{"id":11,"date":"2015-09-15T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/raceandeducationmosaic\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2015-10-27T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T14:59:38","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/raceandeducationmosaic\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

During Apartheid in South Africa, education was a primary tool of maintaining and legitimizing race-based inequalities. The education system in South Africa strongly reflected the policies of segregation and ideologies of white supremacy that so entrenched society.\u00a0In 1996, the South African Schools Act<\/a> desegregated schools and claimed to provide equal funding to all public schools, therefore dismantling Apartheid education. With this act, Apartheid education was \u201cofficially\u201d over, yet racial and class-based inequalities continue to persist in the modern South African school system. Throughout our research trip to King Williams Town, South Africa, our team focused on how these inequalities play out through curriculum.<\/p>\n

Although there is technically one, nation-wide curriculum in South Africa, it is not implemented equally. Schools throughout the Eastern Cape actually do not have the same curriculum that formerly all-white schools may have. Through our interviews with students, teachers, and administrators within a variety of schools around King Williams Town, we have found that the availability of resources and students\u2019 socio-economic status are the primary factors in this unequal implementation of curriculum. To find out more about the findings of our research, please listen to our podcast\u00a0posted below:<\/p>\n

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Podcast: The Struggle for an Equitable Curriculum<\/b><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/raceandeducationmosaic\/files\/2015\/09\/mosaic-script.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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