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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Lang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
ISBN-10
0820467685
ISBN-13
9780820467689
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2321533
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
Xviii, 182 Pages
Publication Name
Voices from Cape Town Classrooms : Oral Histories of Teachers Who Fought Apartheid
Language
English
Subject
Multicultural Education, Civil Rights, Political Process / Political Advocacy, General, Aims & Objectives
Publication Year
2003
Features
New Edition
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Education
Series
History of Schools and Schooling Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2002-155899
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Alan Wieder's 'Voices from Cape Town Classrooms' provides a breathtaking view into a vital center of resistance during the South African nightmare known as apartheid. Schools in South Africa as elsewhere are contested spaces, arenas of hope and struggle, because schools are where we invest in our children (or not), and project a vision of the future we hope to build. During the anti-apartheid struggle, schools were a powerful center of resistance. Filled with immediacy and urgency, the struggle comes alive in these pages as vital, complex, and nuanced, something trembling and real and lived. The events around the struggle are so huge and so encompassing that they can easily be constructed into a gleaming and unproblematic icon casting a huge, seemingly impenetrable shadow across an otherwise dense and complex landscape. To Alan Wieder's eternal credit, he rescues here the reality of history as lived, paths taken before the outcome is known, difficult choices made in the dark. (Bill Ayers, University of Chicago, Illinois; Author of 'Fugitive Days') Alan Wieder's book opens up new perspectives in research methodology by documenting the life histories of apartheid-era teachers in the Western Cape. Wieder's approach allows these teachers to speak for themselves and to re-create the world of apartheid education for the teacher/educator. He manages to demonstrate the tension and the excitement as well as the very real dangers of the political and the pedagogical challenges that presented themselves in Coloured schools in the 1980s and allows the reader to glimpse the realities of everyday life for activist educators. It seems that the moment was right for this work to be done and that Alan Wieder, as an outsider with unique skills, was able to persuade these teachers to share their stories with a wider public in a way that had not seemed possible earlier. This book provides a blueprint for much-needed further work on the key role that many teachers played in opposing apartheid not just as political activists or trade unionists but in the ways in which they lived their everyday lives and conducted themselves in the classroom as well as the models that they provided for the students, teachers, and parents in their communities in the dark days of racial oppression. In the present climate of demoralization of the teaching profession such work is surely essential in rebuilding a profession upon which so much of the future depends. (Peter Kallaway, University of the Western Cape; Author of 'The History of Education Under Apartheid'), «Alan Wieder's 'Voices from Cape Town Classrooms' provides a breathtaking view into a vital center of resistance during the South African nightmare known as apartheid. Schools in South Africa as elsewhere are contested spaces, arenas of hope and struggle, because schools are where we invest in our children (or not), and project a vision of the future we hope to build. During the anti-apartheid struggle, schools were a powerful center of resistance. Filled with immediacy and urgency, the struggle comes alive in these pages as vital, complex, and nuanced, something trembling and real and lived. The events around the struggle are so huge and so encompassing that they can easily be constructed into a gleaming and unproblematic icon casting a huge, seemingly impenetrable shadow across an otherwise dense and complex landscape. To Alan Wieder's eternal credit, he rescues here the reality of history as lived, paths taken before the outcome is known, difficult choices made in the dark.» (Bill Ayers, University of Chicago, Illinois; Author of 'Fugitive Days') «Alan Wieder's book opens up new perspectives in research methodology by documenting the life histories of apartheid-era teachers in the Western Cape. Wieder's approach allows these teachers to speak for themselves and to re-create the world of apartheid education for the teacher/educator. He manages to demonstrate the tension and the excitement as well as the very real dangers of the political and the pedagogical challenges that presented themselves in Coloured schools in the 1980s and allows the reader to glimpse the realities of everyday life for activist educators. It seems that the moment was right for this work to be done and that Alan Wieder, as an outsider with unique skills, was able to persuade these teachers to share their stories with a wider public in a way that had