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South Africa's First Three Hundred Years of Schooling: A Possible Re-Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Colin B. Collins
Colin B. Collins*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Education, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
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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.

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Review of Literature
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , Fall 1983 , pp. 361 - 378
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 by History of Education Society 

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Notes

1. Malherbe, E. G., Education in South Africa (Cape Town 1925, 1977), Vol. I [1652–1922], Vol. II [1923–1975]; and Pells, E. G., Three Hundred Years of Education in South Africa (Cape Town, 1954).Google Scholar

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