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"I don't see colour" : teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in Cape Town
This thesis examines the discourses twenty three teachers in desegregated classrooms in Cape Town schools adopt toward integration and various constructions of difference. Discourse analysis reveals how the constructions of language, class and culture are being positioned as signifiers for differenc...
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| author | Davies, Claire Thandi |
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| description | This thesis examines the discourses twenty three teachers in desegregated classrooms in Cape Town schools adopt toward integration and various constructions of difference. Discourse analysis reveals how the constructions of language, class and culture are being positioned as signifiers for difference, in place of race. Teachers tend either towards 'colour-consciousness 'or 'colour-blindness' in their discourses of race, and many white teachers demonstrate equality approaches toward different learners. Language as a difference is being used as a 'gate-keeper' to resist integration in schools. The construction of the past is problematic among some teachers, with the tendency to evade impacts the past still has on learners today. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11869 "I don't see colour" : teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in Cape Town Davies, Claire Thandi Steyn, Melissa Diversity Studies This thesis examines the discourses twenty three teachers in desegregated classrooms in Cape Town schools adopt toward integration and various constructions of difference. Discourse analysis reveals how the constructions of language, class and culture are being positioned as signifiers for difference, in place of race. Teachers tend either towards 'colour-consciousness 'or 'colour-blindness' in their discourses of race, and many white teachers demonstrate equality approaches toward different learners. Language as a difference is being used as a 'gate-keeper' to resist integration in schools. The construction of the past is problematic among some teachers, with the tendency to evade impacts the past still has on learners today. 2015-01-10T06:40:22Z 2015-01-10T06:40:22Z 2009 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11869 eng application/pdf Department of Sociology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Diversity Studies Davies, Claire Thandi "I don't see colour" : teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in Cape Town |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | "I don't see colour" : teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in Cape Town |
| title_full | "I don't see colour" : teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in Cape Town |
| title_fullStr | "I don't see colour" : teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in Cape Town |
| title_full_unstemmed | "I don't see colour" : teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in Cape Town |
| title_short | "I don't see colour" : teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in Cape Town |
| title_sort | i don t see colour teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in cape town |
| topic | Diversity Studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11869 |
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