Teacher Preparation in South Africa: History, Policy and Future Directions.

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The book will focus on the emergence of a racially-divided system of teacher preparation and its dismantling post-apartheid. It will explore the policies and politics of discrepant pathways to teacher preparation within the context of international and comparative trends. Front Cover TEACHER PREPARATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: History, Policy and Future Directions Contents List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction College and University Teacher Preparation Literature and Sources A Relational Understanding of an Entangled and Unequal System Structure of the Book Part One Chapter 1 Early Forms of Teacher Preparation at the Cape Cape Economy, Society and Education during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Dominance of the Church Changing Relations at the Cape at the End of the Eighteenth Century up to 1834: Implications for EducationConclusion Chapter 2 Teacher Preparation in Nineteenth-century South Africa: Colonial Dimensions Economy and Society Shaping Educational Developments during the Nineteenth Century The Pupil-teacher and Normal College Systems The Pupil-teacher System in South Africa Cape Colony Schooling and Teaching Origins of the Pupil-teacher System in the Cape Tiered Teacher Certificates Training in Colleges and Higher Education Institutions Natal Schooling and Teaching Pupil-teacher System and Model SchoolsMission Schools, Industrial Education and the Pupil-teacher System Afrikaner Republics Orange Free State Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek Mission Schools in the OFS and ZAR Conclusion Chapter 3 Industrialisation, War and the Rise of the Training Institute, 1890-1910 Provision of Teachers in the Cape Colony, 1890-1910 Provision of Teachers in Natal, 1890-1910 Provision of Teachers in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, 1890-1910 Conclusion Part Two Chapter 4 Union, Segregation and the Decline of the Pupil-teacher System, 1910-1920 Teachers' AssociationsThe Cape Province Transvaal, Orange Free State and Natal Universities Conclusion Chapter 5 Consolidating Segregation: Regulating Access, 1920-1939 Unequal Financing Institutional Provision An Expanding College System: Urban for Whites, Rural for Africans Over-production of White and Under-production of Black Teachers Tensions Regulating and Controlling Entry to the Teaching Profession through Certification Preparing a Restricted, Second-class Black Elite Relationships with Universities Quality Impacted by University-links for White but Not Black Colleges and Entry RequirementsConflict between Colleges and Universities Continuity and Change in Feminisation of White but Not Black Teaching Graduates Conclusion Chapter 6 Consolidating Segregation: Curriculum and Pedagogy Introduction Teachers as Professionals and Community Change Agents Curricula in Theory and Practice: Comparing Curricula across Mission and State Schools Lower Primary Teachers' Certificates Higher Primary Teachers' Certificates Conclusion Part Three