Full Description
This collection focuses on the post-independence educational development in Zimbabwe. It shows how the ZANU PF regime has presided over the demise of education, and covers a wide range of topics such as violence against teachers, poor salaries, student activism, minority languages, and curriculum innovations. The overarching argument of the volume is that regime has used education as a tool for repression, and for the continued existence of ZANU PF. Curriculum innovations introduced and implemented in Zimbabwe have little to do with improving the performance of the learners, and more to do with keeping teachers busy so that they do not push the regime change agenda. Consequently, this has resulted in a nation in crisis, marked with high labor turnover, brain drain, poor economy, and mass exodus of both teachers and learners. The contributors to this volume make various suggestions which could recenter education towards addressing the lived realities of the learners, as opposed being used as a tool to push repression and thwart democracy.
Contents
Introduction: Regime and Education in Zimbabwe by Bekithemba Dube and Albert Mufanechiya
Chapter 1: Religious Education as an Ideological Tool in Zimbabwe: Unpacking the Strategy of the Regime by Bekithemba Dube
Chapter 2: The Regime, Education and Training, and Human Capital: Return on Investment in Zimbabwe by Albert Mufanechiya and Bekithemba Dube
Chapter 3: Regime Enablers Among Student Activists: ZICOSU, a Case of Incentivised Student Activism at Zimbabwe's Tertiary Institutions at the Turn of the Millennium by Baldwin Hove and Bekithemba Dube
Chapter 4: The Regime, Rural Communities, Use of Schools and Impact on Education in Zimbabwe by Bekithemba Dube and Albert Mufanechiya
Chapter 5: The Regime and Minority Languages in Zimbabwe: Prospects and Challenges by Cordial Bhebe and Bekithemba Dube
Chapter 6: Regime and Curriculum Innovation in Zimbabwe. A Dehumanised and Terrified Teacher in the Context of Performativity by Bekithemba Dube and Sikhathele Dube
Chapter 7: Regime and School Violence in Zimbabwe: Problematising the Overlooked Correlation Between Political Violence and Instability in Schools by Bekithemba Dube and Gift Masengwe
Chapter 8: The Regime and Lecturers in Higher and Tertiary Education State Institutions in Zimbabwe by Albert Mufanechiya and Bekithemba Dube
Chapter 9: The Regime and the Implementation of IsiNdebele in the Competency-based Curriculum in Zimbabwe by Cordial Bhebe and Bekithemba Dube
Chapter 10: The Rural Teacher and the Regime in Zimbabwe by Bekithemba Dube and Albert Mufanechiya
