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Between the Vision of Yesterday and the Reality of Today: Forging a Pedagogy of Possibility
Education as Change ( IF 0.302 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-09 , DOI: 10.25159/1947-9417/6984
Salim Vally

In this article I discuss the vision of education for liberation during the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa. The article focuses specifically on “People’s Education” and “Workers’ Education”. Instead of an instrumental role for education reduced solely to the labour market requirements of business, economic growth and international competitiveness, I argue that the purpose of education is much broader. Embedded in a rich tradition of an educational praxis based on social justice and democratic citizenship, the popular movements associated with people’s and workers’ education generated alternatives to apartheid’s legacy on education. In contemporary South Africa, this apartheid legacy is exacerbated by post-apartheid policies rooted in neoliberalism. While post-1994 education policies established the legislative framework for social justice, equity and adequate resources remain unattainable and elusive. In the face of the desultory state of schooling and the failures of neoliberalism, the article takes issue with the proffered solutions advocated by proponents of neoliberalism, including strident calls for the privatisation of education and resorting back to an apartheid-like disciplinary regime. In forging a pedagogy of possibility, social class analysis and effective community participation in education policy deliberations would need to be reinserted into the conversations about redress and education reform if the country is to overcome its inequalities and social cleavages. To this end, alternatives and possibilities raised during the struggle against apartheid are reiterated, re-examined and offered as prisms through which an alternative education can be practised.

中文翻译:

在昨天的愿景和今天的现实之间:打造可能性的教学法

在这篇文章中,我讨论了南非反种族隔离斗争中的解放教育愿景。本文专门针对“人民教育”和“工人教育”。我认为教育的工具作用并不仅限于企业对劳动力市场的要求,经济增长和国际竞争力,而是认为教育的目的要广泛得多。根植于以社会正义和民主公民身份为基础的教育实践的丰富传统中,与人民和工人的教育有关的流行运动为种族隔离的教育传统提供了替代选择。在当代的南非,这种种族隔离的遗产由于植根于新自由主义的后种族隔离政策而更加恶化。1994年后的教育政策建立了社会正义的立法框架,公平和充足的资源仍然无法实现和难以捉摸。面对教育的低迷状态和新自由主义的失败,本文对新自由主义拥护者提倡的适当解决方案表示质疑,其中包括强烈要求教育私有化和诉诸种族隔离的纪律制度。在建立可能性的教学法时,如果该国要克服其不平等和社会分裂,就必须重新将社会阶层分析和有效的社区参与教育政策审议纳入有关补救和教育改革的讨论中。为此,在反对种族隔离斗争中提出的替代选择和可能性得到了重申,重新审查,并作为棱镜,可以通过它实践替代教育。
更新日期:2020-04-09
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