Open AccessEDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS, THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY AND THE TEACHER-LIBRARIAN IN THE EDUCATION OF BLACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO A SAMPLE OF SCHOOLS IN THE CAPE PENINSULA
Author(s) -
George H. Frederiks
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
education libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2376-8711
pISSN - 0148-1061
DOI - 10.26443/el.v18i2.66
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , politics , agency (philosophy) , sociology , cape , school library , political science , sample (material) , pedagogy , peninsula , economic growth , library science , social science , geography , economics , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography , computer science , law
This investigation was undertaken to develop an understanding of the role of the teacher-librarian and the school library at black secondary schools in South Africa by locating it in the broader context of political, social and economic change. The theoretical framework used in this investigation consists of elements from both the political-economy theory and the structure agency debate. Using the structuralist political-economy approach, the researcher presents educational developments in South Africa with special reference to school library development. A critical examination of educational developments in the 1970s and the 1980s and the role of school library and the teacherlibrarian within those periods is also undertaken.