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TEACHER PREPARATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

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Emerald Studies in Teacher Preparation in National and Global Contexts

Series Editors: Teresa O’Doherty Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, Ireland

Judith Harford University College Dublin, Ireland

Thomas O’Donoghue University of Western Australia, Australia

Teacher preparation is currently one of the most pressing and topical issues in the field of education research. It deals with questions such as how teachers are prepared, what the content of their programmes of preparation is, how their effectiveness is assessed, and what the role of the ‘good’ teacher is in society. These questions are at the forefront of policy agendas around the world.

This series presents robust, critical research studies in the broad field of teacher preparation historically, with attention also being given to current policy and future directions. Most books in the series will focus on an individual country, providing a comprehensive overview of the history of teacher preparation in that country while also making connections between the past and present and informing discussions on possible future directions.

Previously published:

• Teacher Preparation in Ireland: History, Policy and Future Directions

• By Thomas O’Donoghue, Judith Harford, Teresa O’Doherty

Forthcoming in this series:

• Teacher Preparation in Northern Ireland

• By Séan Farren, Linda Clarke and Teresa O’Doherty

• Teacher Preparation in Australia

• By Thomas O’Donoghue and Keith Moore

• Historical Development of Teacher Education in Chile

• By Beatrice Avalos-Bevan and Leonora Reyes-Jedlicki

• Catholic Teacher Preparation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Preparing for Mission

• By Richard Rymarz and Leonardo Franchi

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TEACHER PREPARATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

History, Policy and Future Directions

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LINDA CHISHOLM

University of Johannesburg, South Africa

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2019

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Acknowledgements

This book would not have been written had it not been for an email from Tom O’Donoghue and the anonymous reviewers of the proposal and manuscript for Emerald Publishing. Thank you for your confidence in this book.

I wish also to thank Irene Pampallis who combed through the Cape archives for sources on the nineteenth century for me, and Mudney Halim for helping to track down the Rand College and the Transvaal College of Education histories and conducting some of the interviews with former students. Both were unstinting in their assistance.

I am grateful to Yusuf Sayed and Zahraa MacDonald from the Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE) at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) for their support of the project, to Crain Soudien for being willing to share an unpublished manuscript on the history of schooling in South Africa that helped shape my thinking on the early history, and to Azeem Badroodien for giving me an opportunity to present and garner invigorating feedback on my initial thoughts at a seminar at UCT with students and staff from both UCT and CPUT. Advice on sources and comments from Peter Kallaway were as invaluable as his inspirational commitment to the project of history of education in South Africa.

My heartfelt thanks to all the people I interviewed many years ago, and recently, for being so extremely generous with their time and insights and for permitting me to use the interviews in this book: Edwin Bennett, Graham Hall, Joe Jacobs, Dennay Jansen (pseudonym), Hennie Kock, Paul Londal (now deceased), Thandi Mabena (pseudonym) and Curtis Nkondo (now deceased). I hope something can be learnt from your experiences.

Librarians at the Wits, UJ, UCT and Killie Campbell archives were extremely helpful in tracking down sources: here a special word of thanks is due to Alison Chisholm. It is a rare privilege to have a sister who is a librarian. It was a pleasure to work with the staff at Emerald Press and especially with Anna Scaife and Kim Chadwick.

Thanks to Beatrice Avalos-Bevan, Mary Crewe, David Fig, Mudney Halim, Crispin Hemson, Mondli Hlatshwayo, Ulrike Kistner, Zahraa MacDonald, Irene Pampallis, Maureen Robinson and Salim Vally, to mention but a few of the people who were part of this journey, for friendship, advice, comments, insights and support, and to Oliver and Rina for the many discussions about teachers and teaching. Finally, thanks to Ralf Krüger, for all this and much more besides.