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Title: | Creating an African Middle Class: The Political Economy of Education and Exploitation in Zimbabwe |
Author: | Moyana, Tatirenyika |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Affairs |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 325-346 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | educational policy middle class Politics and Government Economics and Trade Education and Oral Traditions |
Abstract: | Colonial Rhodesia of 1953-1970 is a typical example of a country with an educational system dedigned for exploitation. In 1953, a commission of inquiry into African education was appointed. It was headed by Sir Alexander Kerr. The Kerr Commission made far-reaching recommendation on all aspects of African education. These recommendations and the Commission itself can be understood only in the context of the period. The Commissionoaission was set up in response to socio-economic needs that had emerged during and soon after the Second World War. Vocational education for the African thus became a major concern of the Kerr Commission and of the period. From 1940 to the 1950s the growth of the black workers' consciousness led to the upsurge of workers movements The emergence of a black proletariat in Rhodesia was seen by the Government (Prise Minister Huggins and his successor Garfield Todd) as a danger against which a buffer should be created in the form of an African middle calss. The Kerr Commission was intended to suggest educational processes for doing this. Notes, tab. |