Realising the Dream

Unlearning the logic of race in the South African school Realising the Dream: Unlearning the logic of race in the South African school is an intellectual and practical response to the dangers that come with the ubiquity of race, race-thinking and its attendant propensity to subsume the nuances of all other social complexity.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

210mm x 148mm (Soft Cover)

Pages:

288

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2380-6

Publish Year:

2012

Rights:

World Rights

Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronyms

Introduction ‘Hey you black man, hey you white woman’: Calling race

Social difference and its history

The obdurate nature of race

Creolisation, multiplicity, education and identity

The racial nature of South African schooling

Constituting the class: Integration in South African schools

The asymmetries of contact in the South African school

Reconstituting privilege: Integration in former white schools

The complexity of subordination in the new South Africa

Structure and agency: Young South Africans struggling against history

Thinking and living our way forward

References

Index

Professor Crain Soudien is formerly the Director of the School of Education at the University of Cape Town and currently a Deputy Vice-Chancellor. He has written over 120 articles, reviews, reports, and book chapters in the areas of social difference, culture, educational policy, comparative education, educational change, public history and popular culture.

He is the co-editor of three books on District Six, Cape Town and another on comparative education, the author of The Making of Youth Identity in Contemporary South Africa: Race, Culture and Schooling,and the co-author of Inclusion and Exclusion in South African and Indian Schools. He was educated at the Universities of Cape Town, South Africa and holds a PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

He is involved in a number of local, national and international social and cultural organisations and is the Chairperson of the District Six Museum Foundation, a Board member of the Cape Town Festival, immediate Past-President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and was the Chair of a Ministerial Committee on Transformation in Higher Education.