Abstract
Twenty years ago, an experimental school project was begun among indigenous people, the Ju/’hoan San, in a remote part of Namibia, then still apartheid South West Africa. The children of the Ju/’hoan people, or Ju/’hoansi, had been identified as “educationally marginalized” in the late 1980s, before Namibia’s Independence from South Africa (March, 1990). Those few children who had access to national schooling showed a very high dropout rate; the schools were clearly not appropriate to their needs. Accordingly, they were the “blamed victims” and an embarrassment to the national education system.
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Biesele, M. (2013). The Nyae Nyae Village Schools Project: Indigenous Community-Based Education in Namibia. In: Johnson, D., Agbényiga, D., Hitchcock, R. (eds) Vulnerable Children. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6780-9_4
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