Abstract
M.Ed. (Curriculum Studies)
The purpose of this study is to get parents of black pupils in
the senior primary phase of state-aided (model C) schools to
evaluate the curriculum.
After a short period of gradually being opened to pupils ,of all
races, schools which has obviously been-government schools
became state-aided, or semi-private schools. This meant that school had the liberty to decide on their own admissions policy.
Most English medium schools became-so called open schools, that
is, they decided to admit pupils of all races.
Although the target population for the curriculum had thus
changed, there was no adjustment to the curriculum. Teaching carried on as it had always done, with there being no mention of
any form of multicultural education; the schools became assimilatory
schools. In order to determine the attitude of the parents and to gauge
what could be done about this problem, this study was embarked
upon.
A literature study of the curriculum, multicultural education and
parental involvement in their child's schooling, with particular
reference to the curriculum, was conducted in order to serve as a
theoretical background and to act as a yardstick against which conclusions and recommendations could be made.