A History of Teacher Training Colleges in South Africa and the Effects of Teacher Training on Identity Formation

The dissertation project deals with the question, how teacher training functioned in South Africa between the 1930s and 1970s and which effects this training had on the construction of a national and ethnic identity. With this project differences and similarities between the manner in which teacher training functioned prior to and during Bantu Education, will be worked out. The relationship between the training of the aspirant teachers and the changing political environment will be of special interest as well as the question, if education policy provided the basis for apartheid social policy. The central aim of this project is to get a picture of teacher training in South Africa and in accordance to that, to identify which effects the training had on the formation of a national and ethnic identity.