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Mind Map by Niamh Clayden, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Niamh Clayden
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Bantu Education Act - 1953
- ''Education for ignorance and for inferiority
in Verwoerd's school is worse than no
education at all''
- Act No 47 of 1953
- It established a Black Education Department
in the Department of Native Affairs
- The stated aim was
to prevent Africans
receiving an
education
- Meant they would be able
to get the education that
would allow them to have
positions in society
- Instead they received an
education designed to
provide them with skills
to serve their own
people in the
Homelands or to work in
manual labour jobs
under white control
- Instead they received an
education designed to
provide them with skills
to serve their own
people in the
Homelands or to work in
manual labour jobs
under white control
- Meant they would be able
to get the education that
would allow them to have
positions in society
- It established a Black Education Department
in the Department of Native Affairs
- Independent mission schools were
forced to implement the new
curriculum and policies of the Bantu
Education Act or close down
- Schools where 90% of black pupils
were accomodated
- Schools where 90% of black pupils
were accomodated
- Open Uni's were closed to black people
and were replaced by tribal (or ''bush'')
universities and ethnic training colleges
- Primary Schools stopped teaching black children in English.
- Were taught in their mother tongue
- Had to learn English later on in
life which was an enormous
disadvantage
- Were taught in their mother tongue
- African children students were to be
educated in a way that was
appropriate for their culture.
- No consultation occurred on this
- All the definitions of culture, appropriate education
content and levels, all the decisions about purpose and
outcomes of the system were controlled by the apartheid
gov.
- All the definitions of culture, appropriate education
content and levels, all the decisions about purpose and
outcomes of the system were controlled by the apartheid
gov.
- It degraded black
peoples history,
culture and identity
- was in their
textbooks.
- History and
geography
provided Bantu
Education pupils
with localised
knowledge
whereas, a world
view for others
- Gardening was part of the
Bantu curriculum and white
children were exposed to art
and science.
- Gardening was part of the
Bantu curriculum and white
children were exposed to art
and science.
- Black pupils start school at 7, white
pupils start school at 5.
- Suffered terribly from the gov's neglect
- Enormous disparities in funding
- Student- teacher ratio
affected the quality of
education for black
people
- No consultation occurred on this
- Served the interests of white supremacy
- Denied black people the same
access to educational
opportunities and resources
- Denied black people the same
access to educational
opportunities and resources
- The legislation was condemned and rejected
as inferior from the time of its introduction
- At black schools - teachers didn't need to
have the same qualifications of white
teachers
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