Is schooling good for the development of society? The case of South Africa

dc.creator	Clive Harber
dc.creator	Vusi Mncube
dc.date	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:21:45Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:21:45Z
dc.identifier	0256-0100
dc.identifier	2076-3433
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8e0844ba079d4e62924ea34b8da5e31c
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29143
dc.description	This paper is concerned with three possible theoretical relationships, between education and social, economic and political development, that - (a) education improves society, (b) education reproduces society as it is and (c) education actually makes society worse. The paper then uses South Africa as a case study to critically analyse these different roles of education in relation to development theory. In particular, it examines three theoretical tensions in post-apartheid education policy and practice - those between human capital theory and social reproduction, between modernisation and bureaucratic disorganisation, and between democracy and peace and authoritarianism and violence. It concludes by attempting to explain these tensions and contradictions in term of factors specific to South Africa such as teacher professionalism and teacher identity and in relation to wider factors inherent in the historical origins of schooling as a form of organisation based on social control.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Education Association of South Africa (EASA)
dc.relation	http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0256-01002011000200007
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/0256-0100
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3433
dc.source	South African Journal of Education, Vol 31, Iss 2, Pp 233-245 (2011)
dc.subject	authoritarianism
dc.subject	bureaucracy
dc.subject	democracy
dc.subject	development
dc.subject	human capital
dc.subject	modernisation
dc.subject	peace
dc.subject	reproduction
dc.subject	schooling
dc.subject	violence
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Is schooling good for the development of society? The case of South Africa
dc.type	article