School curriculum since apartheid : intersections of politics and policy in the South African transition

dc.contributor.authorJansen, Jonathan D.
dc.contributor.emailjonathan.jansen@up.ac.zaen
dc.date.accessioned2006-01-28T07:32:13Z
dc.date.available2006-01-28T07:32:13Z
dc.date.issued1999-01
dc.description.abstractIn 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launched a national process which would purge the apartheid curriculum of its most offensive racial content and outdated, inaccurate subject matter.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.en
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dc.identifier.citationJansen, 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]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/131
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.rightsPlease refer to Sherpa policies http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/index.htmlen
dc.subjectCurriculum developmenten
dc.subjectEducational policyen
dc.subjectApartheid
dc.subjectPolitical influences
dc.subjectEducational change
dc.subjectPolitical interference
dc.titleSchool curriculum since apartheid : intersections of politics and policy in the South African transitionen
dc.typeArticleen

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