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Title School curriculum since apartheid: intersections of politics and policy in the South African transition
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/2263/131
Date 1999
Author(s) Jansen, Jonathan D.
Contributor(s) jonathan.jansen@up.ac.za
Abstract In the wake of South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, the new Minister of Education launched a national process which would purge the apartheid curriculum of its most offensive racial content and outdated, inaccurate subject matter. At a first glance these essential alterations to school syllabuses sounded reasonable and timely, given the democratic non-racial ideals of the new government. However, these syllabus alterations had little to do with changing the school curriculum and much more to do with a precarious crisis of legitimacy facing the state and education in the months following the national elections. The haste with which the state pursued a superficial cleansing of the inherited curriculum is explained in terms of the political constraints, conflicts and compromises which accompanied the South African transition from apartheid.
Subject(s) Curriculum development; Educational policy; Apartheid; Political influences; Educational change; Political interference
Language en
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Type of publication Article
Format 151472 bytes; application/pdf
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Identifier Jansen, J D 1999, 'The school curriculum since apartheid: intersections of politics and policy in the South African transition', Journal of Curriculum Studies, vol. 31, issue 1, pp. 57-67. [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00220272.asp]
Repository Pretoria - University of Pretoria, UPSpace
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