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The “A” factor: Coming to terms with the question of legacy in South African education
- Source :
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International Journal of Educational Development . Mar2007, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p182-193. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- Abstract: This paper attempts to offer an alternative framework for assessing education delivery in South Africa. Its purpose is to develop an analytic approach for understanding education delivery in South Africa in the last 11 years and to use this framework to pose a set of strategic questions about how policy might be framed to deal with delivery. The paper begins with a quick review of the country''s achievements and challenges in education and shows that a failure to produce a high quality education system remains the country''s primary challenge. The broad approach that is taken is to suggest that dominant approaches for understanding this lack of performance underplay the specificity of the country''s context and specifically so its apartheid legacy. This legacy, it is argued, continues to be determinative in shaping, and accounting for the character of current social behaviour in the country, including the performance of children in schools. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
- Subjects :
- *EDUCATION policy
*EDUCATION research
*ACADEMIC achievement
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07380593
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Educational Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 23618420
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2006.07.006