The Rock : the history of Orlando High School, 1939-1984.

[摘要] This research report traces and records the historical developmentof Orlando High School, Soweto, South Africa,fromits origins in 1939 to the present. This account serves toilluminate the history of state-provided secondary educationfor Africans on the Reef in particular, and in the country ingeneral.Attention is focused on three distinct periods or phasesthrough which Orlando High School has passed. They are thepre-Bantu Education period (1939-1954), the Bantu Educationperiod, up to the riots (1955-1976) and the post-1976 periodto 1984. Each of these periods exerted different politicaland socio-economic pressures on the school that shaped itsethos, educative function and its growth.The History of Orlando High School mirrors the phenomenalgrowth and significant developments in the educational provisionfor Africans over the last 45 years. There are, however,serious problems that account for the present crisisin this system of education. They need to be addressed boldlyand urgently.

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand