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Jansen, Jonathan D.
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2006-01-28T07:32:13Z |
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2006-01-28T07:32:13Z |
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1999-01 |
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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launched a national process which would purge the apartheid curriculum of its most offensive racial content and outdated, inaccurate subject matter.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. |
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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] |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/131 |
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Taylor & Francis |
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dc.subject |
Curriculum development |
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Educational policy |
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Apartheid |
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Political influences |
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Educational change |
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Political interference |
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School curriculum since apartheid : intersections of politics and policy in the South African transition |
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Article |
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