundred Years of Education in South Africa.' This latter work, although revised in 1954, reads like an 18th century work and demonstrates an attitude towards the indigenous peoples of South Africa that lives on to the present day. Writing of one of the main peoples with whom

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• Missionaries and Indigenous Education in the 19th‐Century British Empire. Part II

  Open Access•Felicity Jensz•History Compass•2012

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• A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa

  Dudley Horner, John Kane-Berman et al.•Survey of Race Relations in South…•1973

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• The Oxford history of South Africa

  Leonard Monteath Thompson, Monica Hunter Wilson•The Oxford history of South Africa•1969

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