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Who moved the textbook ...? A case study describing how ideological change in South Africa manifested itself in terms of racial representation in a transitional Afrikaans language textbook series
Dissertation (MEd (Educational Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24791 Who moved the textbook ...? A case study describing how ideological change in South Africa manifested itself in terms of racial representation in a transitional Afrikaans language textbook series Ebersohn, L. (Liesel) upetd@ais.up.ac.za Engelbrecht, Alta Post-apartheid era Educational psychology Afrikaans language textbooks Paradigms social sciences Stereotype psychology Discrimination in education UCTD Dissertation (MEd (Educational Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to determine the extent to which an Afrikaans language textbook series acted as a change agent in terms of racial representation on the eve of democracy in South Africa. Data sources for the content analysis are press reports, parliamentary records and interviews with the publisher, the authors and leading academics. The contextualisation includes an explanation of how the authors of the Ruimland series were the first to intentionally break away from the apartheid perspective. The literature study comprises an explication of the master symbol model which serves as theoretical framework for this study. Influential issues in the literature on textbooks, representation, language and identity are also described. The main focus is on the three master symbols relevant to the study, which are presented as indicators of racial stereotyping, viz. the exclusivity and isolation of the in-group, appropriation and generalising and simplifying. These indicators are utilised as measurable norms in the analysis of racial representation. Counter-indicators obtained from the data are used to increase the reliability of the analysis. Traces of stereotyping regarding all the indicators and counter-indicators were found in the data. The findings show that master symbols are evident in the data, but that the series also incorporates counter-symbols directed toward a post-apartheid society. The concluding chapters suggests that the series could have been an early signal of a paradigm shift in Afrikaner ranks toward democracy in South Africa. Educational Psychology unrestricted 2013-09-06T18:26:25Z 2005-05-18 2013-09-06T18:26:25Z 2003-11-16 2006-05-18 2005-05-18 Dissertation Engelbrecht, A 2003, Who moved the textbook ...? A case study describing how ideological change in South Africa manifested itself in terms of racial representation in a transitional Afrikaans language textbook series, MEd dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24791 > http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24791 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05182005-151519/ © 2003, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Post-apartheid era Educational psychology Afrikaans language textbooks Paradigms social sciences Stereotype psychology Discrimination in education UCTD Who moved the textbook ...? A case study describing how ideological change in South Africa manifested itself in terms of racial representation in a transitional Afrikaans language textbook series |
| title | Who moved the textbook ...? A case study describing how ideological change in South Africa manifested itself in terms of racial representation in a transitional Afrikaans language textbook series |
| title_full | Who moved the textbook ...? A case study describing how ideological change in South Africa manifested itself in terms of racial representation in a transitional Afrikaans language textbook series |
| title_fullStr | Who moved the textbook ...? A case study describing how ideological change in South Africa manifested itself in terms of racial representation in a transitional Afrikaans language textbook series |
| title_full_unstemmed | Who moved the textbook ...? A case study describing how ideological change in South Africa manifested itself in terms of racial representation in a transitional Afrikaans language textbook series |
| title_short | Who moved the textbook ...? A case study describing how ideological change in South Africa manifested itself in terms of racial representation in a transitional Afrikaans language textbook series |
| title_sort | who moved the textbook a case study describing how ideological change in south africa manifested itself in terms of racial representation in a transitional afrikaans language textbook series |
| topic | Post-apartheid era Educational psychology Afrikaans language textbooks Paradigms social sciences Stereotype psychology Discrimination in education UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24791 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05182005-151519/ |