ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the pedagogy, politics and poverty. Politics and poverty run through this as where Marisa reflects back to her realisation that the way one who speaks can carry a stigma related to personal history of poverty and war. Many of the bilingual children in the schools and settings come here as their families seek a better life. They may be asylum seekers, refugees or economic migrants. The government in South Africa set a goal of 100 percentage primary school attendances by 2015 and recent figures show that they reached this target. The children in primary school largely come from poor homes, with limited access to print within both homes and schools/settings. One effect of this is that many of those now at universities, schools and settings do not fully accept the educational legitimacy and the academic relevance of their home languages. Macedo and Bartolome examine the problems engendered by what they call 'scientific objectivity'.
