With the fall of apartheid in South Africa, expectations were high for the enfranchisement of the acutely underdeveloped majority in South Africa. But problems abound, and this educational study looks critically at the educational situation and puts forth a number of proposals that could produce better results in contemporary South Africa.Abdi urges that beyond the celebratory platforms of the political triumph over apartheid, there must be effective and culturally inclusive programs of education for the development of the highly disenfranchsed majority in South Africa.Deliberate programs of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa resulted in inferior education, cultural marginalization, political oppression, economic exploitation and resulting underdevelopment in the lives of the disenfranchised majority. In addition to historical and contemporary analysis, this study looks at the possibilities of formulating and implementing new programs of education and development that could effectively deal with such current problems as chronic unemployment, skyrocketing crime rates, stagnating learning systems, and the continuing formations of a huge underclass that may be losing its stake in the promised post-apartheid project.

Culture, Education, and Development in South Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Arts & Photography

Abdi, Ali A.

History & Criticism

Praeger

This book tackles the role education can play in the peaceful and productive globalization of difference. The authors focus on how the politics of difference influences and is influenced by educational programs, and provisions in Canadian, and in other parts of the world. Dr. Ghosh and Dr. Abdi discuss theories of knowledge, and examine how these define and represent new and established notions, practices of schooling, and social development.

Education And The Politics Of Difference: Canadian Perspectives

Education & Teaching

Ghosh, Ratna

Schools & Teaching

Canadian Scholars Pr

Education & the Politics of Difference: Select Canadian Perspectives

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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