School curriculum since apartheid : intersections of politics and policy in the South African transition
dc.contributor.author | Jansen, Jonathan D. | |
dc.contributor.email | jonathan.jansen@up.ac.za | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-01-28T07:32:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-01-28T07:32:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1999-01 | |
dc.description.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launched a national process which would purge the apartheid curriculum of its most offensive racial content and outdated, inaccurate subject matter.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. | en |
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dc.identifier.citation | 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] | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/131 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en |
dc.rights | Please refer to Sherpa policies http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/index.html | en |
dc.subject | Curriculum development | en |
dc.subject | Educational policy | en |
dc.subject | Apartheid | |
dc.subject | Political influences | |
dc.subject | Educational change | |
dc.subject | Political interference | |
dc.title | School curriculum since apartheid : intersections of politics and policy in the South African transition | en |
dc.type | Article | en |