Author: Archibald Peter Hunter
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Archibald Peter Hunter
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Languages : en
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Author: Clive Harber
Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd
ISBN: 1873927193
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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The main purpose of this book is to provide a concise overview of educational transition – to document, discuss and analyse key changes (and continuities) in South African education since the end of apartheid. What makes this period particularly fascinating for educationalists is that the legacy of apartheid and the years of international isolation meant that educational reform had to be fundamental and wide ranging if South Africa was to become a modern, democratic state participating in the global political economy of the twenty-first century. The result was that in the final five years of the twentieth century South Africa became something of a laboratory or crucible for educational innovation. From 1948 to the early 1990s South African government was based on an institutionalised system of ‘racial’ separation and inequality formally known as apartheid. A white minority dominated a black majority in a context of stark social, political and economic differentiation. While the apartheid state used force to maintain this system, formal education was also used to try to make the basic tenets of apartheid ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’ in the minds of South Africans. From the apartheid government’s point of view, the role of education was to help to perpetuate and reproduce a racist system and to encourage obedience and conformity to that system. It is not therefore surprising that in the 1970s and 1980s education also became a key site in the struggle against apartheid or that educational reform was high on the agenda of the first democratically elected government after April 1994. However, while the direction of educational reform has inevitably been strongly influenced by the nature and history of the anti-apartheid struggle inside South Africa, the global political and economic context has also played its part in shaping educational debate and policy outside South Africa. Clive Harber’s book recognises that there is a difference between planned reform and the actual nature of educational change on the ground and tries, where possible, to set reform in the contextual realities of South African education as they presently exist. It aims to understand the difficulties and ambiguities of transition as well as the overt aims and goals as enshrined in policy documents and legislation.

Author: Ingrid Patricia Babb-Bracey
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: Peter Kallaway
Publisher: Pearson South Africa
ISBN: 9781868911929
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Ingrid Patricia Anne Babb-Bracey
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Category : Blacks
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Author: United States Department of State. External Research Division
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Beginning in 1954, Apr. issue lists studies in progress, Oct. issue, completed studies.

Author: Pierre L. Van den Berghe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520012943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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About the conflict between various ethnic groups in South Africa.

Author: Leon Tikly
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 924

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Author: Edward B. Fiske
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815728405
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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"Elusive Equity" chronicles South Africas efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd draw on previously unpublished data, interviews with key officials, and visits to dozens of schools to describe the changes made in school finance, teacher assignment policies, governance, curriculum, higher education, and other areas.