An investigation into the place of women in black education as perceived by students who study extra-murally
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1992
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Abstract
Culture is man-made. Education is associated with man to imbue him into cultural norms; values and behaviour patterns. Educa¬tion in helping the young to becoming an adult is strongly in¬fluenced by the existing culture of a given people.
Though formal western education is supposed to ignore sexual demands on helping the young to become adults, it has a very strong sexual inclination. In this study,, "An investigation into the place of women in black education", it became very clear that even formal education up to University level does discriminate against the female persons. This was discussed in Chapter 1.
For instance the survey of women's place in Western countries in¬dicated this preferential inclination towards men. Examples are abundant in Greek education in Spartan education and also in Athenian education. People like Plato tried to put an end to this discriminatory practice but Rousseau perpetuated the practice.
Women's place from the missionaries' point of view and in tradi¬tional education in South Africa has been highlighted in this research. Because of the multidisciplinary nature of a study like this, it was discovered that other perspectives on women; the historico-legal, religious, political, psychological, can provide insight as far as the position of women in general is concerned.
In order to highlight the problem, education and gender had to be discussed, in Chapter 3, with a purpose of indicating the in¬fluence of education in positioning women. For instance, a survey of sexism in the curriculum and sexism in the hidden curriculum put women in formal education as second to men. Gender is equally dominant in the South Africa education systems.
2. METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
In this study two methods were used; namely literature study and an empirical method. Literature was reviewed on the researched problem. A questionnaire designed to reveal some areas of concern on the question of the place of women in Black education in par¬ticular was designed and administered to post graduate part-time students.
In Chapter 5 the results of the investigation are presented, dis¬cussed and interpreted.
3. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS
3.1 Although the education of women has advanced in South Africa, there are still discriminatory and differentiated practices which are restricting the educational achievements as well as promotion chances of women.
3.2 There were indications in the research that some respondents could not visualize women filling certain promotion posts in the educa¬tion departments. The lack of self-confidence and perseverance could have a negative effect on promotion potential.
3.3 The lack of time due to role overload was rated as the primary barrier.
3.4 The respondents expressed the opinion that societal pressures could create obstacles to the promotion of women educators.
In conclusion this research makes it evident that education as a vehicle through which culture is transmitted to the not-yet- mature plays a very important role in discriminating against the females.
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A dissertation submitted to the
Faculty of Education in fulfilment or
partial fulfilment of the requirement
for the DEGREE OF MASTER OF EDUCATION
in the
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION at the UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND, 1992.
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Women in education.