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I chose Battswood schools for my topic, because I was a little familiar with the school. It was an essential reading of week 2 where I found Martha's story fascinating. I would like to understand how Battswood schools established and how it came to be what it is today in the contexts of history through this wikipedia project.

Assignment 4: Annotated bibliography

I found most of the articles from Sussex library, Google scholar, and Jstor.

History of Battswood school

"Teacher preparation in South Africa"

This article examines teacher preparation in South Africa. It compares several teacher schools in South Africa, and one of them is Battswood school. There is also a date of Battswood school in 1926, which may be useful when showing statistical evidence.

"Acquiring Pedagogic Authority While Learning to Teach"

This is also about a history of teacher training in South Africa. It mentions the establishment of Battswood school in 1891. This contains not only general history of South Africa but also specific history of Battswood school.

"Martha Solomons: The slave’s daughter and Countess of Stamford who made my life possible"

This is about how Martha Solomons came to establish Battswood school. This material tells the intentions and background of the establishment of this school, which might be an interesting topic to cover in a wikipedia page.

"Aantekeninge by drie klein geskiedenisse"

Martha's history is written in African language. With the article above, the explanation of Martha will be strengthened.

"Nelson Mandela Park PS students to fly to South Africa"

This article is about the partnership with a Canadian school based in Toronto - Nelson Mandela Park Public School. Students in Battswood school and in Nelson Mandela Park Public School seem to have communication by an exchange experiences. This article might be interesting in terms of globalization in education sector.

"Battswood Primary teacher retires after 34 years in education"

This tells the new education policies that Battswood school experienced in the last 30 years.

Alumni of Battswood school

"Dulcie September: another martyr"

This is about Dulcie September and her connection between battswood school. This is a short newspaper article, and I think it is reliable because the publisher is Guardian.

"Dulcie Evonne September"

This tells us her life story and her education background in battswood school.

"Remembering the legacy of Dulcie September"

This is a newspaper that summarizes the life achievement of Dulcie September. It was published on April 28, 2021 so that it covers a relatively wide range of information about her from the past to present.

"Adam Small"

This is a summary website of who Adam Small is. There are no specific statement about Battswood school, but this article might be helpful to grasp what he acomplished in his life.

"Family History and Respectabilities as Resistance Themes in Adam Small's The Orange Earth"

This is about a writer Adam Small, and his connection with Battswood school. This article can be used when introducing some of the famous Alumni of Battswood school. How ever, this source may not be strong enough because it is a article shared at ResearchGate.

"Adam Small: family histories, beginnings and earlier influences"

This article is also about Adam Small. There is a word 'Battswood Opleidingskool' in the article. One concern is that this article is not written in English. I have to figure out the way I can read and understand it.

Language policy in Battswood school

"Multilingual language policy and school linguistic practice: globalization and English‐language teaching in India, Singapore and South Africa"

This is about multilingual language policy and its implementation to Battswood school after the 1990s. It explains the historical context of language policy in South Africa, with comparison to India and Singapore. This is an overview article that more statistical data might be needed to examine actual language policy implementation.

"MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE POLICIES AND THE CONTINUA OF BILITERACY: AN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH "

This is about multilingual education specifically in South Africa. It mentions the number of students in school overall and the percentage of bilingual children. This date might be helpful to show what extent multilingual language education was introduced.

Assignment 3: Topic paragraph

Battswood school is a primary school that is located in Cape Town, South Africa. This school was established in 1891 as Battswood School (and subsequently Battswood Teachers College), by a woman named Martha Solomons, slaves’ daughter. Throughout its long history, the school has nurtured writers and activists who have left an impact on society. Also, in recent years this school came to adopt multilingual language education as one of the pilot schools in South Africa. In this paper, I will first briefly summarize the history of this school from the 1890s to mid twenty century. Secondly, I will introduce some of the Alumni of this school and their contributions to society. Lastly, I will focus on multilingual language policy in South Africa and its implementation to Battswood school. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 315da (talk • contribs) 15:48, 18 November 2021 (UTC)