A primary school teacher’s own childhood schooling in post-apartheid South Africa involved exclusion, alienation, and cultural dissonance, rendering schooling experiences traumatic rather than developmental.
Evidence
Hidden traumas of coloniality of a South African child who received an academic scholarship (South African Journal of Childhood Education)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The decisive psychological traumatism of the colonial child occurs in grammar school — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 573; For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling
Related
- Childhood trauma is typically rooted in early development and maltreatment, with the school’s role understood mainly as responding to trauma that predates schooling. (similarity 0.83)
- For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling (similarity 0.81)
- Early trauma-informed work created a narrow vision of trauma that ignored cultural and systemic adversity, and most glaringly ignored the trauma imposed by schools and teachers themselves. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling
#corroborates(0.82)