School Management and Effectiveness in Developing Countries: The Post-Bureaucratic School (School Development)

Politics & Social Sciences

Clive Harber

Social Sciences

Cassell

Small Schools Democratic

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Drake International Services

Developing Democratic Education

Education Now Publishing Co-operative

The main purpose of this book is to provide a concise overview of educational transition - to document, discuss and analyse key changes (and continuities) in South African education since the end of apartheid. What makes this period particularly fascinating for educationalists is that the legacy of apartheid and the years of international isolation meant that educational reform had to be fundamental and wide ranging if South Africa was to become a modern, democratic state participating in the global political economy of the twenty-first century. The result was that in the final five years of the twentieth century South Africa became something of a laboratory or crucible for educational innovation. From 1948 to the early 1990s South African government was based on an institutionalised system of 'racial' separation and inequality formally known as apartheid. A white minority dominated a black majority in a context of stark social, political and economic differentiation. While the apartheid state used force to maintain this system, formal education was also used to try to make the basic tenets of apartheid 'normal' and 'acceptable' in the minds of South Africans. From the apartheid government's point of view, the role of education was to help to perpetuate and reproduce a racist system and to encourage obedience and conformity to that system. It is not therefore surprising that in the 1970s and 1980s education also became a key site in the struggle against apartheid or that educational reform was high on the agenda of the first democratically elected government after April 1994. However, while the direction of educational reform has inevitably been strongly influenced by the nature and history of the anti-apartheid struggle inside South Africa, the global political and economic context has also played its part in shaping educational debate and policy outside South Africa. Clive Harber's book recognises that there is a difference between planned reform and the actual na

State of Transition: Post-Apartheid Educational Reform in South Africa (Monographs in International Education)

Reference

Symposium Books

This book is a comprehensive introductory text for those beginning their studies of the complex yet fascinating area of education and international development. It sets out an overview of the main theories, ideologies and issues of education in developing countries, always with an eye to the contextual and practical realities of life in schools and other educational institutions. The book takes a balanced yet critical approach and examines both positive and negative aspects of the many relationships between education and development.
 It will be of use to undergraduate, Master's and doctoral students, as well as to staff in higher education who teach on courses concerned with education and development and those who work in international institutions and non-governmental organisations.
 CONTENTS An Overview of the Field Education and Development: introductory ideas The Nature of Formal Education in Developing Countries: access, quality, outcomes and inequality Theories of Education and Development: explaining the relationships between education and development Economic Development: human capital or dependency and socio-economic reproduction? Modernisation or the 'Prismatic' Society and Institution? Political Development and Democratisation Education as Harmful to Development? Ideological Goals for Education and Development: 'ought' relationships Education, Capitalism and Socialism Education and Green or Sustainable Development Education and Religion Issues of Education and Development Gender, Education, Development and the Role of Masculinity Education in Emergencies Non-state Educational Provision Education, Employment and Vocational Education Education and Corruption Education, Health and HIV/AIDS International Aid to Education Literacy and Language

Education and International Development: theory, practice and issues

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Clive Harber. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Clive Harber