not seemed possible earlier. This book provides a blueprint for much-needed further work on the key role that many teachers played in opposing apartheid not just as political activists or trade unionists but in the ways in which they lived their everyday lives and conducted themselves in the classroom as well as the models that they provided for the students, teachers, and parents in their communities in the dark days of racial oppression. In the present climate of demoralization of the teaching profession such work is surely essential in rebuilding a profession upon which so much of the future depends.» (Peter Kallaway, University of the Western Cape; Author of 'The History of Education Under Apartheid'), «Alan Wieder_s _Voices from Cape Town Classrooms_ provides a breathtaking view into a vital center of resistance during the South African nightmare known as apartheid. Schools in South Africa as elsewhere are contested spaces, arenas of hope and struggle, because schools are where we invest in our children (or not), and project a vision of the future we hope to build. During the anti-apartheid struggle, schools were a powerful center of resistance. Filled with immediacy and urgency, the struggle comes alive in these pages as vital, complex, and nuanced, something trembling and real and lived. The events around the struggle are so huge and so encompassing that they can easily be constructed into a gleaming and unproblematic icon casting a huge, seemingly impenetrable shadow across an otherwise dense and complex landscape. To Alan Wieder_s eternal credit, he rescues here the reality of history as lived, paths taken before the outcome is known, difficult choices made in the dark.» (Bill Ayers, University of Chicago, Illinois; Author of _Fugitive Days_) «Alan Wieder_s book opens up new perspectives in research methodology by documenting the life histories of apartheid-era teachers in the Western Cape. Wieder_s approach allows these teachers to speak for themselves and to re-create the world of apartheid education for the teacher/educator. He manages to demonstrate the tension and the excitement as well as the very real dangers of the political and the pedagogical challenges that presented themselves in Coloured schools in the 1980s and allows the reader to glimpse the realities of everyday life for activist educators. It seems that the moment was right for this work to be done and that Alan Wieder, as an outsider with unique skills, was able to persuade these teachers to share their stories with a wider public in a way that had not seemed possible earlier. This book provides a blueprint for much-needed further work on the key role that many teachers played in opposing apartheid not just as political activists or trade unionists but in the ways in which they lived their everyday lives and conducted themselves in the classroom as well as the models that they provided for the students, teachers, and parents in their communities in the dark days of racial oppression. In the present climate of demoralization of the teaching profession such work is surely essential in rebuilding a profession upon which so much of the future depends.» (Peter Kallaway, University of the Western Cape; Author of _The History of Education Under Apartheid_)
Dewey Edition
21
Series Volume Number
39
Number of Volumes
0 vols.
Dewey Decimal
371.1/0096873/55
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
This book captures the oral histories of twenty South African teachers who connected pedagogy and politics to fight against the apartheid regime. Teaching in so-called Coloured schools, these teachers with the fighting spirit stressed nonracialism and democracy in their work with students. Though their lives were deeply affected by apartheid, it never stole their hearts, minds, or souls. Their work helped lead to the election of Nelson Mandela as the first democratic leader of South Africa in 1994., This series explores the history of schools and schooling in the United States and other countries. The series will examine the historical development of schools and educational processes, with special emphasis on issues of educational policy, curriculum and pedagogy, as well as issues relating to race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Special emphasis will be placed on the lessons to be learned from the past for contemporary educational reform and policy. Although the series will publish books related to education in the broadest societal and cultural context, it especially seeks books on the history of specific schools and on the lives of educational leaders and school founders., This book captures the oral histories of twenty South African teachers who connected pedagogy and politics to fight against the apartheid regime. Teaching in so-called Coloured schools, these «teachers with the fighting spirit» stressed nonracialism and democracy in their work with students. Though their lives were deeply affected by apartheid, it never stole their hearts, minds, or souls. Their work helped lead to the election of Nelson Mandela as the first democratic leader of South Africa in 1994.
LC Classification Number
LB2844.1.P6W49 2003
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