OPINION | Nuraan Davids: Our pupils need trustworthy teachers
While teacher education programmes have been overhauled to include the importance of social justice and democratic forms of engagement, tensions reside in the contextual cultures of schools, writes is celebrated annually on 5 October to acknowledge teachers' important role in educating and nurturing the next generation of upstanding citizens that every society needs.
At the height of the ‘#BlackLivesMatter’ protests, following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020, pupils across South Africa took to social media under the banner Crawford teacher's racist lesson: Experts question who is teaching educators about diversity and discrimination
There is, therefore, a pre-emptive position of protecting the image of the school, so that the mistrust experienced by some learners is not transferred onto the school. Hence, in order for them to retain the trust of parents and learners, it is better for them to take the risk of not attending to the allegations made by the learners on, than to risk their trustworthiness by acknowledging that there are indeed incidents of structural racism and othering at the schools.
Efforts at diversifying and democratising schools, as envisaged in a democratic society, cannot discount the critical and powerful role and influence of teachers. Firstly, it is imperative to understand that an idealised persona of 'the teacher' simply does not exist.
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