英和和英

語源

Blend of education and genocide

名詞

educocide (複数形 educocides)

1. A deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of the formal education and skills development systems of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group.

   In South Africa conditions have been exacerbated by the pernicious effects of the “Educocide” resulting from the 1951 “Job Reservation Act”, which forbad “blacks” from being artisans in “white” areas, and the 1953 “Bantu Education Act” which took mathematics and science out of secondary school education.

   • 2001, Robert McCutcheon, Employment generation in Public Works: Recent South African Experience (post 1994), The Journal of Construction Management and Economics, pages 275-284

     In 1953 mathematics and science were taken out of the Bantu (sic) educational system for the 'native' (sic): I term this 'educocide'.

   • 2001, Antun Mijatović, A view of Croatian pedagogy at the end of the century, Napredak, Časopisza pedagogijsk u teorij u ipraksu, Vol.142, No 2

     The author presents numerous examples that corroborate these statements and shows concern that this practice of ‘educocide’ has continued even ten years after Croatia became an independent and autonomous state.

   • 2008, ILO-ASIST, Prioritising Employment Creation in Government Policies, Programmes and Investments. Volume 1: Proceedings of the 12th Regional Seminar on Labour-Intensive Practices, 8-12 October 2007, Durban, South Africa. Geneva: ILO, ILO-ASIST, Geneva, Switzerland, page 15

     The lingering effects of Apartheid legislation could be termed “Educocide”, McCutcheon said, to the extent that, in the 1990s, one in 10 000 black school entrants would complete a good enough matric to be able to study either Engineering or Medicine.

   • 2008, Robert McCutcheon, “The generation of productive employment opportunities for the unskilled: principles, potential and pitfalls of labour-intensive construction.” Keynote Address: 10th Path to Full Employment Conference / 15th National Unemployment Conference 4-5 December 2008, Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) University of Newcastle, Australia, page 12