PETERHOUSE - Education
in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe - 1955-2005
Foreword by The Lady
Soames
Macmillan
will be publishing A School in Africa at Rhodes House, Oxford on 2nd
July 2005. The book has 277 pages plus
19 pages of front matter, end papers, maps, colour frontispiece, 16 pages of
photos, full colour jacket and a Peterhouse crest blocked on the front
cover. The UK published price will be
£30.00. It will be available in South
Africa book shops and in Zimbabwe (from the school) from late July at a South
African retail price of ZAR360, or Zimbabwe equivalent.
Description
When Peterhouse opened
in 1955, the British Empire in Africa was still intact and the Federation of
Rhodesia and Nyasaland - with its high hopes and fears had just come into
being. It was a boarding school founded on the British model, but with the
intention that it would 'adapt all that is best in the Public School tradition
to African conditions'. For 50 years, in Rhodesia and then in Zimbabwe, its
governors and staff have attempted to do that, and have seen it grow from a
boys' school of 350 to a group of schools educating over a thousand boys and
girls. But the story of Peterhouse is not only about work and sport, music and
drama, chapel, building developments and syllabus changes. It is set in the
context of educational development and political changes in a Southern Africa
country. This history of the school shows how it became a pioneering
multi-racial institution in 'white Rhodesia'; shared the sufferings of the country
during the 'bush war'; expanded greatly in the new Zimbabwe, survived the
contradictions of a black 'Marxist' government, and has kept its firm
commitment to being a 'Church School'. Despite the uncertainties and challenges
of the new century, this is a story of faith and vision.
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Contents Founding Fathers Getting Started Metamorphosis The Wider Scene Changes All round Mind and Soul War and Peace A New Era |
Being Rector The Great Expansion 'Play the Game' Enrichment A Zimbabwean School The New Millennium Endnotes Appendices (14) Index |
Author
ALAN MEGAHEY has been associated with Peterhouse
for almost half its history. Having taught in the independent sector in
Britain, Alan ran the school for ten years, and retains close links with it. Dr
Megahey was educated at Royal School, Dungannon in his native Northern Ireland,
read history at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1971. He has
taught at Wrekin College, housemastered at Cranleigh School, and was Rector of
Peterhouse from 1984 to 1994. He was Chaplain at Uppingham School until 2001.
Alan lives in Leadenham in the Diocese of Lincoln, where Alan is a Rector and
Rural Dean. Their married daughter teaches at Oundle; their son is buried in
the Peterhouse graveyard.