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Title: | 'Trustees and Agents of the State'? Missions and the Formation of Policy towards African... |
Author: | Krige, Sue |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
Issue: | 40 |
Period: | May |
Pages: | 74-94 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | missions black education Religion and Witchcraft History and Exploration Education and Oral Traditions Development and Technology |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582479908671349 |
Abstract: | This article analyses the relationship between the mission churches and the newly formed provincial governments in South Africa, in the context of initial processes of the modernization, secularization and segregation of African education in the first decade after Union (1910). In characterizing the missions as 'trustees and agents of the State', the 1919 Cape Commission into Native Education implied that it was their task merely to implement policy. The article shows that the extent to which the missions were party in reform and policymaking varied considerably from region to region and that the imperatives governing segregated schooling on the Rand were not generalizable to the rest of the country. It focuses on three major provincial curriculum reform initiatives during this period: the reforms contained in the Third Report of the Council of Education in the Transvaal (1915); the 1918 reforms of Charles Loram as the Chief Inspector of Native Education in Natal; and the 1919 Cape Commission into Native Education. In Natal and in the Transvaal members of the missions and Africans were scarcely included in the curriculum reforms, while the Cape Commission drew heavily on mission and African expertise. This was the result of a number of factors, including strong differences in the political economy of the provinces, individual styles of administration, and in the missions' own concerns. Ref. |