Imagery of Identity in South African Education
Subtitle: 1880-1990
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: December 31, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780890897270
Subjects: Africa - South - Republic of South Africa; Africa - South Africa; Educational Psychology; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Nonfiction; General; Education; Education / Teaching; Discrimination in education; Ethnicity; History; Social aspects; South Africa
Description: "This book examines the role that images embedded in the language and discourses of colonialism and apartheid have played in shaping diverse and conflicting identities in South Africa. It explores images and modes of discursive representation in South African education, and the associated struggles for constitution and hegemony of group identities over years.

Images should be understood in the context of "the struggle in words and by words," in the sense that images and representations of group identities are not neutral intellectual activity. They are action and practice with profound implications for the affirmation of desire, power and interests within society. The book shows how the question of group identity has dominated the history of intellectual and cultural production in South Africa, particularly within the educational field."--BOOK JACKET.