The May 1975 Student Strike in Mauritius and its Aftermath: A reflection on decolonisation of education
Journal Title: International Journal of Modern Research In Engineering & Management. - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 9
Abstract
The 1975 Student’s strike in Mauritius was a trigger to the need for greater equality in secondary education. It was a time when such education was not free and students attending private secondary schools had to pay to afford learning beyond their primary education to achieve the School Certificate and aim for a decent job. The May 1975 uprising gave way to upper secondary level students’ demonstration in the urban areas with echoes all over the country. The benefits of such a reform are manifold like wider access to secondary education to girls, greater possibility for students to pursue education up to the Higher School Certificate including the democratisation of education through the creation of Junior Secondary Schools (JSS). This paper claims that May 1975 remains to-date an important turn in the secondary education system in Mauritius bringing a higher level of democracy and creating a pathway for the decolonisation of education through the abolishment of the Moray House Junior Scholarship, the ‘mauritianisation’ of local texts, the use of Kreol in teaching. However, the lessons of 1975 might not apply to the contemporary context whereby elitist education still persists, socialist ideologies have died and new student uprising has never been seen afterwards just to sum up that decolonisation remains a challenging process albeit the 1975 unrest as a starting point of educational decolonisation.
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Betchoo Nirmal Kumar
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