Elusive Equity
Subtitle: Education Reform in Post Apartheid South Africa
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: July 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780815728405
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Educational change; Education / Teaching; Education; Republic of South Africa; Educational equalization; Educational Policy & Reform; Public Policy - Social Policy; Discrimination in education; Education and state; South Africa
First sentence: In 1953 the South African minister of native affairs, Hendrik Verwoerd, took the floor of Parliament in Cape Town to make the case for legislation restricting the quality of schools serving Africans.
Description: This book describes and evaluates the strategies that South Africa pursued in its efforts to establish an education system consistent with the country's new democratic values and its new economic and social needs. The authors focus on three cultural themes: the elimination of racial barriers in the state education system, the development of a unified and equitable school funding system, and the introduction of a new curriculum that embodied the precepts and goals of the new democracy.