Education and social change in post-apartheid South Africa Changing Class provides a compelling analysis of key developments in this dramatic era of change in South Africa. One of the few books to examine the broad sweep of educational change in the first decade of democracy, its authors review everything from spending patterns, decentralisation, school integration and private schooling to language policy, curriculum and assessment, teacher education, teacher unions, as well as early childhood education, youth development and adult education.
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Education and social change in post-apartheid South Africa Changing Class emprovides a compelling analysis of key developments in this dramatic era of change in South Africa. One of the few books to examine the broad sweep of educational change in the first decade of democracy, its authors review everything from spending patterns, decentralisation, school integration and private schooling to language policy, curriculum and assessment, teacher education, teacher unions, as well as early childhood education, youth development and adult education. A mix of leading scholars and exciting new writers, the authors show how closely the shape of education is interwoven with that of society. The big picture that emerges is that, even as the overall intention of post-apartheid policy-makers has been to reconcile the interests of unequal and competing social classes and races, the interests of a new, deracialised middle class have come to dominate in formal education. This is despite the strengthening of teacher unions and the fact that movements in adult education and related spheres are re-emerging with a revitalised emancipatory agenda.
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Introduction
Linda Chisholm
SECTION 1: CHANGING CONTOURS
1. The development challenge in post-apartheid South African education
Haroon Bhorat
2. Balancing public and private resources for basic education: school fees in post-apartheid South Africa
Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd
3. Constituting the class: an analysis of the process of integration in South African schools
Crain Soudien
4. Educational de/centralisation and the quest for equity, democracy and quality
Suzanne Grant Lewis and Shireen Motala
5. The new face of private schooling
Jane Hofmeyr and Simon Lee
SECTION 2: CHANGING LANDSCAPES
6. Multilingualism and education
Thobeka Mda
7. Political change, curriculum change and social formation, 1990 to 2002
Ken Harley and Volker Wedekind
8. Assessment, qualifications and the NQF in South African schooling
Johan Muller
9. The case of teacher education in post-apartheid South Africa: politics and priorities
Yusuf Sayed
10. Teacher unions, policy struggles and educational change, 1994 to 2004
Logan Govender
11. Changes and continuities in South Africas higher education system, 1994 to 2004
Jonathan D Jansen
SECTION 3: CHANGING MARGINS
12. Dont bite the hand that feeds you: South African education NGOs in a period of change
Sen Morrow
13. The state of play in early childhood development
Kim Porteus
14. Youth development in transition, 1992 to 2004
Margaret Perrow
15. Adult basic education and social change in South Africa, 1994 to 2003
Ivor Baatjes and Khulekani Mathe
16. The education business: private contractors in public education
John Pampallis
About the Authors
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