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According to Christie, what purposes do schools serve?

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In the context of South African Educational Research, Pam Christie’s paper on Changing Schools in South Africa in 2008 is considered one of the crucial assessments of the new shifts.

Christie’s work on the nature of shifts in the South African Educational system and the timeline of policy changes imbibed into in the past three decades forms the crux of her views. She focused on the impact of Outcome Based Education and the need to decolonize the educational system to prevent any more epistemic violations.

The driving function of a school should be the holistic progress of the child through extended indigenous values and principles imbibed into it. Mere development of skill sets would be a loss in the long run of the educational system. The purpose of the revised schooling must wash against all the damage done by the apartheid educational system before the change in the 1990s. And this apartheid system imbibed racial differences and the superiority of Whites through educational materials. Christie stressed the need to address this and to change the narratives to understand the true nature and grit of the indigenous populations.

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