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Title: | Issues, Dilemmas and Prospects on the State Provision of Education to Traditional Hunter-Gatherer Societies of Botswana |
Author: | Tshireletso, Lucky |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs: Supplementary Issue |
Issue: | 26 |
Pages: | 169-183 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Botswana |
Subjects: | San educational policy schooling Politics and Government Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Education and Oral Traditions |
External link: | http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/68401/1/ASM_S_26_169.pdf |
Abstract: | This article discusses the topical issues, problems and prospects surrounding education provision for Basarwa children in Botswana. It focuses on the Kua/Hua-speaking group of Basarwa found in the Diphuduhudu, Khekhenye, Tshwaane and Motokwe Remote Area Dweller (RAD) settlements. Exclusion of their language and culture and the non-involvement of parents in schooling are some of the major problems affecting the retention and performance of Basarwa children in school education. A community-based approach to schooling within a constructivist/pragmatist sociohistoric framework, and teacher education reform to enable non-Basarwa teachers to cope with the classroom challenges of cultural and sociolinguistic discontinuities between themselves and their pupils, may improve education for RAD children within their locality. Bibliogr., sum. |