Chapter 9: Disclosing an Instance of Self-Provision: Curriculum Development in Boitekong in a Formalization of Informal Squatter Communities, North West Province, South Africa

The purpose of this evaluation is to disclose educational provision in Boitekong, South Africa, as an instance of good practice. In the field, the researcher used a range of ethnographic tools including long-hand recording of the presentations by the community, naturalistic observations of Boitekong Education Forum meetings, in-depth interviews of members of the Forum, and document analysis. In keeping with connoisseurship evaluation, which works off of a prior adjudication of the good to disclose it, the findings, grounded in five vignettes, show how volunteers in this squatter community accomplished educational provision for all. The conclusions find that language use in Forum deliberations was experienced as empowering; the term curriculum developer was redefined in reference to people on the margins of society doing this work, and community-led educational provision in this community is arguably an instance of the exceptional found in ordinary people rather than in leaders of this country.