ABSTRACT
Many South African teachers attended school and underwent their initial teaching training in the context of the racist and repressive apartheid education system (1948 to 1994). Despite major education policy changes since 1994, the destructive legacies of the apartheid era continue to affect teachers’ professional experiences (South African National Department of Education, 2006). A challenge for teacher educators in post-apartheid South Africa is to work with teachers to recollect and reexamine experiences from the past in order to inform engagement with current social and educational challenges.
