Educational Reform And Policy Shifts In Southern Africa
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Educational Reform And Policy Shifts In Southern Africa
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Author : Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society. Conference
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Educational Reform And Policy Shifts In Southern Africa written by Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society. Conference and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Education categories.
Educational Reform And The Transformation Of Southern Africa
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Author : Dickson Mungazi [Deceased]
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1997-06-18
Educational Reform And The Transformation Of Southern Africa written by Dickson Mungazi [Deceased] and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-18 with Education categories.
The political, social, and economic problems of southern Africa cannot be resolved until nations of this critical region effect educational reform. But this process requires more than change in the educational system; it involves the thrust for social transformation in national institutions. This unique study addresses key issues relative to both educational reform and social change in southern Africa. Topics discussed include the need for educational reform; approaches to educational reform; and the results of such reform on the individual and society. A bibliography and an index complete the text.
Elusive Equity
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Author : Edward B. Fiske
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2004-07-29
Elusive Equity written by Edward B. Fiske and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-29 with Education categories.
Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. The policymakers who came to power with Nelson Mandela in 1994 inherited and education system designed to further the racist goals of apartheid. Their massive challenge was to transform that system, which lavished human and financial resources on schools serving white students while systematically starving those serving African, coloured, and Indian learners, into one that would offer quality education to all persons, regardless of their race. Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd describe and evaluate the strategies that South Africa pursued in its quest for racial equity. They 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. They conclude that the country has made remarkable progress toward equity in the sense of equal treatment of persons of all races. For several reasons, however, the country has been far less successful in promoting equal educational opportunity or educational adequacy. Thus equity has remained elusive. The book is unique in combining the perceptive observations of a skilled education journalist with the analytical skills of an academic policy expert. Richly textured descriptions of how South Africa's education reforms have affected schools at the grass-roots level are combined with careful analysis of enrollment, governance, and budget data at the school, provincial, and national levels. The result is a compelling and comprehensive study of South Africa's first decade of education reform in the post-apartheid period.
State Of Transition
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Author : Clive Harber
language : en
Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd
Release Date : 2001-01-01
State Of Transition written by Clive Harber and has been published by Symposium Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Education categories.
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.
Managing Educational Change
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Author : Brahm Fleisch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Managing Educational Change written by Brahm Fleisch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Education categories.
Teachers Democratisation And Educational Reform In Russia And South Africa
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Author : Michelle Schweisfurth
language : en
Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Teachers Democratisation And Educational Reform In Russia And South Africa written by Michelle Schweisfurth and has been published by Symposium Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Education categories.
How have primary school teachers in Russia and South Africa experienced educational reforms and changes in these new democracies? How have their perceptions and experiences been expressed in their classroom practice? This book, based on research conducted in the early years of democracy in these countries, attempts to link the macro world of policy with the micro world of teachers and classrooms. The theme of teachers' responses to policy reform is explored through international literature on the policy-practice interface, and changes to education since the advent of democracy in the two national contexts are examined critically. Finally, using case study methodology, the study brings together individual teachers' perspectives, biographies and practice. The dilemmas they face in the process of change, and how they try to resolve these, reveals the complexity of the new educational agendas that have come with the transition to democracy.
Educational Reform And The Transformation Of Southern Africa
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Author : Dickson A. Mungazi
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1997-06-18
Educational Reform And The Transformation Of Southern Africa written by Dickson A. Mungazi and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-18 with Education categories.
Defines transformation as basic change in the structure of national institutions to allow the individual a maximum opportunity to ensure his advancement, without socio-economic or political restrictions, and states that it cannot be initiated in Southern Africa without responding to the need for fundamental educational reform.
Pedagogy In Poverty
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Author : Ursula Hoadley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-09
Pedagogy In Poverty written by Ursula Hoadley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-09 with Education categories.
As South Africa transitioned from apartheid to democracy, changes in the political landscape, as well as educational agendas and discourse on both a national and international level, shaped successive waves of curriculum reform over a relatively short period of time. Using South Africa as a germane example of how curriculum and pedagogy can interact and affect educational outcomes, Pedagogy in Poverty explores the potential of curricula to improve education in developing and emerging economies worldwide, and, ultimately, to reduce inequality. Incorporating detailed, empirical accounts of life inside South African classrooms, this book is a much-needed contribution to international debate surrounding optimal curriculum and pedagogic forms for children in poor schools. Classroom-level responses to curriculum policy reforms reveal some implications of the shifts between a radical, progressive approach and traditional curriculum forms. Hoadley focuses on the crucial role of teachers as mediators between curriculum and pedagogy, and explores key issues related to teacher knowledge by examining the teaching of reading and numeracy at the foundational levels of schooling. Offering a data-rich historical sociology of curriculum and pedagogic change, this book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, sociology of education, curriculum studies, educational equality and school reform, and the policy and politics of education.
Education Policy And Reform In Southern Africa
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Author : Peter Buckland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Education Policy And Reform In Southern Africa written by Peter Buckland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Education categories.
The Education Of Diverse Student Populations
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Author : Guofang Wan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-06-19
The Education Of Diverse Student Populations written by Guofang Wan and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-19 with Education categories.
This book takes up the challenge of examining the thorniest educational issue from a global perspective. It contributes to the evidence-based conversation among policy makers, educators, and researchers around the world about what works to improve the education outcomes and what can make a bigger difference for the education of diverse students. The eleven countries included — the United Kingdom, Austria, Canada, the United States, South Africa, Ghana, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand are unique, and yet overlap in the sense that they all face similar challenges of teaching diverse students. The authors, being education and cultural insiders, discuss country-specific policies, efforts, and best practices in the education of diverse students; share stories of success and failure; and explore current best practices from global, social, political, and economic perspectives. Built on previous theories and research, it describes diverse students’ experiences in the global and information age, and searches for effective policies and practices that help these students to perform better in school and in life. Readers are forced to step outside of their own experiences and commonly held beliefs about education. Conscious recognition that there are other ways of doing things may result in new approaches that we have not explored before. We hope the insights, lessons, and conclusions drawn from examining this pressing education issue from a global perspective will help nations to better understand and deal with it in their own educational system.