Jansen, Jonathan D.2006-01-282006-01-281999-01Jansen, 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]http://hdl.handle.net/2263/131In 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launched a national process which would purge the apartheid curriculum of its most offensive racial content and outdated, inaccurate subject matter.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.151472 bytesapplication/pdfenPlease refer to Sherpa policies http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/index.htmlCurriculum developmentEducational policyApartheidPolitical influencesEducational changePolitical interferenceArticle