Culture, Education, and Development in South Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspective - Rilegato

Abdi, Ali A.

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ISBN 10: 089789815X ISBN 13: 9780897898157

Casa editrice: Praeger Pub Text, 2001

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

ALI A. ABDI is Assistant Professor of International Development Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

Product Description:

The author calls for the implementation of a South African version of critical multicultural education to facilitate educational reconstruction and development in that country. The author urges that beyond the celebratory platforms of the political triumph of the defeat of 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Praeger Pub Text
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 089789815X
• ISBN 13: 9780897898157
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 212