The 1989 black matriculation failure rate : what were the classroom practices?

[摘要] This research is an attempt to reveal aspects of Historyteaching concealed in conventional or popular beliefs aboutthe Black Matriculation pass/fail statistics.The classroom practices of two History teachers are described.One comes from an achieving Soweto secondary school. Theschool is popularly contrived as an achieving school becauseit is known in the community for producing better than averageDET Matriculation results. The classroom practices of anotherteacher. from an underachieving school. are also described.This school is known in the community for producing lower thanaverage DET results over a number of years.These classroom practices are illuminated against the backdropof the high pass/low failure rate during the eighties, withparticular reference to the year 1989. This is the year inwhich the DET matriculation pass/failure rate was the worst inthe decade of the eighties. (Abbreviation abstract)

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand