Bisma Taloo
Student number –
63238934
SAE3701
Assignment 2
Unique number –
779097
Due date – 19 May
2022
, Question 1:
1.1) colonization and missionary education change pre-colonial societies by:
• mission schools often provided a workforce for capitalist and
colonial societies.
• There was an emphasis on Christianity which undermined existing
beliefs.
• Schooling and literacy were encouraged which were provided by
missionaries and church schools.
• It was done through conquest and ideological control.
• Literacy was considered important because they wanted children
to read the bible.
1.2) What criticisms of mission education does Christie put forward?
• Christie argues that Mission schools’ taught discipline and the
value of hard work which meant that social class positions were
often reproduced (e.g. working-class children went into working
class positions in the economy).
• Although some mission schools were racially mixed there were
segregationist practices in the schools, especially in the boarding
schools.
• Missionary values prepared people for subordinate roles in society
and in the workforce. Some schools’ taught skills which were
useful in the workplace such as wagon making and needlework,
but these skills tended to maintain social class differentiation.
• Critics argue that these values helped to prepare black people to
accept a subordinate position in society by accepting rather than
questioning colonization.
• Critics argue that low levels of schooling were the norm. Learners
often went to primary school only and had 2 to 3 years of
schooling.
1.3) The aim of young Christian workers was to bring hope to the young
people of the working class, that life is worth living after all, that things
can change, and that the church is with them in their struggles to get
jobs and proper wages as well as proper housing and a good level of
education. They also educated young workers about their rights. The
YCW also erected shelters at bus stops for commuters and they also
visited the elderly people who had no one to look after them.
Student number –
63238934
SAE3701
Assignment 2
Unique number –
779097
Due date – 19 May
2022
, Question 1:
1.1) colonization and missionary education change pre-colonial societies by:
• mission schools often provided a workforce for capitalist and
colonial societies.
• There was an emphasis on Christianity which undermined existing
beliefs.
• Schooling and literacy were encouraged which were provided by
missionaries and church schools.
• It was done through conquest and ideological control.
• Literacy was considered important because they wanted children
to read the bible.
1.2) What criticisms of mission education does Christie put forward?
• Christie argues that Mission schools’ taught discipline and the
value of hard work which meant that social class positions were
often reproduced (e.g. working-class children went into working
class positions in the economy).
• Although some mission schools were racially mixed there were
segregationist practices in the schools, especially in the boarding
schools.
• Missionary values prepared people for subordinate roles in society
and in the workforce. Some schools’ taught skills which were
useful in the workplace such as wagon making and needlework,
but these skills tended to maintain social class differentiation.
• Critics argue that these values helped to prepare black people to
accept a subordinate position in society by accepting rather than
questioning colonization.
• Critics argue that low levels of schooling were the norm. Learners
often went to primary school only and had 2 to 3 years of
schooling.
1.3) The aim of young Christian workers was to bring hope to the young
people of the working class, that life is worth living after all, that things
can change, and that the church is with them in their struggles to get
jobs and proper wages as well as proper housing and a good level of
education. They also educated young workers about their rights. The
YCW also erected shelters at bus stops for commuters and they also
visited the elderly people who had no one to look after them.
