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Teaching controversial issues in an independent South African boys' school - an autoethnography
Dissertation (MEd (Humanities Education))--University of Pretoria,2023.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/94551 Teaching controversial issues in an independent South African boys' school - an autoethnography Wassermann, Johan callanmoore95@gmail.com Moore, Callan Teaching Teaching controversial Issues Independent schools Boys' education Autoethnography UTCD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-05: Gender equality Education theses SDG-05 Education theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Dissertation (MEd (Humanities Education))--University of Pretoria,2023. As a legacy of our troubled past, South Africa continues to grapple with inequality and marginalisation. Regarded as a profoundly unequal society, access to education remains a contentious issue. South African independent boys’ schools are embedded within the intricacies of the South African education system. Almost three decades after democracy, these schools still embody their colonial mandate to produce citizens of the Empire in culture and ethos. This evocative autoethnography explores the complexity of a White, male educator's attempt to teach controversial issues in the formal, informal, and nonformal curricula of the South African independent boys’ school. Complexity theory was utilised to explain the intricate influence of the constituent elements of my teaching practice. Purposeful sampling was used to identify participants for an emic process of critical conversations with co-witnesses and co-constructors of my experience. This was combined with memory work to construct an autoethnographic narrative in the form of short stories. This research reveals the complex relationship between understandings of gender, whiteness, a colonial legacy, and an emergent multiracial elite class of South Africans. In turn, this exposes the nuanced way in which problematic constituent elements of independent boys’ schools influence the teaching and learning of controversial issues. Thus, this study serves as an attempt to place the independent boys’ school into the context of the broader South African education system and offers a nuanced understanding of how learners at these affluent and privileged institutions are taught and learn controversial issues. Humanities Education MEd (MEd (Humanities Education) Restricted Faculty of Education SDG-05: Gender equality 2024-02-13T11:34:26Z 2024-02-13T11:34:26Z 2024-04-01 2023-11-01 Dissertation * A2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94551 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.24720024 © 2023 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 | Teaching Teaching controversial Issues Independent schools Boys' education Autoethnography UTCD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-05: Gender equality Education theses SDG-05 Education theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Teaching controversial issues in an independent South African boys' school - an autoethnography |
| title | Teaching controversial issues in an independent South African boys' school - an autoethnography |
| title_full | Teaching controversial issues in an independent South African boys' school - an autoethnography |
| title_fullStr | Teaching controversial issues in an independent South African boys' school - an autoethnography |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teaching controversial issues in an independent South African boys' school - an autoethnography |
| title_short | Teaching controversial issues in an independent South African boys' school - an autoethnography |
| title_sort | teaching controversial issues in an independent south african boys school an autoethnography |
| topic | Teaching Teaching controversial Issues Independent schools Boys' education Autoethnography UTCD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-05: Gender equality Education theses SDG-05 Education theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94551 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.24720024 |