Politics,Poverty and Education in Rural South Africa |
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| Authors: | Pam Christie Adele Gordon |
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| Institution: | 1. University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg;2. Human Sciences Research Council , Johannesburg |
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| Abstract: | This article examines the relationship between poverty and education in South Africa, and how its conceptualisation has changed historically. By analysing two major inquiries into poverty conducted by the Carnegie Corporation (in 1929‐32 and 1982‐84), it highlights the political nature of poverty and also its racialisation in South Africa. Using material from a peri‐urban research study, it extends the analysis to include the underprovision of schooling, gender relationships of poverty and also child labour. The article illustrates how the relationship between poverty and education has been differently constructed in different discourses, and concludes by considering the challenges of developing policies to address the education/poverty nexus in the rural areas of post‐apartheid South Africa. |
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